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OSRCon III August 3–4, 2013 The Manulife Centre 44 Charles St. W. Toronto, Ontario, Canada OSRCon is a mini-con devoted solely to older role-playing games and hobby games (as well as newer games inspired by them) and games of the Old School Renaissance. Each year, a number of hobby enthusiasts...

I too would like to see Charisma be more important for clerics than Wisdom, despite the long history the game has had with Wisdom being associate with the divine. Charisma seem more appropriate as a rating of a character's connection/favour with the gods/cosmic powers, and this concords with the...

Gaining your hit points back equal to current hit points per long rest still doesn't create an equal rate of hit point restoration among all classes in all instances. If a character who has 12 hp and a character who has, say, 65 hp are both down to 1hp (i.e., equally at Death's door), the one...

Yeah, I know you round down. But unless you round up in this instance, you could never gain back that last hit point under the system you've described. Only lost one hit point? Regain .5 (and round down to 1). Rinse. Repeat. ;) What about changing what rests do? Remove short rests entirely...

Rounded up, I suppose. That said, does this mean that a character who only lost 2 hit points in a battle gains just 1 hit point back for having spent 24 hours in bed resting up?

This is, you'll note, why I said it's not perfect. Wizards, I suspect, won't necessarily have a high Con modifier; likewise, many fighters will. This, then, goes some of the way in mitigating the difference in HD values (and the disparity in hit point totals per level because of them). That...

As it stands right now, I think the playtest documents provide some support for this. I think if you use the Dodge action and move away, that could be considered a reasonable way to withdraw from combat. You might still be targeted, but at least your character is preparing for such an attack (as...

I think the suggestion Mike Mearls made for playing a more OSR-style game, while not perfect, has at least some merit: Remove HD from play. After a long rest, a character regains hit points equal to his level + Con modifier.

You're not making that up in your mind. Scores represent talent, training, and competences related to that ability (cf. HtP, p.4). With this definition for what ability scores represent, I think it becomes easier to justify ability increases due to experience/level gain.

Supposing your framework for modularity is akin to the model under development, campaign supplements might be developed by heavily privileging narrative/setting elements over rules, leaving individual DMs to decide how they wish to establish the rules environment using the core D&D game and...

In our campaigns we mark where bodies have fallen with a penny (a copper to pay the Ferryman, if you will). Seems to work well enough, at least for medium-sized creatures, and doesn't leave the battlemat littered with toppled miniatures. As for Larger fallen creatures, sometimes they are...

Does anyone know of a store selling the Red Box in the Greater Toronto Area?

My vote would be for Dragon's Crown, a super-adventure that pits the PCs against machinations of the Order, a shadowy group of powerful psionicists.

I've never read this before in print, though it would go a long way in explaining why these particular races (perhaps with the exception of the tarek) diverged so much with regard to their discription in the novels and the game material. Was this something you asked of Denning, Brown, or...

I've gone to FanExpo (and its earlier incarnations) for years, and I've always had a fun time. I'll be going this year too (on the Saturday). I'm a long-time gamer, but have never really explored FanExpo's offerings in this regard, which is somewhat embarrassing, I'll admit. In the past, I've...

I wondered about this myself when reading the interview. Perhaps this is to be taken even further? Consider that the 4th Edition Primal power source covers 2nd Edition clerics and druids, while the Divine power source represents the power of the sorcerer-kings as manifested through their...

Mostly likely you are correct, Caliban, but I seem to recall that its abilities were slightly different as well. I wanted to do a comparision of the two, specifically.

Does anyone out there recall where this monster was published? I know that I've seen this variant of the human mage level 4 artillery published in the MM, but I can't seem to remember where.

I like anno post casum stellae well enough, although anno post casum cometae contains most of the meaning I think you're striving for. Casus, means "fall," of course, but it also carries the extended senses of "calamity," "plight," "disaster." Cometa means "comet" or "falling heavenly body," but...

Ah, yes. I guess I should've read more closely. Thanks for the heads-up.