Recent content by FitzTheRuke

I apologize again for my slow posting - I've yet again been busy with time-consuming prep for various in-store games, and very little free time outside that. But there's good news on the horizon! My wife is starting a new job tomorrow, and we need to be up very early every day to get her there...

I read it too. I guess one sees what one brings to it, because I saw a love-letter to the game and to Gygax, that simply pointed out a few things that don't date well. Hardly controversial. But yeah, social media certainly drummed up a lot of misconceptions.

Yes. It's very rare that old editions remain available, and I'm not the kind of store that goes deep on "collectable" versions of out-of-print things (other than comic books) because I don't like asking high prices for things and having them sit around (not even on the comics - I ask reasonable...

I might have done this anyway; it's impossible to be sure, but it's probably because I've owned an FLGS since I was 19 years old that I only ever play the current version of anything. Once a new one is out, I never go back. Not once. Not even when I liked the old one better.

I've never understood how some see that book as disparaging Gygax. I like to assume that they've never actually read it, and think that it says something that it doesn't. Because otherwise... I just don't know. It points out some words he wrote, all while showing all the great things he...

Me too! In a recent D&D History book (I forget which, I've read a bunch) it was said that Gary drove the manuscript to the printers on the day I was born!

BTW @Zaukrie - Thanks for helping me out earlier. I think that you've reassured me that it was probably a combination of good luck rolls on the players part and perhaps too easy on the encounter building (the Adventure was designed for beginners, so it was probably made to be won easily). I do...

You can't use different colors and have it work, because if you're rolling with Advantage or Disadvantage, then your Primary could be the one that is dropped out, and then... which one is your next primary? You'd have to create an established order. (I mean, yeah, it works when there's only two...

Kensai is basically "Sword Wife". Which I suppose doesn't totally not work, but not in the way Sword "Saint" does.

@Parmandur So, this is what Margaret meant by "You will hear about it in August" (or whatever the correct quote is). Of course, it doesn't mean that we won't have DL coming for Season of Champions, but it could still be Dark Sun. It's probably one or the other, at least!

Which makes me think of a question: With "Zap" (2d8, the mage hits themself on a miss). I assume that it's correct that the Mage takes the 1 from the primary die (that caused the miss) plus whatever is rolled on the 2nd d8 - so for the most part, the mage won't hurt themselves TOO badly, unless...

Yeah, okay... I didn't put the "Melf's Guide To" part in... I didn't want to spend too much time on it. You get the picture, I'm sure.

Yeah, give the guy an embossment treatment (just Melf) and do an old school logo and trade dress. I think some folks would dig that.

I think only the Mage with Zap, but it's the general terminology all the same.