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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: OSRIC 3.0 announced
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 08:59:36 -0700
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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 <justisaur@yahoo.com>
>> 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

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