#adnd2e — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://ttrpg-hangout.social/@YUMDM/116320330436497956

AD&D2e is the edition where D&D went from a darker pulp fantasy tone to a lighter high fantasy tone. 2e was also the late 80s post-Satanic Panic edition where everything was scrubbed to make it palatable to the parents of 12 year olds. So while 2e is the improved streamlined AD&D1e in terms of rules (before the bloat of the Player/DM Options books), it definitely lost something trying to redeem its reputation in the eyes of people who didn’t play the game. #ttrpgs #dnd #adnd2e #ttrpg #osrrpg

Did anyone else who played AD&D 2E in game treat infravision as heat vision whereby when it was used by the characters it would allow them to see at night and see like the Predator, but the ability had limitations such as that massive heat sources could temporarily blind them, difficulty seeing cold blooded creatures, etc? Or did you just treat it as "you can see in the dark?"

Just checking.

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"Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

https://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/TuckersKobolds.pdf

No #MasksANewGeneration game this week. My wife and I are having dinner with family. Should still be up for #Pathfinder on Sunday though.

Also stoked we got to start our #ADnD2e backup campaign last Sunday. I know the system is cludgy at times and rules are all over the place, but I love the higher degree of freedom and wonder I feel both playing it and flipping through the books. I get excited and inspired by the material.

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Got players together for session 0.5 for my #ADnD2e #AlQadim game. We've got a wizard, bard, cleric, and fighter in the party. The cleric wanted to play a cat-folk race so I slightly modified the elf: I took away the sleep and charm resistance, changed the weapon proficiencies from swords and bows to a 1d4 claws with +1 to attack rolls, and left the rest the same. The player was happy, so I'm happy. Easy peasy.

We just started a little RP and the NPC that was meant to be more of a patron is now the party thief. Unexpected, but it felt right in the moment, so now I get to add an NPC to the party.

I want to make backstab a little more useful and easier to pull off, but not make it unbalanced. Probably be just a little more liberal and let the thief use it at the beginning of combat, assuming they're not surprised or it just feels inappropriate. The players need the focus, not my NPC.

Super stoked about this as a backup game.

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I decided to try and collect my thoughts for this #ADnD2e campaign, and I've been playing with #JoplinNotes. I'm really enjoying this. I can make individual sheets for everything, sync it so I can work in my home office then pull it up on my laptop or even jot down thoughts while I'm at work during lunch. Very cool.

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I'm going to start with players on a barge traveling to one of the larger towns or smaller cities on the coast, near the mouth of a river. I can add mountains and desert as needed, until I flesh out the setting completely.

As the players listen to a well-to-do merchant's stories one night, the ship will be attacked as bandits attack the passengers and crew while searching for something in the merchant's cabin. If the players fight the bandits off, they'll be rewarded with an opportunity for great riches. If they fail, they'll be hired to retrieve a valuable from the merchant THEN if they succeed they'll get the offer.

I figure I can stretch out this with jobs from the merchant to gather items that help solve a puzzle to a larger haul. First they'll have to retrieve a special spyglass from a wrecked ship now populated by clever kobolds. Then they can explore ruins, dive into ancient tombs, search dank caves and do all sorts of treasure hunting shenanigans.

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Looks like I might finally get to start my Arabian Nights inspired #ADnD2e backup campaign this weekend. Even if it's just finishing up character creation, I'll be stoked.

I love how easy it is to slot in weird magic items and how much easier it is to work out encounters without poorly calculated challenge ratings in the monster manual. I can just grab some monsters out of the MM and go.

I feel like since there are fewer mechanics set in stone, it's easier to really hit that sense of wonder or of dread when running old D&D or #OSR games. It feels freer to me.

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I've thought it be fun to work on a #Python project to make a character generator for #ADnD2e using the dictionary function. I could probably add in a GUI die roller that I made previously.

I don't have a reason to do a lot of programming for my day job, so I try and think of little projects like this to keep up my (quite limited) skills.

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A week or so ago, I was watching a video on older versions of #DnD and #THAC0 finally really clicked hard with me. Once life settles down a bit, I'm going to work with members of my #Pathfinder group to develop an #ADnD2e game loosely based in #AlQadim as a backup for when we are missing one or more players.

I'm dying to get back to AD&D2e. That was the game I started with and that's the version that still really excites me.

I'd happily play some version of Basic D&D or one of the retro-clones, but I think if it's going to happen at all, I'll have to be the one to run it. But that's fine, I love the freedom of the earlier editions to tell a really fun, engaging story for my players.

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I really miss playing or running #ADnD2e. That's the game I started playing, and I love the overall feel, weird rolls aside. I can't wait to get to have players start working on characters for a backup game I'm working on for when not all of my Sunday players can make game.

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@critfail_press #CastlesAndCrusades and #ADnD2e for sure. I love C&C for the simplicity of the SIEGE engine mechanic from what little I've gotten to run with it. AD&D 2e was the first game I played and I love it despite/because of the weird sub-systems for rolling. I'm going to run an Al-Qadim based backup game for my Pathfinder group.

I've even started running my Pathfinder game more OSR-style. My players are incredibly creative and I find that I need to make a quick, fair ruling on the spot if I don't want to drag things down looking for specific rules. A couple of my players do usually have tablets or computers up to help me find some rules on the fly though, so that helps.

I find that there's an incredible amount of trust required for OSR games. You have to feel like the GM is going to be fair and balance resolutions for the story and for the characters. I think it's a little more intimate of an experience, which I love. I feel honored that my players trust me to bring a satisfying gaming experience at my table and I don't want to betray that. It makes me be a better GM, I think.

I really wish I had more #TTRPG things to post here. At this point, I've got a primary and backup #MasksANewGeneration (#Masks) games, a primary #Pathfinder game, and we're working on getting a time to make characters for a backup #ADnD2e game at some point, but we've been reliably unreliable in meeting.

I've been spending a lot of time reading up on news and politics, because as an American, I'm in the thick of it all and I'm less likely to panic if I know what's going on. However, I don't want to turn my account into a highly politicized one.

I do miss RPG shop talk though. I keep my eyes on the hashtags. I just haven't had any burning questions I wanted to ask folks.

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I'm super excited to get to run #ADnD2e again, even if it's just a backup game for our #Pathfinder group.

I'm hoping that everyone is interested enough in that game that I can run some classic modules when we finish the #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign.

It'll be nice to finally get to run #AlQadim. I've had the boxed set and campaign book for a while now, and I haven't gotten to use it. Looking forward to some tomb raiding, djin wishing, carpet flying adventures!

I think I'll make a few quality of life improvements to the old system and work out ascending instead of descending AC to make it easier on the players though.

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I'm going to work on a backup #TTRPG game for our Sunday #Pathfinder #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign for when we can't all make a session.

I'm leaning towards the #AlQadim #ArabianNights setting. I've had the boxed set for years, and I haven't had the chance to use it yet.

It'll probably be #ADnD2e but I'm not above trying to make it work for #CastlesAndCrusades. If it's AD&D, I'll probably convert AC to ascending instead of descending, for the ease of the players (and for me!).

#GMLife

1. First #TTRPG ever played: Holmes Basic D&D
2. First you ever ran? Holmes Basic D&D
3. Played the most? #Rolemaster very likely, not something I'm proud of 😜
4. Run the most? Has to be either #ADnD2e or #Shadowrun2e
5. Favourite? Probably #Shadowrun
6. Most recently played? #Shadowdark
7. Most recently run? #MazeRats

I GMed for years before I had a chance to actually be a player.

1. First ttrpg ever played? #ADND2e
2. First you ever ran? #ADND2e
3. Played the most? #DND35e
4. Run the most? #GURPS
5. Favourite? Toss up between #ShadowRun and #OpenLegendRPG
6. Most recently played? #StarWarsWEG
7. Most recently run? #OpenLegendRPG