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Comment on Circus Performers as D&D Classes by learn how

learn how — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:36:01 +0000

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Comment on A few Undermountain encounters by http://japan-fishing.net/

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Comment on A few Undermountain encounters by bellavistahoa.info

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Comment on Hirst Arts III: Design of Modular Dungeon v1 by Ian

Ian — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:36:56 +0000

I have found that Hydrostone is a good balance between functionality and cost. We have a pottery supply near us, so it is just picking up a 25lb bag for $30.

Comment on 1st edition Identify is weird by docschott

docschott — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:02:27 +0000

“Live miniature carp” = Goldfish, referring to a frat-boy fad/hazing prank from the sixties and seventies. Several of the 1e material components have similarly obfuscated jokes.

I run Identify a little differently at this point: certain characters get an “Occultism” skill (it’s with the Lamentations d6 skill system), and one of the uses is attempting to divine information about an object. It takes an hour and 100sp worth of sacrifices and materials.

Blowing the roll completely means you get false but logical information (you got a bored and/or annoyed spirit today..). Passing gives you clues to one power or a cryptic divinatory phrase that helps unlock the item; you can skip things they already know about the item.
I’ve got an example of the workup I did for a 1e item ages ago here http://docschottslab.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/from-the-archives-vol-1/

Brendan’s ideas also appeal, especially using magical research time to “safely” figure the item out. Consider it yoinked :b

Comment on Families and Heirlooms by docschott

docschott — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:47:56 +0000

Seems reasonable – a lot of the ideas are similar to stuff I’ve been toying with based on the old 1e Oriental Adventures rules. Will try it in my next campaign and let you know how it goes..

Comment on It’s not sandbox vs. railroad, really. New terminology for the middle ground. by 1d30

1d30 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:38:44 +0000

I guess so. I think this is a case of Railroad used as a verb and as an adjective. But the problem of sandbox vs. linear is virtually the same, since I start thinking bad things about the campaign if it’s described as linear because I don’t like linear games as much as sandbox games. To me, linear = line-like, which is to say not branching, which is to say without choice.

Comment on It’s not sandbox vs. railroad, really. New terminology for the middle ground. by Black Vulmea

Black Vulmea — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:29:43 +0000

I beg to differ – the ends of the spectrum are sandbox and linear.

Railroading can take place in any game-world, including sandbox settings. Moreover, linear adventures are not necessarily railroads.

What needs to stop is using railroad as an end to the spectrum

Comment on Land grants from the king to his soldiers by 1d30

1d30 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:47:04 +0000

I guess it didn’t make sense for me to squish England together with Rome. I was taking the D&D assumption for number of men (a 9th level Fighter getting around a hundred men when he builds his keep). I recall a Fighter Lord’s land being referred to as a Barony so I kinda assume he’s a border-baron rather than a fully-titled Baron. Or maybe a F9 is supposed to grow his barony to become that size, and hire troops, etc.

The goodies a F9 gets is closer to your Baron numbers than a Knight’s numbers, if you consider F1s with good stats and equipment to be knights. If not, and you consider F6s as knights, then titles of nobility don’t jive with the D&D follower system and we’d need a social class subsystem or else just handwave it.

Comment on Land grants from the king to his soldiers by Charles

Charles — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:16:01 +0000

Seems a little dissociated, no?

It would make more sense to me to say that anyone can buy land, but only knights and lords can hold a fief.

Soldiers could come back with booty from the war, which would allow them to settle down comfortably, but unless they were knighted, they would be unlikely to be put in charge of anything special or given any special notice once their service was complete.

Commanding a few hundred soldiers is actually a pretty big deal in a Medieval society. A knight (who would hold a parcel of land called a “knight’s fee” for his lord) might bring as few as 5 or 10 men to war – the knight, a squire or two, a few servants, some yeomen from the village.

A baron would be more in line to that level of power. A baron would grant something like 50 knights fees, so the baron could count on 50 knights, 50-100 squires, and a few hundred yeomen.

Just a few historical thoughts based on Norman England.