Recent content by Imperialus

So within a couple months of each other, we’ve been blessed with not one, but two different post-apocalyptic games/settings for Dungeon Crawl Classics. As a backer of both, and having just recently gotten the finalized PDF of the Umarican Survival Guide (USG) I figured I’d do a side by side...

To what edition?

Third one here for Sentry Box. I'll just copy the review I posted on Google Maps.

My DM just threw a 'white pudding' at our party ranging from 8th to 10th level last week. Basically it was black pudding, but instead of vulnerability to fire it was only vulnerable to cold damage. That was a tough fight simply because we didn't have any ice based spells in the party. Heck...

I still play 1st edition AD&D...

I dunno... Lou's been in the business for a helluva long time, though I admit I mostly just tossed the video in it because I think it's hilarious as hell listening to a crotchety old grog talk about how TSR dice are like second hand oats. I am interested in the physics behind why you think...

You could just link to Lou Zocchi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-A5Ec-Ybs TLDR. Buy gamescience, bust out your crayon, call it a day. Alternatively, buy the ones that look purdy, and assume that they are close enough to random that it doesn't really affect the game.

I second this. Keep the 'world' small, at least at first. A small home base with a few named NPC's that the characters can get to know that is no more than a day's travel to and from the dungeon they are starting in is perfect. There is a reason that B2, Keep on the Borderlands remains one of...

The item rolling never really got boring, largely because if you actually roll treasure tables then magic items are bloody rare. What keeps the gems/coins ect interesting is the fact that by about the mid point it became more about the XP than anything else. Gold for XP is the primary mode of...

It's been ages since I've posted here but got to writing today and figured I' share. Some folks here (mostly from CM) might remember me but D&D and I have sort of gone in different directions for the past few editions so I haven't been around much. If you are interested in sticking around for...

So I've been running a Dwimmermount campaign for about a year now. Made the switch to DCC from B/X a couple months ago One of the things I've been doing is trying to introduce antagonists from outside the dungeon as much as the enemies they encounter inside. The idea is that this will give...

The problem with wind women and song is that it is already pretty well covered in the living expenses. I mean when your fighter hits 7th or 8th level and rolls into town he's spending thousands of gold a week on living expenses alone. I have a hard time conceptualizing spending more than that...

We use training by RAW... That and living expenses are an important gold sink for PC's. 7 years in, and everything has balanced out OK. One thing that seems to be overlooked though is that if you actually follow the 1st ed RAW then you only accumulate experience when returning to...

So my PC's are about to encounter a their first wizard antagonist and I'm trying to think of some sort of magic item I could give him to spice things up a bit, perhaps even provide a small side quest while they try and figure out how it works. I've been converting Dwimmermount to DCC, and for...

Heh. After 7 years my 1st ed group is just now hitting 9th level. As a matter of fact, it was last session that we had our first unicorn... Our magic user, who began at 1st level, dinged level 9. She died once, due to a power word kill, but by that point our Cleric had already hit 9th level...