Recent content by Greenstone.Walker

Not at all. It's a matter of world-building. For example, the game I'm running tomorrow has the characters in a tropical jungle. There aren't any hardwood trees so there is no justification for all of the tribals having bows. Instead, they all have blowguns. With poisoned darts, since there are...

Because you are somewhere that hardwood doesn't grow, for example a pulp-movie jungle.

We can get around the issue of "humanocentric" by not treating humans as one homogenous group. After all the cultural differences between Flannae and Oridian people is similar to the cultural difference between human and elf people. Perhaps bigger, since there are many human languages (Flan...

I wonder how it would work with having a 9 card in there and just ignoring the whole "racial modifer" bit?

I bump up the importance of INT by making it the ability score for disarming traps.

Hmmm that must be before Astarion ended his (un)life on the ground in my campsite.

A spin-off from the multi-page "new stealth rules" thread. How do the new rules deal with hiding in plain sight? In this case, cover/concealement is not relevant because you are in plain sight. Maybe you are dressing like the locals and pretending to be one of them in sight of the guards...

I like the Nine Powers from the Primeval Thule campaign setting. Each god fits nicely in with one of Schwartz's basic human values (which fit in somewhat with the nine D&D alignments). Mithra God of the Sun, Lord of the Sky, King of the Gods Symbol: A sunburst and eagle Motivation: Security...

I reckon four. Internal vs external and mundane vs magic. Internal classes get their power from study and training and practice and the honing of body and/or mind. An internal-mundane character is someone who has trained their body to be a weapon. They have done weight training and drills and...

Want to really challenge them? Give them an escort quest. evil grin

My last D&D game (set in the Primeval Thule campaign setting) had nine gods (known as The Nine Powers) each of which champions one of Shalom H. Schwartz's universal values. Mithra, God of the Sun, Lord of the Sky, King of the Gods (Security) Kishar, Goddess of Grain, Mother of Rivers, Queen of...

Yes, this is a must-have feature. All screens should do this. I have inserts for the player-facing side with artwork and hints for D&D, Apocalypse World, and Conan 2d20.

Very seldom. I played a Fighter/Thief multiclass in 1E and I was never more than one level behind. When the single-class characters were level 8, my character would be 7/7, 8/7, or 8/8. Never 6/7 or 6/6. Of course, the single-class characters varied as well. The XP for a level 8 cleric put a...

Beware, though, the hinges between the sections are very weak. I've had two screens that seperated. One turned from a four-pane screen into two two-pane screens. The other turned into one three-pane screen and a single pane. You can repair them with something like duct tape but that looks ugly...

I'd go with three stats (though I'd prefer 6). Physical, covering strength, agility, health. Mental, covering memory, study, knowledge, sneakiness, retention. Social, covering charisma, leadership, centredness, self-confidence. There would be two types of spellcasters. Learned casters get...