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I still like to follow this game even though it didn’t click for my table. Weirdly we were all big 4e fans but 13th Age didn’t quite scratch the itch. I think the 2 biggest missed for us was the scaling damage dice and the fighter’s “roll an attack and then see what ability you get” vs a more...

The graveyard is one of the most atmospheric and thrilling parts of Pool of Radiance and has always stood out to me as a highlight of the adventure. However, when I recently adapted the adventure for live play (when I ran a Pool-of-Radiance & Curse of the Azure Bonds mega campaign), it struck...

We use “Bloodied” and we ported over the Daze condition. I’ve also enhanced 5e monsters with special abilities from some of their 4e counterparts when I’m looking to spice up an encounter. In one of our campaigns, where our players missed the Encounter, Daily powers of martial classes, we even...

• I have a 12+ year Planescape campaign currently running in 5e that’s my “forever DM” game. • I’m also playing in another 5e game that’s adapted the Goodman Games take on Expedition to Barrier Peaks. • in the pipe, I’m using a hacked and modded version of Sentinel Comics to run a future...

Not to interrupt the spine tingling terror of the Graveyard, but I have to say, in all the play-thrus I’ve done I never knew you could actually clear Podol Plaza!

Interesting results. I’m a forever GM so when I do get a chance to play a character I’m usually drawing from a bank of character ideas I have stored up that have more to do with personality and presentation than class. I don’t really feel drawn to monks at all, which was my highest result here...

I don’t like randomness involved in character creation unless it’s a one-shot or a more silly type of game. I will use some random elements in the games I run, beyond just the normal dice mechanics, such as random encounters and randomized treasures, but the random lists are ones I curated ahead...

Agreed, even with that being part of the mission statement I felt like there were more questions aimed at “do you want to run a business??!” than the hobby itself.

Voted 1. I have a nice thing going now at my table with a hybrid of A5E and vanilla 5e, and since I supported the ToV kickstarter I’ll probably have some more options to mine from there. I’m vaguely interested in what they did with the monk and druid, but not enough to convince me to buy the new...

Congratulations on the successful Kickstarter! Downloaded my copy and I’m really enjoying this book so far!

The most recent time I ran it, I did it as a mega campaign leading directly into Azure Bonds, so I sprinkled some Azure Bonds foreshadowing throughout Pool, and tied certain NPCs from the first module into the second so that the Curse and tattoos felt much more personal by the time my PCs got...

It’s probably more accurate to say that I took Ruins as my framework but built in top of it all the missing details from Pool of Radiance that I liked… leaving me with kind of a “greatest hits” (IMO) of the 2 works.

😂 Dang, if only I’d have thought of that!! Ok, next time! 👍

😅 Yes, I did for some of the secret codes., like Sokal Keep! If I had to suffer through that damn wheel so did they!!

I agree about the posters talking about Silverblades being a slog, it was a huge let down from one of my favorite entries: Azure Bonds. I found the higher level entries in most of these games kind of unfun, though Pools of Darkness goes so absolutely bonkers in its extreme power shenanigans that...

I’m loving this thread! The Goldbox series, particularly Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds have a special place in my heart, back when I first played them on an Apple II(!!). I’ve actually adapted and run the TTRPG version “Ruins of Adventure” about 4 times over the years, as...

Does this system support giant sized monsters or is more of a “Supernatural”/“Buffy” simulator? Also what’s the game system like in a nutshell? Thanks!

I'm not that familiar with Tinyd6, but that looks like it's worth a look! Than you. I have the Savage Worlds supplement you mentioned and tried it. It worked OK, and I've really enjoyed SW for other games, but it felt like SW mechanics weren't the best fit for what I was going for.

Yeah, I picked CoC since I could re-stat some of the eldritch horrors as kaiju, or at least use them as a basis between scaling them and the humans. I may look at BRP in the future.