Recent content by Cruentus

WOTC said that things printed in their 5e hardback books were canon. But nothing before those was canon. And, of course, your own table is as canon as your group wants it to be. As it’s always been.

Early on in my playing days (Ad&d, maybe earlier) I had a fighter who fought Slicer Beetles. If they rolled well enough they could lop off a limb. Well, it did, severing my first level character's hand. After we killed it, I took my hand with me back to town, and asked around "Do you have a...

He can be if he spent time in the village or town Militia. If he returned from a military campaign by the local lord, or if he helped defend his town from bandits. Also, in my worlds, I always make my NPC's exactly like PCs, using classes, armor, magic items, etc. If one has access to...

Likely Fiend Folio. And they weren't just moustaches, they were particularly spectacular 70's vintage 'staches.

I don't know if it fits your categories, but I'd give Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures a look. Its OSR at its base, has a solid char gen using 'playbooks' for archetypes, which shape your character, and build in relationships to other characters and the starting village. It can be as...

3d6 down the line. That's how I roll. I played in a B/X game recently where my highest ability score was a 12, we reached 5th level, I had a fun time and would like to continue with that character. We're playing Symbaroum next, and using their array (which you can then modify). I found it...

1. Steak Fries 2. French Fries 3. Hash Browns (for breakfast) 4. Roasted in the chicken pan with other root vegetables (and the chicken drippings)

I'll be priming the "cancel Netflix" muscles until I see what censorship has to occur, and what pockets lined (sorry, donations to 'funds' occur), to actually make the merger go through. I certainly wouldn't mind having fewer than 30 streaming services to go through to find what I'd like to...

No idea what happened to them, we lost touch. But I did hear that Billie and Patti had a 10lb baby boy. Billy even wrote a letter to Patti’s parents to try to explain. That boy must be like 45 at this point.

Where is that rule from? Its not in the MM1 or under the Red Dragon. I know we never played with any rule like that back when we played Ad&d in the early eighties.

Nuh uh. Nuh uh. Nuh uh. Moves goalposts

Having done a ton of research to add some Netheril into an ongoing campaign I'm running, my take on Elves, and Netheril, lines up almost exactly like @Maxperson. Elves in my campaign have deep lore knowledge, pass that lore and learning down amongst themselves, and things that are 3,000 to...

I added "Myth Drannor" into my Moonshaes campaign. I shrouded it in rumor, and made it very clear how dangerous it was to enter. That didn't stop the players from beelining directly to it anyway. I used it primarily as a ruined city, full of atmosphere and wandering monsters, which could be...

I tried to extend the Fighter's weapon specialization and Combat Dominance (Surge mechanic) to "martial characters", with the effect that no one took the Fighter, ever. A Knight is better, Paladin and Ranger have more "stuff", etc. There is no actual reason to take a Fighter, particularly...

I've not seen any encumbrance systems that worry about your injury level. We use coin based encumbrance (using OSE) when we play on a VTT, as the VTT handles all the calculations for weight, your encumbrance, your move speed, and any changed therein in real time. When we play at the table, we...