Recent content by Gorg

hmm. a. Have to agree with Concentration being too all encompassing. Could be my TSR era heart coming out, but sometimes it just seems arbitrary and even petty. b. non mechanical, BUT: as I experiment with more(sub) classes, 5e's decision to list spells only by level , and class list is...

Exactly, that's what I was talking about. I was out of the loop from the end of 3.5 to several years into 5e, so When I started hearing about the sundering, the spell plague, Azoun dying, etc I was not too pleased. Esp to find out Mystra was murdered AGAIN, and why. So, I decided, like...

My thoughts about the 3E Realms setting book exactly. A very well done book. I ended up collecting a ton of the 3E Realms books. The reason I'm not too interested in the newer stuff, IS the lore. I've grown rather weary and jaded of the world shaking events that always herald a new...

That'll make it more fun to run encounters with these- I can actually describe them to the players! I've come across these before over they years, and the concept was just wicked and nasty enough to add tons of flavor- and really make players despise those enemies who created and used them...

I'm currently attempting to solo play thru the Sword of the Dales trilogy from 2E AD&D. More or less converting it for play with my real group. I've found it needs a bit more work than I expected. One thing I found surprising, and not at all what I have seen in a lot of the old modules I...

While I have a bunch of 5e character sheets, I mostly just use a piece of notebook paper or printer paper- like we always did back in the day. None of these are "for reals" characters- they're mainly for playtests and solo play. I like to write down the important bits of text for all...

That last paragraph... SO MUCH THIS!!! In fact, the incedibly meagre treasure economy in general. It's one of the reasons I like converting old TSR modules and OSR ones to 2014 for play. They did treasure better.

I picked up a copy on EBay for the sake of completeness. I'm a geek for Monster books, so had to have this one- even though I have no intention of switching to the latest "version" of the game. I found it a mixed bag. likes: the layout seems very DM friendly. EZ to find hat you're...

Totally off-topic, but your comment on 3e art reminded me of an exchange in Dragon Mag's letters. One writer expressed his strong distaste for the new art by calling it Dark Dungeonpunk Noir. Everything spiky and edgy looking- for no functional reason. A couple issues later someone...

The Known World was so much fun! True, there was very little campaign setting specific stuff, back then- it was just the default setting for B/X.

Good! We made 4th level, after freeing a ghost to move on to the afterlife. (we returned the remains of his beloved to him- then they BOTH got to go on!) We also smashed a slaving ring, killing two of it's leaders, and forcing the rest to flee into the Underdark. An unhappy mob was waiting...

I just went ahead and rolled up a whole party of 6. Just to try a few things. I'm running them through a 3rd party OSR module "converted" to 3e. By converted, I mean I just swapped in 3e monsters/NPCs. The results were TOUGH combats, as the 2014 monsters are far tougher in most cases...

Well... This guy is going back to his job at The Wasted Wench. NEXT character! (or campaign, if I lucked out and got a grumpy old grognard DM. No rerolls!! 3d6, you get what you get!)

No, not a DM PC. Just an occasional ally they might meet. Perhaps to cast a timely Revivify or Leomunds tiny hut at a crucial time, or a fortunate encounter on the road. A pseudo-patron. Or an actual patron (assuming a more or less goodly party, interested in going on quests to help...

I have the 2014 books. I should have probably added that detail, lol.