Smoldering Wizard's Old-School Gaming Forums

I agree, the doubling is consistent and makes it easy to remember, it just gets to be too much at those high levels, so you have to stop doubling at some point. I checked the core rules - they use the OD&D progression of +100k xp per level past 10th level. So you could throw away the 640k, and make ...

A bit about the game itself - I'll typically check in here every day, but I don't expect you to do so, every other weekday is a more reasonable posting rate (but of course, more often is fine). If you are going to be offline for more than a few days, please let me know, either in the OOC thread or v...

Character creation * Use the latest White Box rules (PDF link) By-the-book, with these changes: * Max hit points at first level * Fighters get a +1 BHB at first level * Keep encumbrance simple, as per the rules, assume your 'standard' equipment weighs 10 lbs., to this add any armor and weapon weigh...

I think this is meant to mimic OD&D's Men&Magic, the MU spell progression chart also goes to level 16 there, higher than the other classes, while the XP requirements are shown only up to level 11. In both games, the table has to go to at least level 12, to allow the use of 6th level spells - but I a...

We've got 3 of 4 PCs in, so we're almost ready. I'll be posting house rules, maps and background soon, so we should be ready to start in the next couple of days.

thewegger wrote:What languages make sense for my character? Common & Dwarf? What about the languages section of the Dwarven Race Abilities on page 16?

Yes, you can use the list in the book - gnome, goblin, orc, and kobold, plus Dwarf and common.

I'd love a list of languages Here is a sampling: Orc, goblin, kobold, bugbear, ogre, giant, gnome, dwarf, elf, lizard man, dragon, pixie, treant, druid, lizard man, pegasus, thief's cant (used by brigands, etc), law, chaos Law/Chaos note - Non-clerics can use up a language slot and learn alignment ...

Does my mu get a spell book or will he need to spend his 100p on it? Yes, thanks for asking as I forgot to clarify that. He gets a spellbook with all first level spells. Anything beyond that must be found or bought. The 100gp thing is just for scroll creation. So you could create a sleep scroll for...

jcftao wrote:Gerhard is going to do some hunting while we wait for other players to finish up.

How else will he eat?!? Yeah I realize you got the short end of the stick on the gold roll...