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Make up the stats on the spot, and add the bonus to the HD to get the to-hit and saves. For example, if you've got a 5HD critter and he's strong, then give him a +3 to-hit for a total of +8 - he's STR16. Another critter of the same race might be agile but not as tough, so he's STR 14, DEX 16...

Jezter, while you're here - what's the chances of you posting a review of Microlite20 here on ENWorld? Please? Pretty please? Go on go on go on go on go on. You know you want to. Please? :D

Ain't nothing wrong with that :) And we still don't use minitaures, battlegrids and all that crap. So I guess we're still young and stupid. In our minds, at least!

Good question! I think it mostly depends on the quality of the players, though 4 is certainly a sweet spot. I've run a lot of games with just one (very experienced) player and had a blast, and with 30 at a convention. Never again! I'd say that more than 6 players things start to slow down...

So the entire group would go first? Wow! What if the bad guys got to go first (say, they get surprise)? That could chew right through a party in just one round, surely. Likewise if the good guys went first. In a lot of combats I've played through, the bad guys wouldn't even get a hit in the...

eyebeams, email received, understood and replied to. The sparrow flies at midnight. If that doesn't get more DUN DUN DUNs from jmucchiello, nothing will :) Re: no initiative. I dunno still. I guess if I /had/ to sacrifice the die rolll at the beginning of combat, I'd just say everyone goes in...

I go an leave the net for a few hours and look what happens......Microlite20 ends up with another magic system, an O/AD&D conversion system and the makings of a revised combat system. Ouch! I better not leave next time. There's no predicting what you guys will do :) Getting rid of...

I've played them as written. If the statblock says they just get +9, then it's just +9 (and no other attack). If they have a full attack at +9/+4 then that's what they gets. Less to think about for the DM that way. As a rough rule of the thumb, my groups thinks that an M20 combat round feels...

Thanks Ry. I've prettified it up'n'stuff. I also added that that Reserve gets reset back to equal the MIND stat when a new level is reached. Any usused Reserve Points are lost. If that doesn't suit, please feel free to change it. That gives a completely average character 10 RPs each level - one...

More like Sauron! :D

And you never will. I swear on my first character's grave (a scout in Traveller, circa 1977. Died in the first combat). In D&D however, AoO is alive an well, corrupting the minds of young and old alike. But that's another story. Ry, if it's in the Macropedia, it'll go in Big Shiny. Which means...

I agree. Balance means a lot of things to different people. It means a lot of things in the rules too; I think it's a overused and abused term overall, personally. When it comes to internal balance I agree with what you're saying, entirely. As a DM it's important I give each player roughly the...

If I remember rightly, Jorune (of Skyrealms fame) was a Jupiter sized planet, meaning it had enough surface area to encompass the whole of Faerun, Aerth, pretty much every other published fantasy gameworld, and still leave plenty of breathing space for more. I don't want my role-playing to be...

It is. We're going to take the D&D rules for AoO and throw them into Mount Doom. Anyone want to come? "One rule to fool them all, and in the darkness bind them........." I'll leave eyebeams to tell you when he's ready. If he still wants to do it, of course. Y'know. That thing. Meantime, I'm...

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That's true. It sure is darned scary though! :) And eyebeams. That thing you said. Y'know, that thing. Let's do it.

Fishbone, you've piqued my interest. What's "the NPC debacle"?

Ick. That's bad. 2nd edition was.....well, I'm banned from saying what I think of it because of the forum rules. Let's leave it at that. This doc summarises the Initiative rules from AD&D. It's genuinely scary. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Well that's alright then :)

1. Toss out your miniatures, battlemaps and everything to do with AoO. Play using your imagination not plastic and cardboard. Wave your arms around a lot. Talk in funny voices. 2. Add random encounter tables 3. Avoid PrCs where possible 4. Strictly limit the classes that demihumans can take...