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(tekumel) Can anyone really give a good reason...

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Phillip

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July 11, 2015, 03:05:29 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;836858I had a copy of the OD&D based EPT set TSR released in the 70s...bought it, had it for a year or two, couldn't make heads or tails of the damn thing, sold it.  Pity; I was hoping I could mine it for ideas to use in my then-weekly OD&D game.

This puzzles me. I can't see what could possibly present any more difficulty in adding monsters and magic than if one had picked up a volume in a D&D or AD&D line. Hit dice, armor class, saving throws, etc., are hardly foreign; the data could be printed in an OD&D booklet verbatim.

I could more readily understand the later-D&D (Moldvay or Mentzer) fellow who didn't have the AD&D books and was stumped by references in scenarios to 12" as move/range listing or by what a paladin might be. When you've got the handbook right in hand, I just can't see any problem.
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