Troll Lord Games

<t>I've played tons. The ones that have stood out to me over the years are:<br/> <br/> AD&D (1e)<br/> <br/> Paranoia<br/> <br/> James Bond (Victory Games)<br/> <br/> Hero<br/> <br/> Over the Edge<br/> <br/> Savage Worlds<br/> <br/> C&C<br/> <br/> There are also a few that just quite didn't m...

Gold Dragon, no question. I'm not even sure that needs explaining.

<t>Um ... duh?<br/> <br/> I've been a geek since, well, as long as I knew what a geek was. If that means that I don't subscribe to the same modes of the thinking and behavior as Joe Average ... then I wear the label proudly. I'm a computer geek, a game geek, a baseball stat geek, a fantasy football ...

<t>My service with them has been pretty good, for the most part. I had one problem order, years ago (on a Friday, IIRC) and they fixed it on Monday. This was also before the OneBookShelf merger thing, so perhaps the management is different.<br/> <br/> I do know I tried to go to the site the other da...

<t>I spent a lot of time there on the D&D Minis board, so my account is all good (and doesn't look like a troll account - I've got over 2,000 posts there). I love their minis product (have 5,000 - maybe 6,000 now), mostly for RPG, but an occasional game of minis is fun. (I was pretty competitive...

There. I added my $.02 too.

<t>Not 100% as-is, but I'll be using the following mostly 1E stuff (except for the setting books):<br/> <br/> Books:<br/> <br/> DMG<br/> <br/> Monster Manual<br/> <br/> Monster Manual 2<br/> <br/> Field Folio<br/> <br/> Deities & Demigods<br/> <br/> I'll probably take a few pages from:<br/> <br/...

<t>The Savage Worlds guys just released the Pirates of the Spanish Main RPG. Its basically Savage Worlds dressed up for the Pirates game, but we bought it the other day, and its gorgeous - and typically well done. Its got a lot of fluff and flavor about pirates and sailing and fencing schools and su...

Ah, the good ole days of Star Frontiers.
This is actually a system that works well in Savage Worlds. Pretty easy to convert - mostly just some of the weapons and a bit of the flavor. I saw a Savaging on Star Frontiers a while back (maybe last year) and it was pretty darn good.

<t>Things to avoid:<br/> <br/> Hack-n-slash dungeon crawl campaigns with thesbians, or high political intrigue games with powergamers.<br/> <br/> "Eggs-in-one-basket" scenarios. If there is only one way to do something, the players are sure to muck it up (intentionally or not). Always give yourself ...

DMG, page 55.

<t>I don't like the very concrete mechanic Called Shots in the context of abstract Hit Points and Armor Class. I think the very specific nature of Called Shots are counter to what the system represents, at least, as I understand.<br/> <br/> (I don't dislike Called Shots in general, when the system i...

serleran wrote:
Yeah, we do tend to talk an awful lot about making little changes to the system, don't we?

Its one of the things that drew me here. I like that the system is simple enough to be able to make changes, but robust enough to handle them.

azog wrote: I'm not a fan of this idea, simply because in my own experience, players would go back to "clean sweeping" out dungeons like they did back in the old days, and selling EVERYTHING that would bring a gold piece. Hell, I know I would be tempted to start lifting silverware and can...

<t>Not BTB, but I like the system a friend of mine is using for treasure in his Classic D&D game ... you can spend treasure (on training) to gain XP on a 1-to-1 GP-to-XP basis. I'll probably put some limits on it in case my group nets some huge treasure haul, but in all, I like the simplicity of...

BASH MAN wrote: NPC Cards-- hundreds of NPCs statted up on cards. Purchasable in small packs of 20 with a theme and no randomness. Includes illustrations. I.E.-- a set with 20 NPCs for 4 bucks. A set might be "strangers on the road" or "the village of homdale", "unsavory ch...

Dunno yet, to be honest. Still working that out. I'll probably start BTB, and adjust from there. The group will start as 1st level characters, so we'll have plenty of chances to see if that it too high.

<t>If you went that route, I'd think about not allowing multiclassing, but making hit points and combat ability just another skill package (and possibly tie them together). This way, a Cleric is just a Magic-user with increased combat compatibilities as one of their skill packages.<br/> <br/> I'd st...

You'll have a hard time finding it in most dictionaries, but I recall the definition was "an old soldier", coming from what Napoleon called some of his soldiers.

I am (at least for now) convinced not to use the exploding dice. I figure if I want to play Savage Worlds, I just should play Savage Worlds.
But for the upcoming C&C game I am going to try 2d10 instead of a d20 and see how that works out.

Thanks for all the input.

I'll have to try Noble Knight. Always good to know another good online seller.

I usually use Amazon. I ordered something from RPGShop weeks ago (trying them for the first time) to use in my upcoming C&C campaign, and it still hasn't gotten here yet. Grr.

<t>When I'm at home, I work from home (otherwise I fly out to our office in CA and work from there). I end up spending a fair amount of time working downstairs, on the comfy chair, in front of the TV (as opposed to my office/hobby room upstairs). <br/> <br/> I say this only because I don't regularly...

<t>If you're looking at a PbP game, I'm be interested in playing. My schedule it too hectic and unpredictable at the moment to do a regular online game (skype or whatnot), but I could definitely do a PbP.<br/> <br/> And who knows - maybe every now and then we could meet up for some face to face play...

<t>With 2d10, you're probably right. 12 would be better.<br/> <br/> Not being good at statistics, I wrote a little die roller program. The average of 2d10 is (as we already know), 11. The average of an exploding 2d10 is 12.22. I don't have it calculating the occurrences of individual numbers, but at...

Interesting. Using 2d10, I was looking at making at 10 and 16 (based on someone's recommendation from an earlier thread, but I don't recall who).

<t>Good thoughts so far. Looks like I'm not all that far off base. I was afraid of logging in this morning and see a bunch of flames. <br/> Just to be clear, I was only looking at this for basic d20 rolls - attack rolls, saving throws and SIEGE rolls - not damage or other rolls. I like the idea for ...

<t>I would like a little bit (or a lot) of input on something I've been thinking about all weekend.<br/> <br/> Because of my recent background with Savage Worlds, the "flat" nature of the d20 mechanic has bugged me somewhat. Whenever a d20 is used, the probability of each result is fixed (5% each), ...

Another good one is Goodman's DCC Into the Wilds. Its D20, and requires a little conversion, but its very Keep on the Borderlands-ish.

<t>I will be ruling that adding levels only applies to class abilities, racial abilities and background skills that measurably get better over time with additional experience (plus saving throws). Using that as the criteria, lifting doesn't qualify IMO.<br/> <br/> I'm aware that hardcore powerlifter...

That is definitely one of the benefits of giving them out on a per session basis - they can't hoard them and then use them all in one crushing moment.