Troll Lord Games

Oh, one more last point: If playing with the TSR old guard is intensely important to you, go to North Texas RPG con. They have the same VIPs as Gary Con, but far fewer badges are sold. Your chances of getting into that precious VIP event are much better at North Texas. 5-10 years ago, Gary Con prov...

Sorry for you loss.

I agree with the knock back. In 3.x or Pathfinder, giants could have the feat of "Awesome Blow" which would send a character hurling through the air. I add a bit more strength damage to my giants as well. One of the 3.0 'weather' books had rules on deep snow. Characters were only at half move in dee...

Who is it that is running the 1-5 pm on Sat game, "Day Job for the Dark One"? I want to try to run a game right after your game (same table ideally).. please reply. Caladbolg, I'm shooting for starting right after the above game. You in this one too? can you give more info on where it would be? wil...

The few times that I have played 5e, they replaced bows with Dex to hit and damage.

Since it’s a game, I guess the rationale can be made for anything.

Similar to backstabbing undead, critical hits against undead, etc.

MARcon in Columbus Ohio. GaryCon in Lake Geneva, WI. I want to attend GameHole Con but I have an awful time getting those dates off, plus the hotels sell out too quickly. I would like Origins to become my new GenCon (I'm retired from GenCon for a while), but not enough OSR stuff to play in there an...

Ancalagon wrote:Definitely GaryCon.

I think GaryCon is the place to be.

And maybe increase range for higher strength. Maybe add +10 yards for each point of strength over 12.

anvil242 wrote:Don't you add the strength bonus on thrown weapons?

Yes. Spears, daggers, javelins,etc.

I like it. I may have to try some of these ideas out.

For cost I use the initial cost of the bow plus: (+0=+0; +1=+100gp; +2= +300gp; +3= +600 gp; +4= +1000gp) (I forget where I pulled this from, but I've been using it that way for a long time now.) I've seen similar rules to that. I'm trying to think if the rule I seen was the same or a straight +100...

capt k - we can place this up on the C&C page

Can you provide a small schedule? Location, times, etc.

Hi - there's a lot of upcoming conventions coming up. Where will you be or plan on being?

I'm still at level 3, with leanings toward 2. I just ran a game this past weekend at a convention, and I had the battle mat out and dice, markers, etc. None of the players seemed interested in using those devices and wanted theater of the mind. I personally don't see that all that much any more, bu...

That was a pretty decent set of books. I may have to dig them out and give them another read. R- My favorite was the First Book of Lost Swords when Mark's brother (?) picks up Town Saver and the sword goes berserk. Naturally, at the time I read it, I was bombarding my DM for it. He raised his eyebr...

#1: Paper, dice, pencils, and the core book. #4 makes it a board game. #5 makes it a video game. I've seen a lot of board game movements where players are counting and calculating the best approach, etc. If they do it more than twice, I'm typically giving the "you're wasting time" look. Very close ...

Interesting. I was expecting a lot more 1-3 responses.
At one point, the group I played with did 2nd Ed Combat & Tactics.
It raised me up to a 4. Slowly I'm moving towards a 4-5 range. 5 for bigger battles, etc.

Whoah! Very nice!

How do you play Castles and Crusades at the table? 1 - Complete theater of the mind. 2 - Theater of the mind and occasionally putting some dice down to show where you're at. 3 - Using the best method as it makes warranted. A fair combination of both. 4 - Vast majority of encounters take place on the...

Twig of Delusion: It was whatever your enemy feared most (but you did know know what that would be).... This reminds me of the "Book of Lost Swords" with Sightblinder. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Swords#The_Twelve_Swords_of_Power Sightblinder: The Sword of Stealth Sightblinder poss...

I did not get that far yet in the book.

The Holy Avenger! With my Girdle of Frost Giant Strength, my paladin defeated the demons of Orcus and any of the followers as well. The Hammer of Thunderbolts When you're a cleric of Thor, you need to fight a few giants. There's only weapon to go with. Rod of Flailing Each head of the flail was an a...

I haven't been to Origins in 17-18 years. I would love to make it out but I don't think the dice are with me.
I've gone to GaryCon and will be going to Gamehole later this year.
Finance wise - I think the wife would be happy with me not going.
One must pick battles carefully.

Great. I'll keep following along!

The Druid and I don't see eye to eye sometimes. You protect the forest and those living in it yet you summon its denizens to be slaughtered as cannon fodder to meet the ends of your group of humanoids.. always had trouble with that.. same goes for animal friends if abused... what wild animal would ...

Is this 90% dungeon crawl?

Caladbolg wrote:To paraphrase J.M. Stracynski: It burns at the rate of plot.

nice!

There's also a nice article in Footprints #4, "Magic Items in their Proper Place" (by Mike Stewart) that I find pretty useful as a guide. It's written with Advanced D&D in mind but it's good for C&C too: https://www.dragonsfoot.org/php4/archive.php?sectioninit=FT&fileid=155 Thanks - I may toy with ...

I'm like scrooge with his money.. not many. I like flavor and unique items over simple buffing items. But they really should have some.. its in the fantasy setting. Agreed. I learned this from one of my players giving him a "knights crown" which increased his mental abilities. He said, "eh" and tos...

Agreed and well said. I found some errors in reviewing and sent them over.