Re: OSRIC 3.0 announced

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.
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