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I used to be exclusively interested in the ETO myself, but two books, primarily Touch With Fire by Eric Bergerud and Campaign for Guadalcanal by Jack Coggins, got me interested in the PTO. In the October 1997 issue of Command Magazine, there is a great article called The Author and the...

The main problem, as I see it, is that there is no way to know exactly how many D&D players there were in the 1980s. We might know how many basic sets or PHB were sold but we'll never know the overlap (I had two basic sets and the PHB myself) nor will we know how many purchasers actually ended...

I do the same but use 12+attack since this makes the two systems mathematically equal. I find that rolling as the DM really slows things down. I've generally got a bunch of stuff in my hands and have to fumble around to find dice. Why 12+?: Let's take the simplest example. An attacker with +0...

Do you still have a table to see how many heads you collect? Care to shoot it my way ... akkala@cyberramp.net Aaron

Wouldn't you have to adjust the AC since the Giant's AC already includes a -2 for size? So, hitting the hand shouldn't have this -2 in it so its AC would be 2 higher. Aaron

I agree. Sometime being too conservative can be bad*. Just take Ghostwalk; that could have been a great book. I guess somebody upstairs decided that it violated too many of these mythical "design descisions" so they neutered it by isolating it in its own gameworld. Aaron *Wow. I never...

I would add... Is new rule more trouble than the problem it was supposed to fix? Aaron

This isn't a question of people "caring" enough to learn. Much of the basis of the d20 rules has never been written down. The peeps have to resort to attempting to reverse engineer or to divine what is implied or inferred, lest they be called ignorant. "Feat X is bad because of design descision...

In my Alt Hist, German launches a semi-successful Sea Lion and, although the Brits would have beaten them back eventually, the Parliment panics, boots Churchill and makes Lord Halifax PM. He proceeds to negotiate a peace between England and Germany. So England is out of the war but relatively...

I can see two logistics downsides. First, all the characters will insist on being healed up max after every single encounter (who wants a -1 to everything). So, even if they still have 100 hps left they'll be wasting game time with CLWs. Secondly, you'll need to keep careful track of all monster...

Sounds like your already convince. Not much to discuss. Anyway the main arguments against Dex as to-hit bonus are: 1) Dex is already important. Using it for melee to-hit rolls will just make it overly so. 2) Having armor affecting hit chance is balanced by the idea that strength is needed for...

I'm sure it has but I think your going about it backwards. What you need to do is make searching easier rather than harder. If the search DC are low then every member of the party will have a chance of finding an item. That would encourage each party member to actually try and search (esp. if...

First off, the sequence from the Radio Drama has nothing to with "imbuing crystals", that was EU stuff added later on. It was a simple mechanical process of aligning focal lenses. Nor was there a ritual involved, Luke was reading the instructions out of an old book. It is not conclusive either...

Updates? I've got a question about Australia (et. al). I'm working on an alternate history where England is forced out of the war by a semi-successful Sea Lion. I was wondering what you thought Australia (and India/South Africa) would do in such a circumstance. I'm not 100% sure of exactly what...

Of couse, in the 80s and 90s when WEG was making up all sorts of silly things about Jedi, Luke was the -only- example of the Jedi training that existed. Aaron

Actually, if you can use spears one-handed they become the best one-handed weapon around. They have the full damage and crit of martial one-handed weapons plus can be thrown. Normally, a weapon takes a slight penalty to be throwable (witness the difference between a throwing axe (1d6/x2) and a...

I switched them as well. Its probably not something that will ever be in errata. Aaron

I hand out 2/3rds of the normal experience. It has worked well, fast enough to not get stale and slow enough for the characters to use their new found powers (or spells) before leveling up again. Aaron

The only problem I can see is that it is possible to get an AoO before you've moved the 10 feet needed for the +2 to kick in. Saying "This increases" implies that it won't work until the +2 kicks in -after- moving 10 ft. Forex, if you leave a threatened area at the beginning of your turn, you...

I had the same problem. I created a Guantlet Spell. The spell lasted 1 hour per level and, while the spell was active, the wizards can use a standard action to shoot a tiny fireball. It did 1d6 points of fire damage and it wasn't a touch attack (it was a normal missile attack with a 30 ft range...