Troll Lord Games

I had my wife watch the Pandemic episode of Tabletop, which I've played a couple of times. She agreed it'd be a good one for us to get, so hopefully that'll be an end-of-year addition to our collection. Ticket to Ride and Battlelore have been our go-to games of late, but yesterday we pulled out Elfe...

As I see it, there was a shift away from dungeon crawling and toward more epic story telling and plot lines. This, except for the epic part. I didn't see a rise in games that I thought of as epic, but there was a big rise in the idea that the random death of a character ruined the story. I hate los...

Old issues of Black Gate. (Currently on Todd McAulty's "The Haunting of Cold Harbour" in #3.)

I can't argue with Nightstorm's facts, but I have trouble browsing spells because they're listed alphabetically instead of grouped by class and level.

What, no Lego case?

When drow first popped up as an official PC race in AD&D, a friend and I both created drow characters. We had our cool PC names (both from Dr Who in this case), but the DM loved his expansive background info on the Vault and insisted on giving us proper drow names as well. Of course, no one woul...

But, be forewarned: lots of violence. Lots of sex. Lots of cruelty. Lots of characters being killed off in ways few other authors would ever dare. It amuses me that most North American readers rag on the sex stuff (Both the book and the TV program.) but never really comment on the many horrible dea...

Kobolds, spiced up with courage, cunning, and a dash of heroes. I like giving them a giant lizards as steeds. One of the first adventures I created had the PCs rooting out a kobold warren. The kobold leader was a 4th level fighter with gauntlets of ogre power and a +1 sword. He didn't run away when ...

If one considers the old arguement of the wizard being overly powerful, especially at higher levels, one should also consider that the weakness of the wizard is the vulnerability of their spellbook. The backstory for one of my characters included him stealing a wizard's more powerful spellbooks and...

And instead of carrying a massive tome, you could carry a few much smaller books (the size of a standard RPG hardback, if I recall correctly).

Aergraith wrote:Unearthed Arcana has guidelines on the cost of spellbooks, travelling spellbooks, and how long it takes to produce a new standard spellbook

Travelling spellbooks. The best thing in the UA. They made life so much easier, provided you had a secure location for the originals.

This thread has me curious what people are using as a standard for greatness. I've only played a few of the classics: Slavers, Hommlet, Temple of Elemental Evil, Tomb of Horrors. And I've dabbled in some others (probably several) without knowing it: I'm pretty sure I had a character make a few solo ...

Thinking back to the early '80s, one of my first characters received a +1 damage vs goblins, but lost his +1 dex bonus to AC when facing goblins. (He had hatred issues.) I never thought to call it anything.

I would have pounced on it, except I really don't have a use for another computer right now, even an uber-cheap one.

treant_on_fire wrote:Seriously, what kind of Assassin can't infiltrate someone's home in the middle of the night??? O.o

One who doesn't know how to knock politely?

Looks like it will be very hard to do what I hoped... make a replica of the Winchester House. Alas, I will keep looking. Don't despair. Rumor has it they're working on an Escher add-on module for Sketchup that should make projects like WH a snap. (They've already missed two release dates, but engin...

Arduin wrote:Not really worth the effort to create a 3D dungeon. 2D maps are 10x quicker and would suffice... IMO

I was good with that until I picked up the original Ravenloft. While 2D, the map layout gave a good feel for the 3rd D, which provided a better anchor for my descriptions.

Bump. I'm a little surprised this is the only thread I found mentioning Sketchup. Has anyone used it to build dungeons? I'm not one how likes maps and minis on the table, but this has me intrigued. I've built PCs' strongholds in AutoCAD many years ago, and for the same effort I think I could bang ou...

blackmote wrote:The mod seems pretty well written with an interesting story.

Yes on the story. That was my first C&C game. I'll be interested in seeing your after-action reports.

Heh. On an unrelated note, my grandson got to pet a honey badger a couple of weeks ago. Still has all his digits.

MormonYoYoMan wrote:Oddly enough, Brigham Young answered this question more than a century ago...

...when he said, "You see four goblins. Roll for initiative!"

Not a collection I'd be interested in, but that's a nice score.

Almost all my early gaming was as GM. When I started playing in college, my first character was snuffed out by a black pudding. Poor thief. The only reason he ran into the pudding was because the party was incapable of making forward progress, so I took matters into my own hands and led the way. (St...

Chris Perkins is the Creative Director for D&D over at WotC. I think that's his title anyhow, or the equivilant. Whatever his position, in his commentary on the Robot Chicken session, he mentions getting TPKs in one night. That makes him okay in my book. :lol: But really I'm just envious of the...

There is a case where I rule an arrow's magic is depleted on a hit or miss. Taking a little inspiration from WFRP, I have the swarming arrow. Upon leaving the bow, it splits into two or three or four arrows. (I love these things, but they're always found individually.)

Lots of good memories therein. So true, but that's all that's there for me. I'd much rather have something like C&C, which has the same feel but a much more streamlined implementation. It's better to stand on the shoulders of the Frankenstein monster than try to sort through all those mismatche...

I let them keep their magic unless broken. After all, "Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you."

I have no idea. He's usually WOTC's GM for the big public sessions. I don't pay much attention to WOTC, so these podcasts/videos are the only place I've seen him. A sick cat had me up in the wee hours of the morning, so I watched a few videos from the Elmore/Greenwood/Salvatore gaming session at Gen...

Lately I've been watching "D&D Robot Chicken" videos, which is five writers for Robot Chicken play 4e, again with Chris Perkins as GM. While each video opens with an "adult language" warning, these guys are much tamer than the PAX gang. The first few of the 10-minute videos a...

I'd like a catalog that provides a very short description of each product. I'd like those descriptions to make it clear which products are made to fit together, which can be easily put together, and which are truly separate items. (I've had some problems with that on both my major shopping sprees.) ...