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After a brief scan through the product, I noticed that there is a lot of artwork recycled from the RC. Can I mention that, despite the shade I have seen thrown at its artwork, the RC has good illustrations that comport with the topic being discussed, and Dykstra really deserves credit for his...

I already have the PDFs of Moldvay, Mentzer, and the PoD of Rules Cyclopedia. Why would I need this? ... ... ... I bet it doesn’t even have the DM screen included. There’s no reason for me to buy this. ... ... ... Whatever the included “adventure” is probably isn’t half as good as “Castle...

The reference pages also contain this info: pp. 29 and 36 (according to the pdf I have).

Clearly, the correct answer is Risus

LL gives clerics spells at first level. That is suspicious to me.

Ha! pooh sicks is when the players vomit into the river and see which blob passes under the bridge first

You never watched Winnie the Pooh? The books are hilarious....YMMV, I guess. If you like the type of humor of an adult talking seriously with a young child, but throwing in silly jokes that the child cannot really grasp or understand, then you would like the A. A. Milne books.

Session 15, in which Matt Colville admits he has never heard of the game “Pooh Sicks”.

Session 11: bloodskull hobgoblins are introduced. These hobgoblins are cultists who sport a “reverse Mohawk” hairstyle; instead of a line of hair in the middle of a bald pate, these have a strip of shaven scalp—only, they kept shaving through the skin until their skull was exposed, which was...

There is also this site that has ambience + music that you can play at your table: https://tabletopaudio.com/

Found this on YouTube: Rime of the Frost Maiden

The players are very engaged with the stories, as their characters. They make interesting decisions based on what their characters would think and do. The contempt for their human wards is very believable. For/ex: When the NPC starts speaking in elvish (having not previously done so), and the...

Listening to Part 9 now, and it is very interesting. Matt is quite good at his craft. I wonder how much is planned versus how much is improvisation on his part, based on what the players do. The players are really good, too; there is some humor, but it isn’t Acqusitions, Inc. style slapstick...

I also remembered that there is a character called Morda in “Taran Wanderer”, by Lloyd Alexander, who is very much a lich, though he is not called that, and the piece of bone that contains his life-force is not given a special name of any kind. This was published in 1967, prior to the...

Are you saying that the phrase “soul cage” fits the genre? I thought about “magic jar”, but after looking it up, the spell “magic jar” is used differently. I did a short bit of Wikipedia scanning for “lich”. I assumed it was a cultural monster like vampires and werewolves, but the word itself...

I was scanning through my excellent print-on-demand copy of the Rules Cyclopedia, and began reading the rules for weapon mastery. Interesting stuff. Kind of fiddly. Here is my alternate houserule: Weapon skill levels are Basic, Skilled, Expert, Master, and Grand Master. Fighters, Elves...

Part of the story is that an NPC that the characters help to become a demigod is the one who commissioned them to build a new world, promising to sponsor them in turn if they succeed.

I would also add that the essentials “Epic Destinies” were kind of bleah. In core, you balecame a demigod, or an arch mage, or an eternal trickster, and there were descriptions of what happened to your character when the days of adventure finally ended. In the two essentials books, there were...

An advantage of the essentials classes is that their ability scores were more focused. A Cavalier just had to worry about STR and CHA (and really, just STR), while a core paladin had to worry about STR, CHA, and WIS. The weapon and implement expertise feats in Essentials are superior to the...

So, for example, leather armor adds +3 to AC instead of +2, and long swords have a +4 proficiency bonus instead of +3?