Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Justisaur Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: OSRIC 3.0 announced Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 08:59:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:59:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b914b3a3d19524873f957a6b14332cb4"; logging-data="709256"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18JYz6nL7FBJgCT8GGh8AdVDb6QvUAIVTY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nfyZbAC1xK9eZfZuso3fRItKNP0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2565 On 5/25/2024 1:25 AM, Kyonshi wrote: > On 5/24/2024 4:10 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:22:44 -0700, Justisaur >> wrote: >> I never thought UA was /bad/... just not necessary and not >> particularly well thought out. A few things I liked, a lot I liked the idea of, but didn't work out in play, and a lot of stuff that was obviously bad. The new spells seemed to be almost universally loved, which was at least a third of the book. >> I had a lot less respect for "Fiend >> Folio". ;-) I've got a lot more. > Oh come on, the Fiend Folio is amazing. I just regret they didn't put > out anything with the later monsters from White Dwarf. /agree with both that. Fiend Folio is very hit and miss though, the hits are amazing, the misses are miserable. To be fair, the monster manual had a lot of miserable misses too, like wind walkers. As it's a DM resource book it's a lot easier to use what I want and not what I don't than a mostly player facing book like UA. I played a lot of AD&D at the time being a kid & teen eventually, and the additional monsters were a godsend to mix it up a bit. -- -Justisaur ø-ø (\_/)\ `-'\ `--.___, ¶¬'\( ,_.-' \\ ^'