Recent content by Nikosandros

Just pronouncing "Verbobonc" aloud makes me giggle a bit. Yes, I'm a very silly person... (and I also dearly love Greyhawk).

I also pronounce it similarly, as the alternative always sounded "off" to me.

I think it either rhymes with "drow" or maybe with "Sigil".

It's a natural fit. They have a druid, a bard, a barbarian, an animal companion, dumb swarming minions (Roman legionaries), magical potions...

Dangerous Journeys/Mythus was acquired by TSR and thus is owned by WotC. Before they "purged" all their PDFs from online stores, you could buy at least a couple of the books in the series. The PDFs never became available again, though (AFAIK). What has he to do with DJ?

I was born in 1973. Certainly the period in which we grow up influences us, but I think this whole idea of "generations" is completely absurd.

Looking forward to a 320-pages book on polearms. I need to know the stats and weapon mastery properties for a hook fauchard and a guisarme-voulge.

It is even better to keep a separate tally of HP totals by class and then average them. If you have con 17, when you go up a fighter level, you add d10+3 to the fighter tally, when you go up as a M-U, you add d4+2 to the M-U's tally. Your actual total is the average of the two separate sums.

I think that, as is the case with many rules seen in "early" D&D, level limits can make (at least some) sense in the context of the idea of each player running a "stable" of characters.

Even in a game as tightly edited as 1e, a few contradictions are bound to slip by...

DDI, the 4e version, was purely subscription-based. You couldn't buy anything. When it shut down, you could not subscribe anymore and lost access to the platform.

It's in the 1e DMG. If you are reduced exactly to 0 HP, you do not die, but are unconscious and lose 1 HP per round until you reach -10. Optionally, the range which makes a character unconscious, can be extend to -3.

Yesterday, one of the players asked how does the Pillar spell work. We discussed it somewhat at length, but we remained a bit puzzled. Here's the text of the spell: The spell raises a pillar, three meters high and one meter wide, from the ground or a stone floor. If someone is standing in that...

Are they going to simply reprint the two already published books or were they some sort of Zeroth Edition? (If we can half editions, we can also have zeroth editions, IMO...)

Shrugs. I was calling it 2024, because it seemed to me (erroneously as it turns out) that it was the most widespread moniker. 5.5 also works for me. Margaret or Jacob would also have been fine... i.e. the label is not very important, as long as it is widely understood. Back in the 80's, AFAIK...