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I won't lie. We skipped 2e after reading there were no demons and devils, until a later supplement brought them back with the new names, no half orcs, and no assassins, etc. The Angry Mom's from Heck article in Dragon didn't go over well either.

Bones are great for big figs but I don't care for the normal sized ones. The Bones Black look promising though. Have to give this a look over.

And as to the theme. We just finished ToA and honestly most of the fights were a joke. A lot of deaths due to player drunkeness and stupidity, or the environment effects, but the "boss" fights were pretty much a cake walk. We finished it as a party of 6 8/9th level PC. I almost bought a few...

Wasn't there a modifier on that in 3.x? Like a -2 or something? In S&W with its 1 minute round the minis we use are just for rough positional information and during a round its assumed that you are kind of moving around with that. In 5e I ran it that if you missed your target you may hit...

Its been a while since I looked at those but I like the idea. In my Swords and Wizardry game if you fire into melee you have an equal shot at hitting anyone in that melee since its free flowing and chaotic. When we play that after playing in the backup 5e game for a few sessions it takes a bit...

At the table we only engage in half of those but in game its all fair game. Though I don't see injecting much sexual stuff beyond the running gag of when a new PC needs to be inserted the party will inevitably find a helpless orc captive, tied up, naked, and ball gagged. When running OotA...

Reading a biography of Thomas Jefferson. The Art of Power by John Meecham, he's one of my favorite Founders and its pretty good so far.

If there is a market that is not being served and is profitable there is an opportunity for someone to make some cash. This would seem like its screaming for a kickstarter.

Didn't this just come out last year?

Why Paladins are so code bound and not clerics always seemed dodgy to me.

My game is one large stereotype to be honest. Halflings are not small elves or the monstrosities in the 5e PH, they are hairy footed hobbits. Thankfully the half orc does not exist in S&W. Orcs were created evil by Grummish One-Eye and Goblins the same by Maglubiyet. There are deviant...

Never had a bleed issue sure as a player I've gotten angry when may brilliant plan failed, the typical outcome, or or rolled 5 1s in a row, etc. I have one player who gets whiny and tries to use RPG sessions as a crutch for his self made dodgy life situation, but I don't run RPG as a therapy...

Id say any violation unless you have no choice. But no choice does not include being in a no win situation. However as referee I would try to avoid putting them in that kind of situation as best I can unless there is some very good reason. Cowardice is no excuse though. However 5e and...

Yep. One reaction to finding out you are falling short of an ideal is to destroy the ideal. If you can't meet the standard...lower it and tear down those who are making you realize you are falling short. As Lemmy said "Nobody wants to hear the truth, too much like taking blame."

As a referee they were able to defeat the evil white dragon Hoarfrost, recover the staff of the North and the last of the 5 swords for a tribe of the Ice Barbarians, and help overthrow the weak Jarl and his false shaman. They have helped free Vatun from his prison and one player converted to...

You are going to scare people away with those displays of ferocity! Now as a adversarial referee I wouldn't put a Paladin in that position unless it was going to lead to something interesting or I had the impression that being a fallen Paladin was what they were looking to play. Putting a...

Answering the call to Paladinhood probably means you will one day lose your life against impossible odds that you should have ran from. Honor and duty before life. Throwing an innocent into the maw of a dragon is pretty bad. Would you view it the same if he did that with an infant? But as I...

Wasn't a common complaint that the Paladin devotion to LG in past editions was too much of a straight jacket and needed to be changed? They were lawful stupid since they wouldn't cut corners and make the ends justify the means. So now we have CN paladins and the code is more along the lines of...

Is this for a published product? Or are you worried about offending your table? Or just worried about breaking some taboo? Just curious.

In 5e that is probably hunk dory. Now in my S&W game that is now a fallen Paladin but they still have to be lawful(good) and that was at best a neutral act and possibly chaotic(evil). But honestly the DM springing that on the player is kind of weak. How can he possibly survive and not be a...