Troll Lord Games

<t>Well, the big question of the day is do they have access to Sleep, and do you think they'll use it up before this encounter? <br/> <br/> Because of unpredictables like Sleep, I like to make my big encounters a) high in numbers, b) lots of mooks with one or two big baddies, and c) when possible, m...

<t>Mapping depends on the environment for us. Some dungeons, especially ones that I fully Dundjinni or tile out (typically the smaller ones), no - mainly because they're not necessary. More maze like ones, and ones that I don't fully tile/battlemap out, then the players can choose to map if they wan...

Rhuvein wrote: I'll respectfully disagree. This is probably the most tolerant board of all that I've been associated with (a member) for these past couple of years. I have no problem at all agreeing to disagree with you on this. This is a small board, though, and very homogeneous as relates to, hmm...

Treebore wrote: This is pretty much the only board that shows tolerance. I dunno, to be honest. I like it here a lot, but I wouldn't necessarily say that this is a highly tolerant board. In fact, it would be easy to pull up a number of posts pretty quickly that demonstrate the opposite fairly clear...

FWIW, I've seriously considered using the 2e Spell Compendium books as written, no changes, except for casting time and save types.

<r>On the subject of Minis and Terrain:<br/> <br/> I use D&D Minis in all my games (I have literally thousands), and make liberal use tiles and terrain.<br/> <br/> For tiles and battlemaps, I use WotC dungeon tiles, tiles I've made myself from Skeleton Key Games and World Works Games, plus I've ...

In the days way back, I was a Greyhawk guy. Then I was a Scarred Lands guy. Now I'm a Wilderlands guy.

We always make new characters appropriate to the setting for any new campaign.

For one shots, I'll usually make pregen characters.

FTracer wrote: Yeah, I was pricing out the boxed set and the City book online. I had a feeling I'd want to pick them up. I confirmed it after reading reviews. Well, well worth it. I actually picked up the Player's Guide after I got the boxed set. Most of the conversions are pretty easy. Best advice...

<t>Back in the old days when Dragons were meant to be killed, our party of levels 7-10 or so found a Green Dragon's Lair. At the time, my 10th level Thief was armed with a Long Sword of Nine Lives Slaying (+2, and no lives left), and a +1 Shortsword of Speed (back then you got 2 attacks/rd with it),...

I grabbed it off Amazon for $44 (and 2-day free shipping). Which is I think about what I got the Wilderlands boxed set for as well.

<t>Personally, I _hate_ the spending XP to buy skills mechanic. I'd rather just handwave it and give characters skills based on their class and history, and let them tell me when/how they are going to improve them or get new ones during downtime. Sure, its more arbitrary that way, but its more flexi...

<t>Hmm. That is an interesting parallel, one I'll have to explore.<br/> <br/> I've been toying with making the High Viridians elves, akin to the Draegarans in Brust's Vlad series, and thus Common Viridians become half-elves (and doing the same for some other select groups like the Orichalans and Val...

<t>Hmm. Craziest? Dunno. <br/> <br/> I had a situation where the group was fighting an Otyugh who was at the top of flight of stairs (10' wide), and the group was bottenecked in. So one of the players behind the front line made a Dex SIEGE check to run through the combatants, draw his dagger and sla...

<t>I agree. This is a very fine product, and well worth the money. The art is good (if sparse), and Peter's cover drawing is excellent. <br/> <br/> When my players get higher level, I'm absolutely going to find a way to put this into my Wilderlands campaign (and it won't be hard to do at all). I lik...

I think I had the first 14. Maybe more. I loved them. Of course, I was 15 at the time.
Bili was okay, but Milo was THE MAN.

(And I still close one eye when going from a light room to a dark and vice versa.)

<t>In a different game, I allowed a similar increase in duration by increasing the casting time that worked pretty well, with some period addition adjudication required. Basically, for each full move along the time increment chart in casting time, I allowed a move on the casting chart in duration:<b...

slimykuotoan wrote: I asked a similar question on EN World, and the respoces tended to point towards not enough 'crunch' in the game. http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=205494 I wonder, if the CK Guide contains more optional rules, if alot o' folks will be comin' back to C&C... I read the ...

<t>Gotta like that your player thought of that (the barbarian). Is that person newer to gaming, or played before?<br/> <br/> I definitely think - and you could see it all over SK's Enworld thread about people that tried C&C but found it lacking - the people just don't get the openness of the sys...

<t>I haven't seen the Crusader rules, but based off some things I read here, this is how we're doing multiclassing (for now, at least, and subject to revisions).<br/> CHOOSING CLASSES<br/> <br/> Any class can combine with any other class, barring alignment restrictions. However, the selected classes...

I always call them a thief, cuz thats what I'm used to. I'd be nice to see them called a thief officially, but "no biggie" sums it up perfectly. I'll keep calling them thieves.

I got one today too, but it only has the DVDs of 300 and Willow.

But City of Brass should be here on Friday.

<t>I was planning on mixing the spells from the PHB and UA (and also the Wizards Spell Compendium, and the Priests, if I ever get it) in with the C&C spells, so I don't see why you couldn't. I'd use the C&C 0-level spells over what few AD&D 0-level spells there are, though.<br/> <br/> I'...

<t>Eh, with 3.5 Wizards lost me as believing they made real D&D. So the things they're planning on doing doesn't come as a shocker. <br/> <br/> And you know what? If I hadn't played real D&D before, and other older school games, I might even like what they're shoveling out. A man who has onl...

andakitty wrote: The Skill and Option thing looks complex, to me. I am trying to find a way I find less complex! It seems foreign to even try to tack a skill on to class and level system, to tell the truth. Incomplete. It bugs me. No, I am not going to use experience to buy the skill bonuses becaus...

Telhawk wrote: Very quick addendum: If you're running this with only one player, might be best to have him work with multiple characters. That way, you don't end up having to run a gamut of NPCs and your bro can get a good working knowledge as to what each class' abilities, advantanges, disadvantag...

<t>I'd go Greyhawk. <br/> <br/> I'm kind of surprised at the love for Kalamar. It was one of the first non-WotC 3x products that I picked up, back in the early days of 3x (when it was still new, I was returning to gaming after a long hiatus and I didn't realize how much work 3x was to DM), and I hav...

Are you talking about WorldWorksGames?

And back on target, congrats to FatDragon. That was one of the few categories I voted in. Hopefully my vote helped.

Turanil wrote: Hey, I just hope it's not going to affect C&C, which was released using the OGL? It won't. C&C was released under the OGL, which due to the way its written, can't be revoked. So as far as that goes, C&C will be fine. If I understand correctly, the d20 logo and license are...

<t>I started on a list, based on the Secondary Skills tabled in the Gygax DMG (and if you want a list, thats where I'd start). But then I took a page from Over The Edge (an early 90s Tweet RPG that is pretty good), and decided to make any secondary skills I do somewhat open, letting the player defin...