Recent content by Dioltach

Well, a map of Krynn at least....

On-topic, though, you might want to look at West of Eden, by Harry Harrison. I don't remember much, since I read it back in the 80s, but it's about a version of Earth where humans and lizard people had evolved side-by-side.

A prehistoric thread about prehistoric campaigns ... 17+ year necromancy, not bad!

Still too soon.

Skype with one group, Teams with the other.

I see your Schwarz is as big as mine!

A very small cosplayer?

In the Netherlands, not following the rules is the norm. And then people want to sue the government to ease the restrictions. If they want to sue the government for anything, it should be for not being tough enough and dragging the whole thing out. (After spending nearly my whole life here...

The third time it's been resurrected, by my count. The thread that couldn't die... My personal favourite ... Too many to choose from, so I'm going to go with the Mentzer Basic PHB, for giving us Aleena. Least favourite is probably Weapons of Legacy, for being cast aside after less than an hour...

I haven't used orcs in any of my adventures for a while, but I see them figuring as a Cimmeria/Vanaheim/Nordheim area from the Conan stories: warrior tribes whose habits and values seem barbaric to more "civilised" people. (Wasn't there a quote from one Conan story along the lines of...

To my mind, it always makes more sense to pray to the god of light for a Light spell, to the god of healing for Cure Light Wounds and so on.

I've been running a series of adventures that go the other way: all the PCs are halflings, and everyone else is, if not evil, at least very nasty. (I've been trying to recreate the feeling from fairy tales of "small plucky adventureres against the big bad world". So far it's worked quite well.)

Regardless of personal arguments and experiences, I think the fact that subsequent editions of D&D did not go back to THAC0 is sufficient proof that players are happier without it. If only because the new way of d20 + modifiers against a target value is the consistent approach to resolving...

Of course there's the fun that you get if they accidentally stumble into a hostile creature that could delay them and cause a lot of racket in a fight.