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• Post #3005408

  Someone take a seat at the #Barrowmaze table! This Thursday, May 28, at 8:15 pm CEST! Check out https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%c3%bcrich/The_Monday_Games for more deets and join us on our #IRC or, if you must, Discord. But the game uses #Galene which is a super-simple video conferencing thing that seems to work for most people. NO DICE CAM NEEDED! Although I might bring one so you will believe me when the masses of undead devour you!!! 💀 ☠️ 🥷 🪦 🏊 🧛 🩸 🧟 🐲

• Post #3005407

  You may not want to hear this, but I'll say it again anyway: The primary motivation for AD&D was that Gary Gygax thought Dave Arneson deserved no more money for the game he invented. A game that, admittedly, Gary Gygax much improved; so much so that he's quite deservedly thought of as a co-creator of D&D. Note that it doesn't matter (much) that both of these people were different variants of "endearing assholes" to use a technical term....

• Post #3005406

  Pretty insane #Barrowmaze tonight. At one point the party sights another group about 50 feet down a large corridor and decides to wait. They see light from around another corner that seems to indicate fire beetles, but they wait. Then they notice a large group of tomb robbers approaching them from behind. The party with their lights dimmed withdraws further to let them pass. The tomb robbers eventually encounter the other two parties who have already been "debating" loudly and...

• Post #3005405

  Sometimes I need "quick" reminders on the Wilderlands without having to wade through a lot of (physical) pages. I usually end up in these places: https://pandius.com/wilder_r.html https://inplacesdeep.blogspot.com/2013/12/notes-on-wilderlands-of-swords-and.html https://inplacesdeep.blogspot.com/2018/10/wilderlands-history-corrected-now-with.html https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?cache=1&f=13&t=16414 None of these are "canonical" a...

• Post #3005404

  And now "Threshold Magazine" published by the once-famous "Vaults of Pandius" can fuck right off. #noai

• Post #3005403

  I'm looking forward to our next STAR FRONTIERS session so I figured I should broadcast my excitement with a suitable image. Here you go! 🤣

• Post #2784045

  Went back down into the Mushroom Forest Cavern in Arden Vul tonight. And Bur leveled up! Thanks @HeyeBodo ... also for not killing us outright. 😬 https://grenzland.club/~phf/bur.html #ArdenVul #Shadowdark #Valravn

• Post #2784044

  There's reasons. 🤷

• Post #2784043

  It's funny that ALIENS is probably my favorite movie of the franchise (the crazy David Fincher one is next) but a contemporary review in Different Worlds magazine from Nov/Dec 1986 says "...it will excite a great number of people for a few months. But in the end it will be forgotten—completely." 🤣 #Aliens #DifferentWorlds #NineteenEightySix

• Post #2784042

  "Three classes should be enough for everyone!" #StoneTabletsOfWisdom

• Post #2784041

  You know what? Forget "extraordinary" strength with percentiles and all that. Too fiddly! And I'm getting all sorts of inspired by the Palladium people these days so ... Yeah, I know! 🤷 Here's the deal. If you roll an 18 on 3d6 for a prime requisite, you deserve a chance for a little something extra. Just a ... you know ... a little something something. 😬 So roll a d6: 1-3: nothing happens after all, sorry, but 18 is still a great score; 4-5: your score is act...

• Post #2784040

  Alright fellas, how about some nice fresh character sheets for our three Dralasite private sense-spots? 🤣 @frotz @kensanata @lkh #StarFrontiers #DralasitePower

• Post #2784039

  I have a nice copy of Gary Gygax's "GW1: Legion of Gold" coming my way. I am paying about €30 for it as part of a larger package but I don't need it since I already have a copy. If you're in Germany (or at least close to Germany) and interested, feel free to send a private message and I am happy to "pass it on" for what I paid plus shipping. Please boost if you think you might know somebody who is into old Gamma World stuff. https://...

• Post #2366344

  Today I saw a weird experience points table for bards in an old Judges Guild thing. And it dawned on me that I had missed something very, very basic: Gary's bard in the PHB was not the first bard. Of course not!! And here's a nice "rework" of the original bard class for Swords and Wizardry that I found a bit later on: https://garysentus.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-original-bard-class-adapted-for.html

• Post #2301700

  I get bummed out when I see "AI" character portraits. I immediately have a "meh" opinion of the player. First impressions dude. If you can't draw, there's still a lot of other options, for example @kensanata's face generator: https://campaignwiki.org/face No need to reach for the humongous planet-destroying copyright-robbing machinery just for a silly little game. #noai

• Post #1760743

  Spent the afternoon shouting at people (well, not really) about the B/X and BECMI combat sequences. Only to learn that they *are* actually different despite looking like the exact same lists. 😱 #bx #becmi #dnd

• Post #1760740

  Whoa, I'ma ride the Pink Pony Express next week, and straight into Arden Vul with #Shadowdark rules. 😬 Thank you @HeyeBodo ❤️ #valravn

• Post #1514387

  Just learned about these two (UK-only?) miniature sets. Loving the cover! One can almost see that Games Workshop was on the cusp of releasing Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, no? 😉 (Picture stolen from some Japanese site, sorry!) #citadel #miniatures #RetroDnD #UKDnD