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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by John [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/08/2024 11:16:33

Oriental Adventures was a huge move forward for 1st Edition AD&D, although there were some hints of the over-complication of 2E on the horizon.

Rather than use this space as a review of the game system itself, I'll speak to the quality of the scan. (I don't see a POD option.)

I purchased the PDFs to supplement my ancient rule books, largely because PDF is searchable. Throwing the old rules into Obsidian to manage the information overload is a great way to find what I'm looking for, particularly during a play session.

Unfortunately, this scan's OCR is pretty poor. The clarity of the scan is fine, and I can always figure out what should have been recognized on the text layer, but it frequently is not.

It's not likely important enough for me to try to re-recognize the text, although it's possible that my open-source tools could do a better job than Wizards did. I want to emphasize that the clarity of the scan seems top-notch.

Anyway, 4 out of 5 — quite good and very useful, but quite a lot of work to get useful text out of it.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Mark C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/17/2020 16:58:05

This is a great classic AD&D book one of the original Gygax books. It was the first game that took me out of a European setting and got me into Asian fantasy. This book has inspired me my whole life, the bibliography in it is excellent and full of resources to learn about real Asian culture. The Japanese play testers did a great job of putting a "feel" into the setting no other game did for me. TSR was one of the first game companies to use persons of color to test ethnic products. As an American Mexian player it hurts me to see it and the other TSR ethnic products demonized. We finaly shed the stigma these games gave us as players tags like Satanic, suicide, murder, geek, freak, nerd but now we have a new tag hateful and problamatic.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Mitchell M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/02/2020 22:04:02

I love this book, it does Asian fantasy well. It gives enough to build on and mashes up a lot of Asian cultures into one fantasy culture so you can run it with many different feels. Just like they do white cultures in normal AD&D, they take Greek to Russian and roll it into a ball and put magic on it to make a fantasy culture that represents many views and traditions. It was the first book I ever read that made fighters more than just brutes in this book; they are artists, and poets. It sparked my interest in Asian cultures I hold to this day. If you are going to this book for facts about real word culture you won't find much, just like you won't find facts on any real world cultures in any AD&D book, but if you want to add Asian flavor and feel to a 1e game this is a good resource.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by jamie g. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/02/2006 00:00:00

We love it. This finally finishes off my rule book collection for first edition. As I said, we love it.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Andrew C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/27/2005 00:00:00

Excellent resource for those wanting a little bit of Asian flavor in their campaign or character.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Jim C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/20/2005 00:00:00

As far as I'm concerned the first Oriental Adventures has never been surpassed in D&D for the subject matter itself or as a workable system of adenturing in a civilised, honour-based society. The scan is decent (a bit speckly).<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
This review refers to the older file version of Oriental Adventures. The file was re-mastered with a new, better scan.
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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Giovanni A. P. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/21/2005 00:00:00

Absolutely a must for all the players and DM that are not so lucky to have the original hard-back paper one. My all-time favourite of all the expansions/rules of all the Advanced D&D!<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: all<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: nothing<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



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