Recent content by Tinker

Does it help resolve the discussion if I quote the post that started the thread, or will it just pour oil on burning bridges? So the full ruleset of AD&D, any edition, is legitimately under discussion here. I suggest we note that the first publication for OD&D had fewer rules, covering fewer...

Were all the mechanic 1 checks the same in terms of whether you wanted to roll high or low? Were there ability checks? Just interested to know from a game history point of view, as I came in several years after OD&D and have never played. Anyway, as I see it, that very early approach based...

Absolutely. You can have the simplicity advantages of the core mechanic without any of the complexity of specific skills and DCs. If you're a fan of ability checks and don't want to remember any fiddly skill modifiers, you can just make every skill check an ability check. If you don't want to...

The other, and probably more significant part of this point, is that ability scores (especially pre-3.0) are quite stable. They don't change every level, which (alongside there only being 6 of them) means you can easily memorise them for your character. Whereas skills/proficiencies change in the...

I'm a big fan of the single mechanic, for the reasons stated by others. Some of the early mechanics really didn't work very well. Surprise was OK, for example, until a character with a higher-than-normal chance of surprising an opponent encountered one with a lower-than-normal chance of being...

It does depend what level the dnd campaign is running at. If it is low to mid, there are several spells (and monsters, magic items) in various editions IIRC that put the victim beyond the reach of basic back-from-the-dead magic, requiring Resurrection, True Resurrection, Wish, or whatever to...

Greg, absolutely with you on CPH. That priesthood system, and the spell spheres, are among the very few things from ADnD I find worth bringing back.

Me also castle Greyhawk, for exactly the same reasons. Smh. S. M. H. I actually really like the WSG, and DSG, but I can see how you wouldn't if they are not your style. I shelled out for a box set of the 4e core rules and could immediately tell I would never run it. Nuff said, no edition wars...

It seemed like there was at the time, but looking back from here I count AD&D as one, with a long and sprawling evolution (something like core 1e, UA, survival guides, core 2e, complete handbooks, S&P). Sent from my [device_name] using EN World mobile app

3.x, a long campaign and a few other bits. Sadly have not really played since. BECMI, well, B E a bit of C and some very munchkin homebrew. We were like 10 and 12. ADnD, bits here and there but actually in this era I played other games more, like Warhammer and Palladium. I have read 4e... I...

I've just been looking at the Dominion rules in Companion set and yeah, they're stand-alone. You can drop them into whatever system you like. Maybe name level corresponds to paragon tier. Personally I'd be more open to more diverse classes being lords. If I ever use the Dominion rules I'll make...

I would feel it would be normal for 3e to require the basic feat as a prerequisite for any related ones. But you're the DM. I think it is really your players' attitude that matters: will they feel this is unfair if used against them? Or conversely will they use it to the detriment of future...

That's not my reading. The sentence is "You can make a bull rush as a standard action (an attack) or as part of a charge." First sentence of Bull Rush rules, PHB 3.5, p154 in my copy, or http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/specialAttacks.htm#bullRush. I take that to mean that a Bull Rush is either...

But you can't move the person you're grappling with a move action. It is a standard action so you can't do it in the same round that you initiate the grapple, which is also a standard action at least. Reference: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/specialAttacks.htm#ifYoureGrappling Move heading...

Sounds fun. Hard to guesstimate how difficult it will be to control the fire as well as taking out the goblins. Maybe have somewhat fewer goblins than you would for a straight combat encounter. I suppose if you secretly decide that it doesn't really matter how much field gets burnt, that the...