Recent content by lingshu8

I'm prepping a D&D one-shot inspired by a scenario I heard about on the web -- the characters (all 1st level) start out in a stew pot in an ogre's kitchen. They have no equipment and must escape the ogre and maneuvre their way out of the dungeon using anything they can find. I imagine playing...

perhaps it takes up an action to "ready" the blow (you roll, but don't apply the bonus until the next roll). The latter is really helpful against an opponent you know is difficult to hit. I like that. I've seen some systems that use that kind of thing with ranged attacks -- you get a bonus if...

Thanks for all the replies! Stormonu: Gain a +1 cumulative bonus to the next roll each time you miss. I like it... though a string of bad rolls would still be possible, just cumulatively less likely. In my example, we both rolled under 5 several times in a row (none of those would have hit...

The other day my 5 year-old said to me out of the blue "I want to play Dungeons & Dragons," which made my heart sing. I decided to start him off Old School with a classic D&D dungeon crawl. He had a blast, but toward the end of the session, during a combat with some skeletons, we got stuck in...

I'm toying with an idea for a new RPG campaign where all of the PCs start as outlaws. Not necessarily bad guys -- perhaps they were framed by corrupt officials, or killed someone in self-defense or in defense of another, or they were soldiers who refused orders to massacre civilians, etc, etc...

I'm working on an adventure right now in which the PCs are hired to track down the wild animal responsible for a series of killings on the outskirts of town. They gradually realize that the killer is in fact a lycanthrope (e.g. they find animal tracks that turn into human footprints, shredded...