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Hail the victorious dead. To Dave Arneson!

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#1
dr_rocktopus
May 01, 2009 9:33:38 I don't think anyone pulled together a thread to pay respects to Dave Arneson. I know a lot of people didn't like him very much, but I personally always thought highly of him. And perhaps slightly unlike Gygax, Arneson was ours, one of us specifically. Perhaps the first one of us, in every respect. I know this doesn't really belong here, but I just wanted to say it somewhere, anywhere, where people would understand my feelings. I'm a big believer in wakes, but I am short on resources and could not make it to Arneson's memorial service. So the receiving line starts here, but in proper CO fashion rather than flowers or kind wishes, I'd like you to leave one broken trick or cool tactic.

Hail the victorious dead! To the best of us and the worst of us!

My trick, to start the pile out, is:
You can use gremma's cauldron to produce potions of personal spells, as it does not limit the nature of the scroll converted. Arguably, you could probably make potions of scrolls higher than third level. It's not much, but I wanted to start small.
#2
sofawall
May 01, 2009 10:38:30 To Dave Arneson, what would D&D be without you?
#3
bobzemoose
May 03, 2009 18:26:06 in eberron, summon undead using summon undead of the level of your choice, then shuck them like corn with manifest death for just about all the rebuke undead attempts you can handle. combine with primal scholar to do it all day long. combine with divine and domain feats for extra fun.
#4
wings_of_peace
May 03, 2009 21:08:28 I've posted this on another thread but I'm posting it here because it's my personal favorite trick and I feel like it goes well with the theme of the thread. Elan's who take the Eternal Hero epic destiny are effectively immortal. They auto-resurrect at dawn every day and due to being Elan's cannot die from old age. The nice part about this trick is that if you follow the Epic Destiny Variant this can be done without being epic level.
#5
dandu
May 03, 2009 23:37:44
I don't think anyone pulled together a thread to pay respects to Dave Arneson. I know a lot of people didn't like him very much, but I personally always thought highly of him. And perhaps slightly unlike Gygax, Arneson was ours, one of us specifically. Perhaps the first one of us, in every respect. I know this doesn't really belong here, but I just wanted to say it somewhere, anywhere, where people would understand my feelings. I'm a big believer in wakes, but I am short on resources and could not make it to Arneson's memorial service. So the receiving line starts here, but in proper CO fashion rather than flowers or kind wishes, I'd like you to leave one broken trick or cool tactic.

Hail the victorious dead! To the best of us and the worst of us!

Brains...

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 dr_rocktopus May 01, 2009 9:33:38	I don't think anyone pulled together a thread to pay respects to Dave Arneson. I know a lot of people didn't like him very much, but I personally always thought highly of him. And perhaps slightly unlike Gygax, Arneson was ours, one of us specifically. Perhaps the first one of us, in every respect. I know this doesn't really belong here, but I just wanted to say it somewhere, anywhere, where people would understand my feelings. I'm a big believer in wakes, but I am short on resources and could not make it to Arneson's memorial service. So the receiving line starts here, but in proper CO fashion rather than flowers or kind wishes, I'd like you to leave one broken trick or cool tactic. Hail the victorious dead! To the best of us and the worst of us! My trick, to start the pile out, is: You can use gremma's cauldron to produce potions of personal spells, as it does not limit the nature of the scroll converted. Arguably, you could probably make potions of scrolls higher than third level. It's not much, but I wanted to start small.
#2 sofawall May 01, 2009 10:38:30	To Dave Arneson, what would D&D be without you?
#3 bobzemoose May 03, 2009 18:26:06	in eberron, summon undead using summon undead of the level of your choice, then shuck them like corn with manifest death for just about all the rebuke undead attempts you can handle. combine with primal scholar to do it all day long. combine with divine and domain feats for extra fun.
#4 wings_of_peace May 03, 2009 21:08:28	I've posted this on another thread but I'm posting it here because it's my personal favorite trick and I feel like it goes well with the theme of the thread. Elan's who take the Eternal Hero epic destiny are effectively immortal. They auto-resurrect at dawn every day and due to being Elan's cannot die from old age. The nice part about this trick is that if you follow the Epic Destiny Variant this can be done without being epic level.
#5 dandu May 03, 2009 23:37:44	I don't think anyone pulled together a thread to pay respects to Dave Arneson. I know a lot of people didn't like him very much, but I personally always thought highly of him. And perhaps slightly unlike Gygax, Arneson was ours, one of us specifically. Perhaps the first one of us, in every respect. I know this doesn't really belong here, but I just wanted to say it somewhere, anywhere, where people would understand my feelings. I'm a big believer in wakes, but I am short on resources and could not make it to Arneson's memorial service. So the receiving line starts here, but in proper CO fashion rather than flowers or kind wishes, I'd like you to leave one broken trick or cool tactic. Hail the victorious dead! To the best of us and the worst of us! Brains...