Recent content by Tav_Behemoth

That's good to hear! There are cases where a hero can deal unit hit points to a unit, or take HP after being targeted by a unit's UHP attack, but I've heard of people using D@W in their 4E games where hit points are more variant from ACKS. Most of the complexity is either: - customization...

I played Domains at War last night as a stand-alone wargame with Paul from Blog of Holding, who's been keeping up with the Next playtest a lot more closely than I have. We decided to recreate the Battle of Arsuf, which - with the aid of a book on medieval war that he had on his Iphone - we were...

One of the bonus goals of the Dwimmermount Kickstarter was a Minecraft server on which we'd excavate the mega-dungeon. That's got parts of three levels, but one of the backers did a full dozen levels. It's amazing to walk through and has really helped identify places where the original maps need...

Domains at War was featured in the EN World news a while back - Folks: Attaching a Wargame to your RPG? Alex Macris is doing just that. - and now it's been successfully crowdfunded, with 19 days left to go in its Kickstarter campaign. The goal of Domains at War is to extrapolate d20 combat...

Blackwarder - yes, the Player's Companion is finished and just waiting on the last stage of indexing the PDF. You can pre-order it here, and get download instructions for the draft right away. It's got guidelines for creating new character classes and spells, with lots of examples of each, plus...

Ramaster, the New York Red Box group Mr. Greengoat is always open to new players and often organizes games to fit around the schedule of visiting out-of-towners. If you want to drop in and kick it old-school - or even if you want to play one of these post-1981 RPGs that many of us are also...

I've updated the entry for Adventurer Conqueror King to reflect that it is 100% open content except for a few terms related to its implied campaign setting, the Auran Empire. Balancing that limitation is that there is a public compatibility license provided, which (among other things) lets you...

Michael Mornard confirmed that Gary was a big fan of at least one Clark Ashton Smith story, The Seven Geases, from which he took the spell. Tom Moldvay, who wrote X2, added CAS to his reading list for the original "Red Box" Basic. Other books Gary might have included: Pratchett, Terry...

Thanks for the tip Allan, introduce me if you see us both in the same room at NTRPG! wynteriii, I self-published back in '04 with Behemoth3 which gave me some writing chops and credibility, and then was recruiting for a campaign and one of the players who responded was an existing freelancer...

I like your use of "new-school" visual aids along with old-school simple rules! I also like your ambition to become a chaplain - do you know Geek Preacher who I always look forward to talking with at Gary Con?

Rilvar, there are lots of folks out there posting about using Adventurer Conqueror King. Here's one of mine that's focused on a house rule I use, and here's a report from a player in that session. By far the biggest source of play reports using the system is Louisville D&D which has posted 43...

Adventurer Conqueror King tries to use a proficiencies system to split the difference between approaches. Many things are left up to "describe how you do it" - all PCs explicitly get an "adventuring" proficiency that covers everything a D&D character should be assumed to be able to do, from...

Somehow the kids in my D&D afterschool class heard about the Deck of Many Things. I don't know whether to be glad that its legend still percolates down to nine-year-olds, or sad that the important part of the legend - RUN AWAY DO NOT TOUCH BE THOU NOT TEMPTED - had been lost. Well, they know now!

I'm playing in a game run by Michael Mornard - RPG.net's "Old Geezer", who was part of both Arneson and Gygax's original groups. We're exploring a dungeon I know on a meta-level to be the AD&D DMG sample dungeon, but since wandering monsters are brutally frequent and (despite rumors to the...

Ones we've done for Adventurer Conqueror King, its Player's Companion, and/or Dwimmermount: T-shirts Signed print of cover art Pre-release limited edition printing of product, useful for playtesting Separate booklet of maps The core book for which a supplement is being Kickstarted Hand-bound...