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Hiya! Without even using the calculator I can already tell my encounters are Deadly quite often. How? Since 2014 to 2020 when we last played, nobody has had a PC crest 7th level. One more at 6th, two at 5th and more as you go down in levels. So...yeah. "Deadly" seems to be the soup of the day...

Hiya! I'm gonna go with Living Steel (because it's an actual RPG; Phoenix Command seems more... 'skirmish game" from what I've read; never played PCom). Synnibarr is...uh...unique. Its' complex, for sure, it's also complicated, definitely, it's also a brilliant RPG if you want to know what an...

Well, no, not in '86...but the people who had been DM'ing/Playing for a few years...probably. I mean, look at even just this little demographic of EnWorld. There are a LOT of people here with more than 10 years of experience. You want to find where all the grognards are hanging out, head over to...

Hiya! Sounds fine to me. But if you want "ultimate group fairness with random rolling"...and some sort of sick glee from watching your Players agonize about accepting that score of 5 to get that 18 as well ;) ...then I created a method I use for my own Homebrew Fantasy RPG (based on Darkurthe...

DAZ3D is probably where she's going to end up. ( Daz 3D - 3D Models and 3D Software | Daz 3D ). It's free and can be used as is. You can also go head first into the Store and spend a few thousand dollars if you want all the stuff people put out for it. DAZ themselves are a decent enough...

Hiya! The difference that I remember was that a lot of the people playing AD&D were coming into it from being Wargamers. The mindset is quite different; the rules in a Wargame are top-dog...the rules are what are obeyed first and foremost. Only when someone does something really unusual, or...

Hiya! A DSG and a WSG, obviously. :) Rule wise... I'd like to see a significant reduction in HP's across the game. A PC gains HD's up to, say 9th level; then a flat amount of HP's from 10 onward. Reduction in Damage for, well, most things; monsters in particular (to jive with reduced HP's)...

Hiya! The same way you perceive that you're going to get hit...so you cast Shield on yourself. ;) ^_^ Paul L. Ming

Hiya! @Maxperson I honestly do get where you are coming from. I can completely see your argument for what you are saying. What I'm saying is that I simply interpret "magic" and "spells" more...hmmm... "broadly" than you do. A monster still uses an Action to use a special ability. How is that...

Hiya! As the answer is "Depends entirely on how much I want it..." (e.g., right now I wouldn't pay more than $10 for a PHB/MM/DMG combo for 4th Edition D&D...but I just paid over $200 for the "Temple of Elemental Evil" 'Old Adventures Revisited' slipcase. So I'm going to go with this: "If I...

Hiya! This is where we are butting heads. I don't believe I've changed any of the "rules of the game". I'm simply interpreting "spells" and "magic" differently than you are. Again...we just are interpreting what is written differently. I already pointed out that under "What is a Spell?" in the...

Hiya! Semantics determined by individual DM's I'm thinking. For my, "if it's not able to be done using the natural reality of the current Prime Material Plane ('campaign world'), then it's magic". Being able to "tap into" or "understand and manipulate" is irrelevant ...the end result is "it's...

Ok, replace a Beholders "levitation" with it's eyestalk powers then. ^_^ Paul L. Ming

Hiya! Nose wiggling or not, "willing" yourself to defy gravity qualifies as "magic" as far as I'm concerned. If you look at 3e (I can't believe I just referenced 3e... O_O ), Psionics and Magic were 'equivalent'; you just manifested the effect differently. In that version of the game, you could...

Hiya! We played the 1st version of the Conan game that Mongoose (?) put out. IIRC, we did a quick little session to get a feel for it, then I had them up their PC's to level 4. Then I pulled out "The Forbidden City". :) This is, imnsho, the perfect "Conan adventure" (at least for AD&D). We had...

Hiya! Yes, it's plenty deadly...at least up until level 7. Nobody has ever gotten a PC past level 7 in my game (and that was only 1 PC; then a 6th, a pair(?) of 5th, a few 4th, etc). So yeah, deadly enough! As for finishing off a downed PC... if the narrative and creature calls for it. I am...

Hiya! Wait a second. A Sorcerer who had an innate ability to wiggle his finger and cause a fiery explosion is "magic"...but a Drow who had an innate ability to wiggle his nose and levitate is... "not magic"? Is that what I'm hearing? How is "spellcasting" somehow not "spellcasting"? Magic is...

Hiya! Monk: Patient Defense. A Monks AC is increased by 2 if they choose to have an Initiative of 1. Basically, start removing all the "points based stuff" or "X times/day" and get back to LESS special abilities, but more abilities that are "always on". ^_^ Paul L. Ming

Hiya! Yup. It was called "Random Encounters" and "Monsters acting intelligently as they can to try and KILL THE PC'S INVADING THEIR HOME". ;) Back in ye olden days, I remember many occasions where the PC's had to turn tail and GTFOD because they started a fight in an area near other monsters...

LOL! Yeah, ok. Not in my game. Anyone who can mutter words, point a finger at a location, and have the location erupt in a fiery explosion is USING MAGIC! How anyone could argue "No...it doesn't SAY it's magic...so it isn't!" with a straight face would get laughed out of the game. I used to put...