Troll Lord Games

Another advantage of the boxed set is that there is usually lots of room in the box for GM-created material, addenda, etc. I know you can always put this stuff in a binder, but I like to keep it all together in one spot.

Great site - I just signed up!

Boxed set for me. If my World of Greyhawk Gazetteer had come in a box I might still have it.

Omote wrote: I'd also like to throw a vote in for Lord of the Rings (the cooperative board game) by Reiner Kniza. Could be 1-2 hours long, depending on the number of players. One of the best cooperative boardgames made IMO, where all the players play against the board itself. Great stuff. -O This i...

<t>Okay, how about an adventure based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?<br/> <br/> A missionary priest, bringing the word of [insert God here] to savage tribes inhabiting the wildlands of your campaign setting, has gone missing. His reports back to the church were becoming increasingly sporadic ...

What I've mostly been playing these days is:

Munchkin (and its many spin-off variants)

Arkham Horror

Lord of the Rings

Frag

Car Wars non-collectible card game

Believe it or not, I've actually done a Wizard of Oz - inspired campaign, with flying monkeys and the whole bit.

I found that it was important to base the campaign only loosely on the story - once the players twig to it, it becomes kind of a parody.

serleran wrote: This is what I had intended: If HD is better, increase the monster HD by one die type; if the monster has d12 HD already, there is no further modifier. This is interesting - I had just been replacing the monsters HD with the class HD. If the class HD is worse does the monster's HD d...

artikid wrote: My day job is web design but I wanted to be an illustrator for rpgs as a kid... That didn't exactly work out as expected. It never does. I wanted to be a superhero and now here I am, 42 years old, with no utility belt, no rocket jet pack, and no crime lab in the basement. What a gyp....

ThrorII wrote:
John Holmes.

"Hello Gandalf, would you like to see my hobbit?"

Brilliant!
It kind of makes you wonder what's Behind the Green Door at Bag End, doesn't it?

Treebore wrote: "Maturity" definitely would have effected any game design I would do. A game I would have done 20 years ago would look a lot different then anything I would do today. When I look at stuff I wrote 20 years ago, I always shake my head and think wow, I was such a putz. I'm de...

Omote wrote: I dont know any of those currect WOTC D&D development people, but they do look quite young. It order to have the best approach to creatively making a better product, you should have somebody in there who knows and understand all of the previous editions of the game (at least in my ...

gideon_thorne wrote: Gotta aim at your market. Common sense for a big corporation. Yeah, I guess. I'm just having a hard time coming to grips with not being the market anymore. I got used to being in the demographic that advertisers pandered to - you know, automobile and Pepsi commercials that play...

Barrataria wrote: AFAIK, iPods only work with the Apple software pile. It's hard to get rid of once you install it, so beware. This is my understanding too, but I'm not terribly knowledgeable about iPods, so my opinions can be taken with a grain of salt. I suspect that the whole marketing gimmick i...

<t>What really shocked me about this video was seeing how young the Senior Brand Manager and Lead Developer of D&D are. These guys look like they just got out of high school - no wonder 4E feels like a computer game; this edition appears to have been designed by a new generation for a new genera...

<t>I use the Dell Jukebox MP3 player and its pretty straightforward, without a lot of the bells, whistles, and video players that the iPod has.<br/> <br/> Just think of it as a Walkman for digital music files. You need some form of music organizing software - I use Windows Media Player - to create p...

cinderblock wrote:
Taranthyll you just made me blow Spite thru my nose. Awesome.

Sorry man, nothing hurts worse than a carbonated beverage through the nasal passages - I know.

Treebore wrote:
I would feel better once she learned to deal with the kick back a bit better.

At least she managed better than this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2WJ1_h ... re=related

DangerDwarf wrote:
But she just ain't hearing it.

Bah. Wimmin.

She may be concerned that you'll shoot your eye out - your mother must have gotten to her.

Anyway, here's what you really want for home defense - zombie or otherwise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqlIcT9Ps8w

<t>How about which celebrities would you not want to play with?<br/> <br/> For CK: <br/> <br/> Albert "God does not play dice" Einstein: "You are dead because I say so; no, you don't get a saving throw - God does not play dice."<br/> <br/> Players:<br/> <br/> Werner Heisenburg<br/> <br/> Erwin Schrd...

<t>I think that any class can work well in a solo campaign. Rogue or assassin would be excellent choices for a game that is set in a static urban locality, with lots of interesting recurring NPC's. A monk might be an interesting character for a solo campaign, too. Your wife could travel from place t...

Awesome! I didn't even know there was a part 2. Now I can't wait for part 3.

Wow - those are really cool. Thanks for the link. I haven't played CoC in years, but I wouldn't mind getting a game going again sometime.

Luther wrote: And if they have to come up with these things on the fly themselves, eventually they'll start thinking more like a traditional PnP player and start to think outside the MMO box as well. That's when a true love of tabletop gaming will kick in... Quite right, you don't have to think abo...

Aladar wrote: I remember SJ's Melee and Wizard. My old gaming group back in 1979 was really into playing both of those when we weren't playing D&D. I had both of them, plus the Fantasy Trip, and several others, but alas, they all were lost along with several of my other RPG books when the Army ...

Luther wrote: C&C rules, on the other hand actually do fade into the background and could recreate the speed and ease of play WoW experience far better than 4e ever could and would add the infinite non-programmed choices of a TTRPG. While you're right about C&C rules fading into the backgro...

TheFrost wrote: In general, 3.x is a "player's game." The classes have lots of options and it can be really fun to "get under the hood" and make your character work... adding features via feats, classes, etc. As a GM, it can be a bit rough because every monster is more or less t...

serleran wrote: Melee, as far as I know, is completely different -- think of it more like Cleaver the Pit, with a board. I also believe it is intended to work closely with C&C rules, so you can convert your tabletop characters to the Melee rules, so that would, naturally, make it compatible wit...

DangerDwarf wrote:
Longer...

Thicker...

Guaranteed to please...

That kind of sounds like me.

Breakdaddy wrote: I gained some really good players (most of the Troll Lord crew!) and a wonderful new game that doesn't require hours and hours of my time just preparing stat blocks Amen to that, brother. I once spent an entire Saturday afternoon preparing a stat-block for one NPC, whom the PC's k...