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So far Hexographer has been treating me right, but now I'm trying to use the underlay function to trace a map, and it's not working as planned. I upload the .png image of the map I'm looking to trace, but once I generate the map, it's all grey, regardless of the opacity, with no underlying...

I...guess. I'm kidding. It's great to see you guys back in the saddle. I enjoyed many of your previous module dissections and look forward to getting back into it. Since you've started fresh at level 1 with a new AP, does that mean I missed the conclusion of Kingmaker or the Serpent's Skull...

I didn't know I needed it until I saw it used somewhere else, but I love to have a one sentence quote from the NPC. Something really general I can default to in conversation. Fer instance, if an NPC says "No point coming in out of the rain, the Missus'll just send me back out again," I can get...

Ooh, that is a nice map. Zoom. Zoom. Have to bookmark that one. Obviously it's been a while since I've looked at this project. At the time, I'd meant to parse through Night Below Book III and find some of those great moments people talk about and move them up to Book II. If you have any...

That's the factor which kept my gaming group back in the day relying solely on pre-published adventures. And since we were 15, we assumed that any encounter we defeated was because we were awesome, and every one we couldn't beat was poorly designed. Ultimately I'm hoping to translate some of...

My current OSR game of choice is ACKS, but this is a hurdle I had trouble with even back in my 2e-playing days. How do you know what is and isn't an appropriate challenge for a group of characters of a certain level? Can I just accept that an equal HD monster in the encounter numbers listed in...

A self-serving bump to give everyone a chance to chime in on this critical decision. Vote now!

There's a lot to be said for unanimity. Not a huge turnout yet, but a surprising early lead for Gazetteers.

I appreciate and enjoy the time and insight posters here have put into many of the [Let's Read] series on ENWorld and have long wanted to join in the fun. But I keep waffling on which RPG books I should haul out of my garage for a 20-year-later public read-thru. So I figured I'd put my options...

Scarred Lands is my "other" too. It hurts me that it wasn't included.

Nah, it doesn't get any grainier than the "stone." It's the perfect answer for people like me who want to track nitty gritty stuff without having to do nitty gritty. It's kind of a surprise, really, because the economic system is crazy detailed, with item availability changing based on the...

But it's NOT as fiddly. Rather than having unique numbers for the weight of each item, the broadly-generalized "stone" weight means something is either 1 stone or six of them are 1 stone (or 1000 coins are 1 stone for when you're scooping the dragon's hoard into your 6-stone capacity backpack)...

You know what I like most about ACKS? The encumbrance rules. Seriously.

I've heard this term used, but I'm unclear how it's implemented in the test drive. Are there some parts set aside as "optional"? What modules are you including and which are you not?

Oh, look at that. Not cooler than the different-sized elves, but still cool. I wonder if they'd considered the old style "+2 per level" hit points at higher levels to keep hit points viable too.

Went back to re-read some of the things listed here. The class-based stat bonuses and skill dices ARE pretty neat, and I kind of like how wild shape was implemented. But for those of you who mentioned bounded accuracy, what is that?

I really haven't been interested in DDN, but finally set aside some time to read the packet and see what was up with it. So far, there are two things I actually quite like about it and will use even in other D&D-related games I run: 1) The exploration rules are brilliant. I love the decision...

Crazy. I'd never heard of that before. Thanks.

I've toyed with that too. The parallels between the Suel/Baklunish war and the Tiefling/Dragonborn war are too much to pass up on. Because I wouldn't want to retroactively change the 1st-3rd editions, though, I'm leaning toward just having the noble families of ancient Suel make the pact to...

Part of my thoughts here are to avoid such brutal restructurings and just think of how a setting could ease into a new framework. Fer instance, as much as I didn't want to the planar cosmology of Eberron to change in 4th, I gotta respect that they didn't shake things up, they just said "here's...