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I have gotten good use out of Creature Codex and Tome of Beasts I in my last 5e campaign.

This has been fantastic. I have been catching up on Old Who I had never seen before starting with Doctor One going forward in order and currently I am in the first season of Doctor Five. I had seen everything Netflix had on DVDs before that service went away, but there were big gaps.

What are the backgrounds like? Anything more than just different skill and feat combinations? I am guessing there are new 1st level feats and plenty of FR specific lore aspects to them. How tied to specific lore are these? Backgrounds was something I really preferred 14 over 24, in particular...

Very interesting, thanks. Weird how they deleted some art and monster entries and added in others.

I did that in my Death in Freeport and Wildwood 3.5 campaigns and it worked out well. People just got the skills they wanted/thought were appropriate for their character concepts and were level appropriate good at them. I really liked the Pathfinder 1e change to starting skills and class...

Microlite81 Extended Version 1.0 Silver (2275) Microlite20 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Skeleton, Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Zombie, Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell. Ghoul: Humans slain by ghouls rise again as ghouls in 24 hours. Mummy: ? Specter: Creatures reduced to 0 levels [by a...

One consideration is the monster pallete. The revised core monster books took out the most D&D specific stuff like chromatic and metallic as the basis for core dragons and the specific demons and devils and such. So if your homebrew has prominent things like the proud lightning blue dragon lords...

Not really. There are some decent reviews for the 2nd edition though. I got it because the setting was fairly intriguing, English Civil War with Cromwell, Puritans, blackpowder era, with fantasy elements including alchemy, witchcraft, and clockworks. A bit Warhammer feel but with no nonhumans or...

Microlite81 Version 1.0 Silver (2229) Microlite20 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Ghoul: Humans slain by ghouls rise again as ghouls in 24 hours. Mummy: ? Skeleton, Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Specter: Creatures reduced to 0 levels [by a spectre] will rise 24 hours later as a spectre...

I think he was referring to countries as not analogues. He used a bunch of deities from Deities and Demigods from the beginning including a selection of ones from real world pantheons (Celtic, Finnish, Norse, Central American) slightly modified real world ones (Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian), DDG...

Damnit. I'm learning pyrokinesis now.

In 2e Powers & Pantheons Sharess is the more common Faerunian name for Egyptian/Mulhorandi Bast. Also in the 3.0 Faiths & Pantheons.

Greenwood in Dragon 54 said "SILVANUS Straight from DDG, p. 30." James Ward or Rob Kuntz in doing the Celtic mythos in DDG probably got Silvanus from a description including the Roman name.

It would be really weird if they did not get Billie Piper back for at least the Xmas special.

You can play a bunch as a PC race and get the full stat block plus a bump for PC stats. The Sarrukh from Serpent Kingdoms are 14 HD and +8 level adjustment so ECL 22, for instance.

According to Greenwood in Dragon 54: Chauntea - Demeter Gond - Hephaestus Lathander - Apollo Mask - Hermes Sune - Aphrodite Tyche - Tyche and a little Bes Talona is Kipputytto Bane is considered "roughly the equivalent of Druaga" Under Cults of the Beast he also has Camazotz. Repra the King...

Another for the list, Eden Studio's All Flesh Must be Eaten Pulp Zombies.

The hp and level system allows D&D to be a bit pulpy giving heroes a death buffer so Indiana can get in an extended back and forth fist fight with the bald hulking mustachioed German mechanic.

The 2d20 system in general is designed to be fairly pulpy so Achtung Cthulhu (which is WWII punch Nazis pulp in multiple systems including the current 2d20) and Conan (pulp fantasy) and others.

This is my go to in designing a pulp feel in an RPG scene. Action, fast paced, some danger but not a lot of blood, back and forth with the fairly competent and strong hero winning through or the villain getting away in that scene. Also exotic locations and evocative descriptions whether it is a...