Troll Lord Games

Dracyian wrote:I kinda want to play this as a race

Could be fun. Or, funny.

I played it once (for about 4 months) back in '79 or '80. I didn't run it. I remember it being fast, deadly and fun. The dwarven ability to Tunnel was hilarious.

I didn't say they needed to be hired, but I am sure they would have information.... or might. I know. I was just stating how most view the class. (why no one mentioned the class) Killers for hire. Thus they focus on what they would need to accomplish "jobs". It started in 1st Edition I th...

Interesting. I didn't see anyone mention the assassin guild. Might be just the games I've played in but, people don't generally hire assassins to kill monsters way outside of civilization. The class, as written, is more at home in an urban environment. If I was running them à la Disk World they wou...

serleran wrote:My mass combat dominance is awesome. Tactical nuclear warhead.

E = MC2

serleran wrote:

Arduin wrote: "Forged in fire"? Is that a current TV series?

Yes. On the History channel.

Thanks Serl.

I'm in!

What about the point that the metal used in the swords in the article had to have been heated up to 3000 degrees F? And that allowed the oxygen impurities to be removed, a process that previous to the 1800 had to be done with repeated hammering? How does that play into what you guys know about? Thi...

I was watching Forged in Fire last night, and the guy who won used a "forge" made out of a cooking pan, which he had to expand using a satellite dish, in order to forge the Norse Battle Axe he won the contest with. His "bellows"? A hair dryer. Meanwhile, the guy he beat used all...

Captain_K wrote:Damn, I can't tell you how often I've screwed that up over the decades.

Decades? In AD&D a Turn was 10 minutes and a melee round was 1 minute wasn't it?.

Treebore wrote:All it takes is using a bellows to add in more oxygen.

Yep. In ancient India they built huge funnels to channel wind...

Go0gleplex wrote:Did I say anything about level?

The OP did. "as part of character generation, for experienced role-players playing a first level character for the Nth time,"

Now that questions from an illiterate have been answered...

Go0gleplex wrote:One word: Bards.

"Gaining the information may entail speaking to local inhabitants and/ or doing research."

For a new area and an uncommon monster, a low level bard is likely to NOT know much, if anything, about it without research. Not much use when encountering for the 1st time.

"However medieval technologies, which are what the Vikings would have been using, would not have been able to heat any metal or substance that high a temperature." Well, obviously archaeologists don't understand how advanced metallurgy was back then (don't ask me why as it is fairly common...

A GM that builds a world and creates geographic centered encounter tables will easily be able to to tell a PC what monsters a given 1st level is likely to be knowledgeable about. Although, it is immense fun to make a veracity roll. "You remember your Great Grandfather telling you how he defeate...

Go0gleplex wrote: Thought: Since it was long established that no more than six man-size opponents can surround/engage a single target, Would not six be the maximum number to be engaged, especially if already having had to move into melee range?

The limit is six if they want to effectively use melee weapons...

Zudrak wrote:How is leveling in 5e? I like slower advancement, as in 1e, and disliked how quickly 3e's advancement was, BTB. (Yes, I realize that houseruling can fix this...)

At low levels it is MUCH faster.

As our 5e campaign progresses to the mid-tier of levels, I’m growing to appreciate that it’s much harder to come up with a broken, min-maxed uber-character than in the past two editions. It makes challenging the PCs that much easier. I noticed the same thing. It is also the best D&D edition for...

I adore R.E. Howard’s writings. Same goes for the Conan movies. R.E. Howard, unlike Lovecraft, had some positive characters of color. But reading his contemporary horror stories, yeesh. Black Canaan is pretty much about white people killing African-Americans. Yep, and in Conan the Conqueror he had ...

I house ruled it to: Combat Dominance also works when opponents are at least 4 HD less than the level of the PC.

And Jim Crow was based on a belief in white supremacy. His essay The Hyborian Age seems to have been his world-building exercise. Putting his stories in the context of that world suggests race was a key element. If you don't agree then I guess we simply disagree. You believe that Howard was a White...

For me, the problem with Howard's writings is that his ideas and philosophy date back directly to the Jim Crow era Actually, his fantasy writings have nothing to do with that era. His writings have to do with a person who was a Barbarian in a world modeled after ancient & early medieval times. ...

Treebore wrote:Yeah, this is the PDF...

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151 ... mented-PDF

Wow! Now THAT is doing it right.

Treebore wrote:Yeah, very, very few make use of todays PDF tech, thats for sure. The best I have ever seen done was very recently for a Savage Worlds PDF I bought.

At least good to hear that you purchased one that took advantage of the tech. There's hope!

I am aware of the source. It just seems so embarrassingly dated. That's because it IS dated. It doesn't reflect present culture but, barbaric culture from the past. You might want to read accounts of the Norse (Barbarians) and how they ravaged European "civilization" during the height of ...

I see it like that as well, with a slightly simpler approach. 1. You have clear class abilities like spells, turning undead, divine aura... 2. Then you have class skills like scale, climb, pick pockets, saving throws, and listen which are: d20 roll + modifier + level + (prime). I do not let PCs out...

Treebore wrote: Where did you learn to read English?

Obviously in an instuitution that taught it. Unlike yourself.

Did you buy their old PDF? Before they pulled them down? No, looking at the new one. They are lower quality than the PHB PDF I made in '98. My text & pics are better. PLUS, original cover art. Also, I put in hyperlinks for table of contents, table lists, spell lists, etc. 20th century tech tool...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! :lol: You're basing "NOT according to the owners of the company" on the Troll's failure to incorporate your proposed errata fix to the quote on page 16?! Unbelievable. Yes, rejection of the proposal of removing/changing the rule from the PHB after same explanations ...

Rigon wrote: I would consider Steve's "house rules" to be the "correct & intended" way to play the game

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That's nice but, doesn't address RAW as Steve wants it in the PHB. Which is the point here. I don't care about the house ruling of it. Preference isn't the issue.