Troll Lord Games

serleran wrote:
No, that is mine.

I know it's yours. I just like saying it.

Deogolf wrote:
I've come up with a few for the Harvester's game, but will be kept under cover for the time being!

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Omote wrote:
Piper's gone bye-bye Egon. What do you have left?

~O

"I got nothin'."

--Silent Bob

Aladar wrote:
I just want the darn thing in my hands.

+1...E^6

<t>I've gone back to rolling for HP at first level instead of giving max. I've also, however, switched to awarding max gold at first level. Even if you have max HP, if you get clobbered with a critical hit (if you use crit rules), it doesn't make any difference if you have 10 HP or 2 HP...either way...

You need another category...don't really care about labels. The only label I care about at this point is that it's not 4e or D20. Beyond that, I really don't care.

Looks good.

I prefer 4d6 7x, drop low roll on each set and drop lowest total. I want my characters to be a bit more "heroic" instead of the generally average rolls I get from 3d6.

Congrats, Chris. Enjoy the ride, man! It's a blast.

Omote wrote: Overall I like Pahtfinder, and this seems like a good idea when reading the blurb. Thanks for the link. I think the Advanced Player's Guide ZOOMED the Pathfinder game right into the stratosphere with obsense amounts of crunch. Pathfinder is catching up quite quickly with the end times ...

<t>This almost strikes me as a new magically infused race more than a particular class. Perhaps the race was one created by one of the plethora of gods of magic, but this kind of a system to me goes against the grain of your normal, run-of-the-mill spellcasters who have to prepare their spells. You ...

concobar wrote: The new essentials books are 19.95 for 360ish pages with color art. No company beats that for a core book at this time. So how much would the books cost without the color art? I'll go along with what was said before about color art being, more or less, a crutch. When I got into gami...

<t>THAC0!!! <br/> Let's think about this...when have edition changes occurred in the past? It seems like every time an edition change has occurred, it has accompanied a shift in the paradigm in which the game is envisioned. 2/e was basically an attempt to break away from the Gygaxian model. the d20 ...

Perhaps the more relevant question is, "Why the heck are we even discussing this idea?". Just sayin'...

I have to add my +1 to the "Don't Change It" chorus. It ain't broke. Don't fix it. EVER!!!

Boxed text is nice for getting the author's intent for the room/encounter. Once you see how somebody else has envisioned something, it's easier to tailor it to your liking.

I like them. You need to be creative to make one effective, as has been stated by others, but if you can do that, they're fun. Also, it makes the CK's job more fun planning encounters, especially if he/she knows that the illusionist is being creatively played.

Aladar wrote: I would like to add Holst's "The Planets" for background music. Yeah, The Planets would be another good one. Again, though, gotta be careful to get one of the more obscure movements, although Mars would certainly be good for a fight. I might think about using something like ...

I will say, though, that having an 11-month old crawling about takes a few years off of how old I "feel."

I had been using my laptop to run games for a while. I reverted back to old-fashioned pencil & paper during the game, then transferred it into a campaign manager program afterward. It got to be too much of a pain having so many windows open.

<t>WotC has simply tried turning everything they do into a different version of M:tG. In its early days, it was wildly popular. It remains fairly so to this day, even though I've long since gotten out of the game and lost interest in it. D&D has become Magic: the RPG. In a lot of ways, the gamep...

Dvorak is good stuff too. I avoid Dvorak 9 just because of the familiarity factor. Glinka, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and, of course, Rachmaninov all have some great stuff for gaming. The de Meij LotR Symphony is good too.

The Ride is great stuff, but I try keeping things a bit more obscure to avoid the possibility of forgetting why we're at the table. Bruckner 3 is a great one I forgot about. If you find yourself entering a grand temple, Gregorian chant or some Bach would be good to have on hand.

<t>Bruckner 9. The second movement is great for combat, while the first builds flavor.<br/> <br/> Shostakovich 5. Anything works from here, depending on the mood. Get the Leonard Bernstein recording.<br/> <br/> R. Strauss Ein Alpensinfonie. Great general f/x stuff. Pretty much any Strauss works, but...

<t>I allow clerics to burn spells for cures, just like in 3.x.<br/> <br/> Natural 20 on a TH roll results in a critical hit, which is simply max possible damage on that attack (thanks to seskis for that house rule).<br/> <br/> I prefer max gold at 1st level vs. max HP (thanks to Steve for that one)....

Go0gleplex wrote:
It's the sound bite ones that annoy me most of all. I can ignore the banners themselves for the most part...but when I'm getting an audio commercial...makes me not want to be around to listen to it.

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<t>While I haven't killed any characters in recent memory (I know, I know...SLACKER!), my general inclination is to hold onto the sheet. I have scans of all the character sheets in my group in my campaign manager, so I have a ready pool of ideas for NPCs should anybody keel over. Of course, I'd chan...

<t>The ads might not be so bad if they at least catered to the market currently being served. The two that are just above the quick reply window I'm presently polluting are for AT&T and Avis. I know it's not a "smart" system like Google, but I wonder if they're just trying to promote our online ...

It's welcome news, indeed. Way to go, Trolls!

When my mother made note of my graying hair.

I've had the good fortune to play at Steve's and John Wright's tables. Those were some of the greatest games I've ever played in. Bar none. I'm with Serl in that there are a bunch of folks from this forum with whom I'd love to share a game table.