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AD&D 2nd Edition. Because I knew all the AD&D rules by heart and most importantly because the Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (Ravenloft monsters) had the most complete monster XP chart ever. I like making up monsters on the fly and figuring out the exp later. That one page made AD&D 2nd...

Does this remind anyone else of Guenther the Monkey from the Futurama episode Mechanical House?

Bucklers also don't block ranged attacks very well. I suggest taking your bonus and add the penalty that ranged attacks ignore the AC bonus of the buckler.

It sure is. Welcome to ENworld. What sort of 2e house rules do you have?

ROTFLMAO!!!! Thanee wins this thread! :lol:

Very well done. A respectable and humorous homage.

I could find Col Pladoh using Ctl+F but I couldn't find myself. :(

Ditto.

Morrus, As a memorial to Col Pladoh, how about collecting all of his posts (not just the Gygax Q & A) here at ENworld and put them in a sub-forum? That way future generations can find Gary's anecdotes, musings, puns, etc. all in one place? There's also quite a bit of historical gold in some...

FWIW, I had some success fighting with 2 swords (longswords) in the SCA. -10 attack in the off-hand is too steep, -5 might be more reasonable. However, it is not possible to use your full strength with either sword since you're holding them in a defensive position or the secondary weapon is...

That would describe me as well (except for the beer). Back in high school I would run a game every Friday and Saturday night from 7pm until 2am but wouldn't fall asleep until close to 4am. In the mid-to-late '80s and again in the early '90s I used to hold marathon games over the weekend...

Short and fat — just the way my ogres like ’em. :lol:

This has been my houserule in Grymwurld™ since the early 80s.

Any particular reason why the cult of Apollo was not subsumed by the cult of Sol Invictus? Was there any Greco-Egyptian syncreticism? Such as Harpocrates and Serapis? And did the Romans invent a cult of Mithras which bore little reationship to Persian Mithraism? All in all, way cool.

I ran an AD&D 2nd Ed. game based on the Historical Campaign Supplements with the following ideas: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism never happened. The Dark Ages really were dark and experienced terrible winters which brought on the great migrations...

Wow! I really like what I've seen so far. I bookmarked the site to study it in more detail.

Yup, that sounds better.

I did this in Grymwurld™. Just make sure you give your Grey Elves a +2 Cha bonus instead of Int.

I think the best way to start is to evaluate why it's not enough for a ranger to take lycanthropes as a favored enemy? How much more specialized must a werewolf hunter be to satisfy your vision? Another point to consider is that over-specialized PCs tend to very lopsided in actual play. I...

I think it helps to step back and ask 'what is an assassin?' If an assassin is a warrior who uses stealth to get close to an enemy and uses whatever is at hand (or smuggled in) to eliminate the target then you have to ask 'are there any means that are non-good?' In D&D, using poison to kill...