Recent content by Knight Templar

IMC hit points have absolutely nothing to do with how much damage you can take, they represent your ability to avoid damage. You don't take 12 points of damage from an ax blow, you expend 12 hit points to avoid the ax. With that concept, increasing hit points as you go up in level makes...

I prefer 2e, but if I'm playing 1e I love the human cavalier.

My gaming group seems to have faded in oblivion due to real life concerns (dm moved, pregnant wife, sick wife, marriage, etc). So now I'm putting together a new 2e group to play in Mesa, we used to meet at Empire Games but if someone has a better venue available we could discuss moving. The...

I't most likely pretty good, everything in the Mythic Vistas line is. Skull & Bones, Testement, and the Medieval Player's Guide are all great products.

I had to bail out of a game before it even really got going because my 8th level fighter had hit points in the low 30s. Not one roll was over 3, I simply refuse to play an 8th level fighter with fewer hit points than any non-mage in the party. Rolling for hit points = the potential for ruining...

Gail Gygax is such a horrible person. I'm sure you are aware how inappropriate a comment this is. Removed from thread. - Lwaxy

My gaming group has had some membership issues of late (lost our DM, one player out until his wife has a baby, replacement DM disappeared, etc) and we are in some serious need of new blood. We play Saturday afternoons at Empire games in Mesa, though we are on hiatus until the first weekend of...

7th Sea does a decent job of it, as does the D20 game Skull & Bones.

In the year 1601, the skies opened and the Second Deluge began. For forty days and forty nights it rained, drowning many lands. But this was not the end of God's wrath. Every year the waters creep higher, ever higher. With the waters have come darker things. Once again the dark forces of...

Finally got another link. Guess what, it doesn't work either. Good job WotC.

When a company tells me I'll receive a link in 30-60 minutes I expect to receive it in 30-60 minutes. The incompetence demonstrated during this release is truly epic, and quite typical of WotC. They seem to specialize in failure.

I've been trying to download this damn playtest for over 3 hours now. I've submitted for the link I don't know how many times and the only I've gotten is the first one which is apparently corrupted. They say on their forums to resubmit and you'll get a good link and hours later NOTHING! God I...

The 2e World Builder's Guidebook was extremely in-depth and was only 96 pages. The 1e DMG was 231 pages, at least 96 pages worth was disposable.

shhhhh, don't say that where the Grognards can hear you.

You may move and then make a single attack. At the end of the round you may make any remaining attacks, but if you have already used all your movement you cannot move. However, animals with claw/claw/bite attack routines can make ALL of their attacks at their initiative; they don't have to...