Recent content by Evaniel

As I've gotten older, I find prep to be the most odious part of DMing. I think it's a large part of why I moved away from 5/5.5e back to B/X (by way of OSE). I use published adventures in a published world (Known World). If I can spend less than 15 minutes of prep for a session, I'm a happy guy...

@Nikosandros, I have another question if you can indulge me. What does the Barbarian magic item restriction look like in the update? Which items/spells become allowed at what level? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your willingness to talk us through all this, @Nikosandros! OSE has become my game of choice, so I'm eager to see what the updates bring. :)

Seems like a nice variant of the stiff legged deadlift (one of my faves). :)

And in keeping with my hypocrisy, I'm moving on to the next phase of my minimalist training, adding back in drop sets and myoreps--and hoping to get a bit more soreness! :P

Thanks! One last (I think?) question: what's the "formula" they're using for "training time and cost to level up?"

Thanks so much! While I have your attention, what is the increased backstab look like? And do they have a section for adjudicating thief skills? I found the Carcass Crawler article on the issue to be very helpful, but I'm curious to see what the new version has to say.

Can you tell us about the Advanced HD option? Is the Barbarian getting a d10 or a d12? What are some of the race-classes getting?

100%. We're not fighting a whole lot of kobolds and goblins past, like, 3rd level or so.

Thanks for posting this as I hadn't seen it before. These updates are making me really excited, instantiating a lot of my current house rules as part of the core (even if only as options)!

In all seriousness, I think DOMS, soreness, whatever you want to call it, is kind of overrated as a metric. As long as you're able to add reps and/or weight and progressively overload, I think you're good to go.

Nice! I have a hard time even maintaining strength deep into a cut. The last few weeks I generally have to resign myself to losing reps & weight. Keep it up! :D

I'm curious to see how you felt after two days in a row of the same part. Are you able to progressively overload at all?