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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.

I agree roll20 has way too many features attached to dynamic lighting. The features look great in-game, but take a lot of time for the GM to setup, so I never use them. Normally, I just use the fog of war, and reveal the map little by little as the players move around. That works, but hand-waives th...

I played 1e a lot when I was younger...much younger ( :lol: ), and I still have a soft spot for it. I do have several OSRIC editions, including the Black Blade hardcover, which is really nice. AAC would be a good addition, I think. I do really like S&W's unified save, but it might be harder to integ...