Subj : Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
To   : hollowone
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Apr 23 2023 18:32:05

  Re: Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
  By: hollowone to Al on Sun Apr 23 2023 02:11 pm

 > That's nice. As a part of my retro experience bonanza i started coming back 
 > 
 > I find some equally expensive as Amiga 1200 without capacitors changed, but 
 > 
 > Luckily as an anology to emulators, those old rpg books come as legal or ill
 > 
 > I purchased back some genuine 1e/2e books in various vintage books, also hav
 > 

Actually, Dungeons and Dragons licensing around third edition made it so it was
legal to produce rebranded versions of the game, so the Internet is flooded
with legal clones of Dungeons and Dragons ( Basic, Expert, Immortals, whatever)
and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (mostly the first edition).

When I say "clone" I mean the game is the same as the cloned one, with the
branding removed.

Around D&D 4E, a freaking CLONE beat Dungeons and Dragons in sales and
popularity.

I personally prefer early Warhammer Fantasy RPGs because the system is just
more flexible and has better provisions for non-combat related activities. In
addition, the lore beats most D&D settings IMO.

I don't own any official D&D material besides some 4E books, but I own:

* A B/X clone from a Spanish publisher, "Aventuras en la Marca del Este".
* An 3rd edition clone (heavily modified) from another Spanish publisher, "El
Reino de la Sombra".
* A 5th edition clone which hails from Spain too: "El Resurgir del Dragón"

I also have a bunch of clones of OD&D (think of the original boxes that used
Chainmail's combat rules) and some AD&D clone, these ones in digital form.

Castles and Crusaders deserves an honorary mention, because it is a
pseudo-clonic evolution of AD&D which tried to be what Gygax would have wanted
3rd edition to be (instead of what we got). I am not a super-fan, but a lot of
people is. I have a clone of this clone from a Spanish publisher.


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