Troll Lord Games

<r>Adding to what Tree said:<br/> <br/> Kenzer Co. stuff - Hackmaster, Aces and Eights <br/> <br/> Warhammer/miniatures, I think, are a must for any gaming store - that's a pretty solid consumer base there.<br/> <br/> Board Games in addition (not just RPG stuff) - Axis & Allies materials always ...

<r>You know, it's really a funny thing - I just posted under the Crusades threads about my new campaign starting tomorrow, and hadn't really looked at this thread yet...<br/> <br/> I had actually already decided to use DCC 17 Legacy of Savage Kings, which I'm assuming is part of the base d20 materia...

<r>Tomorrow I'm beginning my 1st Aihrde campaign, which I'm calling Dark Forces Rising. <br/> <br/> I have a group of 5 players, including my wife and four others, and the possibility of 1 or 2 occasional players. We will be playing every other Sunday from 5 to 9:30 or so. This will be my 2nd run wi...

Treebore wrote: Plus, another fundamentsl shift, is that they are trying to balance PC's versus PC's. Which is something I am totally against. They are totally ignoring, or vacating, the fact that D&D was built to be a "group game". Which means as a group they complement each other an...

<r>Sorry to hear it my friend...<br/> <br/> Yeah, sometimes the dynamics just aren't right and you end up not really having a "group," so its better to let things go.<br/> <br/> From what you describe this group might be better with other types of games or get-togethers rather than RPGing.<br/> ____...

<r>Starting my 1st Aihrde campaign with A1 this Sunday. I was wondering for those of you who have run it if you had particular ways of getting your parties involved... did you just start in town, etc. Did you use hooks? Just looking for ideas to bounce around with my own. <br/> _________________<br/...

<r>Ya that definitely helps -<br/> <br/> I had assumed as much, but it's nice to know I was on the right track. As I said I've pretty much decided to use Aihrde for my next home campaign, and I think I'm going to start with a small adventure I'll write myself that moves into A1 and A2, after which I...

<r>Hi Robert,<br/> <br/> Thanks for the advice - yes, I think it's hard to do anything that's not already specific to an existing set of maps. Still, my hope is that this one is small enough (it's only 13x18 km - each hex is 1/2 a km) that the rivers here would be able to be easily treated as "off-m...

Troll Lord wrote: ps I seem to remember looking over your setting last year, had you sent it to us? Ya. When Mike (Sieg) arranged for it to be put up on Dragonfoot's site I sent you guys a copy to check and make sure it was ok to do so since I referenced that it was meant to be used with C&C. D...

<r>Mucho thanks Steve!<br/> <br/> As I've said on other posts elsewhere this is my first real intro to your world (I've been almost exclusively either Greyhawk or my own homebrew worlds with a one-campaign detour to Kalamar for many years) and I will probably alternate now with my group between Aihr...

<r>Thanks for the warning - my wife is a huge Highlander fan and just saw the add for the repeat airing. I'll warn her, but she'll probably watch it anyway.<br/> <br/> And a footnote: that Highlander 2 sequel is one of the few movies I've paid full price for that I walked out of after about 20 minut...

<r>1. In the folio sections on Haltland and Holmgald I read about the Visigoth and Ostrogoth tribes. In terms of the "lines" of Humans, am I correct that these tribes would be of the Engale human line?<br/> <br/> 2. There is discussion of Morgeld and "many of those who adventured with him during the...

<r>Improvisation in adventure is always key for me.... even when I spend hours preparing a pre-written module or my own written scenarios and adventure paths if I'm not flexible enough to allow for the characters to make moves and alter the flow of the campaign then the result won't be nearly as goo...

<r>Happy to report I was able to stop by Chimera Gaming store in Appleton WI and they had good selection of C&C products, so I was able to pick up a copy of the 3rd printing to go with my previous 2nd printing edition (also nabbed DB1 and DB2 while I was there).<br/> <br/> Looks good, and I don'...

<r>I was thinking that might be the case - that the Northern pantheons were exclusive of the cradle of the world pantheon and so used the Norse legends. Thanks Rigon!<br/> _________________<br/> John "Sir Seskis" Wright<br/> <br/> Ilshara: Lands of Exile:<br/> <URL url="http://johnwright281.tripod.c...

Breakdaddy wrote: As long as it gets the blood pumping I will listen to it. Mainly stuff like Tool, APC, Alice in Chains, and things like that. I have also been known to rock out to some Skynyrd or *gasp* Johnny Cash from time to time while writing for the game. Hey, don't talk bad about Johnny Cas...

danbuter wrote: How was the editing and proofreading? Pretty solid all around - Only caught two very little things - In one timeline they still had the word "Erde" instead of Aihrde and in discussion of one of the human lines they refer to their worship of Odin and Thor, who are not liste...

<r>[quote="Prince of Happiness]Kingdoms of Kalamar, though not so crazy about a lot of the nomenclature.[/quote]<br/> <br/> Yeah, Kalamar had a lot going for it and as a setting was pretty strong, but why all those unpronouncable 5-syllable names? I think it could have really become a #1 setting had...

<r>Got my copy of the folio this week, and having just finished going through it I'd like to give my congrats - the setting is indeed quite good and being new to Aihrde I can say it offers enormous opportunities. My group will be getting back together and I think I will run Aihrde for this campaign....

<r>Well, just looking through the most recent threads over on enworld I took note that 4e is definitely designed for faster progression, i.e. it would take the same time to go to level 30 as it does in 3.5 to go to 20, so even without buying it or reading it I can pretty much say it'll be a no-go fo...

Omote wrote: Yup. A long while ago it seems the Trolls went with the idea of getting rid of the real-world names in the Erda (now Aihrde) setting. Outremere being the first to go I bet. .........................................Omote FPQ Stange then... Outremere changes but "Maine," "...

<r>So yesterday my AWD Folio arrived in the mail (Woohoo!!)...<br/> <br/> And, as someone who never delved into older versions (Codex), most of my knowledge came from these boards and the tidbits in Blacktooth Ridge etc.<br/> <br/> So I'm just a bit confused.... I can't seem to find any mention of "...

Omote wrote: One oft he most unique aspects of the Mystara setting is the Hollow World. The inside of the Mystara orb is actually hollowed out, as it were. A whole new world lies within the center of Mystara. Almost everything in the Hollow World is a throwback to a more primative time. Older civil...

<r>Yeah, this thread has me looking at my B/X rulebooks (the brief Grand Duchy info and map are in the Expert rulebook and X1 has the subcontinent map)....<br/> <br/> It's amazing how we forget things... I've always in my mind been so tied to Greyhawk, but as I think back I remember clearly that all...

<r>Ordered it Monday after GenCon was over, along with Crusaders 5-7 and Wicked Cauldron. <br/> Waiting patiently by the door.....<br/> _________________<br/> John "Sir Seskis" Wright<br/> <br/> Ilshara: Lands of Exile:<br/> <URL url="http://johnwright281.tripod.com/">http://johnwright281.tripod.com...

<r>Still gotta go with Greyhawk.<br/> <br/> Even my own world attempts to borrow from it. <br/> _________________<br/> John "Sir Seskis" Wright<br/> <br/> Ilshara: Lands of Exile:<br/> <URL url="http://johnwright281.tripod.com/">http://johnwright281.tripod.com/</URL><br/> <br/> High Squire of the C&...

<r>I had a fighter want to grab a nearby vine during a forest encounter, swing around while letting out an enormous war-whoop, and attack the center Orc of a group of 5-6 Orcs as he swang back over, then drop to his feet back out of range of melee.<br/> <br/> I set a CL (he had good dex as a prime),...

<r>I'm going to try and set this up later tonight - got to get off the computer right now or wife gonna kill me (she's standing so close and has a big axe....... ) <br/> _________________<br/> John "Sir Seskis" Wright<br/> <br/> Ilshara: Lands of Exile:<br/> <URL url="http://johnwright281.tripod.com...

<r>Ok. I won't rant. I won't howl at the moon. I'll simply report:<br/> <br/> Have been reading amongst many forums popular ideas for what they'd like to see in a "new" system. <br/> <br/> Amongst these seem to be a request for more specific rules to govern "social interaction" like combat is govern...

<r>Jim Ward's Greyhawk Adventures - even though it wasn't enormous it somehow had lots of ideas and locations I ended up using and developing for my later Greyhawk campaigns.<br/> _________________<br/> John "Sir Seskis" Wright<br/> <br/> Ilshara: Lands of Exile:<br/> <URL url="http://johnwright281....