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fafast s gaming blog fafast s gaming blog this is my space to rant about games wednesday may 7 2025 when i ran 5e i felt like i was fighting the system itself in order to run any kind of campaign through it as characters had too many special powers and abilities that would obviate any challenge i attempted to put before them i had the same feeling while running ad d 1e that i was fighting the system itself but for different reasons 1e contains so many little issues edge cases and many of the rules are open to interpretation that i felt more time was spent navigating around issues with the rules rather than actually playing the game at may 07 2025 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 6 2025 singing the praises of the 2e dmg like most people in the osr community i had initially held a dim view of the 2e dmg especially compared to its predecessor the 1e dmg which contained a wealth of content for running a game building a campaign world and advice for dms by contrast the 2e dmg seemed to only contain rules that should have been in the phb in the first place and yet when actually running a session of ad d 2nd edition i found that it s dmg was a joy to use at the table as it was easy to reference logically organized and most importantly contained only those rules that i would need to run a game and nothing more no long winded passages with the actual rule buried deeply within no questionable admonitions on how best to punish players and no extraneous untested rules best left as magazine articles sadly no tables of random harlots either so it s not all perfect for running the game at the table i found the 2e dmg to be much more useful than its 1e counterpart and deserving of a lot more credit than i had initially given it at march 06 2025 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 1 2024 the original 1954 godzilla is a very cerebral film about japanese tradition modern science post war politics and human suffering it was clearly made for an adult audience and was released less than 9 years after the dropping of the atomic bombs on japan it s a shame how goofy and childish the subsequent godzilla movies became even from the very next movie it reminds me of the jurassic park franchise where the first movie is an exploration of mathematical theory and the rest are all schlock about dinosaurs eating people at july 01 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 3 2024 i have long held a fascination with the more exacting technical aspects of the ad d 1e system like time segments and the more granular weight measurement but after recently attempting to run the game by using those very elements straight i ve found them to be much more trouble than they re worth not the least of which is that they simply bog down the game in the middle of a session the rules as presented in the books are also rife with exceptions special cases and obviation such that one could feel that they were never really run as written anyway i originally viewed ad d 2e s simplification of these rules with askance but now i ve come to accept that what is lost in true simulation is made up for in straightforward use during play i m disappointed that there s so much interest in 1e yet so little in 2e though from what i ve seen most people want to play 1e just out of a morbid curiosity with little true attachment to the game at june 03 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 14 2024 i like osric s character sheet and even though it s missing some important fields for ad d 1e and feels more like a b x sheet it s still familiar enough to osr players and simple and clear enough for players new to the game for players who really want to get into ad d 1e with all the rules though nothing is better than tsr s official player character record goldenrod sheets update i no longer like osric s character sheet especially for ad d games i figure that if i m going to run a crunchy game i need a crunchy character sheet to go with it at april 14 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 11 2024 i made a post about this on my blog a while back that i feel like i should expand upon that most random chance in o ad d does not rely on pc stats or abilities i feel like this is an important thing to write as this style was very quickly forgotten as early as 1981 when moldvay s basic book put in a paragraph titled there s always a chance where it advised players to roll under a character s stat to determine probability this advice is nowhere in ad d 1e and in fact the opposite is given where the gm is told to grab a handful of dice and just make up a probability that seems fair perception is based on character stats one character with a high wis will have a much better chance of succeeding than one with low wis and the former might always be helpless against hidden traps x in 6 is standard for all characters and doesn t rely on their build roll under stat probabilities would become a standard resolution mechanic in ad d 2e which evolved into 3e s skill and save system at february 11 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 14 2023 i m considering running fortified towns and settlements as open air dungeons where single room houses function as traditional dungeon rooms or as treasure lairs at august 14 2023 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom when i ran 5e i felt like i was fighting the system itself in order to run any kind of campaign through it as characters had too many spec no title when i ran 5e i felt like i was fighting the system itself in order to run any kind of campaign through it as characters had too many spec no title i have 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