Troll Lord Games

Its been so long that if someone answers the question now, I will have to look the it up.

TheMetal1 wrote: Ditto on GG Comment. I'm not a member of their forums, but if anyone is they should post the recent bidding. If you own the product you (and you've opened and looked at!) then you know it is par excellance. I got a direct mail copy - which for record did not come shrink wrapped - f...

Traveller wrote:
You also didn't threaten to bust my kneecaps on a public forum like one of the rabid fanboys did. Needless to say, I take that very personally

Hard not to take physical threat personal, sounds like these fanboys are pretty brave, at a keyboard and online

Get well soon, DD

gideon_thorne wrote:
Well, next time someone says "You've got a lot of gall" you can now tell them that's emphatically not true.

Nah , I bet he will still have plenty of gall, just won't have anywhere to store it.

Nice blog Benoist , I always enjoy reading stories of how people got started in the hobby.

"My" goths are total posers as well, and their characters are not any more angst ridden then the other players characters. But they do play World of Darkness games

I like it as is as well, in fact to be more like the AD&D version maybe it should be +15.

I wish you much success in pursuig your goals JG

Schedules are the big time issue for sure.

<t>The speech is about 50% useful campaign information and 50% boasting that he is a tough gamemaster . <br/> <br/> I seriously doubt he had any goth types at the table when he gave that speech (unless he knew them very well). Hell, if I used that kind of talk with my players I would lose about half...

I think I'd let that train chug on by as well
When I read that speech I was reminded of a Traveller campaign I encontered in college. The guy had an eloborate campaign full of epics scenes, battles and political intrigue. It was very creative but the players were merely spectators.

I just want to know do I have to be a hamster to play the Bushloper class ?

<t>The cleric isn't going to get any better at tracking, because he is too busy learning his profession, so he won't get to add his level to the roll. And like DD said, the ranger can gain a lot more information from a successful track check. <br/> <br/> Every character class does the abilities of t...

<t>My only frustration is that life interferes with keeping roleplaying groups together. <br/> <br/> And that I have more games than I could ever play, and ten times more miniatures than I could ever paint.<br/> <br/> And I'm sick the term "old school" mostly because I'm old and some dorky tween sai...

I don't like this "old school" term. It has become old real fast to me. Did this term orginate with OSRIC ?

dkeester like you i missed this flame war too. I've looked at some these osric/ retro clone adventures but wasn't impressed. Maybe these are better.

Nice link slimykuotoan, I've seen those pages before but forgot to bookmark them.

<t>Nice blog article there Heruka <br/> I wouldn't take anything written in the class descriptions as a reason to limit its ability to be an adventurer.<br/> <br/> I could see that description being used to set up some early adventures.<br/> <br/> Maybe the ranger character is assigned as a guide th...

Yep $119 maybe Gygax Games is paying attention
I'm glad I order one when I did. To save wear on my copy I've begin to copy the maps by hand into a graph paper notebook. I doing this to facilitate expanding the dungeons downward as well.

I prefer players to start with a small background, which can be expanded upon during the game. When playing I usually just have a brief rather simple background. The game and setting influence how much background is needed. A simple dungeon crawl setting does require any background. A complex politi...

Bummer 2

But it is good news that Garycon might be repeated next year. Too bad TLG guys weren't there this year.

Breakdaddy wrote:
Steve is a greedy corporate hack who gets HUGE BONUSES like the AIG guys. We should boycott him by sending this guy to his house to sort him out with a slapchop(tm):

I thought Vince was a cousin of the Chenault boys.

I like the non casting versions better as well, except maybe for the bard.

The bard class seems to be kinda weak ( but they do level up pretty quick).

Options are good though.

<t>I give the PC's max hit point (+ con bonus) at 1st level. They have to roll after that. It does give them a bit of an edge at 1st level against low level encounters, but cuts down characters dying due to a bad die roll a little bit.<br/> <br/> Maxing out the monster hit dice will make them toughe...

When is 4.5 going to be released?

I really only use the old 1st edition dmg for fluff stuff, dungeon dressing, random dungeons, random wilderness, henchmen and hireling that sort stuff. Don't really need it all actually. I've stoled a few spells form 3rd edition but thats about it. DangerDwarf wrote: For your brand new gamer looking...

Yeah a Charisma check for monster won't work so good for them, being that monsters are notrious for having bad charisma I guess. I've been thinking about using a BECMI like system using 2d10, instead of 2d6. 2 = already running, 20 = will never will run.

gideon_thorne wrote: As defined by whom? Certainly not the game companies who really don't care how you play as long as you buy the books. Or, perhaps you are talking about the first rpg designers? Course, I don't think so, cause, according to that lot, "Sticking to the rules never has been, a...

Grendel T. Troll wrote: That may be good for you, but what about the Virgin gamer that has no previous books??? I was only poking fun at what I consider a weak argument against starting with C & C. I started playing D&D with the old 3 booklet set and Greyhawk supplement I certain we did alo...

And OD&D had rules for loyalty scores for npcs. Morale checks were made on reaction table.

jaguar451 wrote:
If one wants to roll, wouldn't a CHA check be called for? CL based on how good/bad things are going....

That would work too.

AD&D morale rules were for henchmen, hirelings, npc opponents and monsters. Base morale for monsters was 50%+5% per hit die over one.

FWIW I use the Mentzer set rules, at least until the CKG is released.