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Commentary: Another death mostly due to WIS 3 and, apparently, INT negative infinity. What kind of idiot doesn’t account for the fact that the Polymorph Other is going to cause Rufyl to grow by an order of magnitude? (Dragon Turtles are “up to 30’ dia[meter]” according to the AD&D Monster...

INT test [to turn Rufyl into a Dragon Turtle], and this time it’s a hard one. (78) if 25 or more. (109) if less. --- We roll boxcars and prove we may not be Landor himself, but we are still THE Carr Delling, descendant of an ARCHMAGE whose power filled the GODS THEMSELVES with fear! With a...

You’re subverting AD&D’s intent by crossing out all that loot. The loot was (part of) how you level up. Quasquteon (err, the person) proved this in his series of threads years ago.

All of those types of potions from MME eventually became negligible expenses, right?

In AD&D rules, the target of the spell gets “Saving Throw: Neg.” Which means that if the target makes its save, the spell has no effect. Magic-users in AD&D had save vs. Spell as one of their better saves, starting at 12+ on d20 being a success at levels 1-5 and improving to 10+ at levels 6-10...

Well there’s his problem. Everyone knows that an even number of people on a quest is bad luck. … …. Wait a minute! Hahahahaha! I like this djinni. Can we keep him? That sounds epic! Tell me there’s a gamebook for THAT adventure?! Could anything be stronger and more moral than “beat the...

Customer review: Gamebook was way too hard. Started reading in spring, took 6 more months to finish. 1 star.

Commentary: “Don’t you know that a Polymorph Other spell can destroy its subject if you’re not absolutely sure what you’re doing?” Technically the magic-user’s capabilities have nothing to do with whether the subject of Polymorph Other is “destroyed”. The subject must make a System Shock roll...

[If you are like 13-year-old Joshua, fixated on the fact that a Marid is a being associated with water, it makes more sense to transform Rufyl into a sea monster than into a flying creature. Also, perhaps the Marid will be grateful that we cleanse his presumed waters of the 20-cannon gunship.]...

Here’s how it works. We play every other week on Mondays at 6:30, and we have for 10 years. Easy.

Woah. That would’ve been quite the beat down if we had to skip a bunch of rounds. That is, if the giantess could actually hit us. This seems like a pretty key passage that we can just blitz on past if we’re impatient. I’m always baffled by gamebook design like that. Why make the coolest and...

Commentary: We are so scared by the sight of the approaching war galley brimming with armed marines that we can’t concentrate on our regular spells. We fumble in our cloak for the Travelling Spellbook. Man do I hate when genre fiction turns what should be something cool and fun into an example...

16 We are so scared by the sight of the approaching war galley brimming with armed marines that we can’t concentrate on our regular spells. We fumble in our cloak for the Travelling Spellbook. We need something beyond simple magic, and we decide that only Polymorph Other will do here. We could...

These are Dalris’s kinsmen (or at least some of them are) so that may be why they don’t scuttle us. They have weaponized Gresham’s Law! I haven’t been this excited about monetary policy since the crawl at the beginning of The Phantom Menace. Accccctttttually, it is only “some” paladins and a...

He doesn’t care, and neither does anyone else bullish on AI. They do not care about getting permission. This is at least rude and at worst theft. But they still don’t care.

Commentary: …if we can make it to the forest, we still might be able to slip into Saven without anyone knowing. That might work for Carr, Dalris, and Rufyl, but how would that help the poor fishermen? They'd be trapped between the forested coastline and the war galley. Soon the ship is...

Resuming our first person plural writing style rather than second person singular, we are aboard the Kandian “fishing” boat but have run afoul of the “war galley” with 20 cannons. --- 189 We tell Dalris to tell the captain to tell the sailors to run for the coast because if we can make it to...

I’m going to say it again and with emphasis: Keep on the Shadowfell is terrible. It completely misunderstands everything great about 4e. It will make new players either hate 4e, or question why they bothered learning it. DO NOT use KOTS for anything other than its poster maps.

I can’t speak to 4e Encounters, never having played any of them, but another option that I somewhat waffle about recommending in the ‘free’ category is Living Forgotten Realms https://www.livingforgottenrealms.com/ I like(d) LFR a lot but the problem is the wheat to chaff ratio is pretty low...

When you put it like that… BUY! BUY! BUY!