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Simon in the movie appears to have this as well. He can concentrate on Telekinesis while also casting a crummy version of Blur. Amusing note: whoever wrote up WotC's version of Doric gave her only 5 wildshapes per day, whereas in the movie she does 7 wildshapes in 2 minutes during her escape...

WotC doesn't own catfolk in general though. That scene with the fish and the holy warrior could just as easily have come straight out of Steve Jackson's Dungeon Fantasy RPG.

Where there's a whip There's a way! Left, right, Left, right, Left, right.

From reading about the lives of Gary Gygax and his contemporaries--the shoe repair business, attempts to get paid for miniatures work, ambitions of starting a business--it's easy to see why finding a bunch of money in a dungeon was an appealing fantasy goal for them. From looking at the...

5E reminds me of Shadowrun in the sense that binding spirits/Planar Binding are terrific ways to spend cash in both.

How differently we feel! To me the movie feels like low-level play, full stop. In 5E terms Edgin feels like a Mastermind 3, Holga feels like a Fighter 8 (rageless Barbarian ~= Fighter), Simon feels a bit like an Artificer 6 or a Sorcerer 4, and Doric feels like a variant Druid 6 with expanded...

Except for the D&D tropes it was designed to rationalize and reinforce, like chainmail bikinis.

AD&D has NPCs and PCs using the same rules, hence the need to differentiate Non-Players Characters from Player Characters. In fact certain characters bounce back and forth between PC and NPC, both IME and in what I've read of Gygax's table. 5E even has NPC-only subclasses like Oathbreaker and...

Dark Sun is low-magic enough that people finding out you're a wizard could lead directly to your death at the hands of essentially a mob of peasants wielding crummy stone pitchforks. Clerics and druids are less unpopular but some of the stigma surely still attaches, especially given the...

And yet a party of four fighters, a thief, a cleric, and one wizard was and is still a good party in OD&D. It's only the WotC versions of D&D that skew caster-heavy below 10th level. (And I guess maybe a certain subset of AD&D games with a lot of multiclassing and players who are very good at...

Here's a conversation I had with a player in preparation for an upcoming Film Reroll of the movie: GM: [blah blah blah]... Note: I'm also planning on giving Simon's speak-with-dead artifact to someone at the start of play, so you'll have the option to "follow the plot" if you want to. But the...

It's an official DF monster, from the Dungeon Fantasy boxed set.

My players for my upcoming Film Reroll have the option to make fresh PCs (using Dungeon Fantasy RPG rules), but the two PCs I've seen so far are nevertheless Holga and Doric, even to the extent of Holga choosing a two-handed axe over axe + shield because that's more faithful to movie Holga (even...

Aside: In my upcoming Film Reroll of the game, my Doric player has decided on a combat form of triger (three-headed tiger) instead of owlbear. I don't expect that change to hurt anything--the owlbear is only in two scenes anyway. I do expect the player to enjoy RPing the triger's Bloodlust...

IIRC Holga has three attacks at +7 for 10 damage each, total 30. Edgin has two attacks at +6 for IIRC 16-17 damage each, total 34ish. Simon has three attacks at +6 for 15ish damage each, total 45ish. This is not reflective of the movie Holga/Edgin/Simon, wherein Holga and Owlbear-Doric are the...

It turns out that one of the nastiest things you can have a bad guy (e.g. lich) do is go around Wishing for Resurrection of the PCs' enemies and introducing them to each other. Say hello again to that beholder, that clan of fire giants, those mind flayer arcanists, and that ancient white...

The horn of Beckoning Death is pathetically weak. The blade of the red wizards is overpowered (essentially +19.5 to damage). I can't believe WotC gave both Edgin and Simon better damage than Holga. That doesn't reflect the movie at all. What a travesty.

It seems to work okay with Dungeon Fantasy/GURPS, especially for new players: don't explain the rules to new players, just ask them for decisions. The rules are good enough that "real world" intuition is good enough to start making decisions. You can explain the rules once players have a couple...

And the characters too! Dujek and Whiskeyjack and Laseen and Anomander Rake must know how powerful a mage must be to wreck an army, and how rare or common such mages are, or warfare would be utter chaos. But they never talk about it in front of the reader.

Now I want to see a Hogwarts-style RPG about 40-year-old adults who are, through some bureaucratic nightmare, still stuck in high school together. They can romance other adults and it's not creepy, right? ...Then you realize that this is essentially how life canonically is for D&D 5E elves...