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    Homebrew Toying with initiative - phased and segments

    Don't like this - it doesn't allow for adapting to circumstances that develop.
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    OSR Healing tweak - proportionality

    It's basically an entire game system, but the attachments seem to work fixed armour class so unarmoured is 0, and AC increases from there; hit matrix is Hit >=10-F+AC did away with d20 rolls (now 2d10 for rolls to hit, 5d6 under a stat [modified by spell level of caster] for saves, 4d6 for...
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    OSR Healing tweak - proportionality

    It should. I pillaged the core from RVR. You might be interested in some of the alterations I've made.....
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    Homebrew Toying with initiative - phased and segments

    Break a combat round into 10 seconds. D10 for initiative. Int bonus adds to initiative. Movement is fluid; Movement per round (m), or km/4 hrs Walking March Jogging Sprint Unencumbered Human 15 20 40 60 Dwarf 15 19 39 58 Elf 16 21 42 63 Gnome 13 18 15 53 Normal...
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    OD&D Why is AC 2 the best armor class?

    When I rebooted, I had no armour at zero. Boiled leather at 3. Mail at 5. Shields adds 2. Easy to do the combat stuff as well.
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    D&D 4E What AI thinks about 4th Edition

    Who gives a damn what AI "thinks?"
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    Shadowdark July homebrew challenge: Summer!

    My next adventure might be an interesting one. An oracle - new to the job - hires an adventuring guild to solve a crime. The crime? The Oracle has predicted her own kidnapping.
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    OSR Healing tweak - proportionality

    This is my homebrew, because 5e made things so that people just long rest and poof and I wanted gritty. Body points: Body points are a function of a creature’s species more than anything else. To put in blunt terms, small creatures are generally more fragile than large ones. For player...
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    AD&D 2E DM seeking advice

    It would seem you have issues with comprehension. Don't bother replying to my posts in the future.
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    OSR City State of the Invincible Overlord, what even is it?

    Meals. Room rental. Armour repair. Paladins/clerics making suitable donations? Spell components. Pearls .. they damn expensive things in the middle of the desert if you wanna identify something. Arrows, bolts.
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    OSR City State of the Invincible Overlord, what even is it?

    That might be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. Very illogical.
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    AD&D 2E DM seeking advice

    Main entry room had a dais with a carefully laid-out warg skeleton on it. Rogue smashed the skull of the warg "so it doesn't animate." That was the totality of the rogue's actions. No "search for stuff" undertaken. This has happened, and is happening. And it's the tank that is now actually...
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    AD&D 2E DM seeking advice

    Yes. The issue isn't the case of "player being disruptive," so much as I think the player has a different idea of the skills/capacities of a first-level rogue can do. He's playing like it's a fifth-level, if that makes sense. I think there's a bit of "I've been playing videogames where...
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    AD&D 2E DM seeking advice

    He's not being disruptive.... Example: first level party has ingeniously broken into a crypt that from a story/plot dynamic wasn't supposed to be. OK, bonus points. The crypt was guarded by a pair of goblin super-warrior skeletons, five-die creatures with good armour and a special attack (cone...
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    AD&D 2E DM seeking advice

    So. I came out of a 25-year retirement a few months back, started a group of 2e-based homebrew. I have a player - mature (middle-aged) who says he's played before 20-odd years ago. He's playing a rogue, impulsively. The problem is that the impulsiveness is .... causing issues. It's not...
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    D&D General What modules have you reused for multiple campaigns

    I've never found pre-made modules to be that useful. I tend to run a strong homebrew campaign, and once I've tweaked the classes/races, stripped out the Monty Haul magic that too many of them have, I'm left with a shell and a story I have to re-write myself anyway. It's less effort to fabricate...
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    Can someone cast Guidance on me? Looking for advice on tying my campaigns low level encounters to the late game scenarios.

    As someone else has already indicated in a less-than-subtle way, you're into railroad terrain ... which can be problematic. My approach is inherently sandboxy. What this means is that things will happen that the party has no control over, no knowledge of.... like volcano eruptions far away...
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    City adventure ideas?

    I'm running a sandboxy campaign - it's my preference. The intro sessions involved rubbing against a crime boss who had hired folks to poison the (very pricey) booze consumed by a Baron. The crime boss is way too powerful for them, but if they go hunting.... [rubs hands together] I spent 20...
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    City adventure ideas?

    I created an account on this site for the sole purpose of telling you how delightfully twisted that is. Consider it swiped.
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