Recent content by JohnRL

Anyone in Southwest England, especially Somerset, Avon or Wiltshire? Bath-based gamer is looking for D&D game, able to host if necessary. Any edition considered, my own favourite being Basic/Expert & Labyrinth Lord, but I've also had experience of 1st Ed/2nd Ed & 3rd Ed.

I won't say they borrowed my idea, but I will say that I've been having a go at something similar since December. Just google "Dungeon of the Month" and look for results in Kaelaross.blogspot.com. Mine's completely free, and the production values certainly show it....

Although I don't have the figures offhand, the 1E DMG had a table for rates of excavation by various humanoids and demihumans. Dwarves and goblins were the best excavators, followed by kobolds and gnomes. Liberal use of charm person would get you a couple of miners. Alternatively you could...

Nice idea - what sort of limit do you have in mind for X? Perhaps half the character's level? Thus a 4th level fighter could choose all-out attack at +2 to hit and -2 penalty to AC. Also, which classes would you allow to use this? Obviously fighters, but what about clerics? Thieves? Mages...

This requires a couple of rulings from your DM - Is your campaign's outer space similar to the real universe? And do fluid environments flow through portals, or do portals only work on specific creatures? Assuming the seawater does flow through, you will get a gradual draining of your world's...

Interesting start. I generally prefer fluff and stat posts to angry opinions, but I have to say you have started off on an unusual topic. It could lead to adventures (fluff should always tie in with adventures somehow) but not the ones the players were expecting. "So we've got to rescue the...

Two that spring to my mind are both based on fantasy fiction - Fritz Lieber's Newhon and the city of Lankhmar is a great setting with plenty of rogues and warriors, and not too many clerics or mages. This was the basis of a series of AD&D supplements, probably now only available on ebay (though...

Thanks for the guide - very interesting. I didn't get any Blackmoor products until the 3E/d20 boom, but its reputation precedes it. For me the Blackmoor setting has always had an old-school mystique that only Greyhawk matches. When I got hold of the D20 /OGL Blackmoor book, I was fascinated -...

I wouldn't use randomly encountered demihumans in an unprovoked attack, but I would happily use them in a conflict of interests that might lead to combat. The stats are also useful for communities or patrols of demihumans who might fight along side rather than against the PCs. The idea of...

With metagaming like this, I'm not sure if your campaign (or your DM) will survive by the time your PC reaches 5th level. My advice? Don't worry about stuff that is so far into the future. Concentrate on getting to 3rd level, and maybe plan for 4th. By the time you are in a position to worry...

This seems like a great setting, and I'm sure you've put a lot of thought and work into it. It seems to be an interesting combination of steam-punk and "Day-after-Tomorrow"-style sudden ice-age. I hope the firearms work out ok - sometimes they can be overpowered, but I'm sure you can keep them...

If you have a particular adventure plot that you would like to take your players through then it is relatively simple to anticipate which areas you need tactical maps for - i.e. where you expect combat encounters to take place. If you are running a sandbox game (i.e. letting the PCs do their own...

Although it doesn't happen as often these days, back when D&D products were coming out thick and fast, I would have an internal tension. On the one hand the sensible part of me would be asking "Do I need this? Does it fit into the games that I am playing, or hope to play? Can I afford it? Is it...

What genre? The crate of revolvers implies it's not regular fantasy. 09 A box of precision-made glass lenses 10 A bottle of ink from a giant squid (or a printer ink cartridge in modern genre)

This sounds great, but it sounds like it relies on relatively proactive and mature players who neither expect to be handed hooks on a plate, nor indulge in antisocial/homicidal behaviour where it is best for them to be confined to a dungeon for the safety of all non-evil NPCs. It may have been...