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It's certainkly a mechanic which shouldn't be used RAW, but with GM fiat. If the character explicitley bought reams of arrows, I'd just give him some encounters before enforcing the rule. The rule focuses on characters/group which aren't interested in explicitly talking about such details...

Sounds like the difference between elegant theory and cumbersome practical application then, doesn't it? :) Okay, slightly different approach. Running out of arrows is a secondary effect of your attack die. In the first encounter, a 1 means out of arrows, in the second encounter 1-2 and so on...

How do the PCs enter the picture? Are they hired by someone? If so, by whom? The master librarian would be one of the first persons the PCs seek out. They might meet him with another guy who more or less politely tells the master librarian to pay. A rogue PC might know this other chap. Short...

If you're prepared to roll the extra die for this, you might also define something like "preparedness". If the character took time to shop for arrows or to fletch his own, you might change the die. Prepared characters: Roll d20 with each shoot; 1 means out of arrows. In the second encounter...

Several years of using [Windows] - [Cursor right] - [Return] leave traces. Everything doable without touching the mouse is a big plus for me!

What about the damsel being in jail for a reason? That her captors are evil doesn't mean that any inmate is innocent. Jut have her being grateful to the characters - only to steal from them shortly after.

I've change to W10 on two of our four computers. On our son's Win 8.1, it seems to be interface changes, only, while on my Win 7 machine our weird mouse problem seems to have vanished after the first rounds of updates. Only thing I'm really missing from Win 7 is the quick shutdown sequence...

So the system is prone to bad GMing? If your Subtai tries to open a lock later on and this lock suddenly has a poison needle payed by from the increased threat pool, I'd agree with you. But in the context of a single scene the mechanism makes sense to me.

Yes, definitely so! Remoulade can be a nice accent for dishes without succinct spices. Try cooked potatoes with some butter, asparargus with some (not too much) Hollandaise and ham with a bit of Remoulade.

Well, I don't know the rules, but according to your description the Threat Pool increases whenever Conan fails his attack. He attacks a guard, fails and the guard can react. Would the guard quietly wait for Conan's next blow or would he start yelling for help? For me, this makes perfect sense...

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I started with The Legacy of Lord Regret by Sam Bowring, but put it down after 100 pages or so. The concept of the plot is quite interesting, but Bowring's writing style just leaves me cold. My next stuff will be more of Andzrej Sapkowski from his Witcher cycle plus rereading some old...

What about DM information? Would you like it implemented in the adventure itself, i.e., the town where part of the adventure takes place, is outlined or described in that part of the adventure? And new monsters, will they only appear in the relevant sections? This style should make the...

In this context a campaign outline I created in my 3e days may be of interest. It aimed at a campaign sporting different DCC adventures without giving much thought to background and internal logic. I assumed a former adventurer had inherited his father's fief including a nice castle. Being a...

Thanks for your comments! Guess I'll try to get the old external HD running again and record the stuff. Too bad Pro 7 picked Wednesdays for these shows, colliding with our weekly boardgame event.

This can easily work as long as the players don't expect their characters to have in influence on the world beyond any specific adventure. They couldn't, e.g., establish good relations with the local baron and hope to get some payback from that in an adventure further down the line. The old...

We are clearly playing an old school game here: advancement is deliberatly slow. Did one of your characters actually surpass level 13 in 1e AD&D?

For the cool level title in the left margin of your posts. See, you're a mere Acolyte (Lvl 2) while I'm a Myrmidon!

After drifting over more and more to comedy for a few years a large German network starts these two shows this summer. The trailers don't tell me whether one or both are worth my time recording and watching them. What's your assessment of these shows?

And the Masterbook Cards were of a much better physical quality than the original TORG ones, being printed on real playing card cardboard instead of the flimsy TOG sheets were you hade to separate them on your own. But the die of the first edition/printing ... it's still my go-to d20 after 25...