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The Tomb of Horrors is featured in the book, and I found a conversion of the Tomb to 3rd edition http://www.ekkaia.org/rpg/dnd/tomb_of_horrors.pdf You still need the original module to use these conversions. One main difference is when your character kills something that is worth experience...

What if we wanted to do a paper version of the Oasis in Ready Player One? I've read the book and it seems to me that much of it was based on Dungeons & Dragons, in that avatars have hit points and an armor class and like the 1st and 2nd editions, if they collected coins they gained experience...

There is a practical problem with hunter gather societies, they range over a large territory, so it is really hard to tell which land is theirs. They don't put up fences, and they don't put up signs. And then some settlers show up and they find some forest, and they shout, "Halooo! Is anyone...

Physical isolation. The Americas are isolated from the rest of the World, and this allows for large technological differences to develop. If the Indians develop gunpowder, the Europeans don't learn of it until the Indians develop ships which can take them across the ocean. The Old Worlders still...

Could be, and if we reverse the roles somewhat the way I described, the sides would become more even, and the Old World is the larger part of the World. North America would be the equivalent of 15th century Europe, it has a bunch of kingdoms, some of which are on the east coast of North America...

There were no Polish colonies in the New World for instance, but that did not help the Indians. Lots of European nations did not colonize North America, there were no Greek colonies, no Italian colonies, no German colonies. the only way to give the Indians a chance is to advance their tech, that...

Are their any spells that could freeze an iron crow bar so it can be used against demons?

China's decision to disengage put it on a downward spiral that cumulated with the Opium Wars and its adoption of European Communism.

And how did history treat China after it burned its treasure ships? China became colonized itself by Europeans! China wasn't one of the colonial powers in the Americas because they took themselves out. It is a very competitive world out there, and China chose not to compete in this arena. In...

How could they be otherwise? They got kicked out by the other colonial powers! France sold Louisiana to the United States after all, after that it was out of French hands San Dominique became Haiti when the black slaves revolted and France lost that, and of course they lost Quebec to the British...

the Indians were human and so were the Europeans, Africans, and Near East Asians, I think the fault is with human nature in general. People are selfish and they take advantage of situations no matter what the color of their skins.

Can I disagree with someone's ideas without someone taking it personally? I'm not saying anything about anybody, merely the subject. Here's the situation, you have two sides, one of them lost, who is morally superior? Who was worse, the victors or the losers? Whoever loses often end up as the...

if I want to keep with a familiar history and setting in the Old World, then the technology would be more in line with that of Columbus that with American Rebels fighting the British for their independence I think. the Indians don't have much democracy, they have strong monarchs taking over...

I don't see any villains here, just two groups of people pursuing their own selfish primitive interests for the most part. in our history, the natives weren't all saints and the colonizers weren't all villains, it is simply that their two interests were incompatible with each other. I bet you a...

You know the Indians are necessarily all unified, there will be rival Indian Nations just like there were rival European Nations. Some Indian Nations might not want other Indians Nations to succeed in their colonization plans, and of course there will be independent traders seek profits, they...

Thanks, I appreciate that.

Muskets in American colonial times were made by gunsmiths, one at a time, there were no musket factories. Gunsmithing was a skill that was passed down to an apprentice just like black smithing. Gunpowder is a mixture and so does not have a chemical formula. Its main components are sulfur (S)...

This is deserving of a separate thread of its own. If the Vikings established a permanent colony in North America, Vikings would talk about it, they travel across the whole world and like to brag about their exploits, other kingdoms would eventually hear about what they were doing printing press...

You think a Pharaoh that has organized the building of a pyramid could command the labor necessary to build a musket? I don't think the Indians had such organization. Anyway, I don't know whether the Indians will know enough to conquer Egypt first, they might conquer some other hapless...

You don't have to, your character only has to deal with the immediate situation in front of him. If some Indians bring their magic thunder sticks and try to conquer and enslave your character, your character will understand that situation quite well, and he would adapt just as the Indians in our...