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sweet geek swag posted:The monk may have been in some supplemental book in 2nd edition, but it was a standard class in the original 1st edition players handbook. For some reason they didn't put it it the 2nd edition players handbook, but to be fair a lot of 2nd edition AD&D was controversial. Yeah, I think the monk, psionic, cavalier, and assassin classes were all removed for 2nd edition. The psionic did come back as a class with the release of the Psionics Handbook, and the assassin was a 'kit' in the Thieves' Handbook, and cavalier and maybe monk were kits in the Fighters' Handbook. Kits were pretty crummy overall, mostly minor tweaks to an existing class, rarely huge or fun changes. Like, maybe a thief kit would give bonuses to picking locks but penalties to climbing walls, or whatever. And don't get me started on THAC0. So in conclusion 2nd edition is a land of contrast.
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GI_Clutch posted:I lost my copy of The Color of Her Panties in junior high. Thankfully, the next day I saw it resting against the chalkboard in Mrs. Perez's room during either health class or English and I was able to grab it. I was surprised she didn't freak out over the title/cover with two topless women on it. I didn't think I was ever going to see if again. Oh, she knew
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Inverted Icon posted:Oh, she knew She needed to know which student to watch out for
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GI_Clutch posted:I lost my copy of The Color of Her Panties in junior high. Thankfully, the next day I saw it resting against the chalkboard in Mrs. Perez's room during either health class or English and I was able to grab it. I was surprised she didn't freak out over the title/cover with two topless women on it. I didn't think I was ever going to see if again. Such a dumb book and on top of it the actual color ended up being loving plaid. Pretty sure Jenny the elf, the one based on a real girl, featured in that one. I don't think an author should write stories about a quest for panties that feature any kind of character based on a real person they began corresponding with when that person was a minor.
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Galewolf posted:There was like maybe 3 girls out of 50 sweaty nerds so I think they were all Aes'Sedai (sic?) and true to my irl , they didn't talk to me :/ hahaha,  never larped myself, just played tabletop poo poo
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Barudak posted:The cover is great, yeah. Snug black leather
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ya was a category invented by marketing it appeared in the 00s
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GI_Clutch posted:I lost my copy of The Color of Her Panties in junior high. Thankfully, the next day I saw it resting against the chalkboard in Mrs. Perez's room during either health class or English and I was able to grab it. I was surprised she didn't freak out over the title/cover with two topless women on it. I didn't think I was ever going to see if again. Trap sprung for her.
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GI_Clutch posted:I lost my copy of The Color of Her Panties in junior high. Thankfully, the next day I saw it resting against the chalkboard in Mrs. Perez's room during either health class or English and I was able to grab it. I was surprised she didn't freak out over the title/cover with two topless women on it. I didn't think I was ever going to see if again. Lmao that she didnt huck that poo poo straight into the bin
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Wait. I'm sorry. You mean this- Is not an edit? That's an edit joke title about something creepy in the story, right?
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Black August posted:Wait. I'm sorry. You mean this- Buddy your quote has a wikipedia link to it what do you think.
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Black August posted:Wait. I'm sorry. You mean this- Click the link you quoted. I double dog dare you
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Telsa Cola posted:Buddy your quote has a wikipedia link to it what do you think. Didn't notice it at first. Was distracted by the huge title and trying to work through how it was a shop. I'm a little blindsided by it.
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Sep 13, 2020 04:09
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Was it a thing in library classification before that? I think it was but I am not sure.
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VideoTapir posted:Was it a thing in library classification before that? I think it was but I am not sure. It was. Young adult, teen, and youth were all used fairly interchangeably up until the oughts when publishers really glommed onto young adult/YA as the term of choice.
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I am positive that I saw Young Adult as a label when I was a kid in the 90's. Although when I was 12-14, hardly any of it interested me. I didn't become a heavy reader until college.
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Black August posted:Wait. I'm sorry. You mean this- I picked up a Xanth book once and it was about a woman named Debra whose magic power was that her name made people want to remove her bra. Put it back down and walked away.
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I think making GBS threads on women when talking about YA books comes from how society is kind of setup to poo poo all over things that young women like and YA books are mostly aimed at young women.
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super sweet best pal posted:I picked up a Xanth book once and it was about a woman named Debra whose magic power was that her name made people want to remove her bra. Put it back down and walked away. To he fair, that's a pretty funny pun and I actually like this.
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super sweet best pal posted:I picked up a Xanth book once and it was about a woman named Debra whose magic power was that her name made people want to remove her bra. Put it back down and walked away. Don't you get it? De-bra ...??
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You now, my father read probably 25 of these books at least and passed them on to his younger brother, who treasured them, and in his time passed them on to me. They connect me with them in a way that that is is inreacreatable. Without them, I would be a diffetent person, and I dont believe for the positive. Is it strange to say the piers anthony was one of the best influences on my life?
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muscles like this! posted:That reminds me of the terrible Ayn Rand book Anthem, which takes place in a commune so horrible that they've banned the use of the word "I" and people may only use "We" instead. The main character wants to be a scientist but the people in charge of assigning jobs make him a street sweeper instead. He starts hiding in a tunnel to do science stuff and completely independently reinvents electricity and the light bulb (which had been lost after the communists took over.) He tries to share his invention with the commune but they hate him for being so good at stuff so he runs away with a young woman who conveniently also believes in individuality. They then find a house in the woods that was built by someone before the evil communists took over and live there the rest of their days, not seeing the irony of being independent only through someone else's hard work. I can't think about anthem without thinking of thinking of the prog rock album 2112 by Rush. In it, the dude finds a guitar rather than invents a lightbulb, and he kills himself and then the planet is invaded by aliens and everything goes to hell. quote:Side one of the album is occupied by the 20-minute futuristic science fiction song "2112". The seven-part track is based on a story by Peart, the band's primary lyricist, who credits "the genius of Ayn Rand" in the album's liner notes. Rand, a Russian-born, Jewish-American novelist, and inventor of the philosophy of Objectivism, wrote the 1937 dystopian fictional novella Anthem, the plot of which bears several similarities to 2112, and all members read the book. Peart added the credit to avoid any legal action. The credit caused the band significant negative publicity, with many labeling them right-wing extremists. In the British paper NME, Barry Miles made allusions to Nazism, which particularly offended Lee, whose parents were Holocaust survivors. The first and last sections, "Overture" and "Grand Finale", respectively, are instrumental and borrow a short sequence from 1812 Overture by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The "Overture" features an introduction from graphic designer and musician Hugh Syme performed on an ARP Odyssey synthesizer with an Echoplex Delay pedal. Music writer and professor Rob Bowman calculated that in the entire piece, 2:34 of the song contains improvised guitar solos. "Overture" contains the lyric "And the meek shall inherit the earth", a reference to the Biblical passages Book of Psalms 37:11 and Matthew 5:5. Much better than Anthem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZm1_jtY1SQ
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Coxswain Balls posted:On the other hand I'm super into this record now. Something about the emo and the fantasy just works. I never read Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms books but having played Baldur's Gate a lot I don't care about Drizzt, but I came to really like the stories of the deities of the Forgotten Realms and their various dramas. I mean, it's obvious how they use the Time of Troubles or the Second Sundering to rewrite the rulebook, but I don't know, the drama of the gods is pretty neat. For instance in Baldur's Gate 2, you are in Athkatla and a lot of people worship Waukeen, the god of commerce. But reading up on it, Waukeen I think was actually missing through this whole period, secretly imprisoned in Hell. Lliira took over Waukeen's business in the meantime until Waukeen was freed a couple years later. The game doesn't mention any of this but it's a pretty interesting concept to me. Also in the game you explore two ruined temples of Amaunator, who at the time was a lost god who had been replaced by Lathander. But then later Amaunator comes back, or maybe Lathander is an aspect of Amaunator? People in the setting don't even know. Reading everyone's posts about Dragonriders of Pern, WoT, Thomas Covenant and Swrod of Turth makes me loving glad I never read any of those, I remember people recommending them to me. I pretty much learned to read a book by reading the Hobbit with my mom. I thought that I read Piers Anthony back in the day but it turned out it was this book Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Five_Magics Which I remember being a pretty good story. Don't know why I though it was Anthony. from wikipedia: "The song "Five Magics" by Megadeth was inspired by this book" Cafe Barbarian fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Sep 13, 2020 |
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Every third BBS user in the 90s went by Drizzt or Raistlin.
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I read the first Icewind Dale book when I as 11 for a school project and did a diorama of those dudes fighting the ice giant.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I read the first Icewind Dale book when I as 11 for a school project and did a diorama of those dudes fighting the ice giant. That sounds cool, I always love diorama projects
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VideoTapir posted:Every third BBS user in the 90s went by Drizzt or Raistlin. raistlin was basically the sephiroth for its time
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sweet geek swag posted:The monk may have been in some supplemental book in 2nd edition, but it was a standard class in the original 1st edition players handbook. For some reason they didn't put it it the 2nd edition players handbook, but to be fair a lot of 2nd edition AD&D was controversial. I completely misremembered that and thought it was from Unearthed Arcana. the 1e core books should go in this thread, come to think of it. they're some of the worst instruction sets I've ever read in my life, barring bad translation
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Caesar Saladin posted:I read the first Icewind Dale book when I as 11 for a school project and did a diorama of those dudes fighting the ice giant. hell yes
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I think the only genuinely funny joke Piers Anthony ever told in Xanth was that he originally intended the books to be a trilogy, but they kept selling so he kept making it an "extended" trilogy. He named his 27th book Cube Rout and declared it the end of the first Xanth trilogy. When that book came out I was already well over his writing, but I remember thinking, yeah okay that's pretty good.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:To he fair, that's a pretty funny pun and I actually like this. Wait this reminds me, did anyone every read any of the MythAdeventure books? They were like a slightly less creepy Xanth. I just thought of it because the girl in them was named Tanda, T-and-a, get it?
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Jaxts posted:I think the only genuinely funny joke Piers Anthony ever told in Xanth was that he originally intended the books to be a trilogy, but they kept selling so he kept making it an "extended" trilogy. there were five books in the Hitchhiker trilogy, but the Xanth books were published first, so I will very grudgingly grant him that one
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Caesar Saladin posted:I read the first Icewind Dale book when I as 11 for a school project and did a diorama of those dudes fighting the ice giant. That owns. In 4th grade I wrote a short story for a school project that was based on the videogame Hexen and I will always distinctly remember my teacher giving me a lovely grade because they didn't know words like "mage" and thought I was just writing gibberish
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deep dish peat moss posted:That owns. In 4th grade I wrote a short story for a school project that was based on the videogame Hexen and I will always distinctly remember my teacher giving me a lovely grade because they didn't know words like "mage" and thought I was just writing gibberish lol
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Empty Sandwich posted:I completely misremembered that and thought it was from Unearthed Arcana. 1e dmg is basically outsider art
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i got in a huge argument with a teacher when I was 5 or 6 because i insisted that 'fiend' could refer to an actual demon and not just a 'real tv fiend' or something i also got in trouble for drawing the big minotaur you can summon in Hexen when we were supposed to be painting a picture of how some dumb piece of music made us feel. it made me feel like i wanted to think about the minotaur from hexen.
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Just thinking about that 'taur
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sebmojo posted:Just thinking about that 'taur
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Empty Sandwich posted:I completely misremembered that and thought it was from Unearthed Arcana. They tried to warn you by naming it "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" but you didn't listen.
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Piers Anthony also wrote a tetralogy called the Mode Series which features travel between different dimensions. There's a dimension where all women wear diapers, and a wizard guy from there arrives on earth and is scandalized by the heroine's tight jeans. The narration takes every opportunity to mention how shocked, shocked he is by her immodest attire, and the phrase "genital contours" is used. Then there's another different dimension where everyone wears color-coded underwear. Apparently one of the later books has human-on-horse sex and also a catgirl named Pussy, but I dropped it after the first two.
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