Recent content by Onussen

Uhm, Liberal Arts Major? I'm going to believe all of my lying physics professors, and there have been quite a few, instead of you. No offense. I use 1 round is one minute. It's an old school thing.

Mass has nothing to do with it. Ask Galileo. ;) Such a sudden rapid deceleration can be, should be, very unpleasant. I would not use the term safely at all. Especially since nothing in the spell description states, or even implies a safe deceleration. The feather faller descends at a rate...

D&D would exist absent Tolkien's influences. There are many more influences than just the good professor. I do not get the idea that Dave Arneson, who started the fantasy RPG genre ( and took something from Gygax's and Perrin's Chainmail game) had a whole lot of interest in Tolkien. Someone...

The original game (the 3 LBBs) placed little value on Ability Scores, and a means to increase them really was not needed. AD&D certainly placed a much, much stronger emphasis on Ability Scores, but did not provide many ways to improve them. I always considered this a bug, not a feature. It...

I thought it was Saul Zaentz that threatened to sue/sued TSR over the use of the terms Hobbit, Balrog, and a few others. He had the rights to much of Tolkien's Legendarium I thought that Gygax's use of named weapons, and magical weapons, was based on history-- Swords like Durandal and Joyeuse...

Ah the Quantum Tinker. I believe this is an entry under the "DM As Railroad Conductor" heading in the DMG. I could be mistaken. More interesting. Player's chose one road and will encounter a certain Q. Tinker. Player's chose another road and don't encounter it. Sometime later, at the Inn...

Aboleth 13 Adult/Ancient Chromatic (Evil) Dragon 26 Adult/Ancient Metallic (Good) Dragon -1 Don't get your tail caught in the door on the way out... Beholder 25 Death Tyrant 21 Dracolich 22 Elder Brain 20 Kraken 22 Lich 25 Mummy Lord 13

Several Ideas. 1-Perhaps a "recovery" process from unconscious (and prone) to stunned (and prone) when the PC goes above 0 hit points, then to "dazed" (and possibly confused ;) )-- meaning all actions at a disadvantage-- and finally, to normal? This seems a simple enough way to resolve things...

Goblin 21 Hobgoblin 20 nothing 'hob' about them. Orc 22

Banshee 20 Ghast 12 Ghost 20 Ghoul 21 Lich 24 Mummy 22 Revenant 13 And don't come back! Skeleton 19 Shadow 21 Specter 20 Vampire 18 Wight 22 ...her face, at first just ghostly, Turned a wighter shade of pale... Wraith 21 Zombie 21

Issue: Characters are far too durable. I do not think a return to the flimsiness of the OD&D characters is needed, but I've found there is not that much fear of dying in 5e, unless the player is exceedingly, erm, *incautious*. That sense of trepidation, that at any moment...boom! That was part...

Well, half the time it was; "See monster, run the heck away from the monster. And maybe drop something that it might want to stop and pick up in order to slow it down." OD&D characters were very, very flimsy. Combat was very risky, and not all that rewarding. (monster xpts were meager...

You seem to misunderstand the concept of 'cursed item' ;) I enjoy the irony of the armor-- the thing meant to save the character's life-- slowly killing the character. All the *discomforts* you mention fit right in with a cursed item. I think the exhaustion table would work well here. Every...

39 years old. I bought them in 1977, right after I bought the Holmes Blue box, because the dice included in it were, uhm, well, not very good. Here they are. Good ol' GameScience dice. :)

Out of curiosity, Did Strahd cheerfully take the minimum of 10 hit points of damage from just touching the Holy Avenger. He had 55 hit points, IIRC, so just a scratch to him. Did the Paladin's player witness the item's saving throw? It would have had a +11 to its save (or maybe just a +6) v...