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I've been using slot-based encumbrance for some time (jeez, years!) Our usual practice (and in most groups I've found), there's one person that keeps a list of treasure. So, how do you meld these two systems? Put encumbrance on the group treasure sheet. Each player is responsible for their...

I use experience for gold, but my campaign is currently on hiatus (couldn't type with a broken arm) and just getting started again. I found 1gp=1exp a little slow at the beginning, so I've been tempted to allow characters to "double dip" with spending gp on carousing or other role play aims...

Another VTT option is the granddaddy Maptools and its successor, Mote. Both are free and have many features that are only available on the paid versions of other programs. Maptools is great if you are just using maps, light and shadows if you just wanted a digital map for your table game...

You're not getting how few people playing OSR games run without house rules. We'll borrow from one system, and port it to another. Another retro clone is another pile of jigsaw pieces to make up our puzzles with. Or alternately (given how short this one is), a new chassis upon which to throw...

The Player's Handbook is the rules for the player characters. Get out of the 3rd edition mindset: the rules of the GAME are not the physics of the world. NPC casters have their own rules.

This. This is why OD&D is relevant, WITHOUT THE THIEF. Character actions were not limited to abilities spelled out in the rules. Your character picked up a crow bar, a 10' pole, and role played through the dungeon. Later players reading the rules from the Greyhawk expansion onward...

Dungeon Checklist

I'm able to right-click and copy a highlighted day.

I'm only using the spell generator but it is AWESOME. None of the two players in my 2nd group have Players Handbooks of their own, so filling this in for them is a HUGE time saver at the table. Also, for my own character in my friend's campaign (a Sorcerer/Warlock with Tome of Ancient...

AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING! How many customers do you need to justify the monster builder as well?

I dig it. I've got a similar set of guides for my campaign, with a similar setting. We've taken different departures of course (I'm using the Warhammer map, Sol Invictus and minor pagan deities instead of monotheism plus saints). How has your resting mechanic worked in play so far? Classes...

Thank you for these, WotC. Now can you release an accessible electronic version of the books so that these living documents can be updated? And by accessible, I mean something more accessible than Fantasy Grounds. I'm not going to purchase a VTT that I won't use (I prefer other VTTs like...

And yet it still doesn't do lighting and vision. Maptool has done that for years. Many of the issues with Maptool, like installation, are now solved with Mote (it's one file.) Here is maptool in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecgV9aKS3ZI And sift (new kickstarter of mote, now for...

I've rated the different equipment packs (explorer's, dungeoneers, etc) for this encumbrance scheme to help new players. It does take a few judgement calls. ugly word file for packs with simplified encumbrance

AGH! Thank you! I was looking everywhere - but not there. hah. Yeap, but I was trying to shortcut the process with textboxes over the graphic as I've done with pdf forms. Certainly used the method above when designing an excel character sheet for hackmaster 5th edition. The selection pane...

Really appreciate all the hours you've put into this, FA. It's a fantastic tool and looks great. I've been using it to make a ton of pregens for some newbs I'm running a game for. I found something really odd though. I've been making my own character sheet using the variables you've defined...

This is realms management, so more like Obsidian Portal. Other than player journals, I've gotten more use out of Realmsworks in 6 sessions than I think I did in a two year campaign in obsidian portal. It it that much better for campaign management for me. Yes, still waiting for web view...

WotC has said that their deal with Fantasy Grounds is not exclusive. Which means that some kind of fee based license is available for some kind of negotiation. I use both 5e and Realmsworks and would love to have the 5e support within Realmsworks.

I used maptool for years and thought it rocked. It had features in 2008 that Fantasy Grounds does not yet have. Dynamic Lighting? Awesome improvement to how your players see (literally) their tactical options. My players really were afraid of the dark. Today some of the makers of maptool...