Recent content by Mannahnin

How so? I can see how, put next to AD&D xp requirements, WotC editions' comparatively lower ones look designed for shorter games. Generally with the recommended encounters you can run from 1st to max (20th in 3.x or 5E, 30th in 4E) in a year or two of weekly play. But of course in any edition...

We had a similar homebrew item for a dagger throwing Rogue in one of our last high level 3.5E games. Yup. Especially after the annoyance of having to retrieve them in 3rd, or make an expensive custom magic item like that rogue did, when 4E came out and just said all magical thrown weapons...

Edited to fix! I bow to your recollection! I was evidently confusing it with AD&D at that moment.

Yup. With the ropes securing the one the wizard is kneeling on, and based on the coloration I did initially think some kind of bundle, but the random patterning combined with that apparent break in the middle one makes giant eggs look much more likely. Nice adaptation! I have a copy of the...

This is pretty neat, as a condensation of the rules printable on two sides of a sheet of paper, and playable with a d6 and index card character sheets. I had to infer that AN = armor number or the equivalent of AC, and DN = difficulty number rather than DC for Difficulty Classbut that was no...

Good reminder that the dose makes the poison!

Those who say a thing must not be done should please keep their voices down while I'm pitching my project to make a lot of money doing so!

It seems to hold as long as Scribe's using "cannot be done" in the sense of "is impossible" as opposed to "must not", which is how I read him. Clearly people physically CAN dump toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water, though I'd certainly prefer they refrain. :)

I gave LLaMA the benefit of the doubt that it would make fewer or less obvious mistakes than GPT; at least not leave out standard parts of the template.

Ok; "Uncle!" I'm stubborn, but damn.

Always use and provide pregenerated and pre-equipped characters. With rare exceptions, the generation process always takes more time than optimists think. Ideally provide twice as many (or even more*) as the players you expect to have, so everyone has options and if you're playing a...

Yeah, I bet the percentage jumps substantially next year. But it'll be interesting to see either way, as that'll probably be a little more indicative of the adoption rate.

Indeed. The OP did specify that one of those GMs had never played or run the game before, tbf, and the other was a two hour slot described as lackluster rather than awful, but if it was a monster hotel with no negotiation, it wasn't being run by the book either. The home game also evidently...

I don't think you played "wrong". I think NN identified correctly that you played AD&D in more Trad style, as opposed to most OSR being focused on Classic or a somewhat revisionist "new" OSR style of its own. https://retiredadventurer.blogspot.com/2021/04/six-cultures-of-play.html Shadowdark...

Made it back to the gym last night, in part because I was disappointed at missing Sunday and not doing my leg press and calf raises. Did two circuits of my four "usual suspects", then the leg press and hack squat were both busy, but I pivoted and did leg extensions, which I hadn't for a while...