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IIRC, Old School Essentials gives you the option of giving Clerics a lay on hands ability. cures 1 +1/cleric level damage. Not quite the same, but someone else was thinking about how to add LOH to B/X rules, too. I decided to use it, as a helpful get out of dying ignobly card for low...

Not to mention all those henchmen and men at arms it was assumed you'd bring with you, lol. I remember seeing rules for XP for carousing somewhere, lol. Made me laugh! If my one fighter could have earned XP for all the bar brawls he used to get in... (not a dick or anything- he just loved...

We did Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.

That's pretty much what we did. We also used it's take on classes and races. Existing B/X characters were just grandfathered in.

Thanks! Have yet to see it come up on Ebay, but oh well. Doesn't really sound like one to run, just for the completist that spends all my money, lol. For funsies, I'm putting those 4 B/X characters (and 2 more!) thru MaximumMayhem's mini dungeon #1 Necromancers something something, lol...

I'm looking for info on module L2. I have L1 and L3, and am looking to complete the set. Anyone remember this one, or what it was called? I just went 15 pages deep on Ebay, and no dice... 1 and 3, yes- L2- no! I'm currently attempting to organize my collection of D&D stuff, and dug...

Didn't there used to be a spell, probably from 3e, that allowed you to deliver touch attacks with it? Spectral hand, maybe? My only arcane caster in our 3e campaign is a Sorceror- and she doesn't know any touch attack spells. (thus, it has never come up) And a good thing, too- she can't...

Tonight we continued playing 3.5 in The Sunless Citadel. The goblins were completely routed. One player came up with an ingenius way of making the Goblin boss fight a bit easier: She (Elven Sorceror 2) used her scroll of Summon Monster 2 (from her FR background) to summon 3 giant fire...

Because I never got to play 5e very much- so I'm NOT sick of it. Nor am I jaded about it. For that matter, I feel the same about 3/3.5e. The group split up as we all headed for the hills, and the dreaded adulting thing... (which is why I'm currently RUNNING a 3.5 game!) Castles and...

Well, our other DM is starting up a 5e campaign, and I'm currently running a 3e one. I'd like to try something different, so we don't have 2 5e games going at once. Right now, I'm leaning towards C&C, because it has a good mix of old school feel, and D20-ish rules. Also, the art on the...

The responses here are hillarious. so, YES, we ARE that contrary and ornery, lol.

As someone who WAS one of those old school players, we definitely would have loved this version- and do. The grumpy old DM's who thought their job was to crush the dreams of players, frustrate them at every turn, kill as many as they could, and be as harsh and pernsnickity with rules as...

Everyone is in quotes, because it's a tongue in cheek reference to #some guy on the internet, lol Also, to those that go whatever way the wind blows.

So I was thinking today... about how out of sync the games as designed seem to be with how people play. TSR era D&D actively punished action oriented/ combat heavy play- but everyone played it like that. (And just ignored the punative/restrictive parts.) Modern D&D mechanically is...

Always have been. Since I owned a computer and had internet access (late adopter, lol) D&D forums have been chock full of edition wars... They got worse, every time a new edition comes out. Like people took it as a personal insult if you didn't like their preferred version as much as they...

yep. for example, a bog standard orc in 5e (2014) has a +5 to hit with a greataxe for 1d12+3 damage. for a CR 1/2 creature. That's a big ouch, and +5 means they hit fairly often- esp the lower AC's of low level adventurers that usually encounter them. And then there are the specialty Orcs...

To me, I think 5e is just the next logical step in the progression. As well as a course correction back to the more standard D&D from 4e Imo, it's nearest predecessor is 3/3.5. Just with the heavy crunch reduced, some power creep hot spots addressed, and some concepts from 4e added. One...

I liked that latter part quite a bit. The whole item creation feat thing from 3E just felt kinda...cheap. Esp compared to the TSR era D&D I grew up on. The scribe scrolls and make potions thing- fine, that's part and parcel of being a wizard, and is a great way to have a larger variety of...

Yugoloths are the NEW! MODERN!! name for the classic Daemons of AD&D. Neutral Evil Fiends, known for being mercinaries in the Blood War- and playing both sides. Whoever pays them the most NOW. I think they were originally from Gehenna or Pandemoniun, I forget which. Either way, you...

Apparently they REALLY got let loose- Twig Blights are in the 2014 Monster Manual, lol. The deadliness at first level really shows when you have poor armor, and a meh Dex score- like my Barbarian. Not a great pick, for a real dungeon crawl, esp if it's the only martial character... A...