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Loel posted:Man this takes me back Same. I have fond(?) memories of playing the C-64 version of Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure bonds, at one point using an ancient and broken 1541 floppy drive that needed a kitchen knife to hold it closed til we managed to get it fixed at a combination music instrument store/Commodore hardware repair place. (I'm fairly sure the C-64 repair was just a sideline.)
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I played the hell out of this growing up
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If memory serves, the Sokal Keep orc fight is one where I'd just turn on automatic combat, go watch TV for an hour, and come back to see whether I was dead or not. Not the last fight like that by any means.
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DGM_2 posted:I can just see it now - after an especially long trip the party makes it back to find their pictures on milk cartons. Naturally, Sternn sues the dairy company for using his likeness without permission. Or better yet they try to claim the reward for finding the missing adventurers.
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Jan 31, 2020 19:37
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I'd espectre a few more puns yet, myself.
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Feb 21, 2020 20:18
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C, and you could even (keeping this as oblique as possible) use the events that kick off Curse as a narrative justification for the stat boost if you feel the need.
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Mar 1, 2020 10:35
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I have vague memories of the C64 version completely loving up when I tried to import into Bonds too (and it resulting in completely broken cheat equipment somehow so of course I'd import one character, take advantage of getting, like, STR 20 gloves or some drat thing, do that over and over and over again, and then just reroll a new party).
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Mar 3, 2020 17:01
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I remember enjoying Curse a lot more than PoR (I never did get around to the other games) but I also had WAY WAY WAY more patience for stupid RPG bullshit like the thing you spoiled in those days.
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Mar 3, 2020 21:18
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Narsham posted:And yes, it is possible to take the Dust of Disappearance into the next game, where you can use it to accomplish something somewhat amusing that you're unlikely to manage without it. I remember, back in my youth, assuming this was some sort of bug with the import into the second game (similar to how I somehow managed to turn Gauntlets of Ogre Power into something even more broken with some kind of corrupted import) because there was no loving way that Dust of Disappearance was that powerful. And then I found out it was that powerful.
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Apr 2, 2020 19:23
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Yeah, I remember dual-classed characters (in particular) being far more useful in Curse than either Rangers or Paladins. (I never played any of the games after Curse.)
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Apr 3, 2020 20:08
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DGM_2 posted:You're planning a Bard's Tale LP? Good to hear! I mean he said he was playing Bard's Tale already.
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Apr 26, 2020 20:28
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Chokes McGee posted:Curse of the Azure Bonds, Chapter 6: Under Where? I certainly never did this and then spent an hour frantically going through old saves to do character import/export bullshit so that I wouldn't have to find all new equipment when I was a kid, either. I think it was more like three hours.
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May 11, 2020 16:09
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It's less a derail than a side-saddle quest.
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May 21, 2020 14:04
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I vaguely remember fighting the dragons when I played this when I was a kid. I'm not sure how I survived the experience, but it's definitely evidence that I had a LOT more patience then.
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May 23, 2020 10:57
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Zurai posted:It doesn't. A necromancer is someone who divines the future using bones. Pardon me just changing my rl job title to Arithmancer.
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Jun 5, 2020 22:16
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So, assuming that the minotaur footsoldiers were working for or with the beholder, it follows that they were in some sense sworn to the service of the throne of Mulmaster. And, of course, one wouldn't want slow footsoldiers working with a beholder, lest it get impatient and bored and start disintegrating them for fun. So these are, one would assume, fast minotaurs. Which would make them Dexam's Min Knight Runners.
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Sep 3, 2020 12:42
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My vague memories of this fight involved using the Dust, turning on autocombat, and then wandering away for an hour and coming back later to see if my party had more xp than they knew what to do with or if they'd died 55 minutes ago.
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Oct 4, 2020 22:24
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I'll admit, I did once throw a party I was DMing for into a cave full of beholders. It was a non-combat encounter, the culmination of a quest where the players were escorting what they thought was a kobold scholar back to his people, but who was actually a disguised juvenile beholder, who amused himself at the end by jumping in and out of his mum's antimagic eye field all "Beholder! Kobold! Beholder! Kobold!" It was probably not thematically appropriate at all but everyone enjoyed it.
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Oct 11, 2020 04:47
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The LP's been good. Take care of yourself, friend.
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DGM_2 posted:Elminster should sue Big T for trademark violation. Tyranthraxus is actually Elminster after about eleven drinks.
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Nov 1, 2020 04:13
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Chokes McGee posted:Writing's done! Content extraction begins tomorrow. If anyone can make the dullsville game entertaining it's you. But yeah, only if you want to.
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Nov 25, 2020 15:42
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Chokes McGee posted:It is 100% that bad. It is an actual, honest to gods waste of time to fight for the cash to cast Raise Dead because it's so prohibitively expensive that you should just toss your character in a gutter and drop in a replacement—especially since they come with more cash than it takes to outfit them. You have to get to around Level 3 before you hit escape velocity and it becomes worthwhile to save one of your people. I played and enjoyed the Bard's Tale games as a teenager, and I could really use the endless patience for utter bullshit that I had then in my life right now.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:04
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Chokes McGee posted:I once received someone else's hate mail as CSPAM IK Hahahaha, I'd forgotten about this.
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Feb 4, 2021 15:50
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PurpleXVI posted:Oh. OH. And loving Fizban. I thought Fizban (and later on Zifnab) was hilarious when I was fourteen, and if that just doesn't say it all right there.
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Thanks for all the good funny stuff here and the good serious stuff in other threads. Like others have said, it's a sad but understandable decision and I wish you all the best.
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