Recent content by cbwjm

I remember reading something that the blue helped them blend in to the blue skies. No idea where I read that, if it was in an actual edition, or if it actually was in DnD. So many years of lore, hard to keep it all separate.

They really do seem to be colour-coded for our convenience. I've no idea why they ended up with the colours they have, but it is something I'm moving away from. Now I have dragons based on element and each element tends to have a range of colours that is typical.

That's not quite right, humans did have more hp in 2e, but most had 1-6 instead of a full d8 hit die. They had something like a dozen humans to cover a few cases so some had more than a d6 hit die. So they were still weaker than an orc, but on par with a goblin.

I just changed my vote from 2 to 1. I initially went with feel but thinking further, a retroclone I feel should probably enable users of it to easily port in stuff from the original game. Like, even with slight changes like changing Thac0 to ascending hit bonus, BX stuff is easily thrown into an...

When it comes to stat adjustments, I was fine with them being tied to race, but once they became floating I happily adapted that (though felt that each race needed to have the same stat adjustments). I feel that tying the stat adjustments to background was a step backwards and, if I was to play...

I've had a few beers that would rate 4 or below on your scale, mostly sours, can't stomach them.

I think I'm recalling correctly that your own homebrewed system uses the stat increase for all of the classes. One thing with 2e is that some of the classes became character kits, from UA the cavalier and acrobat were converted in the relevant complete handbooks, the cavalier is quite similar...

I still give it a rating, my typical rating is a 5 point scale, no comparison with others needed.

This looks cool. I kind of got tired of all the marvel zombie comics, but this looks like it should be fun.

I've been thinking about 5.5 some more and I've realised that a large part of what killed my enthusiasm for 5e in general was the play tests. The changes made me so disillusioned with the upcoming new release that it even killed my desire to play or run 5e. It's made me look to earlier editions...

I always ignore any youtube channel that has a ragey click bait title. It's a never ending battle.

I don't relate it to all the other things I enjoy, just whether or not I enjoy it at that time. I'm not thinking of other movies I'm thinking of that single movie and whether or not I enjoyed it.

That's largely how my rating system works, a simple Terrible, Bad, Alright, Good, Amazing scale based on what is in front of me. If it's good or amazing I'm probably telling others to check it out. Terrible means (in regard to movies) that I didn't finish it.

From memory, they had a lot of abilities. I think they showed up in 3e with a large level adjustment.

I've stopped having clerics of a god and instead have clerics of a faith, like you'll follow the Olympians instead of Ares. If you're a priest of a god then in reality you are simply in charge of a temple dedicated to that god, performing rituals and probably not adventuring.