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My wife thinks so. ;)

Hussar, thanks for the response. That makes sense to me when you describe Conan that way. I actually agree that Tarzan=Conan without the magic. ;) It also provides a good place to find the mid-magic campaign. I've an unfair advantage as I recently read the 3 volume re-release of REH Conan...

Only once, have I seen this as in most campaign worlds I've played in their are laws in the villages and cities. Abusing the peasent is a right of the lord not some adventurer. In the one instance I saw it, the PC bascially killed someone for looking at them funny. In this campaign they...

I don't think we are reading the same Conan stories, or at least the ones by REH. A magical city, beast (often some ape-human abberation), item, caster, etc. is encounterd in every story by REH, other authors I cannot say. In fact, this wierdness is often a core element of the story as you...

I like the part in bold as an initial working definition of "low" to "high" magic a little more helpful than low magic = no magic. In a game I would use the term in two ways, is it a low/med/hig magic world and are the adventures low/med/high magic. I wouldn't mix the two as a party of...

Well I have to say the review was fun to read and very funny. I like it even if I think KotB was a good one because your observations apply so well to many other TSR modules. Odddly, the one part about poor design that I would agree with for an introductory module is the lack of names. I'd...

It's amusing as satire; I'm not sure if he is serious myself. I think B2 has excellent design albeit a bare-bones one. The design allows for me plenty of versimulitude and explaination by this old ecologist. I'm more of a "work with it" approach instead of a "fighting the hypothetical"...

Being a father of 3, I'd ask your mom why she doesn't think they are old enough in a non-confrontational way. She may be concerned that the themes are a little too mature for them (if she even knows what they are), she may be concerned with the friends it may expose them too. As a parent what...

In my experience we used them rarely, often much more of a hassle than they were worth, again IME. We often fought not to get those pesky apprentices and followers. I realize that for others they were quite common. What you describe is what I've experienced and used for henchmen counting...

RFisher, is this the part of the Mayfair Decision you are thinking about? Including the text of footnote 25?

I can only answer from personal experience but generally when 2 people needed training; for the one DM who used training. Our parties were typically 4 PCs without henchmen (but with a trained war dog typically). We never got xp for treasure even with the guy who used training. What we would...

Hi SWAT, while I certainly wouldn't call d20 elegant,* one might call it detailed and rich. It is certainly not a simple game IMHO in the amount of rules and detail it requires one to remember for fast play. But simple was never a requirement for me to play a game. On a more fundamental...

Not to go far off topic, but how long would people estimate a 3.x combat to take for say 6 1st level characters faced with 30 basic orcs? Rolling individually for each orc with no orc spell casters? I'm wondering because we've been trying a new system lately and something like this took about...

I'd have to agree with this (and also the earlier comment that any golden age is when you are 12, or maybe a little older in my case ;) ) The first The Dragon I can recall from cover recognition is issue #22, but I didn't start to read it regularily until issue #27 (i.e., when my local hobby...

Good question, went to look into it as I'm sure I recall seeing the creature in a magazine first before the 1981 Fiend Folio. I can only guess White Dwarf, since I read that as well. But we're talking 1979-1980 here so it could all be in my head. ;) What I recall about the original stat block...

Will have to second the Grell, but still like the original Dragon version best. I also like symbiotic relationships like stirges and piercers. The stirges fix the prey in place, the piercers drop down and finish the job have a snack, and the stirges clean up the remains; everybodies happy.

WOW! Checked it out. Am I the only one to think that LA bears many striking similarities to The Fantasy Trip? Three base stats named different, but that can correlate to Strength (Body), Dexterity (Speed) and Intelligence (Mind) but on a % scale instead of 3D6? Armor reduces damage and a...

You might be interested in The Fantasy Trip (TFT). Three stats, very lite system but able to provide or build a lot of detail from it. It has "skills," which are kind of like feats-lite or proficiencies. The combat system can provide a lot of tactical options without complexity. (TFT is a...

Didn't see this earlier. The "problem player" sounds reasonable here and I can certainly see him not wanting to host a game he doesn't want to play in. Still the "him or me" thing just doesn't sound reasonable. You are all chronologically adults. Tyring to make people choose between him or...

Elephant, that really sucks. This has highschool drama queen written all over it. I surely hope this probelm player is in his teens as that kind of behavior is completely unacceptable from anyone who wants to call themselves an adult. The other players have got to get a grip, I mean "him or...