Recent content by haakon1

Good times. I fondly remember running “Three Days to Kill” and “Sunless Citadel”. Meepo!

I was the only one of my gaming friends still DMing, and I was running AD&D 1e because we’d all given up on 2e and moved on to other things. I was Old School Revival before it was cool. Anyhow, my friend Erik told me about 3e and I was “naw”. Then I played it with Ron’s group, because I...

I’ve got all those and combine elements of all 4 for my version. When my primary campaign began in 1996 (still going), it started with “Return to KotB” in AD&D 1e rules (it was written for 2e). I placed it in Bissel, at the edge of Yatil Mountains wilderness and the end of Bisselite control...

Investigating why Gith attack village - illusions! (D&D 3.5e, DM = my 14 year old niece)

For what it’s worth (not much), I built more into the background of Cauldron and Sasserine about their history as “secret colonies” of the Hold of Sea Princes (to explain why they aren’t on most maps), with more colonial Caribbean features. The economy and society are built on slavery growing...

What does “Game” mean here? (1) Parts of a campaign - same players, same characters, same continuing story. (2) Multiple campaigns by the same group? Same players, different characters, knit together overarching campaign world. (3) Something else?

Hmm, now I understand more about the reason that in my mind, OA stops with OA3 Ochimo the Spirit Warrior. I thought OA turned bad with its conversion to Forgotten Realms (on the cover of OA5), but it might have been a more general problem with TSR.

Canceled: IT problem in Guam (The DM is an IT guy. It was 10 PM Saturday night his time. We got about 45 minutes in when he got the 2nd call that the first on-call guy couldn’t fix it and was escalating. DM said it took him 10 hours to fix it.)

Because of level draining, I always keep old copies of character sheets. You never know, and that makes it much easier. Players hate losing stuff - gear or levels. But to me, scenarios where PC’s are captured are the worst in terms of player reaction.

Level drain is useful for moving characters between campaigns. E.g., my sister-in-law had a 7th level paladin in a campaign we ended, and wanted to keep playing the character. We agreed the character could join a new mostly 1st level campaign I was starting, after level draining by an...

Sounds right. I think OA was the first (or one of the first) D&D setting that wasn’t quasi European (unlike Greyhawk, Known World, FR - though it preceded FR, I think). I assume it did OK since they created so many other settings. Could perhaps be money in something different, but we all know...

I agree. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s Warlocks (what I play), but it seems like D&D gets more complex with each edition. I was playing Warlock to keep it simple, but at 9th level, there’s a lot more to deal with than pew-pew Eldritch Blast.

True, but it’s sad this approach leads to quasi European with modern values + Star Wars cantina non-humans as the only society type in most of D&D. Kinda been there, done that a zillion ways now.

Different levels exist in 2 of the 3 3.5e campaigns I’m in (DM 2, play 1). It’s “natural” because it’s caused by players joining at different times or moving characters across campaigns. The XP system allows slow catch-up. In the 5e Ravenloft campaign I’m a player in, I joined years late at...

Hmm, I wonder what languages D&D is in? Copilot says: French, German, Italian (seen that for 3e), Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese (the PRC version, not the Taiwan version). So it seems the PRC and Japan are (or were) target markets.