Recent content by guachi

You found me out! It's really a copy of Shillelagh. The Cleric in my current campaign has used it because he likes the idea of punching evil and because the non-combat benefits are actually useful. Saved their butts when they had to make an Athletics group check while scrabbling over some rocks...

I started my current campaign at level 0 (literal Zero to Hero!) because I always wanted to run N4 Treasure Hunt. After about 8 months of 4 hour weekly sessions in the past 9 months the players are now halfway to level 6. I guess that's about 34 sessions. I don't think the players think they are...

You can make a better version of Arcane Muscles by increasing the die size at levels 5/11/etc. so 1d6 to 1d8 to 1d10.

I found the layout to be like the irritating layout I find at car manufacturer websites. It's very difficult to find anything useful and there's a lot of scrolling up and down.

Backed! I'm glad I didn't miss it. The best part of the books, for me, are bringing them to the table and letting my players flip through them for fun. Sure, they can use the website or read my PDFs, but the physical book is fun.

Saying you found THAC0 impenetrable when it's a simple subtraction (or addition if AC was negative) contradicts being no slouch at math. ACs ranged from 10 to -10 for almost every creature and what you're telling us is subtracting or adding up to 10 was "absolutely impenetrable". But if you...

Then: die roll >= THAC0 - AC Now: die roll >= AC - attack modifier There's no difference.

Herbal Bitters is an Exploration Knack that does the following: "You can spend an hour to collect ingredients and brew two servings of a bitter drink that is potent for 24 hours. Imbibing a serving takes an action and reduces fatigue by one level for 4 hours." I'm DMing a large party of 7 in...

I haven't received mine, either. I did make a nice PDF of all the creatures the Druid in the party can shapechange into, though. So I'm glad I got the pdf early. It's really great all of his Beasts are more viable at later levels. But one player keeps asking me about having cool pets so he'll...

I started my current campaign at level 0 and level 1 PCs look like superheroes comparatively.

In a Level Up game I'm running one of the players didn't like his PC. He made a new one focused on having as high a Perception as he could manage (19 Passive Perception at level 3) and he also ended up with a really high Insight. Mechanically, he was a really good build. All of the other...

I find 5e bookkeeping far worse. Every class has a million skills and abilities that work on varying amounts (proficiency bonus, ability bonus, something else) times per short/long rest. It's an absolute mess to keep track of. XP is quaint and easy by comparison.

I started a game just about 5 months ago. We started at lvl 0 and I ran a modified N4 Treasure Hunt. In any case, the PCS have just made it to level 4. I think we've done 15 sessions in the last 5 months. Sessions are 4 hours at maximum but the usual playing time average is more like 3 hours for...

My choice was I3 Pharaoh. I don't think it's a coincidence that both were written by Tracey and Laura Hickman. As to boxed text mentioning monsters last - it was standard TSR procedure to do that in more or less every module they ever published.

I3 Pharaoh is fantastic. The layout is entirely designed for being run at a table and not an adventure that's organized to be an entertaining read like it's some kind of vacation guide. Here's random page (page 14) and you can see how each area is very easily keyed for DM use.