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I still have two partial sets of those low impact dice. The d4 and d8s died horrible deaths when I tried making ceramic dice molds using clay and a kiln using the 'lost die' method. The goal of making aluminum dice was less then totally successful. Today, the d20s are well rounded and roll a...

Nit pick on the sheet - sure wish they would create a damage column in the actions area so the damage would be in a consistent spot. The current layout makes you have to scan the sometimes multiple lines of text to find the damage info.

We rarely used hirelings/henchmen. They wanted real money. OTOH, mules, donkeys and sheep, were frequent companions. Mules and donkeys to carry supplies and loot. Sheep to poke in the butt with the ever present 10' pole so the sheep found the pit, lurker above, piercer, or other...

This approach brings a lot of realism to a game. In real life, you don't spend every second of every day with the same set of people. Even military units go on leave. Perfectly normal for folks to spend time in subset groups of the normal adventuring party or even with a group that has none...

Yet another reason for parties to rest after EVERY encounter. Bad enough that many magic types feel that entering any combat with less then a full spell load just can't be allowed to happen, now ALL classes have a RP pool to manage and worry if any amount less then 100% means they need to stop...

Was in college and playing D&D and other games during the times of 'D&D is Satan's work'. Survived fine but I did know one person who's barrier between real self and fantasy character was thin enough he often spoke in real life as the character. He finally left campus and we all lost contact...

Before folks pillory Len Lakofka's article, it was very reflective of the times when it was published. It was only a few years after Star Trek explored the shocking concept of a female serving as a bridge officer. Early versions of the D&D game had split stats for males vs females. Consider...

If one of the goals was to clean up the rules language, "Roll with the Ship" might be a step backwards. It mentions rerolling a reflex save "When on your ship." As written, this becomes a very specific feat, only good on the pirate's current ship, either owned or crewed for, not a strange...

This is a cool bit of RPG history. Wonder how many of the other classes can have a similar first run identified? I always found the 'no edged weapons for clerics' a bit artificial. It would be interesting if the reasoning for that could be rediscovered. Smashing something's head with a...

Wasn't really worried about item enhancements. A 1st lvl PF1 monk does 1d6 unarmed. At 4th lvl, that goes to 1d8 and 1d10 at 8th. Oddly, this made the special monk weapons mostly pointless as they capped at 1d6. Saw no mention in this write up or the Paizo blog on any damage progression by...

So what happened to the Pocket Editions?

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see if a PF2 Monk's unarmed damaged improves with levels like the 3.5/PF1 monk's does. Never saw much advantage to Str in a 3.5/PF1 monk due to the fairly quick improvements in unarmed damage as levels increased. Found it better to work on Dex and Wis for the BAB...

Origins II, GenCon IX. And GenCon is listed as a War Game convention.

What most players and GMs forget, is in most medieval economies, basic goods tended to use the lowest forms of coinage. The cabbage dealer mentioned in the article is very unlikely to have enough change to break a Platinum piece, new or old, since having that much on hand would make him a...

If you can, learn what character sheet the GM prefers and print a couple off before the game. A GM will often have blanks at the start of a new campaign. But if you are joining an established campaign, blank char sheets may be rare at the table. Especially if the GM is a guest at the game...

A "Star Wars Story" isn't the same as "Star Wars: Episode xxx" Solo was a 'Story', Last Jedi was an 'Episode'. Solo also doesn't have the normal Episodic opening text crawling into space. Disclaimer - haven't seen Last Jedi yet. Not a SW fanatic. First viewing of many of the last movies...

In a way, Solo and SW:Ep1-3 are very related to the too common 1-20 Adventure Paths common today in RPGs. In Solo, before the movie opens, we know that Solo has to somehow meet Chewie and Lando and acquire the Falcon in a card game not to mention the Kessel run in 12 parsecs. The path is...

Sometimes modern things can seem proper. I used a pair of RR switch lights my dad got when the RR surplussed them. Replace the oil lamps with LED floods and you have table lights. For cheap artwork to hang on the walls, you can use things like Order of the Stick panels in a 8 x 10" frame. Or...

Your veterans apparently are far more task oriented then the ones I run with. Most of the ones around here are "Oh, Lassie said Timmy fell down the well? Rescuing the Prince can wait, we must save Timmy! " While attempting to save Timmy, the 'Well' turns out to be an orc/(lvl appropriate...

Another one that thinks char level shouldn't have such a large influence on proficiency rolls. If a 0 lvl character is a Trained Farmer, she has a prof modifier of 0. She decides the heck with farming and takes up adventuring. Five years later, she returns as a 20 lvl character having never...