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Offline dutch206

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Everything old is new again
« on: January 22, 2013, 08:40:29 AM »
Wizards of the Coast is finally cracking open the digital vault on their vast library of former edition products.  Good adventure inspiration here:

  DnD Classics
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 12:22:13 PM »
I saw that. Interesting.
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2013, 02:26:24 PM »
Not that anybody was waiting for this event or anything, but there's so much traffic on the  server that the site crashed. :D
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2013, 03:17:57 PM »
We have a (misguided) group member who wants to run DnD 3.5.  I really kinda wish he'd just run 2nd Ed (if we're going to go back to simple, I'd prefer it actually be simple). :)

Anyhow, I'll have to point this out to him.
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2013, 06:01:15 PM »
I would rather run/play AD&D over 3.X, as well. What is up with that?
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2013, 07:24:10 PM »
Quote from: RandalThor on January 22, 2013, 06:01:15 PM
I would rather run/play AD&D over 3.X, as well. What is up with that?

Because everything after 2nd Ed is trying to be more like Rolemaster... but failing. :)
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2013, 07:52:32 AM »
Quote from: Cory Magel on January 22, 2013, 07:24:10 PM
Because everything after 2nd Ed is trying to be more like Rolemaster... but failing. :)
Yeah, I can see that.
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Re: Everything old is new again
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2013, 06:28:30 PM »
Interesting but unfortunately a lot of stuff isn't there I would be interested in - Birthright for example.   I'm not sure if it is still there but they used to have a lot of pdf's for free on the wotc site - lots of source books mainly but quickie adventures as well.  2nd ed mostly.

Re additions - Pathfinder is actually a pretty fun version but when someone asks if they can do something with a spell I always say 'well you roll your spell mastery, never mind'.
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