Didn’t you know? Having had the poor taste to be born male, Caucasian, and long enough ago to be middle aged now means we’re scum. We should have made better choices when we were deciding on the circumstances of our conception. 🙄
However that does not mean that anyone should be treated poorly with words, regardless of what age, racial, ethnic, gender or gender identity group they happen to belong to, regardless of any privilege they may or may not benefit from in reality or in perception.
I am aware that as a new player (1 year experience), I am a minority in knowing about Gygax, Chainmail, and the rest of D&D's history. Here is a test for others:
Do you know what early D&D thing I am referring to with each of these?
1. Chainmail
2. The all-father of gaming
3. AD&D
4. 1e bard
5. infravision
6. Unearthed arcana
7. AC of -5
8. Tenser
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7. AC of -5: Prior to 3e, AC got better as it went down. AC of 10 was unarmored (cloth). Shield made your AC lower, by -1 for a small shield, -2 for large. Chain, plate, etc, were lower as they got better. -5 was max, I guess, though I could have sworn -3 was the max. I could be confusing AD&D with Basic/Expert sets though. To get there you'd need like Plate + shield (AC of 2) and then +3 or +4 magic on both. This led to stupid things by the way like a +1 shield subtracting 1 from your AC because +1 made it better.
AC -3, AC -5 nowhere near the max if you kept playing high level campaigns in 2e...
However that does not mean that anyone should be treated poorly with words, regardless of what age, racial, ethnic, gender or gender identity group they happen to belong to, regardless of any privilege they may or may not benefit from in reality or in perception.
AC -3, AC -5 nowhere near the max if you kept playing high level campaigns in 2e...
I never played 2e. I played 1e, stopped for a VERY long time... and then played NWN co-op with friends, which was pseudo-3e. Then 5e starting last fall.
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WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
AC -3, AC -5 nowhere near the max if you kept playing high level campaigns in 2e...
I never played 2e. I played 1e, stopped for a VERY long time... and then played NWN co-op with friends, which was pseudo-3e. Then 5e starting last fall.
2e PHB, Pg. 89 "-10, the very best"
(same as in 1e)
Not true, there were monsters with better than -10 armor class and certainly we didn't cap PCs to that either.
AC -3, AC -5 nowhere near the max if you kept playing high level campaigns in 2e...
I never played 2e. I played 1e, stopped for a VERY long time... and then played NWN co-op with friends, which was pseudo-3e. Then 5e starting last fall.
2e PHB, Pg. 89 "-10, the very best"
(same as in 1e)
Not true, there were monsters with better than -10 armor class and certainly we didn't cap PCs to that either.
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I wouldn’t know, I’m not straight. And getting jumped for not being straight was way worse than an mockery I have ever endured.
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I have never agreed with you more.
And I’m sorry you had to deal with that yourself.
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AC -3, AC -5 nowhere near the max if you kept playing high level campaigns in 2e...
Also agreed.
I never played 2e. I played 1e, stopped for a VERY long time... and then played NWN co-op with friends, which was pseudo-3e. Then 5e starting last fall.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
Not true, there were monsters with better than -10 armor class and certainly we didn't cap PCs to that either.
I was the DM. Take this dragon for example: https://imgur.com/a/xpPcJGt