Troll Lord Games

serleran wrote: Reworking old ones is ok, but its also incredibly boring. Can be. I've only done about 30. At three or four an hour that's still a significant chunk of time where you're just reprocessing old information. Not much creative fulfillment there. Were there times you just wanted to inser...

A great majority of the 1e/2e monster names (with 3E stats) were opened with the publication of Tome of Horrors. Unfortunately, each one requires a separate attribution in section 15 (eyes glazing over) so it can result in multipage OGL listings if you use more than a handful.

I've been considering this one carefully, even though my game doesn't start until the end of summer. I'm leaning towards only counting the three highest magical "plusses" (ie armor, shield, misc), plus one for each additional item that gives magical bonuses to AC.

Yoinked. One of my favorite little beasties, and a little more evidence that EGG had some unreasonable fear of/respect for skunks, badgers and wolverines (12 HD!)

Zulgyan wrote: That's slowing the game to much IMHO! Well, in AD&D we only went with item saves if the character failed their save on a 1 (or fell in a pit, that sort of thing.) I also trust my group and they've been good about rolling all their own saves - usually they're done by the time they...

moriarty777 wrote: hehehe... Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't higher level spells require multiple pages for a single spell? 2 pages per spell level if I remember correctly. If that's the case, I can easily see such an 'incident' completely taking out the higher level spells -- even if you only l...

Zulgyan wrote: I'm seeing the C&C as too powerful when comparing it to the AD&D Wizard wich was already the most powerful class. C&C Wizards got: 1. 3rd Edition Spells per day. 2. AD&D spell power (no saves to some spells) 3. Damage spells don't cap. You can cast 7 magic missiles or...

<r>Okay, took a break from conversions, since I realized there are some 200+ creatures on my list and they may not all end up seeing play. I decided to focus on my campaign, which needs to be ready by the end of September.<br/> <br/> I took a few random proper names from (very) old computer games, a...

Julian Grimm wrote:
I was wondering where the giant beatles and such were. But I am more into the big buggies.

Here you go:
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Might be an SRDism - beasts were taken out as redundant in the shift from 3.0 to 3.5, with all beasts either becoming animals or magical beasts.

<t>Make a sheet with 6 boxes at the top to represent the rounds in a turn.<br/> <br/> Next row, have 60 boxes (probably best on 2 or 3 lines in groups of 10, so you can mark off many at a time without onesey-twosey-threesey counting) to represent the minutes in an hour.<br/> <br/> Next row you have ...

<t>Aurora's Whole Realms catalog. One of the best values ever for any edition. Just make sure it stays in the DMs hands, some of that stuff may be inappropriate for some campaigns (mail-order, DaVinci's inventions, etc.)<br/> <br/> Oh yeah, and the original Dark Sun and Planescape boxed sets. Years ...

<t>The more I think about this, the more I would take out traps, open locks and poison and bump the d6 to a d8. If they want *all* the specialized abilities of assassins and rogues make them multiclass.<br/> <br/> Otherwise anyone that plays a rogue or assassin in your game will... well, I'd just re...

<t>Looks good enough to try out. <br/> <br/> Illusionist xp is a good choice, since it's one of the three most expensive to get to mid-levels with, but it's quite a bit easier in the teens (when a lot of the thief abilities become comparatively less powerful).<br/> <br/> It's also a good choice beca...

<t>I like the choices they have to make in regards to using their ki. Am I right in assuming that they prepare a certain number of spells, then must use ki to cast from amongst those freely? Neat idea.<br/> <br/> Like the others say, though, way too cheap on the xp, and they shouldn't be able to use...

Tank wrote: Wow! First a ton of monster conversions, and now this! How much of this stuff do you have lying around, Mr. Saurus? I'm between contracts at least for the next week (should have news next Monday), so I've been taking advantage of the time get housework done, play with my family and get ...

<t>I did a little work on converting 2e kits... in name only. I made them quite a bit more generic, cut out a lot of benefits and tried to make some of the effects more C&C-specific.<br/> <br/> KITS<br/> <br/> Note: bonuses or penalties to charisma checks are only for checks involving the social...

old school gamer wrote: Hi! I was thinking of sending a group of NPC villians for my heroes to fight against. However, even though initially making them is easy I am trying to figure out a system for outfitting them as far as magic items are concerned. Do you have any ideas that may help? I think t...

Zulgyan wrote: A cleric fanboy in my group was concearned about the following: In AD&D the cleric casts more spells per day than a wizard, and attains lvl 2 with 1500 XP vs. 2500 xp for the wiz. The cleric progresses faster with more spell power. In C&C the cleric casts less that wizard, an...

BASH MAN wrote: So multiclassed characters get double hit dice? [until 10HD, at which point the gain those xp per levels from both classes, also effectively giving double hit points]. That system is good, but the hit dice mechanics need changed, unless you want to punish people for not multiclassin...

BASH MAN wrote: Ant Lion says that they are held and bitten til freed. You should note what it takes to free oneself. I would recommend a STR save every round [in lieu of any other action] Actually, with each of critter that entangles/holds/constricts that I'm converting (and there seem to be a lot...

<r>I like this one, Indell Keep, from Dragonsfoot:<br/> <URL url="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/php/archive.php3?sectioninit=FP&fileid=91&watchfile="><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/php/archive. ... watchfile=">http://www.dragonsfoot.org/php/archive.php3?sectioninit=FP&fileid=91...

anglefish wrote: Demanding that Action Dice be spent only when the action is described in a swashbucking fashion is a simple rule that seemed to help my game. Renting a few pirate movies that don't revolve around theme parks can help too! In the last piratey game I ran I asked around the table and ...

<t>Egad. Okay, no more puns after that one.<br/> <br/> ANT LION, GIANT<br/> <br/> NO. ENCOUNTERED: 1<br/> <br/> SIZE: Large<br/> <br/> HD: 8 (d8)<br/> <br/> MOVE: 20 ft., 5 ft. (burrow)<br/> <br/> AC: 18<br/> <br/> ATTACKS: Bite (5d4)<br/> <br/> SPECIAL: Funnel, improved grab<br/> <br/> SAVES: P<br/...

<t>I won't be running a full game until towards the end of summer, but I've got these at the top of my "stack of stuff" while I'm building my castle and dungeons:<br/> <br/> DMG 1E - Tables and tables of stuff that is relevant regardless of edition<br/> <br/> DMG 3.5E (don't laugh) - the trap sectio...

<t>Five more undead for your pleasure, including the (ahem) "Cursed Son"<br/> <br/> REVENANT<br/> <br/> NO. ENCOUNTERED: 1<br/> <br/> SIZE: Medium<br/> <br/> HD: 8 (d12)<br/> <br/> MOVE: 20 ft.<br/> <br/> AC: 10<br/> <br/> ATTACKS: 2 claws (1d8)<br/> <br/> SPECIAL: Memory, regenerate 3, strangle, pa...

Maybe somewhere down the line I'll make a all-in-one post with links to all of the threads. I don't like the idea of combining them into one doc and distributing them, since that takes aways some of the Troll's thunder.

Whoops. I don't know why, but I got it in my head that there were extraordinary and... all the rest. Fixing. Then bed.

<t>The first half of a group of undead conversions.<br/> <br/> COFFER CORPSE<br/> <br/> NO. ENCOUNTERED: 1<br/> <br/> SIZE: Medium<br/> <br/> HD: 2 (d12)<br/> <br/> MOVE: 15 ft.<br/> <br/> AC: 12<br/> <br/> ATTACKS: Claw (1d6) or by weapon<br/> <br/> SPECIAL: Rise again, choke<br/> <br/> SAVES: P<br...

<t>No rabbits were harmed in the converting of these critters. Although, come to think of it, two of them loooove the taste of wabbit.<br/> <br/> I noticed in the errata thread that a few animals were missing from the Bag of Tricks. I also noticed that my favorite target of PC irresponsible behavior...