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Post by luke on Feb 13, 2006 12:38:29 GMT -5
Bards were always a bit gay, I thought. A friend had that book, but I still wasn't convinced. I had these and a few others. I always just wanted to be some Conan dude chopping orcs to pieces. The whole magic thing just never did it for me. Ended up entrenched in Dark Sun, though, and the brutality of that whole landscape, in addition the the AWESOME focus on psionics, made me a happy, happy boy.   |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 13, 2006 14:03:52 GMT -5
Trust a Hogan fan to like the barbarian class. No finesse at all.  I always preferred a dashing bard in striped pantaloons and a feathered cap, swinging from the chandelier, rapier between his teeth (while the grunts and surly mages did the actual fighting), then cutting a dashing smile and a bow in front of the damsels... Stop me if this sounds too gay. If I didn't play a bardic dandy or minstrel, then it must have been the Krynn setting and a tinker gnome instead. Also dude, psionics were just too complex and powerful. Freaky stuff. |
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Post by phil on Feb 13, 2006 14:11:07 GMT -5
Second Son is a proud Orc ...
The Orc's father thinks those books cost a small fortune ... !!
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 13, 2006 14:14:41 GMT -5
You don't know how good you've got it mate. Back in the day there was a whole heap of other shit they've phased out in the new edition. Wilderness Survival Guide, Fiend Folio, Dungeon Survival Guide, Manual of the Planes, Castles & Catacombs... not a useful page amongst that lot, but still £100 of outlay for completists.
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Post by luke on Feb 13, 2006 14:16:45 GMT -5
Truth be told I fucking hate Hulk Hogan and always have. A friend of mine actually once looked me dead in the eye and told me, in all seriousness, that, because of my Hogan issues, I didn’t love America.
What eventually turned me off to AD&D (other than a desire to be around the opposite sex) was how the disadvantages of being a non-human so outweighed the stuff you’d get. Like, you’re a tinker gnome, so you have some dumb obscure ability but can only reach, like, level 10 in anything you do. And I always found it fucking ridiculous that a human should be able to progress further in a magic class than an elf. What the fuck is that?
Again, though, with Dark Sun, there were some pretty tough races that you kick some major ass with, so I always dug it.
I have the Paladin handbook and was really big into them, but I’d always get pissed by my inability to chop up some little gnome or kinder for no good reason and just couldn’t handle it.
I go back home and look at the bottom shelf of the entertainment center in my old bedroom, and always get a chuckle out of the handbooks, box of cards with the psionic abilities, Dark Sun boxed kit, and stack of AD&D manuals. One day I may have the guts to take them back to my house with me and hide them in the attic before anyone sees.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 13, 2006 14:21:21 GMT -5
One day I may have the guts to take them back to my house with me and hide them in the attic before anyone sees. Heh, I know that feeling. Don't tell Dolly but there's a stack of Magic:the Gathering rares in ring binders in our attic right now. Of course, she'll never know... I don't have any old AD&D stuff anymore. It was a definite impediment to getting any. Except with roleplaying girls. And they were (without exception) fucking gross. At least in the UK. |
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Post by phil on Feb 13, 2006 14:26:41 GMT -5
What eventually turned me off to AD&D (other than a desire to be around the opposite sex) ...
LMFAO !!
A friend of mine actually once looked me dead in the eye and told me, in all seriousness,
that, because of my Hogan issues, I didn’t love America.
Now ! That ain't as funny !!
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Feb 13, 2006 14:38:08 GMT -5
The role playing girls are pretty not so hot in the US. I can think of only two in my lifetime that were super hot, but they were also horribly aloof and very unfun to be around outside of a roleplaying environment.
I still have a ton of Magic cards, Pokemon cards, and well......most of my roleplaying stuff. I look at them and hardly ever think of delving into it again. It's really just a nice archival symbol of my childhood. Stuff that at one time was really important to me will never get thrown away. They become archetypes of my past.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Feb 13, 2006 14:38:41 GMT -5
I love Dragonlance books and the entire Millinium Television series DVD box set that I just purchased.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 13, 2006 15:34:24 GMT -5
Skvor - I just finished watching Series 1 of Millennium. I thought it was fine stuff, but it really took off for me the moment Bletcher saw that killer walking down the stairs and you realise we're stepping into the supernatural. I must buy series 2 and 3 when funds allow.
And yeah, we've all read at least the first two dragonlance trilogies right? Chronicles and, umm, the even better one about the twins. Raistlin was an inspiration to us all.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Feb 13, 2006 17:49:12 GMT -5
Legends is the trilogy that you're thinking of with Raistlin.
Season Two is so much better than Season 1. Whoohoo.
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Post by shin on Feb 13, 2006 18:04:04 GMT -5
Truth be told I fucking hate Hulk Hogan and always have. A friend of mine actually once looked me dead in the eye and told me, in all seriousness, that, because of my Hogan issues, I didn’t love America. Well, in all seriousness, he may have a point. Not that you yourself don't love America, but it's a completely reasonable assertion to make. I personally might only go so far as to say that if you hate Hulk Hogan then you hate your childhood and nostalgia in general. I hated Hogan when I was like 11, but now I think he's fundamentally amazing, even in a post modern ironic way, largely because I'm old enough to appreciate what he meant to American culture and American youth in general. Probably wrestling's only true immortal icon, so pretty much everything he does means something. Every time I see Hogan Knows Best, I think to myself how I can't even imagine what it's like to be his kid and be fundamentally cut off from that emotional connection. Everyone but them in their age group has "Dad" and "Hulk Hogan" in their lives in two separate entities. They just have "Dad". By the way, I've typed out like 14 pages for a paper in the last 8 hours, so as you can see, I'm truly in an analytical mood. Enjoy it while it lasts, I won't likely be so serious about something like Hulk fucking Hogan again in the near future. |
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Post by JACkory on Feb 13, 2006 18:04:22 GMT -5
Actually, this is the movie I was referring to:  If you haven't been bombarded with the litany of pop cultureness from this movie, then you are indeed fortunate. I'm quite proud of myself for missing that...  |
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Post by shin on Feb 13, 2006 18:05:55 GMT -5
Oh who am I kidding. I can analyze both Skeletor and Hulk Hogan for hours at any given time.
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Post by JACkory on Feb 13, 2006 18:08:53 GMT -5
What eventually turned me off to AD&D (other than a desire to be around the opposite sex) was how the disadvantages of being a non-human so outweighed the stuff you’d get. LOL! Luke, there are few posters who, when I see that they have made a recent post on a board I don't usually frequent, I will click on that board to read their post, because odds are it's gonna be entertaining. You are one of those elite few. Don't ever leave these boards. |
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