This post is part of a series of posts in the D&D 40th
Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge. The
information in many of these posts is related to events that occurred primarily
in the1980’s. Since it is now 2014, I can not guarantee complete accuracy with
such a large passage of time but I will present the events and information as
best as I can recall.
Day 11: First splatbook you begged your DM to approve.
I do not recall ever wishing one
of the DMs would approve of using any particular splatbook BUT there was my
AD&D game that I hoped the players would embrace using Unearthed Arcana. I remember being extremely excited about
using the stuff inside after flipping through the contents. I thought there was plenty to like – new
ability score generation methods, new races, new classes, etc. – and it would
help get our game a fresh start.
Unfortunately, I was pretty much
the only one excited about the book; Jamie might have been also. It was apparent that most of the players were
kind of burned out on A/D&D gaming at the time and wanted something
different. I am pretty confident that we
would have tried out some of the options in Unearthed Arcana if the book would
have been released sooner. That led us
to try out different games such as Marvel Super Heroes, Champions, Car Wars,
and many more. We would eventually
return to A/D&D and would even use some
of the Unearthed Arcana options but we never did run a campaign using many of the options.
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