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Arizona Smith · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject:

I'll definitely try and make it!

Back to the OT, rather than a full list, I think this'll be more fun:

Oldest: White Box D&D
Newest: XDM Xtreme Dungeon Mastery
Most Expensive: Nobilis
Most Obscure: Probably Ralph Baskshi's Wizards
Prettiest: Game of Thrones or Secret of Zir'an
Tallest: Metabarons (or Everway Box)
Widest: Redhurst Academy of Magic
Shortest: Darksword Adventures
Nakedest: GURPS Planet Krishna
Wettest: Blue Planet
Longest: Talislanta
First Owned: D&D 2e PHB
Most beloved: HEX!
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Arizona Smith · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:41 am Post subject:

Couple more:

Dirtiest Potty Mouth: HoL
Most supplements for a game I've never played: Dying Earth

oh, and newest book honors should actually go to 4e essentials. Forgot about that one.
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CharlieBananas · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 557 Location: U.K. votes: 46

Can't list my collection, I must have in excess of 500 titles! Not sure if I'm proud or ashamed...

Whats 4E essentials like I've been a bit out of the loop with New D&D? I have the core set and 6 or 7 other 4E books, but not heard of that until ealier this week.
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Arizona Smith · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:07 am Post subject:

Essentials is...an odd little duck. First off, it's an entire line, but what I bought was the introductory red box. Essentials is meant to serve two separate, and sometimes contrasting purposes:

1: a gentler introduction to D&D for complete newbies
2: an appeal to pre-4e players to give the thing a try

It's supposed to run in parallel to the regular 4e lines, sort of like BD&D and AD&D, but with complete interoperability between the two.

So (at least in the red box, which is all I have), they've stepped back and gone to the classic 4 classes and 4 races. I haven't played enough 4e to notice, but supposedly, the power progression is supposed to be structured more like a 3e class, and going along with that, the other books go back to the 3e-style blocks for classes, rather than the more "spread-out" style of 4e.

The red box itself is at once conveninet and frustrating. It's cheap, which is quite nice, and has rules going up to 2nd level. Character creation is by choose-your-own-adventure, which is a very cool idea. Problem is, if you're trying to put together pregens as a GM, it gets old FAST.

The DMG likewise is structured as a learn-as-you play kind of thing along with the adventure. So stuff like saves, healing, etc., are only detailed as they might come up during the adventure, which makes it difficult to use as a reference. And there's at least one concept, "bloodied" that isn't actually defined anywhere. I'm not really convinced that an RPG newbie could really handle GMing from this.

The rest of the line has the actual character creation rules, eq lists (the CYOA basically gives you a standard build, that's it), feats, etc.

Still, for $20, the red box isn't bad if you've been curious about 4e but don't want to shill out for the full game. Just know that you're going to get about 1-2 sessions out of it (and some dice), and that's it.
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CharlieBananas · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 557 Location: U.K. votes: 46

Thanks for that, seems like I don't need it, I like that they are trying to make the game more accessable though.
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Arizona Smith · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:37 pm Post subject:

ReaperWolf · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:01 pm Post subject:

Threadjacked! Sorry folks, back to game collections...

The prize of my collection: a near-complete collection of WEG D6 Star Wars.

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Nestor · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:58 am Post subject:

ReaperWolf · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:12 am Post subject:

Doc Nova · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

My collection (in hardcopy) shrunk massively, while my electronic collection blossomed. Still, there are a few that I could never part with...my prize: a complete collection of Skyrealms of Jorune, both 2nd and 3rd edition.

Arizona Smith · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:30 pm Post subject:

Nestor · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:49 pm Post subject:

demon_llama · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject:

i have actually never tried to catalogue my RPG collection, although i do have a few treasures that stand out in pride in my collection. i don't go out to try and collect "everything" from a series, usually, although i do have all of the ALTERNITY books, along with Buck Rogers XXVc, d20 MODERN, Star Frontiers, most AD&D, all Al~Qadim, all Exile HEX (duh), all original D&D (1974 under Tactical Studdies Rules) + Chainmail, all Weird War II (d20) and about 6 shipping containers of RPG's of which i don't really remember what's in there. i should go look...

...if i'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
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Arizona Smith · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:44 pm Post subject: