Aplus
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Post by Aplus on Mar 6, 2012 15:58:05 GMT -6
I was just wondering what other people running OD&D were doing these days, given the fact that getting OD&D books is retardedly expensive.
Personally, I've done a 1-page doc for each class, which includes advancement table, saving throws, and any house rules I have for the class.
Then I have a few self-printed facsimiles of Men & Magic to use as table copies, primarily for looking up spells.
Modern games have the expectation of a "Player's Handbook", or some such player reference, but it seems that in the olden days, only the DM really had a copy of the rules.
Just curious to hear what other people out there are doing....
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Post by Falconer on Mar 6, 2012 16:02:23 GMT -6
I do think of M&M as the PHB of OD&D. I provide photocopies for player use.
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Post by Sean Michael Kelly on Mar 6, 2012 16:44:08 GMT -6
I like to use M&M and or an "edited" copy of such. The briefer the better. Usually, if they aren't creating their own characters, I just provide a couple Reference Sheets booklets for the table.
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Post by coffee on Mar 6, 2012 17:48:23 GMT -6
Last time I ran I was the only one who had any rules. Like many of you, I had extra copies of Men & Magic, but we mostly used them for character creation (and not much of that!).
It didn't seem to slow the game down at all, and the players didn't seem to miss having a book.
Also, it got rid of rules-lawyering!
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Post by geoffrey on Mar 6, 2012 20:21:05 GMT -6
I have a copy of the three LBBs merged into one single book. I also have printed-out copies of each of the LBBs and of the Greyhawk supplement. We casually toss these around during our games.
I sold all my actual (i. e., not printed out by myself) OD&D books because I became too fearful to use them.
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Post by Morandir on Mar 6, 2012 20:43:27 GMT -6
I copied the various charts/lists that players need from M&M into a Word document, which I've printed off to make a sort of PHB for them so they can make new PCs without having to ask me questions constantly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2012 23:26:44 GMT -6
Well, I started playing before the rules were published; for the first two years, Gary and Dave had the only sets of rules.
So, I run my game the same way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2012 16:37:49 GMT -6
The DM has a real copy of the books that we share at the table and one guy has a binder with the rules printed from a PDF. I find I mostly just need to reference the rules to check spell descriptions to see what the OD&D version does versus what I remember from a later edition of D&D.
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Post by makofan on Mar 8, 2012 8:02:14 GMT -6
I just say "shut up and roll the dice"
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Post by Mike on Mar 20, 2012 22:42:05 GMT -6
I was just wondering what other people running OD&D were doing these days, given the fact that getting OD&D books is retardedly expensive. Personally, I've done a 1-page doc for each class, which includes advancement table, saving throws, and any house rules I have for the class. Then I have a few self-printed facsimiles of Men & Magic to use as table copies, primarily for looking up spells. Modern games have the expectation of a "Player's Handbook", or some such player reference, but it seems that in the olden days, only the DM really had a copy of the rules. Just curious to hear what other people out there are doing.... Hi Aplus, any chance you could post your one-page class summaries? |
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Post by Aplus on Mar 21, 2012 9:56:21 GMT -6
I was just wondering what other people running OD&D were doing these days, given the fact that getting OD&D books is retardedly expensive. Personally, I've done a 1-page doc for each class, which includes advancement table, saving throws, and any house rules I have for the class. Then I have a few self-printed facsimiles of Men & Magic to use as table copies, primarily for looking up spells. Modern games have the expectation of a "Player's Handbook", or some such player reference, but it seems that in the olden days, only the DM really had a copy of the rules. Just curious to hear what other people out there are doing.... Hi Aplus, any chance you could post your one-page class summaries? Sure. Some of these docs are outdated, as I've made some tweaks since then, but they should give a rough idea of how easy it is to throw together a doc. They can be accessed from here: peoplethemwithmonsters.blogspot.com/p/outland.html |
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Post by moonlapse vertigo on Mar 21, 2012 10:21:19 GMT -6
you're not kidding. I think the Fighter page changed completely overnight! Or maybe it was just new art
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Aplus
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Post by Aplus on Mar 21, 2012 10:35:22 GMT -6
It's why I love OD&D!
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Post by thedegenerateelite on Apr 3, 2012 22:29:43 GMT -6
This may shock and appall many but I freely print of and spiral bind the little brown books, Chainmail, and Greyhawk for my players.
Printed with two pages per side, landscaped, with plastic covers and binding comes to about 8 bucks.
And I do not feel bad about it at all. If WotC reissues them I will gladly buy but I gave up on that years ago.
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Post by warrioroffrobozz on Apr 4, 2012 6:35:39 GMT -6
I let the PC's look at the combat charts and character generation rules, but they will never get a hold of the monster lists. . .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 10:02:29 GMT -6
This may shock and appall many but I freely print of and spiral bind the little brown books, Chainmail, and Greyhawk for my players. Printed with two pages per side, landscaped, with plastic covers and binding comes to about 8 bucks. And I do not feel bad about it at all. If WotC reissues them I will gladly buy but I gave up on that years ago. Illegal printing of PDFs does not make you bold and daring and edgy. It merely makes you a thief. |
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Post by crusssdaddy on Apr 4, 2012 10:30:37 GMT -6
From that high up in your tower, you need to SHOUT TO BE HEARD!!!
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Post by Finarvyn on Apr 4, 2012 10:50:51 GMT -6
This may shock and appall many but I freely print of and spiral bind the little brown books, Chainmail, and Greyhawk for my players. Printed with two pages per side, landscaped, with plastic covers and binding comes to about 8 bucks. And I do not feel bad about it at all. If WotC reissues them I will gladly buy but I gave up on that years ago. I'd rather not see this sort of post here. Xerox what you like at home, but don't brag about it because I'd rather not have WotC (or other) notice this place. |
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Post by Falconer on Apr 5, 2012 23:47:00 GMT -6
Well, if you bought legal PDFs, when they were available, there’s nothing illegal about printing them. There was never even a policy about how many copies you could print.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2012 10:30:05 GMT -6
Right now we are 34 months into our current campaign and the only player that has any of the books is my co-ref who has reffed the last 4 games and is reffing this months game. I have a set of the books and bought the legal pdfs when they were available.
I have a beater copy of the books that someone had liberally written in and marked up before I got them very cheap. They were in such bad condition when I got them that I don't feel bad about using them at the table.
My other experienced player I believe has the books at home as part of his collection.
I have one other player that may become a ref at some future point and at that point he will need a set of books but will of course be able to use mine as long as he is gaming with us.
I have extra table copies of the equipment list so as to not slow down the game.
As an aside: having a co-ref and a shared world rocks!
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