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Hm. I do remember finding a bunch of gold at the end, but not that much. I wonder if our DM was looking through what we had completed so far. We were probably part way through the module when we found the rule and someone wanted to level up. We were used to leveling up midway through the...

I think training costs and upkeep costs were a common house rule in part to suck away some measure of wealth and to encourage the PCs to keep gold on hand, but also just for verisimilitude. I'm pretty sure we settled on 100 gp / level, which I think is what the 2e optional rule is. I call them...

That's just it, though. It doesn't really do that. I feel like you haven't actually looked at just how silly the math is. I don't think Gary did. If you play it straight, it doesn't just make gold mandatory for progression. It makes a lot of gold mandatory for progression. It makes gold...

The 2e AD&D DMG explicitly lists Training as an optional rule in Chapter 8. B/X has no rules at all for training, let alone training costs, and BECMI's "Training" refers to it's own Weapon Mastery system. Similarly OD&D had no training costs; the only limitation that I can recall was that you...

See, I don't think that's really true. Because in B/X and AD&D, gold is pretty useless. You need enough to upgrade your equipment. Full plate and composite longbows. And horses and carts and hirelings. But that isn't very expensive, really. A couple thousand gp is enough to equip and supply any...

Vicious Mockery and Eldritch Blast are two of the best cantrips in the game. They might be the two best cantrips in the game. Seriously, don't underrate VM. The only thing you're looking for is when the target is adjacent to you and has a high Wis save, or when the target has high AC and a high...

The player rolls. If they don't like it, they can have the DM roll. Whatever the DM rolls is what they get.

Isn't this just a recipe for a fantasy heartbreaker?

I don't really think we can blame natural language for the failure or incompleteness of a condition/keyword. Conditions and keywords are precisely what synthetic language is. The problem is already in the antithesis of natural language. You can't just point to any incomplete description and...

I'm not sure why people seem to think that Hasbro needed to do something to offend Larian. I think it's much simpler than that. It's not that Hasbo pissed off Larian, or that Larian doesn't want to work with Hasbro. It's that Larian doesn't need D&D anymore. Larian have been making killer...

Love it... except for the head on that Harengon. Something is not right there. But the Roman architecture and trappings, the scale of the dragon compared to the scale of the structures, the shiny scales glinting in the daylight, the confetti. That's great.

Sure, probably. But not with much excitement, and probably not right away. And probably with no real plans to buy anything past the big 3. Prior to 2022, our table of 6-8 players bought at least 2 copies of every book that WotC sold. A couple of us just collected the books. They're published...

Most board games (and, indeed, most games) have a defined game objective. "OBJECT: The object of the game is to become the wealthiest player through buying, renting and selling property. [...] A bankrupt player must immediately retire from the game. The last player left in the game wins."...

Paladins were and are great. In general, I'd say that having seen both in play quite a lot that Paladins remain one of the best classes. Paladins might be the best single-target damage class, especially before 2024 restricts them to one smite a turn. Even with ranged smite that might...

I really strongly feel like Rod of Wonder should use a d666 table.

I still see significant value in a unified or a primary design. I don't think there needs to be only one resolution mechanic, but I do think that if you have a bespoke system for everything then it can be difficult to impossible to intuit what a given system is supposed to do or what behavior...

Oh, gross. I didn't back it, but that does explain why the website for the apparently associated company was so weird.

Yeah, it's an explanation, not an excuse. Character generation is complicated since it's sort of like a Traveller life path, and the book focuses on character creation significantly before being a how-to-play manual to teach the game mechanics, or a technical reference guide for use during play...

I think it was over on RPG Pub (which very much dislikes the 2d20 system) where one of the former Modipheus employees posted about that. Essentially, they ran out of time to do final editing and clean-up. Nobody was happy with how the final book came out. They knew it had editing issues and...

I think the major problem you're likely to have is that cosmic horror TTRPGs tend to focus on relatively powerless PCs, while modern dungeon-crawling games tend to focus a lot on combat. Those two things don't mix, typically. You might try something like picking up the Cthulhu Dark Ages setting...