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Under the Hood: OldSchooling 5e: Falling Damage, and Magic

Started by Bedrockbrendan, January 16, 2015, 05:17:12 PM

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Voros

#30
August 25, 2017, 10:53:42 PM
I was referring to his Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate. All I've ever seen you do is spiel the same OSR dogma over and over again.

Headless

#31
August 28, 2017, 02:44:31 PM
He's theroy crafting.  I think that was fairly clear from his OP.  I love theory crafting.  You don't. Thats fine.  You don't have to read his content if you think you might not be the target audience.

Bren

#32
August 29, 2017, 09:41:58 PM
Quote from: Voros;986707I was referring to his Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate. All I've ever seen you do is spiel the same OSR dogma over and over again.

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BY RICK MOSCATELLO
I think that Brendan (who does Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate) and Rick Moscatello (the writer of the article in question) are two different people.
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Voros

#33
August 30, 2017, 01:49:34 AM
Ah thanks for the clarification.

fearsomepirate

#34
September 05, 2017, 06:27:44 PM
Tomb of Horrors is full of those 1d6 damage traps. The entrance one of the lairs in Keep on the Borderlands has a 1d6 pit traps. His point about 1d6 being a rather different value in AD&D than 5e is entirely correct. Maybe he misread 1e RAW on falling farther than that...but sounds like a lot of people did.

I'm currently trying to run an AD&D-ish game using the 5e rule set. By AD&D-ish, I mean more lethality, more randomness, and gold is XP. My players cried and cried about random spells, so I relented on that front. Of course, 5e has a lot of these magic-using classes that don't have spell books, and that wouldn't really be fair to them.
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Omega

#35
September 16, 2017, 08:12:41 PM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;965005After four decades I think it's fair to say it's no longer a typo, but is now part of the rules.

I think its just willful, possibly smug, ignorance on the part of the later designers. "hur hur hur! Them fighters fall off cliff. Walk away. Gygax so dhum! Me so smaht!"

Omega

#36
September 16, 2017, 08:18:22 PM
Quote from: Voros;986118At least he is producing creative content instead of redundant groupthink 'old school' theorycrafting.

Its kinda the opposite of creative content and creeping towards disinformation at points.
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