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Serleran's Birthday Score

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:34 am
by serleran
Some were curious to know what the great serleran received for his birthday, so, here it is:

D&D Box Set V: Immortals

D&D Box Set: Wrath of the Immortals

Arduin Grimoire Volume I (1st cover; 2nd print)

Arduin Grimoire Volume III (1st print)

Tegel Manor (Gamescience print)

Lace and Steel: Swashbuckling RPG Box Set

AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook (10th printing)

The Complete Book of Humanoids

The Complete Druid's Handbook

The Complete Barbarian's Handbook

The Complete Bard's Handbook

The Complete Paladin's Handbook

Player's Options: Spells and Magic (Softcover print)

Blood Bowl: The Omnibus (Anthology of The Gridiron Trilogy)

Lottery scratchers - won $5

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:43 am
by moriarty777
A nice haul!

Are there many significant differences between the Wrath of Immortals Set (billed as being the ideal companion to the D&D RC) and the Mentzer Immortal Set? I'm just curious since I've recently been able to get the books for D&D Set 5 in very nice shape.

(I don't mean to thread jack but the seeing both items listed reminded me of this question).

Equally nice score on Lace & Steel... I've only heard of the game but it sounds like an interesting concept in terms of combat.

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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:57 am
by serleran
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Are there many significant differences between the Wrath of Immortals Set (billed as being the ideal companion to the D&D RC) and the Mentzer Immortal Set?

Yes, there are. WotI re-images the Gods, in a sense, and provides a campaign-ending / re-defining adventure. The Mentzer version assumes the PCs develop into the state of Immortality, whereas WotI assumes you start as one (though there are means to develop into one if desired.) Some themes and concepts are in both, but WotI is, in a sense, Immortals II. For me, I like the Immortal-level magic and artifact creation; don't really care for the attribute tables to 100, or the 36 levels of Godhood, but whatever... I know enough game stuff to change what I like with ease.
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Equally nice score on Lace & Steel... I've only heard of the game but it sounds like an interesting concept in terms of combat.

I've only just gotten it, and opened it, so I haven't read it much, but it seems to be card-based, and not dice-based. Very interesting, especially the sorcery cards; I do wonder what the tarot deck is for, but I've not delved into the rules. Seems to be a very simple game, intuitive even. And, with a designer named Paul Kidd, its just oozing with swashbucklery.

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:31 am
by Tadhg
Nice presents. I think I'd like to get me the Complete Bard's Handbook, and D&D Immortals.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:16 am
by DangerDwarf
Cool, looks like a pretty sweet score.

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:46 pm
by Jyrdan Fairblade
Most excellent! I really liked the Complete Book of Humanoids, and really want to run a C&C campaign with it one day.

I never had the Immortals Boxed set back in the day, so we ended up retiring the only two characters that made it past the Masters set to become Immortals. Would love to revisit that old (Gah, could it be almost twenty years ago?!) campaign now that I do have it.

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:50 pm
by Brutorz Bill
Some good stuff there!

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:38 am
by grodog
Awesome Robert, and happy belated bday
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