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I have them all.Ebay?
As someone who was there, I never saw the Campanion or Masters boxed sets on sale in my local stores ever. They were entirely hypothetical to me.
I have them all.Ebay?
As someone who was there, I never saw the Campanion or Masters boxed sets on sale in my local stores ever. They were entirely hypothetical to me.
This is why I want a book that hits the following notes, at a page count around the size of the PHB.And what good is a book that is 95% "reprint" with a few timeline updates and 5% a few subclasses here and there.
No one pointed out a discrepancy. A poster on these boards whom I've never met outside of this context (@dragoner) let me know that about 49 years ago another Traveller player wrote up stats for Alien aliens.It's exactly the fact that your player pointed out the discrepancy that may be of concern to some.
I'm not familiar with that module.For others (like me), I don't have the time to do the conversions myself. I want to be able to, for example, select an old edition module and not have to do the conversion for monsters that had stats in older editions but not the current edition.
I'm not necessarily talking about basic NPCs, but unique monsters from iconic (or not so iconic) products. For example the Abomination of Diirinka in the 2e module Axe of the Dwarvish Lords. How would you convert it?
I own nearly every pre-3E Greyhawk book/boxed set, and some 3E ones as well.Sword and Sorcery Fantasy: Greyhawk
@lowkey13 what even would be here?
Psionics is its own thing - though a sorcerer might be used to approximate it.Apocolyptic Fantasy: Dark Sun
*Psionic options expansion, couple race options and subclasses. Variant features for replacing Spellcasting in a couple different classes, including bards. Optional rules for defiling magic.
No one pointed out a discrepancy. A poster on these boards whom I've never met outside of this context (@dragoner) let me know that about 49 years ago another Traveller player wrote up stats for Alien aliens.
SBEEEEEEEP Half my players can't even keep both d20 twenties on the table. Now you want 3 or more. How about you go create your own game. All this would do is add more rolling and SLOW down the game...ns they roll 3 dice. 3 dice have a better chance of rolling under 10 than one die.
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You could also do this unskilled by rolling 2 d20s and being forced to pick the higher of the two results.
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More fiddly than d20 vs DC? Yes, but infinitely more tuneable.
The Dark Eye does something like that.So, let's say you have a Dex of 10 and 3 skills ranks in "bows." You roll a d20 and try to get under 10. Someone with a higher Dex is naturally more "talented." But unless they increased in the skill they can only roll the one die. Let's say someone with a Dex of 10 puts 8 ranks into the skill. Maybe that means they roll 3 dice. 3 dice have a better chance of rolling under 10 than one die.
Honest question because I don't have a lot of experience with this type of play, but does it really need a whole book? It seems like 2-5 pages apiece to expand on each of the points you made would be enough, making a document about the size of one of the longer "Plane Shifts." It looks to me like most of getting "vanilla" D&D to sword & sorcery is subtractive, and it doesn't take a lot of page space to eliminate or restrict things from the base game.Use it as a sourcebook for more "Swords and Sorcery" style campaigns.
Yep! That’s exactly the sort of thing I’d want in a guide to multiverse. “Here is Greyhawk. Here are the themes of it, and here is how to run games in this sort of world.”So this is something I've thought a bit about. My initial impulse is generally that WoTC shouldn't touch it, because it is unlikely to go well.
That said, the question I would ask before making a Greyhawk book is- why? If they just want to do the lore, then there are more than sufficient sources from people to pull from. Whether you're a 3e Greyhawk fan and love the Gazeteers, or a real Greyhawk fan (ahem, couldn't resist) and think anything after the '83 Box Set isn't Scottish (if you know what I mean), there is sufficient material to purchase or peruse (Canonfire, for example).
I wouldn't want them to just throw out Greyhawk as a "hey, lookie, here is a vaguely generic setting. There were modules set here, back in the day. It's like Forgotten Realms, but, um, less Elminster, more Zagyg."
No. No no no no no no.
So, as you allude to, I've thrown out the idea of playing into the strengths of Greyhawk. Use it as a sourcebook for more "Swords and Sorcery" style campaigns. So what does that mean, exactly?
-The past was greater that the present.
-Civilization holds on, at best, tenuously.
-Alignment matters. There is real good, real evil, and people trying to maintain a balance.
-Decay has set in to the few great powers (Great Kingdom, etc.).
-Magic is uncommon, and the magic of the past (invoked devastation, artifacts) is greater than the magic of the present.
And so on. It would be taking its cues from Lieber, Howard, and Zelazny. The book would have the collection of optional rules (here is how you move to gold = xp, and away from killing monsters; here is the optimal way to lower magic somewhat, here is how healing works, etc.) to make a good S&S campaign setting.
New classes (subclasses) would be tailored toward the world; Barbarians would be from Ratik on north, Monks would have a Scarlet Brotherhood option, and so on.
Finally, I would approach the world (mini-gazeteer) as an opportunity to, in a manner similar to the 1983 set, provide tons of hooks for the DM to color in. Hints of adventures, ideas to explore, but not dictates. Rumors and innuendo to fire the imagination.
If you're aren't going to do something interesting, don't bother doing it at all. IMO.