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That’s true - but I was thinking they were removing prof bonuses based on what I read earlier, to keep the ranges similar. If you keep prof bonuses, then yes you’d want to bump up the numbers.

For armors, if you want something more akin to traditional AC than tracking hits, you could assign AC values to the armors that override the wearer’s Dexterity score. For instance, Medium Armors might be AC 14-16, Heavy Armors 17-20, and shields can add +2 bonus. To keep Light Armor geared for...

I love the act of storytelling, and there is little as fulfilling to me as getting to tell a tale involving strange places, harrowing deeds, and epic heroics. I also love controlling fantastic monsters and role playing larger than life NPCs.

I seem to recall without the assistant program, Akbar was fully controlled by the PC and he was prone to just fireballing your whole party with his bad aim… unless I’m mis remembering.

My first non D&D game was Gamma World followed closely by TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes (and also the Indiana Jones rpg before it retired into it’s second life as the Diana Jones award). But my first non-TSR rpg was the wonderfully obscure James Bond RPG. By the end of the 80’s I’d played RIFTS...

Oh now this is the monster design for which I have been longing!

One thing I’ve learned from these play thrus is that the random encounters weren’t actually infinite, and that they affected other encounters! Always thought they were endless and did everything I could to avoid them!

Thank you for that long awaited explanation!

“I tell ya, laying waste to the Dalelands with Displacer Beasts is like herding cats!” The smaller AoE’s out of doors in 1e must have something to do with its wargame roots, but I’ve never heard the explanation. It would make more sense if the scales were different, but if I recall correctly...

Transaction ended explosively for Neogi

Hot monster vs monster action!

In my earlier post I also forgot to mention Rogue Modrons, another old Planescape staple. I actually had a player run one for a while, it was a lot of fun. I suspect they are too ‘non-humanoid’, which might be why we got autognomes instead; the current designers seem to shy away from PC species...

I was really surprised to see bariaur were not a playable species in the new Planescape set, I really liked the Shardminds, they were unique and interesting, but probably too tied into 4e lore to see a return. We have Tabaxi now, but we’ve never seen the dogfolk from Mystara show back up...

In a lot of Kaiju movies, the humans need to research, discover and exploit a specific weakness of the monster; fighting it directly is impossible. You could take that idea and weave it into a scenario, where your heroes need to survive the stompy monster and environmental destruction in order...

I’m more of a lurker than a regular poster, but why not… Name: Way back in the days of AD&D 1e, The Hand was the moniker of a fighter/thief elf I created for play in the Temple of Elemental Evil. Not only did he survive the adventure, but he was the first character I created a backstory for and...

Paranormal Power (Psionics Option) by Enworld’s very own @Steampunkette is also highly regarded by some of us here.

Yes agreed! It’s fun to run around the Dalelands. Silverblades might be one of my personal least favorite Gold Box games

Replayed scenes from decade-old campaign (“Flashback” to bring newer players up to speed)

Once again, really enjoying the trip down memory lane with these. Curse is one of my favorite Gold Box games, but I always hated how rail-roaded the first section is, especially compared to how open ended its predecessor was.

Ahh okay. I'm used to the term "Pact Magic" referring to all Warlock spells, but here ToV is actually differentiating between "Wyrd Spells" (half-caster slots) and "Pact Spells" (from Subclass). Huh. Yeah, not sure I like those being separated like that. (Then again, I'm probably only going to...