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Whiskey soaked and often we were lost but in the end it was a heck of a lot of fun as we move through Storm King. Tonight my S&W game is back on!

D&D does a poor job of modeling anything other than D&D to be honest. IMO. I don't put much stock in those stats compared to what happens in the books. Which can get over the top but its always in a way that its obvious they are just hanging on and trying to ride it out more than being the...

To each his own, but any edition of D&D once you got past 9-10th level you were way past Aragorn fighting orcs, or Conan fighting ape-men and having a challenge. You fly, teleport, alter reality, slay 20 men solo via sword or spell, etc. Personally I lose a bit of interest when it gets too...

Ultimately if your table finds the idea of mere mortals defeating godlike dragons unthinkable I'd not put Dragons in there unless they are a plot device. At most tables dragons aren't gods, are killable, and are killed. If its more fun to have the players match wits that's awesome. Of if it...

Dragons have spent a lot on public relations in later editions giving them a pompous air they don't deserve!

Just thinking. I remember reading letters in The Forum in Dragon back at the tail end of the 1e era when it seemed like every one wanted dragons to be more and more powerful. I began to read articles where DM's described them as more of a thieves guild than a monster. Then 2e jacked them...

We will see, I can only hope they find something safe and effective or it does mutate into something less of a worry. I just have read that corona viruses are something we have not successfully been able to create vaccine for. Since the mortality rate is really focused on the elderly and those...

If a vaccine is made, that is nowhere near a certainty for this type of virus.

A large chunk of the gaming crowd is in that high risk group so not surprised.

In my current S&W Rappan Athuck game there are quite a few areas that are beefed up with undead PC serving their new masters. I'm my campaign notebook I see the group of 6 are up to 21 total PC so far. One TPK due to ghouls. But we aren't telling stories with the PC as much as we like playing...

I might have to get some Team Yankee 15mm stuff to use in this game. Damn. Money it was nice having you.

We never needed rules for PTSD since the players all had it after a few sessions. I hope they don't go gonzo in that direction. It took one firefight to shift from D&D mode to this. Soon we were avoiding combat as much as possible, and planning the fights we had to do for hours. It was...

How deadly is gun combat going to be in this system? I'm hoping it is on the level of the 1e game, even if that was a pain to get shot an spend a month holed up recovering. Or get your brains blown out by a single shot. Rifles...fun to shoot, not fun to get shot with.

Character creation was involved enough that I made a fancy spreadsheet to automate it all. I have no idea about this new system.

In our last campaign that we didn't finish we were so scared of getting shot that we were crazy hesitant to engage, which was a huge difference than most games with gun rules that you just rub some dirt on it and its all better. I'm going to see if that GM will fire his old NYC module campaign...

In some ways my S&W game (OD&D clone) is less deadly that 5e since it doesn't have the crazy critical hits. IME those make the fights crazy "swingy". But save or die and hold type effects that you don't get to save each round against are brutal. Level drain is much harder to remove as well...

I will be looking into this. I have fond memories of TW2k.

Actually I love gaming with these guys but they are mostly very casual about RPG games. 20-30 year friends as well. At this point it is what it is. The good thing is they will play any system I want to run and seem to be always coming back for more. Though admittedly at times I want to pull...

Sounds like my crew.

Other than the player of the Monk crying about loosing his levels it was a wonderful session. I couldn't predict how it played out. Last session they made the trip and found a high priestess of Wee Jas to do the restoration spell for 20,000 gold...which was exactly what they had from the two...