Recent content by Coyote

Orcus Is... Well, as far as OFFICIAL is concerned, I skipped the whole 2nd edition thing and went straight from 1E to 3E. For continuity's sake, the Tome of Horrors Orcus is FAR closer to the original AD&D version of Orcus than the 2E or 3E "official" versions. The WotC / late-era TSR stuff...

I got this book earlier this week, and I've been doing LOTS of side-by-side comparisons with the original 1E books. I'm pretty impressed with how well the conversions were done. The Aurumvorax was actually one that I thought survived translation quite well - the biggest difference being that...

The magic of the first D&D game.... very hard to recapture. My first one wasn't quite so great. Giant spider, I shot at it with my crossbow, and missed. It bit me while I was trying to reload my crossbow, and I failed my save against poison and died. Total game time was about 5 minutes. But I...

I don't consider the "Up the Wall" feat to be the be-all, end-all of munchkinny / powergamer Psywarrior feats. But dang if it isn't one of the coolest feats in any of official rulebooks....

If he has level limits, he's playing 1st edition. If he doesn't allow half-orcs at all, he's playing 2nd edition :) If he has Feats and Skills, he's playing third edition. If all three are true.... well, he's the DM he can do what he wants, but he's playing some weird hybrid. As a player...

Some of the CR / EL's are definitely out-of-whack, but I'd caution against raising the power level much more... CR 13 or 14 should be a pretty much top-end encounter for your group. Look at it this way... if the party met THEMSELVES in combat, they'd be an EL-14-ish encounter. (4 level 10's)...