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Astonishing Sorcerers and Swordsmen of Hyperboria.

I like an episodic campaign that has a thread of continuity to it. I run a string of modules, largely unrelated to each other, but I like to carry certain characters and developments through them all to give the world a sense of continuity.

One of the key things I try to do when running S&S style campaigns is describe creatures instead of naming them. I think that a description of a gigantic bulbous ball of flesh that seems to be mostly teeth and rank breath, surrounded by pulsating tubes of flesh tipped by eyes, could make for a...

DCC has you covered. You can get a good taste of it for free by downloading the free quickstart rules from the publisher here.

Well, the setting book (for 5e anyway) predates any license allowing 3rd party publications using the ruleset (the book draws form the 3.x license instead). This means the book is full of awkward phrasing like using the term "tactical advantage" instead of just "advantage." It's a minor thing...

I play/run Dungeon Crawl Classics with a thematic mix with Astonishing Sorcerers and Swordsmen of Hyperboria. One of my favorite things about ASSH is the way all wizards are specialists with their own unique spell lists, which is very much the way I think sorcery should work in a fantasy...

Why don't people show up? :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

In general I'm not a fan of the very literal (and kind of juvenile) the-gods-did-it-and-they're-literally-big-monsters-who-exist-and-you-can-visit/fight-them approach to D&D's world building. I like to handle things on a mythological level; the only gods I use as big monsters are Cthulhu Mythos...

I've always pronounced drow so it rhymes with "cow" and so did all my friends and it confused me deeply the first time I heard someone rhyme it with "grow." Re: racism/sexism: I've long taken the approach that most common folks in a setting know next to nothing about the "monsters" that live on...

I think I'm exactly who you're looking for; I started with 2e in 1994, played it obsessively (at one point running 3 campaigns and playing in 2-3 others). Switched to 3e and then 3.5 when they came out, though running only one game at a time (while occasionally playing in one or two others). I...

You absolutely are, though. I'm still trying to work out how I want to implement some of those.

I spent almost a week in NYC amongst dozens, maybe hundreds of locations and carts playing Christmas music and didn't hear the song once. Then I arrived on an airplane in Portland, OR yesterday and the song started playing as we taxied to the gate after we landed. So I was out on Day 1. :confused:

Interesting. I didn't know that bit. I guess I never double checked it any of my friends' '89 version PHBs.

A change that I remember noticing is in the Dual Class characters section. The '89 version of my PHB says "There is no limit to the number of classes a character can acquire, as long as he has the ability scores and wants to make the change." It does note, however, that some classes have...

For me it's ALQ4 - Secrets of the Lamp. This sourcebox from 1994 has seen more use than any other TTRPG product I've ever owned outside of core books.

The first TTRPG I ever played was Earthdawn, 1st Edition, in 1993. I still love the worldbuilding of it and the way the character options intrinsically interacted with the setting.

The halfling's player fell asleep. (Step-daughter and her fiancé finally made it to our Sunday family game, so we could play for the first time in a month and a half. Then he fell asleep half way through and she just took over running his character in addition to her own).

I adapted a handful of items from the movie to 5e as part of the Sorcery Stop series I wrote for Kobold Press a few years ago. I filed of the serial numbers, but anybody who knows the film will recognize them. https://koboldpress.com/the-sorcery-stop-relics-of-the-lost-fey/

Same reason I don't use D&D 2014; D&D isn't as good as Dungeon Crawl Classics.

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