Recent content by Brendan Byrd

Unsympathetic magic. 🤣

Think of the bones as ivory, and what ivory and bone was used for historically. Bone or horn for the handles of knives and swords (and perhaps forks and spoons as well). Paper folders, letter openers, other bookbinding/scribe tools. Beads. Game pieces. Rib bones for corset stays. And depending...

Some of the characters I've played would be inclined to this, or a large pyre. I gave one a strict policy of "Sentients have proper names. If it had a proper name, it is not dinner." But that's not really what the OP was asking. 😉

A literal horn made from a horn. Gut strings for musical instruments. Parchment for large books, and drumheads. (Acid) resistant leather work apron for alchemists. Scroll cases and wands made from some of the smaller bones. (Wing bones for wands of Fly?) Assuming dinosaur sized bones...large...

Does this perhaps indicate a misfit with the gaming system? EDIT: Or the genre of the game? As a player, I don't care to be given toys by a gaming system, only to have the GM get salty about using them. Is punishing system competence a worthy goal? Or is it that the players are insufficienty...

I thought the adage was "when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." X2 dining was optional, and risky...mushrooms in wine sauce anyone?

I've been messing with similar for a homebrew, but importing BECMI flavor into a 3.x/d20 rule subset. Iconic aspects of 3.0 for me: 1. d20 task resolution (d4 through d12 used for damage, turn effects, etc.) 2. All XP tables use the same method of calculation. Current Level XP Total + (Current...

All good here. I wanted to clarify that I was not ignoring your contribution to the discussion; I was oblivious. :)

I didn't see your post because I forgot to check for new replies...

I tend to compartmentalize the concept like this: A character of mine may "lose" something, like a magic item, a level, or it's "life". As a player, these in-game setbacks do feel like losing (and depending on the circumstances, may even provoke my ire). So I agree with you on how things may...

I tend to think "win/lose" is better suited to games with "endings". To me, a RPG is structured to be more "open-ended", so I tend to think in "suceed/fail".

I've always interpreted this as a reference to "Music of the Spheres". 'Tonals' showed up in the Immortals boxed set (BECMI) Edit to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis

First: Thank-you! Second: I like the way that you indicate the trees for several reasons. I find them visually pleasing. Moreover, on the uncoloured version I can persuade myself that, in an underground environment, they are rock formations. (I am always confusing stelagmite/stellactite)

...Or a Diety/Power/Immortal of Philosophy quietly grants specific Atheists higher level spells...😉 ...Or a Diety/Power/Immortal of Chaos quietly grant specifc Athiests higher level spells...😈 In such a case, the location of the 'home plane' needs to be determined. 🧐

As a resource for developing a non-evil necromancer, Jakandor, Isle of Destiny might be useful. ISBN 0-7869-1245-6 Its 2e, and there is a kit for a "Render" that you could re-purpose, DM permitting.