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Nobody likes the weapon speed factors and the weapon vs armour table but I don't think it's because it's a bad idea to make different weapon choices meaningful. I think it was just poor execution of those particular rules that made it somewhat of a pain in the butt to run. I think that all...

Wow that's awesome, I hope I get a chance to buy these. Any word on availability in China...?

do they come painted?

I read the sample adventure, it was very professionally put together. It was good for 1 session I imagine. Maybe get a party 1/3rd to 1/2 way to second level.

haha forgot how ugly the art was. Things have come a long way in the art department at least!

This is a good point, and in the early going you WILL have a lot of deaths and maybe even a TPK or two from inexperienced players (or even experienced players who are just not used to your DMing style). Last campaign I ran the players suffered 20 character deaths and came to within 1 last...

If they're called elves, I'd prefer they be Tolkein's elves. That's sort of the standard set and established. If they departure radically from that, I'd rather they be called something else entirely. The specifics don't matter that much aside from that; any number of combinations of traits...

I like wargaming too, but as it's a huge time and effort expenditure definitely do make sure you have other people to play with in your area.

To me, My Precious Encounters are a problem because they detract somewhat from the verisimilitude of the world. The idea that a band of adventurers on a dangerous quest to hunt down monsters in their lairs, confront great evils, and win epic treasures, will always encounter enemies of the exact...

I like that style of game too, but my players are nowhere near ready for it. They are first time players still exploring different character options, figuring out rules, and enjoying the novelty of killing caves full of monsters and taking all their stuff. Now that they've finished the Keep on...

The ambush was inside the orc cave, they preferred to fight on their home turf, and I imagined that the valley must be under some kind of truce that probably has some kind of ground rules for the rival humanoids to not wipe each other out. Something like not leaving the caves with a large armed...

PCs drop like flies at 1st level; basically 1 critical hit with a decent damage roll will do it. If you are starting PCs at 1st level, I think you best bring lots of spare character sheets and pick a system that players can roll up new PCs with in 10 mins or less lol. 4th edition made 1st...

I don't 'want' the PCs to act in any particular way. I want the PCs to do whatever they think is best in order to get the treasure out of the caves. And at the same time, I will be considering what the monsters believe and desire and having them act according to whatever best defends their...

Yes, I agree that a lot depends on how you award XP. So if you are running the Keep in 3rd or 4th edition you need to realize that the standard method of awarding experience (overcoming a challenge of difficult X automatically yields Y exp) doesn't work well with the Keep. The main fun in...

Certainly. In the case of the goblin/hobgoblin and the two orc caves, they are actually connected to other caves and presumably have daily contact with each other. In the case of kobolds, they do daily chores for the other lairs and so have daily contact with almost all of the other lairs...

Racial ability scores: It seems to me obvious that members of different races should have wildly different averages when it comes to their ability scores. In the past, this was often dealt with via a simple +2/-2 modifier to certain ability scores. But with people freely able to arrange...

I can't speak to Isle of Dread but certainly time can always be a factor in Keep on the Borderlands. If the PCs weaken a lair but retreat and come back to finish it off another day, they will find the occupants of the lair have fled with all the treasure (thus no exp points gained), allied with...

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IIRC, In medieval sword play, the 'Florentine' style of fighting was using 2 swords. Likewise in Japan, Musashi used two swords in at least some of his fights.

All that needs to happen is that players need to be aware that there are penalties for abusing the idea of the 15MAD. If players are abusing it and you don't like it because it's wrecking balance and/or adventure design, just punish them for it with some wandering monsters or the villains...