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  1. TheHand

    What games, currently, have your interest?

    • I have a 12+ year Planescape campaign currently running in 5e that’s my “forever DM” game. • I’m also playing in another 5e game that’s adapted the Goodman Games take on Expedition to Barrier Peaks. • in the pipe, I’m using a hacked and modded version of Sentinel Comics to run a future...
  2. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    Not to interrupt the spine tingling terror of the Graveyard, but I have to say, in all the play-thrus I’ve done I never knew you could actually clear Podol Plaza!
  3. TheHand

    D&D General D&D Class Test- Which character class suits you?

    Interesting results. I’m a forever GM so when I do get a chance to play a character I’m usually drawing from a bank of character ideas I have stored up that have more to do with personality and presentation than class. I don’t really feel drawn to monks at all, which was my highest result here...
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  5. TheHand

    D&D General How Do You Feel About Randomness?

    I don’t like randomness involved in character creation unless it’s a one-shot or a more silly type of game. I will use some random elements in the games I run, beyond just the normal dice mechanics, such as random encounters and randomized treasures, but the random lists are ones I curated ahead...
  6. TheHand

    Gamesurvey.org – academic research on hobby gaming community

    Agreed, even with that being part of the mission statement I felt like there were more questions aimed at “do you want to run a business??!” than the hobby itself.
  7. TheHand

    D&D 5E (2024) How excited are you for the new 2024 edition d&d?

    Voted 1. I have a nice thing going now at my table with a hybrid of A5E and vanilla 5e, and since I supported the ToV kickstarter I’ll probably have some more options to mine from there. I’m vaguely interested in what they did with the monk and druid, but not enough to convince me to buy the new...
  8. TheHand

    Level Up (A5E) Planestrider's Journal: A New Cosmology for 5E & A5E!

    Congratulations on the successful Kickstarter! Downloaded my copy and I’m really enjoying this book so far!
  9. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    The most recent time I ran it, I did it as a mega campaign leading directly into Azure Bonds, so I sprinkled some Azure Bonds foreshadowing throughout Pool, and tied certain NPCs from the first module into the second so that the Curse and tattoos felt much more personal by the time my PCs got...
  10. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    It’s probably more accurate to say that I took Ruins as my framework but built in top of it all the missing details from Pool of Radiance that I liked… leaving me with kind of a “greatest hits” (IMO) of the 2 works.
  11. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    😂 Dang, if only I’d have thought of that!! Ok, next time! 👍
  12. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    😅 Yes, I did for some of the secret codes., like Sokal Keep! If I had to suffer through that damn wheel so did they!!
  13. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    I agree about the posters talking about Silverblades being a slog, it was a huge let down from one of my favorite entries: Azure Bonds. I found the higher level entries in most of these games kind of unfun, though Pools of Darkness goes so absolutely bonkers in its extreme power shenanigans that...
  14. TheHand

    D&D General Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games

    I’m loving this thread! The Goldbox series, particularly Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds have a special place in my heart, back when I first played them on an Apple II(!!). I’ve actually adapted and run the TTRPG version “Ruins of Adventure” about 4 times over the years, as...
  15. TheHand

    What System For...?

    Does this system support giant sized monsters or is more of a “Supernatural”/“Buffy” simulator? Also what’s the game system like in a nutshell? Thanks!
  16. TheHand

    What System For...?

    I'm not that familiar with Tinyd6, but that looks like it's worth a look! Than you. I have the Savage Worlds supplement you mentioned and tried it. It worked OK, and I've really enjoyed SW for other games, but it felt like SW mechanics weren't the best fit for what I was going for.
  17. TheHand

    What System For...?

    Yeah, I picked CoC since I could re-stat some of the eldritch horrors as kaiju, or at least use them as a basis between scaling them and the humans. I may look at BRP in the future.
  18. TheHand

    What System For...?

    I appreciate the suggestion... I've thought about using it in the past, but for some reason I bounce off Fate every time I've tried it!
  19. TheHand

    What System For...?

    This is a fun thread! My game concept is Kaiju with human PCs that's basically a Godzilla movie. I've run a few games like this in the past as one-shots, usually with a lot of homebrewing and hacking. I usually allow the players to control giant monsters in monster battle scenes (sometimes...
  20. TheHand

    Questions about Sentinel Comics RPG actual play experiences

    This is honestly one of my favorite features of the game. The escalation of "Green" to "Red Zones" is something I've sought to import into other games. The idea of characters getting more abilities and tapping into hidden reserves as a battle goes on is such a ubiquitous trope of genre fiction...
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