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2e - Player facing stats like THAC0 and saves. 3e - Ascending AC. 4e - Solo, Elite, and Minion monsters. 5e - Concentration.

I had never heard of it, thanks for the link.

The Lifebringer 3.5 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Undead Horror: The forces of corruption that transform living creatures into undead horrors are worthy only of destruction. Intelligent Undead That Do Not Actually Need to Do Harm to Anyone to Survive: ? Intelligent Undead, Personal Affront to the...

I have a bunch of fantasy analogue stuff in my mashup homebrew setting and this includes some historic events and movements and not just specific setting elements like fantasy vikings or fantasy ancient Egypt. Alexandros the Great conquered most of the world and we now have common throughout...

From the Shadows is in the bad half for me too. I agree that doing terrible things to the characters to force them into the plot is bad. It is up there with the doppleganger and flesh golem ones for screwing over PCs by removing their agency and doing things to the characters. Night of the...

I found about half the 2e Ravenloft modules of excellent quality (I also found about half were terrible agency removing or genre breaking things that I did not care for or run) and had great experiences running a large number in two 2e campaigns. I was not a Planescape person but I heard...

I did not find the 2e psionics splat book overpowered. Roll to activate with possible power fumbles, three touches to establish telepathic contact, etc. The closest to overpowered was probably the possibility of a save or die disintegrate and even that was after spending a lot of points and...

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From the commentary on Night of the Vampire. The results were sometimes hilarious. Baker recounts that for Night of the Vampire, he wrote a scene where the PCs captured some assassins and threatened them. Where Baker suggested the PCs say "Tell us who hired you, or we’ll put your head on a...

The Lazy GM: Undead and Other Fell Foes 3.5 Allip, Standard Allip: The allip is an incorporeal undead creature formed from a person who committed suicide due to madness. Allip, Incorporeal Undead Creature Formed From a Person Who Committed Suicide Due to Madness, Flyer, Relentless Hunter: ...

For me I have gotten a bunch on humble bundle sales, lots of epub huge series for things like 40k, Shadowrun, the Malazan books, Battletech, Dragonlance, and Pathfinder. It is intermittent but more than I think I am going to read in my lifetime. Currently they have a Dragonlance novels bundle...

It’s a matter of taste for when to use them as opposed to gm fiat or roleplayed out. I prefer them for offscreen downtime activities or a quick roll after role play or second person describing an intention and approach when it can go multiple directions. I prefer roleplayed out in general...

The Lazy GM: Book of Brutes 3.5 Athach Vampire: ? Athach Vampire 26 HD: ? Athach Vampire Sorcerer 6: ? Athach Vampire Sorcerer 12: ? Ettin Ghost: ? Ettin Ghost Sorcerer 10: ? Ettin Vampire: ? Ettin Vampire Rogue 6, Dangerous Stalker of the Night: ? Ettin Paladin of Slaughter 10, Champion of...

Undead are made in many ways. Onyx gems are only needed for certain specific necromancy spells as one method to create a few types of undead. Self replicating undead and death circumstances are usually way more common for things other than a necromancer's skeleton and zombie servants and even...

The Holy Warrior's Handbook 3.5 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Abomination: ?

I always disliked being told what I felt or did. I prefer just being told what I see. That has always been my biggest issue with read aloud text.

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The Fate of Inglemia 3.5 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Greater Undead: The rituals that Oregono uses to create Greater Undead work for the Node or without the Node, depending on how much someone is willing to pay. Thinking Undead: ? Undead Slave: ? Lich: ? Mummy: ? Vampire: ? Vampire Magi: ? Zombie: ?

The Faithful and the Forsaken 3.5 Undead: ? Powerful Undead: ? Undead Auxiliary: ? Mindless Undead: ? Undead Miner: ? Undead Soldier: ? Mindless Arrow Fodder: ? Ghast: ? Ghoul: ? Mummy: ? Shambling Skeleton: ? Ordinary Skeleton: Charduni military formations are often reinforced by large numbers...

I feel the short descriptions of alignments in the 3e and 3.5 SRDs is the better take.