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Post by mao on Jul 29, 2021 12:45:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I think I have one more box to dig into. Huzzah!
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Post by mao on Jul 30, 2021 4:29:59 GMT -5
I saw you had a Swords &Spells mini book for sale. Very D&D and I have actually played a few times, very D&D and pretty good and fun. It does have a huge flaw that is very easy to get around. It has an ok point system for making your forces. It contains listings for elements of your army that have a negative point value. You cannot use these and I'll give you the example of the last game I played.
one of my good friends and I were going to play. as I had a lot of barbarians for more standard mini games, I decided to use them. So I started my picking of my units abilities. As I was a huge fan of the very early Conan comics, I had them led by a very young Conan who was chained and using them as his weapons.(Passing of the Grim Grey God). AS he was naked , that's how I made my troops. AC 8 comes w a negative point value. I did the math wrong and hugely understated the size of my army. When we started my friend pointed out that the number of minis I had wound prob not fit in the ROOM we were in. We had a good laff and declared me the winner.
Don't let this stop you from getting it. As long as you go round the point system, it's a pretty good game.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 30, 2021 11:23:03 GMT -5
I saw you had a Swords &Spells mini book for sale. Very D&D and I have actually played a few times, very D&D and pretty good and fun. It does have a huge flaw that is very easy to get around. It has an ok point system for making your forces. It contains listings for elements of your army that have a negative point value. You cannot use these and I'll give you the example of the last game I played. one of my good friends and I were going to play. as I had a lot of barbarians for more standard mini games, I decided to use them. So I started my picking of my units abilities. As I was a huge fan of the very early Conan comics, I had them led by a very young Conan who was chained and using them as his weapons.(Passing of the Grim Grey God). AS he was naked , that's how I made my troops. AC 8 comes w a negative point value. I did the math wrong and hugely understated the size of my army. When we started my friend pointed out that the number of minis I had wound prob not fit in the ROOM we were in. We had a good laff and declared me the winner. Don't let this stop you from getting it. As long as you go round the point system, it's a pretty good game. Do you have a work around for the point system that you think works well in practice?
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Post by mao on Jul 30, 2021 11:29:49 GMT -5
All you have to do is not use the negatives It's that simple, the negative ones I can remember are Orcs and gobliins(use hobgoblins) and the higher ACs
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Post by simrion on Jul 31, 2021 20:49:12 GMT -5
PD changed his avatar??? I seriously thought about bidding on your First fantasy but I have one and I thought "why not let someone else have a chance at glory?" I'm certain it went to a good home. I'm kind of sad you're liquidating your collection but I also can relate. I have a literal basement full of things gaming I've accumulated over decades that rarely see the light of day. Not getting any younger I tend to go through liquidation spurts in an effort to get some spendable assets, share the gaming wealth and (hopefully) not leave the kids with the stress of having to get rid of it all.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 31, 2021 22:16:16 GMT -5
PD changed his avatar??? I seriously thought about bidding on your First fantasy but I have one and I thought "why not let someone else have a chance at glory?" I'm certain it went to a good home. I'm kind of sad you're liquidating your collection but I also can relate. I have a literal basement full of things gaming I've accumulated over decades that rarely see the light of day. Not getting any younger I tend to go through liquidation spurts in an effort to get some spendable assets, share the gaming wealth and (hopefully) not leave the kids with the stress of having to get rid of it all. I sold most of my stuff quite a few years ago and right now I can use the funds. I am slowly getting rid of a bunch of things, trying to see that whatever it is will go to someone that wants it. And this item did go to someone who really wanted it, so that was good. Yeah, I changed my avatar, at least for a while. I just liked the image.
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Post by mao on Aug 2, 2021 5:36:56 GMT -5
I saw you had a Swords &Spells mini book for sale. Very D&D and I have actually played a few times, very D&D and pretty good and fun. It does have a huge flaw that is very easy to get around. It has an ok point system for making your forces. It contains listings for elements of your army that have a negative point value. You cannot use these and I'll give you the example of the last game I played. one of my good friends and I were going to play. as I had a lot of barbarians for more standard mini games, I decided to use them. So I started my picking of my units abilities. As I was a huge fan of the very early Conan comics, I had them led by a very young Conan who was chained and using them as his weapons.(Passing of the Grim Grey God). AS he was naked , that's how I made my troops. AC 8 comes w a negative point value. I did the math wrong and hugely understated the size of my army. When we started my friend pointed out that the number of minis I had wound prob not fit in the ROOM we were in. We had a good laff and declared me the winner. Don't let this stop you from getting it. As long as you go round the point system, it's a pretty good game. Do you have a work around for the point system that you think works well in practice? It's kind of interesting that I am the only wargamer here
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 11:47:35 GMT -5
Do you have a work around for the point system that you think works well in practice? It's kind of interesting that I am the only wargamer here We made our own up as small kids, then Risk, Battleship and such. But full fledged sand table wargame, never had the opportunity. Oh and also Civilization the computer game. I can't play the later versions because they require color vision and greater eye hand coordination than I will ever have.
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Post by mao on Aug 3, 2021 3:30:52 GMT -5
It's kind of interesting that I am the only wargamer here We made our own up as small kids, then Risk, Battleship and such. But full fledged sand table wargame, never had the opportunity. Oh and also Civilization the computer game. I can't play the later versions because they require color vision and greater eye hand coordination than I will ever have. Before I discovered D&D I played a lot. As I got older I gradually played more RPGs and less wargames. It just occurred to me that if Nevin had lived, I would have still played them more.
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Post by restless on Aug 3, 2021 8:38:03 GMT -5
It's kind of interesting that I am the only wargamer here The husband of a friend of my wife's who plays RPGs is also surprised that I'm not a wargamer. What's funny is that when I was nine or so I went to the bookstore and bought a volume called "The Complete Book of Wargames" and read it voraciously. I really wanted to play some wargames! However, the last chapter tacked on was about these newfangled role playing games, and the rest is history.
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Post by hengest on Aug 3, 2021 16:23:39 GMT -5
I am very attracted to some of the ideas of wargaming but have no ability to make the leap or even do much other than dream of using mass combat someday.
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Post by mao on Aug 4, 2021 6:21:28 GMT -5
I am very attracted to some of the ideas of wargaming but have no ability to make the leap or even do much other than dream of using mass combat someday. The man prob is to find peeps playing anything other than the Warhammer stuff and if your eyes are bad painting would not be possible
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Post by hengest on Aug 4, 2021 6:32:22 GMT -5
I am very attracted to some of the ideas of wargaming but have no ability to make the leap or even do much other than dream of using mass combat someday. The man prob is to find peeps playing anything other than the Warhammer stuff and if your eyes are bad painting would not be possible I might not have the attention span for painting although I admire those who work at it.
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Post by mao on Aug 4, 2021 6:41:03 GMT -5
The man prob is to find peeps playing anything other than the Warhammer stuff and if your eyes are bad painting would not be possible I might not have the attention span for painting although I admire those who work at it. ...with enuf money you can have the minis custom painted for you, very expensive though
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Post by hengest on Aug 4, 2021 6:42:38 GMT -5
I might not have the attention span for painting although I admire those who work at it. ...with enuf money you can have the minis custom painted for you, very expensive though Oh, that's good to know, I'll just shake out my Bag of Holding platinum coin purse here and...hey, where's my BoH??
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 12:33:13 GMT -5
The man prob is to find peeps playing anything other than the Warhammer stuff and if your eyes are bad painting would not be possible I might not have the attention span for painting although I admire those who work at it. I am color blind and uncoordinated so painting is off the table for me. I worked one place where this one guy on painted during lunch every day, he said he has been painting for 35 years and has thousands of painted figures. At the time, I was working 60 hours a week and driving an hour both ways, so I never pursued it.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 12:34:14 GMT -5
...with enuf money you can have the minis custom painted for you, very expensive though Oh, that's good to know, I'll just shake out my Bag of Holding platinum coin purse here and...hey, where's my BoH?? Mine was stolen too!!!!
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Post by mao on Aug 5, 2021 3:30:55 GMT -5
I might not have the attention span for painting although I admire those who work at it. I am color blind and uncoordinated so painting is off the table for me. I worked one place where this one guy on painted during lunch every day, he said he has been painting for 35 years and has thousands of painted figures. At the time, I was working 60 hours a week and driving an hour both ways, so I never pursued it. I used to have several thousand
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Post by restless on Aug 5, 2021 10:40:08 GMT -5
I used to have several thousand I must be the only person who never had a bunch of minis! I could never afford them. I am really considering taking pictures and making contact sheets, cutting out the art with a 1" circle scrapbooking punch and then gluing them to washers or wooden discs. That way I can have "minis" that can be identical to VTT tokens if I run in person and online ( thanks, COVID!). I have heard of people doing the same with art from MtG commons, but since I never got into CCGs I guess that's not an option for me. I also want to do some sort of tokens for handling resource management, but that's a whole new can of worms... and if I keep going on this it feels like I am trying to threadjack, so I will shut up now
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 5, 2021 21:56:15 GMT -5
I've updated the list, I found what I believe is the remaining Dangerous Journeys/Mythus books that I want to sell.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 21, 2021 21:15:38 GMT -5
Added the core books for 2nd Ed AD&D.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 1, 2021 17:02:39 GMT -5
Adding a copy of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 2, 2021 12:48:22 GMT -5
Added some Armory stuff and Judges Guild stuff. I found a box and I will be adding a lot of stuff over the next two weeks and quite a bit of it is old Judges Guild stuff.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 2, 2021 13:03:37 GMT -5
Some Items went quick so adding some more.
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Post by bravewolf on Sept 2, 2021 21:26:22 GMT -5
Is the RC still available? If so, dibs!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 2, 2021 21:30:23 GMT -5
Added some more stuff.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 2, 2021 21:31:00 GMT -5
Is the RC still available? If so, dibs! Sorry, too late, it went quick. Sorry that I did not get it marked until just now, I have been talking to three people at the same time and was still updating from those conversations.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 4, 2021 11:46:28 GMT -5
Updated the listing
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Post by simrion on Sept 7, 2021 18:51:37 GMT -5
Glad to see your goodies are selling, hopefully a windfall for your situation as well as the buyers.
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Post by Traveroark on Sept 8, 2021 19:53:10 GMT -5
You sold a First Fantasy Campaign?! I would have bid on that.
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