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Ancalagon
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Post January 29th, 2019, 9:57 pm

Such a fun game to play! More than once I've thought about trying this one with my current game group but no one else owns the PHB... but I still think about it from time to time.

Check out this vid about the game...

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Post February 4th, 2019, 7:07 pm

Yep, nothing but love for HM4. One of these years if we ever do a group gaming weekend, we shall endeavor to have an adventure using it for sure.
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Post February 4th, 2019, 8:16 pm

Its funny you mention a group gaming weekend. Wes and I emailed recently and he brought up the idea, too.
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Post August 26th, 2022, 11:34 pm

The thought hit me today that since HM4 has a strong parody element, were I to play a wizard or battle mage in a game, my PC's magic missiles would look like a 1' long version of the Hamburger Helper hand or a smurf's hand or something like the hand of one of the animaniacs.

The magic missile(s) would zoom up to the target, draw back, and pimp / wuss slap the shit out of it for the damage. An accommodating DM might even allow a minor sound effect to accompany the impact (loud slapping sound, a woman's (womens') voice(s) saying "damn, bitch!", or some such) to enhance the humor / parody aspect.

Imagine the visual of a target getting hit with 3 foot long hamburger Helper styled hands at the same time and, instead of a blasting sound or "pew pew", 3 different sounding womens' voices all say "daaaaamn bitch!" :lol:
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