Recent content by mixmastashizz

We find the look up charts faster than either AAC or THAC0. For the bonuses and minuses you dont even have to do the math... just move your finger left or right. Plus most character sheets have a spot to put the matrix on there already... so its trivial in my view.

What is ICE and SNE in this context?

I recommend Swords and Wizardry Complete Revised

I found the weakest part to be the section between the inciting giant attack and finding the friendly frost giant NPC. Its been years, but I remember running it and feeling like "Okay so they just wander around until they run into this guy who lore dumps what going on and points them in the...

I am playing primarily online these days, so VTT with fog of war. Last year when I was running in person games, I described the space while players mapped. They would get a chance to check on their work whenever we'd get into combat and I drew the battle scene. When I run my next in person...

In my exploration of old school dnd gaming over the past decade, I found in my groups the one fundamental thing that prevented the LFQW issue was spell interruption, and then later coupled with casting time. Magic users play and position very differently when a stray arrow can ruin their...

If its not 1 per fighter level I dont want it! I'd also be happy with a flexible # of attacks equal to Fighter level / monster HD rounded down. I cant remember which retroclone did that.

Any monsters with a minus to their 1HD would count as well. (HD 1-1 like goblins)

Could always run the old MM treasure tables for Tiamat. Running this with treasure types H, S, T, and U would get you the 1e Tiamat hoard, you can iterate until it gets you a good mix of magic items and treasure then add or replace other items that you'd like

I havent played it, but I've heard Anthony Huso's Castle of the Silver Prince is an impressive homage

This rocks

I just lump in living costs with the monthly upkeep

We started with UA but have mostly weaned ourselves off it after a few months. We found specialization breaking our game and the extra classes/spells not really adding much value to us. Im sure once we get really familiar with the core books we might change our tune. I did keep the +2 level...

Been rocking a 1e game for the past two years after about 4.5 years of playing B/X. prior to that I was running 5e since it came out until I made the switch.

Playing 1e as my rpg of choice for the past two years. It rocks!