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AD&D 2E reprints (hate thread)

Started by 1989, May 21, 2013, 01:10:07 PM

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RPGPundit

#165
June 06, 2013, 05:17:43 PM
Quote from: Planet Algol;659960At least 3e art doesn't feature the artist inserting out-of-shape gamer nerds into rpg artwork. Some of those 2.5e pictures fall into shit-ouroboros territory.

Yes, its fucking horrible.
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#166
June 06, 2013, 05:19:05 PM
Well I got those reprints, and I think they're cool.

Sacrosanct

#167
June 06, 2013, 05:21:01 PM
Quote from: Benoist;660710Well I got those reprints, and I think they're cool.

that's really all that matters.  Your money.  None  of my business how you spend it.
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#168
June 06, 2013, 06:29:55 PM
Quote from: Benoist;660710Well I got those reprints, and I think they're cool.
Quote from: Sacrosanct;660713that's really all that matters.  Your money.  None  of my business how you spend it.
NOOOOOOO!
Must...prove..someone...on...internet...WRONG!

By the way, can anyone confirm that the wandering monster tables still aren't in the Monstrous Compendium?
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Brad

#169
June 06, 2013, 07:25:29 PM
Quote from: Bobloblah;660744By the way, can anyone confirm that the wandering monster tables still aren't in the Monstrous Compendium?

Don't see them...tables for summoning, but no wandering monsters.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Benoist

#170
June 06, 2013, 07:26:36 PM
Quote from: Brad;660756Don't see them...tables for summoning, but no wandering monsters.
Ditto.

Silverlion

#171
June 06, 2013, 07:38:30 PM
Weird, because I seem to recall examples in the original "notebook" MC, and explanations on how to do your own..
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#172
June 07, 2013, 11:05:38 AM
Yeah, the tables were in the MCs, but not the MM.  Super lame.

The MM tables are in the MC Annual 2 (Ancient Gamer 1970 was nice enough to send me a scan of those pages awhile back, lol).

Wotc needs to put them up as a download IMO.
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#173
June 07, 2013, 11:33:04 AM
Quote from: Teazia;660903Yeah, the tables were in the MCs, but not the MM.  Super lame.

The MM tables are in the MC Annual 2 (Ancient Gamer 1970 was nice enough to send me a scan of those pages awhile back, lol).

Wotc needs to put them up as a download IMO.

http://wikisend.com/download/453480/wandering_monsters.pdf

No idea where that came from...
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Benoist

#174
June 07, 2013, 11:12:20 PM
Despite the lack of wandering monster tables, the Monstrous Manual includes a ton of critters in a single tome that makes it quite useful as a reference, IMO. I think it's the more interesting volume of the three, for me, inspiration-wise.

Bobloblah

#175
June 09, 2013, 12:19:29 PM
Quote from: Benoist;661048Despite the lack of wandering monster tables, the Monstrous Manual includes a ton of critters in a single tome that makes it quite useful as a reference, IMO. I think it's the more interesting volume of the three, for me, inspiration-wise.
Yeah, it's my favourite monster book of all time, a really great single book to have at the table. I also really appreciated the whole ecology aspect of the book, though I know that's not everyone's cup of tea.
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#176
June 10, 2013, 04:43:48 PM
This was the time when they put some very extensive random monster tables in a lot of the setting box-sets, I think it was a design philosophy.  Not a very bright one if you ask me, but there you go.
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#177
June 10, 2013, 04:48:35 PM Last Edit: June 10, 2013, 09:21:57 PM by Bobloblah
Well, the kicker is that very complete, very useable tables for random encounters in every sort of environment, along with NPC parties and "ruins" locations, were all present in the original looseleaf/binder Monstrous Compendium. They copied the exact same ones into the Monstrous Compendium Annual #2, which was actually a book, like the manual. The idiocy of not putting these into the main Monstrous Manual defies description. I have little doubt that it was some sort of cost-saving measure.
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#178
June 11, 2013, 06:16:49 PM
Quote from: Bobloblah;661623Well, the kicker is that very complete, very useable tables for random encounters in every sort of environment, along with NPC parties and "ruins" locations, were all present in the original looseleaf/binder Monstrous Compendium. They copied the exact same ones into the Monstrous Compendium Annual #2, which was actually a book, like the manual. The idiocy of not putting these into the main Monstrous Manual defies description. I have little doubt that it was some sort of cost-saving measure.

I think it had to be some kind of "policy" thing.
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Teazia

#179
June 11, 2013, 10:27:21 PM
The folks in charge may have even been unaware of the existence of the said charts.
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