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<t>Without bungling around with houseruling all the classes, or buying more books, why not just graft the SIEGE onto your AD&D game and dump the saving throws and skill system?<br/> <br/> Solves the problem of getting a new monster book too.<br/> <br/> You'll have to convert the monsters' magic ...

<t>If you are going with a 3e style skill list, I suggest dumping Spot and replacing it with Surprise, a free skill for Rangers, Half Orcs, Elves, or whatever you like. Then, those with the surprise skill add it to their wis check, and everyone else (ie clerics, unless for some reason they take the ...

<t>B2 Keep on the Borderlands, most useful. That fort has appeared many, many times in many, many campaigns. Many, many replacement characters have started out in that module to catch up with a mid-level party.<br/> <br/> I think my favorite to DM is I2 Tomb of the Lizard King. A few truly nasty mon...

I don't think I see how an extra create water spell will ruin a game, or a light spell, or what have you.

I don't remember anyone suggesting it back in the day, but it was probably just picked up from the SRD.

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I suppose at some point, if you have enough prestige classes and add-on hoohahs, you end up with every character being a separate class, in which case you might as well play a purely skill-based system.

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<t>Two questions for the august folk hereabouts:<br/> <br/> 1. Evil clerics have to be 5 levels higher than the undead to be controlled.<br/> <br/> First, what if they're not? Are the undead merely turned? If so, are these turn attempts penalized in a desecrated area? I think the answer to the latte...

<t>The BCS is a complete and utter crock.<br/> <br/> They ruined all the bowl games. I am a westerner, and it seems completely stupid to have a Rose Bowl without a Pac-10 team (which has almost happened twice in a row). Or a Big 10 team, which happened last year. Same for the other bowls- no souther...

<t>I'll take your 3 players anytime <br/> My attempt to get a game together from strangers was not very successful last summer. So be glad you've got what you've got; maybe someone else will come up later on.<br/> <br/> I grew up in a small town and DMd more than 3 players only once or twice. It wil...

gideon_thorne wrote: One needs strength to fire a bow. Even a crossbow requres strength to pull it. Both are muscle power weapons. Hence the whole 'strength' bow concept as exemplefied by 'bending the bow of Ulysses. ^_^ Interestingly, the game mechanic chosen for this game relating to bows is Dext...

<t>Davis- I think it should be a rogue variant. The archers for hire in 1E were lightly armored; it makes sense that the char should have a high DEX, and not so much strength. All of which sounds more rogue-y. Or if you go for a new class, DX prime and d8 for hp.<br/> <br/> Now, to make it interesti...

<t>I set them depending on the circumstances to give an appropriate challenge. The guards in the hallway outside the orc chief's lair= max hp. The orc cook in the galley? 1 hp. Etc. <br/> <br/> I usually use the same hp for all monsters in an encounter just because I'm lazy. Sometimes I'll vary them...

And a Kwazee Kwanzaa!

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Dristram wrote: Heh, I'm one of those first time buyers and I sure ain't no Ebay pro! It's been very interesting seeing how the bidding works. It seems most of the price warring happens in the final seconds! Interesting! I always assume everyone on the boards also has been an old-time ebayer but I'...

Treebore wrote: You placed reserves??? Well on one hand I hate that, but on the other hand I don't think you should be selling these anyways, so I can at least understand having reserves. They're really only high enough to keep the "professionals" away from them. It's not so much that I d...

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There's several mentions of vampire spawn in the vampire description, but no description of the spawn? Half the hit dice, no energy drain, same AC? Just wondering.

Also: vampires only drain if they suck? That sucks.
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No, my game closet is a mess. I'm going to refurbish it with new shelves and cabinets, but to do that I have to .... [hold breath] clean it out.

So, my stash of stuff to sell is going, and there are things that I'm just not going to use so those are going too.

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When I got mine, it didn't work. For some reason RPGNow had the file named without an extension of .zip. So, if you download it and it doesn't work, try renaming the file to end in .zip and you should have no problem.

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Nifelhein wrote: You do not make a melee ighter check to see if he hit an adjacent creature to his trarget when he misses his own do you? then do not be stingy on the archer merely because he chose to wield or be god at a different weapon. That is what i think, at least. [/quote] No, you don't make...

<t>Thanks for the interpretation Serl, that's probably what was intended (assuming it wasn't actually aired on our now-dead PHB development board).<br/> <br/> I don't like that though because to me if it misses, how do you know where the straight line is going? Why is it a straight line for a miss? ...

<t>To remind myself, I looked in the 1E DMG. I'm sure someone will protest my characterization, but it's a very convoluted paragraph telling the DM to compare the relative size and number of combatants to assign percentage chances to missile fire. <br/> <br/> Nothing in B/X. My RC is inaccessible at...

I don't see anything in the book... what do you all do? I usually roll d6 for misses to figure out where the missile goes, but I'd be curiious if there's a better non-d20 idea.

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gideon_thorne wrote: Highest one, and one of two I have right now, is a 14th level illusionist named Claryanna. Obviously Cha and Int are her two highest stats. The other illusionist is just starting out in Steve's convention run games and is quite adept at annoying the hell out of Nym's character ...

terrainmonkey wrote: thanks first off, dunjinni isn't that great, i've found. i have the software, but didn't really like it too much as the symbol catalog is so limited. cc3 is on my list of things to buy but right now there are other things more important than that. i have cc2, and still use that...

<t>I don't really know... the good thing about such auctions is it's a good deal for YOU because you needed it and are pleased.<br/> <br/> I think I've seen it sell for a fair bit less, but frankly I hadn't paid attention to the condition, and with box sets (especially those over 20 years old ) it's...

<t>Hmm. Good stuff. I won't be allowing multiclassing, so that won't matter. Illusionist is an outstanding multiclass option.<br/> <br/> I wasn't saying I don't think it's interesting/effective at all, just that in a small party I'm betting players generally won't want to run one. And I don't think ...

<t>In general I'd recommend using whatever you know best. Over the past couple of years I've DMd 1E, played 2E, ignored 3E, played and DMd C&C, and DM'd two campaigns of B/X. The differences are subtle, but they're definitely there.<br/> <br/> I'd suggest 1E for spells; I think they more directl...

<t>I'm not big on "balancing" every class, but I do think that it's important to not have classes that are so weak that few will play them. I am wondering if the illusionist is that class. They advance at low levels as do wizards, but their spell list is obviously much shorter and the spells, again ...