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@@simonhunter7244 haha yes we surrender our wallets to Noble Knight. And I’m sure you’re not the only one since different settings appeal to people differently. Ravenloft used to be my second favourite, these days I think it doesn’t appeal to me as much.

@@Dndditches I mean it's a good setting, but not something I used to seek out... Gimme more Dark Sun! Have been playing a bit of Pathfinder these days and someone has converted Dark Sun over, it's very good :) Keep up the awesome videos, looking forward to more this year :)

@ thank you so much! I love Dark Sun (it’s what replaced Ravenloft in my 2nd favourite spot). I saw the Pathfinder conversion. The Dark Sun community is quite amazing with so much community made content.

Thank you. Happy new year 🥳

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your support. PDFs are great as they’re cheap and convenient- it’s what I use to read and run the games. The physical books are nice and tactile but absolutely not required to enjoy the edition. Merry Christmas!

Hope things are getting better for you and yours. ❤

Hey thank you 🙏 yes I am planning to cover all the remaining adventures and I can’t get to Dead Gods before Great Modron March and I have a lot to say about that 😅 so it will come eventually.

Thank you so much!! Hope you convince your DM. No DM has ever allowed me to play a psionic class 😅

Hey thank you so much for your response. I feel the same way. I didn’t use non weapon profs in the video cuz it wasn’t relevant to the combat example and I go back and forth with using them in real play. I see that they’re great for flavour and customising the characters but I also feel like it limits problem solving in 2e. Without it, anyone can come up with creative solution, with it the players can get into “I’m not trained in x hence I’m not going to do that”. I plan to cover Skills & Powers version as part 3 of the series as the idea is looking at how psionics expand and evolves with further material.

@@Dndditches The real problem with nonweapon proficiencies is that many of them go too much into the specific, resulting a lot restrictive. Add to that that you get only very few slots with which to buy them, and you end up stuck with limited options. One example are athletic proficiencies, such as jump or balance. Those should not be proficiencies, but basic rules open to everyone. Tumble or Acrobatics, on the other hand, are something that goes beyond normal athletics, allowing all sorts of unusual physical feats you can think of, so that should be a proficiency. Actually, the lists of nonweapon proficiencies could use some serious trimming and all classes should get a lot more slots to acquire or improve them. Same with weapon proficiencies, which should really be acquired and improved by groups instead of singularly.

@ I agree with you on this one. Seem like every setting and splat book adds more proficiencies and some of them are really important eg, find water in dark sun, but there are not enough slots for everyone. I’ve not figured out a system on how to run them, and not using them seem to appeal to me more, or letting them pick a couple that are more background professional based ones. But it could very easily bloat like the 3.5e materials. As for weapon proficiencies, groups are ok. Actually the way the original Baldurs Gate 1 did it was pretty good.

@@Dndditches The best system is to fuse together all the proficiencies that are strictly related into a single one, in a similar way as how they did in later editions. For example, why do we have too specific proficiencies like "find water" or "orienteering", which can be used in a single way to do a single thing, when you could have a more generic "survivalist" one which can be adapted to a vast array of situations and can be used to do a lot of different things, based on the player's and DM's imagination? Again, things that should be common abilities should not be among proficiencies, things like basic athletics (Str), stealth (Dex), endurance (Con), common lore (Int), perception (Wis), or diplomacy (Cha). Those should be among the general rules for adventuring. Baldur's Gate's system is actually the one from the Complete Fighter's Handbook and Combat and Tactics, homeruled just how I did back then: you use group weapon proficiencies for related weapons instead of single ones, but you also get specialization, mastery, high mastery, and grand mastery by group, instead than by specific weapon. And let's not forget about talents, introduced in Combat and Tactics, which could be acquired with either type of proficiency and were passive in nature, changing what or how the character could do in certain situations. No rolls required for those. Blind-Fighting is an example, which reduced both the penalties and hindrances of fighting in low-light conditions.

@ aaaaaand that’s when I circle back to not use proficiencies. That’s just the standard 2e ability checks except the players now will only use the ones they’re trained in. I think I can still have a similar experience by not using nwp. I’ve not read all the 2.5 books in full but combat & tactics just felt like proto 3e cuz it was. I don’t play 3e due to the crunch involved and I don’t feel like a lot of the 3e-isms from the book add to the game. Using miniatures, that horrible initiative system, attacks of opportunity etc. I like the weapons specialisation rules though. Maybe to someone that played a lot of 2e its something new and fresh. I’ve not played a lot of 2e as I was just a kid at the time

Thank you so much. I had to film that bit 3 times (second time my mic wasn’t turned on 🤪)

Yeah absolutely. Matter of fact, the unboxing video in the following month had 4 monster sheets missing. But there’s something quite magical in opening a box and finding dozens of cool little nicknacks and that’s what they’re really selling. The fantasy. I think prudent business decisions gets in the way of creating truly magical experiences like these old boxsets. Beadle & Grimm’s deluxe sets are like $300-$400 that’s an insane price. To think that you could pick it up for $30 30 years ago is mind blowing to me. Wish I wasn’t such a poor kid back in the day.

Yeah there’s a flavour for everybody. ❤️

Thank you so much. That means a lot. 😀

Yes agree, immense potential for epicness.

@ Might work for a Saturday morning style cartoon as well. Each episodic adventure can feature a new portal location.

@ you know you’re totally right although the themes could be a bit heavy for kids, but an episodic TV show could work. Back in the 90s there was a show called Sliders and the premise was exactly that, each week a new portal opens to another reality. But I see that only working for a couple of seasons before the show gets stale, and that’s when the Faction War storyline should start, kinda like the X-files where everything always culminates in government conspiracies.

@ Maybe wizards should hire me as a media consultant lol.

Thank you so much. Planescape is coming up in December 😀

I’ll take your word for it, these are literally the only Greyhawk books I own… except that horrible parody Castle Greyhawk book. I bought it as a teenager and went “wtf is this?!”

Everyone had a different way of doing THAC0, so you could have every player at the table doing it differently and it’s largely ok. I’m not a big fan of some of Gygax’s rhetoric particularly that everything is up to the job of the DM. The 1e PHB was vague on a lot of the aspects of combat, it had “your DM has the rules for x” far too many times. I don’t have a problem with the players knowing the rules, if anything it’s great to delegate certain tasks to players as the Dm already has to do so much. Forever DMs also make great players provided they can let go of control, in my experience.

Thank you so much! The lack of 2e content is exactly why I’m doing these.

I don’t have the 5.5e books and not sure if I will get them at this point. What are some of the stuff removed?

3.x already broke away from D&D. Feats? What's that? Min-maxing? For what? Combat system with lots of rules? Where's room for creativenes, imagination and free form play, known from originals? I won't even mention onem particular skill that was absolutle bonkers (Line ;) ).

Absolutely. Plus with the board game craze over the last 10 years, the Birthright setting is perfect as board games, say a mix of Risk and Diplomacy.

Thats far too sensible

Thank you so much!

Absolutely. Though I think part of that was due to not having the internet so the books had a lot more mystique and a greater sense of physical community. These days there are so many more options. Thanks for watching.

You miiiiiiight be in luck for next month. 😉 thanks for watching.

@Dndditches Nice!!!!

@@juliasilverstone2626 your collection is insane!! Ever thought of making AD&D videos?

@@heldane6165 the lack of 2e content is EXACTLY the reason I started this channel. I’m making the stuff that I’d want to watch. I am working on an indepth review of a 2e book at the moment but it’s a lot of work. Hoping to have it out within 2 weeks.

@@Dndditches that’s great, and it’s definitely needed, especially for people getting into things like OSE as on appearances, apart from the “classics” they don’t seem to realise they’re backwards compatible with 2e as well. Your channel has been so useful in deciding what 2e stuff I should get as someone who came in completely new to 2e.

@@heldane6165 thank you so much. Of course I’m biased towards the more wacky settings. Let me know if there’s anything that you would like more coverage of.

@@Dndditches some reviews or overviews of the box sets would be good. Maybe an overview of what the “classic” or “iconic” 2e scenarios/campaigns would be good!

@@heldane6165 great suggestions there. Let me simmer on it. I want to put my own stamp on it and not just copy what other people are doing.

Aww thanks! Have a great game tonight!

@@Dndditches thank you!

If they did reprint these they’d cost $60-$100…….. but I’d still buy it again. 🤪

@Dndditches Right? The box set format brings back awesome memories, plus the way maps are included these days, if they even are, end up just being folded into the book... at one point in time I was attempting to get all of the sections of map for the Forgotten Realms... but my older brother stole all my 2e stuff a few decades ago...

@@slaapliedjeyeah the box format with the goodies was such a thrill it’s like opening Christmas presents everytime. There’s something charming about these old maps cuz it was built on a dream and a lot of imagination. Bummer about your FR books but I’d do the same…… lol jk but old books are irresistible. Maybe you can find cheap replacements from a garage sale somewhere.

Thank you so much. It’s become my life’s mission to collect these old books now lol ❤️

Haha old books are good for the soul I promise. I love the Dark Sun and Planescape box they’re my top 2 settings.

Thank you for watching. It’s certainly very nicely detailed for when it was released. The box sets felt like good value for money back then.

Thank you so much. I wanted to share them online since I love this era of AD&D.

Agreed wholeheartedly. It was the first setting I bought too. So many good memories.

Thank you for watching 😀

Agreed. It’s absolutely divine.

Absolutely. We don’t tend to put as much value into certain things until we get older to appreciate it, I reckon.

Thanks for watching. My mum reckons they might’ve threw it away but also said she thought she saw them somewhere. I think I might have to replace them at this point. What’s done is done I guess.

@@RichardFriendartist Thank you.

That sounds amazing! Let me know how your Planescape game goes.

Yeah it’s brilliant I want to run it soon but you definitely need the right players for it.

@@Dndditches the more dungeon oriented types get rewarded with some Magus Castle level fun house dungeon at the end.

@@Halfling.Paladin sounded like a great time. Did you use 2e or 5e?

@@Dndditches 2e. I won't touch a hasbro product with a 10 foot pole

@@Halfling.Paladin that’s fair. 2e best edition anyway 😀

@@radyoung779 yeah I just ordered another lot from them. They are actually pretty good with reasonable prices.

Thank you! 2e is pretty awesome isn’t it?

@@Dndditches looks like it. Just getting POD’s picked from drivethru

@@heldane6165 yeah POD is a great option for affordable physical copies!

They’re certainly addictive to collect!

@@Dndditches yeah they are dang it haha all mine are from the 70-80s i havent got around to the 2000s

@@ilpilgrim we tend to have fond memories of the edition we started with and I started in the 90s. Did you get introduced to dnd in 70s/80s?

@@Dndditches oddly enough i started in 2000s haha but loved the old school ones and didnt stop i just never got around to to wanting the newer ones

@@ilpilgrim you must really like the classic style of dnd then

Love Ravenloft and Dark Sun. I want to start running 2e games soon.

Thank you so much! I never got into Dragonlance as I’m not much of a novels guy and that’s their strength but agree 2e is the best edition. I thought about running Dark Sun and Ravenloft but I decided to do more Planescape instead since that’s my specialty and 5e friendly (for my players). I’d only run Dark Sun in 2e due to 5e not having proper psionics.