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I've been running a summer campaign of Blades in the Dark set in the default setting of Duskvol. The PCs run a hawker gang set on the hulk of a wrecked leviathan hunting ship, gradually turning it into a nightspot extraordinaire - well, that is the goal. The Nightmarket district is dominated by...

Too many crits lessens excitement. :)

A bit of thread necromancy to report on this test. Experiment ended in a negative outcome. I ran three sessions of Princess Kingdoms using the rule to replace effect shifts with more/fewer dice. It worked, it did not cause the game to crash, but it cheapened effect shifts. One die per shift is...

I've read the thread with interest. I'm not settled on rote or not-rote magic, it depends on the genre. I would like to prefer a non-rote magic and spell design to go with rote systems, but I've never found a system that I liked. I have particularly fond memories of TORG's Aysle, I love the...

There is one blessing in not having English as native language. I only know the in-hobby use of "grognard". If it has bad connotations in common usage, I completely miss those.

I may err in the other direction here. I try to not suggest actions to players, but sometimes I just call for a Perception check rather than having the player say they are looking about, even if the situation obviously calls for it. Speeds things up, But I try to hold back so not to infringe on...

We're pretty serious. Sometimes we lose focus and pulla few jokes, but sooner or later someone says "lets get back to reality" and we get back to serious game mode.

I expected this, but it was not how we played it. Aw well, it was the early 80s and we were all young.

About weapon modifiers against different armors, I've only been in one game that uses those. I was a druid with a scimitar. Monsters that didn't obviously wear armor were considered AC 10 for weapon vs AC calculations. The scimitar has a +3 bonus against AC 10. So +3 against most monsters that...

I am the complete opposite here - the more of the admin burden I can hand over to the players, the better. My players sometimes agree with you and want more hidden mechanics, but I just can't be bothered. I see the DM job as primarily a storyteller, less of a referee. And now I have an example...

One effect of the AD&D save model was that different classes advanced differently. Fighters started out the worst, but since they advanced every 2 levels, they ended up very well. Magic-users were the opposite; starting out good, but advancing only every 6 levels.

The power a cleric got was a bribe to players to accept the cleric role. The first class complaint I ever got as a DM was that playing the cleric was no fun.

And then there were groups that used benchmark leveling. And everyone was the same level, even the cleric and rogue. I never played with benchmark leveling back in the day, but we has campaigns where "everyone starts at level X" which was benchmark leveling, but only before the game actually...

At one point, I did a campaign where the player got the role of a henchman of a higher-level NPC. Much hilarity ensues!

680. :eek: And checking my numbers, its actually more like 650. Posting just before bed has its dangers. :)

From memory "a minor magic item like a girdle of giant strength". I wish to inform old Gary that a girdle of giant strength is perhaps the best magic item in all of DnD!

And the 2E bard that actually had more wizard spells per day than a wizard of the same experience points, as well as more hit dice, bigger hit dice, armor, decent weapons, and limited thief abilities. Use the thieves' xp tables FTW! Edit: Changed level to experience points, which was the whole...

For me the favorite odd rule was actually in the ability score tables. A score of 8-14 had no modifiers. Rolling 3d6, or even 4d6 drop the lowest, there was a good chance to get no score of 15 or higher. So all that tension rolling scores for no effect at all! And don't get me started on...

Random halfling funeral in the wild [All of this from Level Up's random encounters.]

On the AC issue, Lloth had an absurd AC but I no longer remember the number. Definitely below -10. She only had 66 hit points tough.