Troll Lord Games

Jeez, I wish I actually played <sigh>. The downside = Since 2002 when I moved way out here in the woods, I've only managed to run/play a few weekends when visiting a friend near Fresno, CA. I'd DM AD&D 1e (never saw the need to go beyond that), and get to play in their AD&D 2e games. The ups...

uh, Metal1?? You left out a very important one: The Holy handgrenade! (we'll need that to fight the rabbit).

y'know, I was thinking about the movie Fight Club last night after my earlier post and came to another meaning (never read the book FWIW): I think its meta-theme is all about connection . The central character (unnamed protagonist/Tyler Durden) as the movie begins has pretty much lost connection wit...

...yep, Joe, it is what you say... and p'raps more: consciously embracing physical/brutal pain as a way to connect with yourself and others in an increasingly techno/non-human world...yeah, that too I think. What was Tyler's mantra/rallying cry? (oh, yeah, Google is my friend, here it is): Tyler Dur...

2nd rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club!

Me, I'd have to say pretty much any movie music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Oh, and the "Conan" soundtrack, too.

One of my players named her ranger "Dill Wobinson"...

for those who don't remember, in the old 'Lost In Space' TV series
the robot frequently would exclaim: "Danger, Will Robinson!! Danger!!"

Of course, Breakdaddy...'twas a heathen's festival before the re-branding...and re-branding...and re-branding...though the celebration-of-axial-tilt never varied.
Happy Christmas!

Uh, I'd say that if these folks have never before played a table-top RPG, then the answer = THEY HAVE NO IDEA. Nice questionairre, but way too much information, methinks. I'd suspect you've not gotten any answers from them because you overloaded them before the starting-gate. Get 'em together all in...

As long as you have players who don't try to abuse it, letting them play TWO characters works great. I've always made sure I let them know at the outset that it's up to them to role-play each character as the distinct person they are: not an adjunct of the other, not an always-helpful/agreeing frien...

<t>Hmm...not sure if this qualifies, but it feels right: <br/> <br/> Some of you may remember the 1E AD&D module "Treasure Hunt", yes? <br/> <br/> This was a "zero level" adventure -- characters were just plain folk who <br/> <br/> became 1st level adventurers through their actions in surviving ...

<t>Players track their wealth, I check player sheets before games and if something is too out-there note to myself that I'll need to throw something in the adventure(s) to reduce the overage. Taxes, tithes,<br/> <br/> bribes, poor orphans begging on the street, prostitutes with champagne <br/> <br/>...

<t>Oh, so very many things:<br/> Where in the real world could I swing a sword lethally?Or fly on a pegasus?Or gesture & mumble, creating magic?<br/> ...when I play RPGs, I get:<br/> all of the above-posted-by-others stuffstories whose happenings and outcomes are ever more surprising than many b...

<t>Congratulations from another Oregonian (out here by Mt. Hood).<br/> <br/> Lemme make sure I understand: after a stressful, 21-hour engagement, <br/> <br/> edged-weapons were employed but your party not only prevailed, but <br/> <br/> came through hale and hearty and safe...with a new, first-level...

<t>I think this might be helpful: <br/> <br/> White Dwarf magazine had a series of articles on D&D back in 1981 (Feb-thru-Nov). (Gotta love google-fu!) <br/> <br/> I've issues #25 & #26 which had articles on playing spell-using classes (in #25) and fighters & thieves (#26) -- the kewl th...

<t>Never went 'full circle' as I never saw the need or had the desire to <br/> <br/> go further than 1st Edition AD&D -- until C&C which (to me) is what <br/> <br/> 1st Ed. was really striving for. <br/> <br/> 2nd Ed. I only played (using my 1st Ed. characters) because it was <br/> <br/> the...

<t>...or, as I've done before: figuratively smack the 'power-gamer' in the <br/> <br/> face with what he/she is doing -- every encounter, simply state, "With <br/> <br/> your awesome abilities and powers, you succeed in what you're doing. <br/> <br/> You don't need to roll, we'll just figure you hit...

For me: that point in every combat, confrontation, encounter where the CK/DM or player pulls some imaginative thing out of it and tries something totally unexpected -- whether it works or not, it's just so awesome a feeling playing a game where absolutely anything can happen!

For me, NO!

If I wanted a 'fantasy accounting' game, I'd be playing D&D

3rd or 4th. Hell, even 2nd Edition was too much of an

accounting game for my taste.

Ogres...

(according to the blurb)

...have culture?!

<t>I jot down a bullet-point of the monster-stats and start it all with MONSTER-NAME followed immediately with:<br/> <br/> MM pg. xx (if AD&D Monster Manual)<br/> <br/> FF pg. xx (if AD&D Fiend Folio)<br/> <br/> ...and so on.<br/> <br/> So I can easily run 'em and open-to-appropriate listing...

<t>Worked swing-shift and remarked to a co-worker that I'd seen some 3X5 card at a hobby shop saying: "12th LVL Fgtr looking for DM and gamers" and I wondered what the heck that was.<br/> <br/> Turned out he was a DM - that night after work, I followed him home and he had me roll-up two characters a...

<t>I, myself, got introduced to RPGs with OD&D - then after one session, discovered the AD&D 1e books had just come out...and learned/played/DMed that ever since. Saw no need for 2e (lessee, more money for less/inferior product and a heavy sack-o-rules to carry around? uh. no). 3rd edition I...

<t>Welcome, narpet,<br/> <br/> I, myself, live wayyy up here in Rhododendron on the Western slopes of Mt. Hood. So, if you and Go0gleplex and dachda (oh my!) are looking to carpool up the mountain/volcano and want to game, I've battlemats, minis, dice, books (C&C and AD&D 1e) and would love ...

<t>My best was when my players were almost in tears at the death of....wait for it....a green dragon. Because the cleric was commanded: "no more spells until you bring a green dragon back to town" by her deity. <br/> <br/> So, yeah, 'Junior' was (due to circumstances) nice, not evil, and like a fun,...

<t>Omote...all this discussion gave me a new twist-idea on this --<br/> <br/> Yes, set up some XP-level = roll-for-a-spell chart, <br/> <br/> AND - as characters adventure and things happen in the adventure, have those incidents give the character plusses to their roll when they get to that roll-to-...

<t>Omote, interesting idea...my head bopped onto this: <br/> <br/> As CK, keep an adventure-log of your player-characters (I did this as a DM when I ran AD&D way back when) - in that, note significant and/or interesting incidents that characters come up against/persue in the course of adventurin...

<t>When it comes to mixing-up 'cliche' plots and such: Years ago when I was part of a regular-once-a-week(or more)-group, whenever we needed a break from the on-going campaign, some nights it would be: "Who's DMing tonight?" and we'd switch off, doing one-shots, etc. <br/> <br/> I ran a one-shot 'ev...

<t>Perhaps this tweak to armor (ala chainmail-bikini):<br/> <br/> Bare Warriors can opt to wear non-discomfitting chainmail (AC is 1-less-than normal chainmail due to wide-spaced links), <br/> but only if no helmet or shield is employed. Either/or. <br/> <br/> Non-discomfitting chainmail would actua...

"Can the public even read?"

Not a problem -

a) there are many pretty pictures on and in our RPG books,

b) if members of the public roll on the appropriate table,

they'll get "read & write", yes? See, problem solved!!