Troll Lord Games

Sir Ironside wrote: You forgot the, "Get of my lawn ya dirty kids!" *Puzzled* Soooooo, your doing it wrong because you'd like to see official TLG alternate classes, and this somehow makes my imagination, in rpg's inferior to yours? Call me crazy all you want, but I'd enjoy books like thes...

Lurker wrote: breakdaddy thanks for posting that. I've never seen it before and though I'm old school through and through it might be good to have to give to new gamers, once I start running my own game ... Yippee, it does sound like the biggest issue was with the module, however, to me the key to ...

Joe wrote: I prefer to find ways to play the classic in new ways. Call me crazy, but I just think it takes more imagination to do so, and where I come from...frpgs are about the imagination. So if Robin Hood was an archer and not a fighter, then what is a ranger? Sounds like Mac & Davis share m...

Sir Ironside wrote: Newer rpg players (New as in the last ten years. ) are used to a more balanced approach to gaming and I think that there is a common thought that any combat must be seen to the end. Us, old Grognards cut our teeth on unbalanced games and were always weary about engaging in comba...

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<t>Yeah its pretty much a YMMV scenario.<br/> <br/> My group likes thaat, so long as there is versimilitude they are happy. It isn't hard and doesn't slow things down to have a PC find a bunch of coins and say <br/> <br/> "Hmmm, hundreds of coins, I've got a full pack and that goblin almost chased m...

if you want simple DnD try the original red box dnd (the ones from the 80's), plays well and very simple.

<t>I thought the above passage was pretty clear the although RM allows a mage to decipher a spells purpose, he is not able to cast it until it is learnt, hence the passage about time taken to learn a spell as opposed to just deciphering it and copying it.<br/> <br/> Deciphering after RM just gives a...

<t>Quite well put Seski.<br/> <br/> @Breakdaddy, although the term may change or mean different things to others, "old school gaming" is a fairly well established genre covering dnd 0e and 1e and the current "old school renaissance" of simulacrum games and modules covering those systems.<br/> <br/> ...

<t>"DECIPHERING SPELLS: to decipher spells in anothers spell book or a scroll, a character must first cast read magic on the spell to be deciphered. Once the character successfully casts read magic, the character can learn or attempt to learn a new spell and add it to a spell book. The rules for add...

"old school flavour" you gotta be kidding me, there is nothing old school about that unless 3e is now considered old school.

I have to say it looks like a steaming pile to me. But YMMV.

<t>No, I have never expanded the lists. The explanation given in the PHB works fine for me. Wizards CAN use swords, just not as well as other classes (hence the penalty in the PHB) because they spent all their time and energy (and still do) master the eldritch art of wizardry. Learning magic is no e...

<t>I think that is obviously going to be heavily dependent on a given cmpaign, some guys run boxed settings, some homebrew, some historicalish. Probably everyone plays all of them at some point or other.<br/> <br/> My next campaign is going to be a historicalish one, set in an alternate 800 AD Europ...

<t>Ahh, I see, from as an avowed rules tinkerer myself, that makes sense (a class idea to play off the seige engine to make best use of the games mechanics that is).<br/> <br/> The divine bard idea is actually one I had myself, it is an option in my 2e game. When you think about how often across man...

Hmm thanks.

Hey Saku, my esteemed CK!

Thanks, for the info. remember much about it after a read through?

<t>I never changed over to editions of DnD which featured feats and whatnot, just didn't like them.<br/> <br/> I started with the box sets and 1e, got as far as 2e but dug my heels in there. These days I found myself more n more annoyed with the slightly nonsensical proficiency system in it, as well...

serleran wrote: That is an impossible question as everyone will have things they wanted but was not included, like critical hits, a more detailed "skill system" or even rules for making monsters. So, yes... there are things "left out" but how critical those are depends more on y...

<t>Thats it. <br/> <br/> I had a later print with different cover art (a guy in green robes opening a set of massive doors to what looks like a treasure hoard... Until you look closer).<br/> <br/> Most people prefer the older art version but it is the same goodness inside. The 1e dmg is very wordy, ...

I've got more somewhere i'll get up later, although i'm sure there'll be more doubling up soon.

<t>here's a few of the fantasy suitable riddles i have collected.<br/> <br/> What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?<br/> The sun<br/> <br/> What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?<br/> Your word<br/> <br/> What is round as a dishpan, deep as a t...

<t>If it is for a high fantasy, child oriented game like this why not just have griffons, unicorns or pegasi? They are not "real" animals thus can simply be presented as their fantasy forms, sidestepping the question of anthropomorphism.<br/> <br/> Or you might have to invent a creature? <br/> <br/>...

<t>For me, I don't really dig it as having just anyone be able to perform the skills of other classes (and from this draft it seems there is little beyond this guys ability) kind of seems to cheapen the abilities of those classes.<br/> <br/> "Spells, oh yeah anyone can do that. All that fancy riding...

Breakdaddy wrote:
If this thread devolves into an edition war, then it's gonna magically disappear.

Even if the forces of OD&D, 1E, 2E, 3E's, 4E and C&C are marshalled in an epic 6 way battle for Epremacy using Fields of Battle rules?

<t>Here's the table I am currently tinkering with, I wanted more than just plain old extra damage, some different or interesting effects which could shake up a combat or lead to some unusual events.<br/> <br/> It relies on the GM to come up with a descriptor of the whys and hows, rather than prescri...

<t>ok, just didn't wanna make/alter a rule unless I had to just to make things simpler/less houserules to remember.<br/> <br/> If its DM fiat then I'll probably say a flat 100:1 for all coins seems simple and right for me. 50 coins, bout the same as a dagger or dirk seems fair enough to me.<br/> <br...

What is the EV of coins in C&C?

Did I miss the "official" suggestion in the PHB or is it just by DM fiat?

<r>Sounds like someone has been, or might enjoy reading Tolstoy.<br/> <br/> "One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his famil...

bump for my query above.

Omote wrote:
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Are you implying Prince Adam was He-Mans horrific illusion form?