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Post by El Borak on Jul 26, 2018 20:53:24 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Jul 26, 2018 20:54:30 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jul 27, 2018 17:34:48 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jul 27, 2018 17:37:19 GMT -5
I'm really enjoying @piper's blog and I am really having a lot of fun reading Q Man's commentary. They should combine both their efforts into one pdf and then put it on RPGNow. |
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Post by xizallian on Jul 27, 2018 20:49:52 GMT -5
I'm really enjoying @piper 's blog and I am really having a lot of fun reading Q Man 's commentary. They should combine both their efforts into one pdf and then put it on RPGNow. I agree. Can you believe this thread is up to 8 pages already. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:34:54 GMT -5
The whole thing with Wishes really comes back to the DM. If you read comments from early play, wishes were clearly intended to be a double edged sword for the players and they should be careful how they grasp it. The wording of the wish is all important. It all comes down to is the DM a Monty Haul or is he a DM that has allowed the players to hear stories of how wishes have went horribly wrong in the past and therefore given them reason to temper their greed with reason. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:38:17 GMT -5
Magic Swords can be a wild card that injects much humor and much drama into the game. Purpose swords with both an origin and a purpose (not just limited to the paltry list in the rules), can bring a whole new vibe into the game if the players are interested. It depends on whether they want to keep that specific sword or not. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:45:53 GMT -5
This section is pretty bare bones. Fleshing it out the tables is IMO a must. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:48:12 GMT -5
I am in favor of the potion of Heroism being limited in duration. I am also in favor of greatly expanding the options in the potion tables by orders of magnitude. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:51:01 GMT -5
Rings are also a section that needs to have greatly extended tables. Another item that is greatly under utilized as to the options available. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:56:26 GMT -5
I like providing several different Spell Turning Rings that do a lot of different things in the way they function. I also like the idea of use a Spell Storing Ring version as a Spell Absorbing Ring also making a great defensive weapon. Wands 100 charges and Staves 200 charges is very powerful. We usually rolled d100 to see what percentage of charges remained. Piper asks a lot of great questions in this post and those are worth their own thread at some point. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 18:59:17 GMT -5
The Wand of Negation is a very spiffy wand to have. An exemplary defensive weapon. The Final Strike is also a great tool for the game. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:00:36 GMT -5
Miscellaneous Magic is a great place for a creative DM to really strut his stuff and make the players marvel. I like the Mary Poppins theory and the Displacer Cloak question is a good one. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:05:50 GMT -5
Boots of Speed are limited with rest periods, minor magic, The Boots of Traveling and Leaping are major magic and don't have the same limitations. The "Hidden Rule", I would fire the magic user and get one that would build the spell around a protective helm, that is the upgrade and solution players should seek is to upgrade the item. IMO such flimsy helms should trigger such ideas in players since there is no discernible reason for them to be designed that way. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:10:42 GMT -5
Artifacts are mentioned and a brief treatment is given. The design and inclusion of them is left to the DM. This is an excellent place for DMs to stretch their wings and demonstrate their creative chops. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:16:16 GMT -5
Electrum and platinum are presented as options, my guess they were part of one of the campaigns, my guess Greyhawk or Kalibruhn, since I don't recall it being in the publication First Fantasy Campaign. I don't know about you but I never managed to roll six consecutive ones to get the gems into the highest range of value. If I wanted a high value gem for some reason, I just ruled that that is what is in this treasure. That reserved for the most well protected and dangerous to obtain treasures. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:31:40 GMT -5
The sample cross section and the following pages give quite a bit of advice about designing dungeons and IMO the part often overlooked is the upward and downward mobility in the dungeon, allowing higher level or foolhardy players to bypass the "easy" levels and go straight for the artifact rumored to be on some deeper level of the dungeon. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:34:00 GMT -5
This section of advice illustrates that dungeon should have design features that make it very difficult if not impossible to have a fully accurate map, even the DM map would have a number of starred caveats detailed on the back of the map. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:39:07 GMT -5
The phrase "Fight On!" always brings this to mind That is the spirit that OD&D players are assumed to bring to the play of the game. I have often thought that the expectation of that attitude is what most hard core anti-old school people object to. |
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Post by Q Man on Jul 29, 2018 20:42:41 GMT -5
A lot of people enjoy the hell of Philotomy's Musings. A lot can be done without Wizards of the Coast's blessing. While the original text can't be used without their blessing, I think people would get the point if the annotation was paired up with a near-clone using OGL text. Certainly the community can help out with alternative to stuff like the Book III dungeon map. I recommend the starting point for the rule side to be an outline and posted here so we can help with suggestion on which bit of open content works in place of the original text. Or help with anything original that needs to be created like the aforementioned map. if you posted that outline, I would be all over that thread. If robertsconley does not come back to follow up on his idea, then we will have to pick it up and do it ourselves. Since most clones generally do not follow all of the parts of the original rules, we might have to use more than one clone to follow realize this project. So once some other things are settled then we should look at this project. |
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Post by colinouchou on Jul 30, 2018 16:29:55 GMT -5
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Post by colinouchou on Jul 30, 2018 16:33:40 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Jul 30, 2018 23:05:54 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Jul 30, 2018 23:06:27 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 1, 2018 21:59:39 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 6:48:00 GMT -5
News at 11, a new coin has been struck called a "golf piece." Sounds like he aced it, maybe he looked at the birdie and smiled? I wonder if a golf coin has double eagles on it? I'd better stop before I make you green with envy and get tee'd off. Somebody putt a cork in me and drive me home before I wedge my foot in my mouth. The iron-y! |
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Post by El Borak on Aug 2, 2018 8:29:02 GMT -5
News at 11, a new coin has been struck called a "golf piece." Sounds like he aced it, maybe he looked at the birdie and smiled? I wonder if a golf coin has double eagles on it? I'd better stop before I make you green with envy and get tee'd off. Somebody putt a cork in me and drive me home before I wedge my foot in my mouth. The iron-y! Maybe the double post was a result of a bogey. |
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Post by El Borak on Aug 2, 2018 8:31:08 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Aug 2, 2018 8:32:17 GMT -5
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