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I played a historical RPG set in post-Roman Britain, which was pretty much a DnD chassis, similar combat, etc. In it, you had your traditional attack roll in combat, which did damage. However, each weapon had its own Shock value, and AC target. You did shock damage on a miss if the if the...

Isn’t the Gelatinous Cube the one that fills the hallway? If it’s in a hallway, it has whatever immunities the stat block indicates, and cannot be lifted, pulled, tripped, grappled, or otherwise fiddled with. I’d imagine it would be immune to poison, stun, and prone at a minimum. if it’s...

In my campaign I‘m using side initiative running OSE using the combat process: spell and retreat declarations - initiative - monster morale - movement - missiles - melee - spells. We find that side initiative allows for coordination of actions by the party (and monsters), and the spell...

You could post it here, or create your own thread in this sub-forum and post it to get some feedback if that's what you're after. Or, post it in my Beyond the Wall and OSE Playbook thread and I'll take a look. When Dolmenwood hit $800k in the first couple of days, and looking at other recent...

No problem. This is modified from the BtW playbooks, but I removed things like skills and spells that are assigned at chargen, because OSE doesn't have skills, and magic works differently. One section does have weapon proficiency because I was using the optional weapon proficiencies rules from...

Here is a separate thread to discuss the playbooks https://www.enworld.org/threads/beyond-the-wall-and-ose-playbooks.699252/ Happy to discuss further and provide other drafts.

So, coming from the Gavin Norman interview thread, we got into talking about OSE as it pertained to Dolmenwood, and I mentioned my blending of OSE and Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures by Flatland Games, while also incorporating Dolmenwood subsystems into my campaign. @schneeland asked if I...

I think all of our campaigns start out aiming for the long run (multiple years). We did one 5e for 2.5 years, when it reached a conclusion. A follow-up campaign ran for over a year, and I ended it (as DM) due to conflict between 5e and the lower magic premise of the setting. B/X was supposed...

LoL. Exactly. I think I'm the only one in the group willing to play a "sub-par" character. And the bar for what is considered "unplayable" varies widely in our group (who have been playing together on and off for 40 years). And yes, especially in 1e (when we really got our teeth into DnD)...

I was a patreon on the Dolmenwood book for a short while (didn't hang long enough to get the final set of pdf's), but I did back the kickstarter for the hardback books. While I appreciate the creativity and interesting worldbuilding that he did in Dolmenwood, I don't care for the whimsical...

In our recent campaign, where one of our players who had never Dm'd in 40 years wanted to DM B/X (after several years of playing in 5e), I rolled up a Fighter - S: 12, Int: 9, Wis: 9, Dex:10, Con: 10, Cha: 11. It was 3d6 x6, two columns, but I think he allowed us to assign. This was my...

I agree with this. I have moved to using traps 1) sparingly, and 2) in places where a player would naturally think "this area might be trapped". I don't use traps in dungeons, especially not ancient dungeons or ruins, because unless magical (and that's a whole 'nother can of worms) traps...

Ours sounds a lot like everyone else. We played a lot of 5e during the pandemic online: Discord for voice, Fantasy Grounds for maps/sheets/etc. We would schedule 7:30pm to start, every other week on Tuesday. We would start usually around 8 by the time all were there and settled, and play...

Not as a publicly traded company with shareholders…it’s all about the money. You can’t ever leave money on the table, it’s against the rules.

Totally depends on what and how magic is described. @EzekielRaiden talks about his conceptualization of it. Depending on campaign or theme, I go between magic being part of the natural world and something that can be tapped into with no problem or it is something dark and dangerous that has a...

This has been one of my bugbears with 5e, that Level 1 to 20 journey could potentially happen over the course of about 2 months of in-game time. Is that going to be enough time for that Adult Red Dragon to get that much more powerful than it has been for the last 100 years? I mean, I know its...

I like the idea overall (the fragments of power redistributing to other BBEGs). It could certainly also be part of the lore/legend of the creatures (assuming that there are things known or rumored about these big bads) that is either figured out by the PC's as they adventure, available from...

Folks are still taking that one portion of the noble background out of context of the entire background. It clearly states in the background that the player and DM need to discuss and agree on what that nobility means, I quote: “Work with your DM to come up with an appropriate title and...

Right, but that falls into the realm of bad DM'ing, which might or might not include player agency. I'll stick with the Noble Background, since that is the "rules" that are being discussed. Part of the rule says this: "Work with your DM to come up with an appropriate title and determine how...

Beyond the Wall and Other Advantures, in one of its either expansions or threat packs, has what it calls Blight zones. These are hexes in the game world where some event has happened, and the land is blighted, and anyone traveling in the areas must save or lose HP each day. It is also...