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Knowledge compromises the value of exploration. It means players do not leave their room at the inn because they are relatively self-assured they know everything going on beyond those walls. This is part of why Sage is an NPC class. Book study and training are not the same as the real thing...

5 out of 5 rating for Dungeon! Board Game This is a boardgame for players ages 8 & up. The difficulty is low, but once you start competing against other players strategy kicks in and the depth reveals itself. It is not as deep in its design as Dungeons & Dragons, and certainly not as abundant...

4 out of 5 rating for Age of Worms Adventure Path I've begun it twice now. The first time as it was being published and again just recently stalling this summer after spending over a year and a half. The 12 adventures are typically adventure path in design, meaning linear by event or combat...

This is standard D&D. A player lost his character. Maybe they died? So the player spends time making a new character so he can join back in the game. When a point in the game comes that the DM has a starting point for the character the player can start over. Creating a new character is the real...

If a player loses their character, they can start the game over. Roll ability scores and whatnot, pick a class, race, equipment and supplies. Maybe spend some time putting together a background, some idea of goals, personality if desired. And then give the new PC to the DM to look over and...

Sounds like a fun and interesting project. My advice would be not to build too much of a campaign before the players get to it. Sometimes games don't come off, for whatever reason. And converting A LOT of adventures takes a serious amount of time. Plus, not having everything planned beforehand...

How to open a lock: 1. Find some way to pick it. Maybe a bent fishhook will serve? Who knows? Try something and tell the DM. Then learn what happens. Maybe you have pins you need to press back? Maybe you need multiple items to do that? The game is making makeshift tools until you succeed...

It would be nice, but I am not off until the weekend. Back in the summer I looked at the events scheduled and found some interesting ones. But now I'll have to look again. I'll be daytripping Saturday to Madison. It looks like most of the old crew in the area set up shop at GameHole too.

Player Character knowledge is tracked by the DM. Player knowledge is tracked by the player. Or not, it's the player's choice. Whether or not a player remembers what they have encountered so far is up to them. It's part of playing the game. Game knowledge is what is really at issue here. What...

FYI, I've since moved to Milwaukee and am no longer a pedestrian. Otherwise I am in search of old school games in the area. Early D&D, but Call of Cthulhu would still be great. I've changed the thread title to update.

Option D - Try anything you can think of to acquire such ability. Pray at church and make an offering. Petition the city Merchant Guild showing your gold and offering a price you believe is fair. Hunt down a powerful wizard and barter for creation of an item. Put the word out you are looking...

Greyhawk has many distinct forms and they are all slightly different. This is my understanding of it, but there are those more in the know. Originally it was a campaign setting for many of Gary Gygax's campaigns in the early 1970s. It is the where Castle Greyhawk was set and the City of...

No, I've been using the same definition all along. Role playing is since it was coined the act of playing a social role. It's part of sociology. Pretending isn't the roleplaying D&D was defined for. Character role playing in the acting sense didn't become widespread until well after D&D took...

Thanks. So there's no difficulty balancing then for the design? It ramps people quickly up to speed and then eases survivability down the road.

As far as senseless rules, I don't understand the progression pattern in the XP advancement charts. It's all over the board. But then maybe something is happening behind the scenes, with the game design itself, which makes those numbers necessary. Silly stuff? Honestly, I find the check...

This works best if the game is actually designed to support it. I'm not sure 5th edition is, but it may altered to make it so. I don't know. In earlier editions all new characters started out at level 1, 0 XP. To start a new character is to begin playing the game over from the start. You...

The stats progressions are listed, the algorithms aren't. Welcome to old school :rollseyes: We've had to deal with that for years. DMs generate with die rolls the campaign and game scenarios unless suggested by players. See Appendix A & B in AD&D DMG specifically, but most of those appendices...

What the probability curve is is predetermined by the game rules, or the code in the case of D&D. The GM could ask for any roll of dice that are isomorphic to that probability curve. That's not the important part. Applying the rules is the important part and what a referee does. They don't play...

I'm not seeing anything to respond to here, but I need to log off anyways. I'm not sure what responses I could give you later. It does sound like MLWM may be a game system, but not one that supports roleplaying. And I completely disagree on your role for GMs. That's a failure of a great game...

My dog is a setting, character, and plot. So are we. Your map isn't reality. Stop demanding I disprove your beliefs as obviously false. You can project your stubborn understanding onto everything. You can stop doing that. Me making you stop is a waste of both of our time. Open your mind and quit...