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Nakana wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2024 5:06 am

The only game I’m currently playing is play testing a system I’m designing.

But, I’m really looking forward to playing some WB:FMAG and S&W.

My tastes are changing, and OSR is pleasing to the palate.

I always seem to come back to FMAG - it's just a perfect iteration of White Box.

IIRC the 1e spell affects lower level HD first. So maybe that means if there are 4 kobolds in a groups of baddies, and you roll a 5, then you can maybe get one orc who is also in the group? PS: I know 4 kobolds is a ridiculously small number of kobolds :) just trying to make a point and I’m only on...

B/X also allows "victims" to wake up with a slap or a kick, etc, but I've never seen Holmes Basic so I can't comment on anything from there I'm afraid. With the B/X version you can really see how they wanted to clarify the OD&D version (I imagine that in the mid to late 70s TSR was inundated with s...

What that sentence means (probably :lol:) is that for example, if you have 20 Orcs, and you roll 2d8=5, you then have to determine randomly which 5 of the 20 are affected. That might be important if the PCs want to affect the Orcs closest to them, but the ref randomly determines it's some other grou...

Brave Halfling! Wow. Haven’t heard that name in years. I wonder what happened to John. I remember he had a crapton of bad luck. Hope he is okay. (Sorry for the threadjack!) :) no worries. I'm not sure what happened - I haven't seen him online in years (I also have his Delving Deeper and X-plorers b...

The box set is the version of S&W I decided to get. Should be here Wednesday. I’m a sucker for box sets to begin with, and I really like the digest format. The set is currently on sale for $30 at frog god and includes the supplement pack. I couldn’t pass that up! Wow, that is a great price... and I...

From https://smolderingwizard.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/musings-on-sleep-in-odd-is-it-over-powered/ Let’s look at the sleep spell in Men & Magic: Sleep: A Sleep spell affects from 2–16 1st-level types (hit dice of up to 1 + 1), from 2–12 2nd-level types (hit dice of up to 2 + 1), from 1–6 3rd-level t...

I notice as of two days ago, Dan has a new draft revision of LL up for comments.

Essentially using it as a virtual whiteboard? Ah cool. I’ve seen something similar done with excel too. Interesting stuff. So many different ways! I like the oldish school method of the players mapping, but also don’t want to fuss more than a minute or two on mapping as they enter each room. ;) Exa...

Seconding the welcome! I'll be starting another PbP as well - unsure as to when, but I'll post a thread here when I'm ready to start it up.