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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 11, 2015 16:04:35 GMT -5
Have you used Philotomy's Musings and if so how much? I have read them several times, and used some of it in my campaign.
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Post by The Archivist on Mar 4, 2015 22:16:04 GMT -5
Philotomy had a lot of great commentary. Purely a shame that he took the site down.
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Post by cadriel on Mar 23, 2015 5:46:37 GMT -5
I've used a number of the ideas at my table, like maximum damage on a critical hit. I also like the general ideas presented.
Several people have reposted the text from the site online, just search for Philotomy Jurament.
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 23, 2015 8:06:49 GMT -5
I've used a number of the ideas at my table, like maximum damage on a critical hit. I also like the general ideas presented. Several people have reposted the text from the site online, just search for Philotomy Jurament. Yeah, a lot of good stuff and although he took the site down he has given some people permission to re post it and someone, also with permission, converted it into a pdf. Philotomy's OD&D Musings |
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Post by monk on Mar 23, 2015 10:14:51 GMT -5
You can download it as a pdf, too. It has a little table of contents and everything. Great commentary.
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Post by Von on Mar 30, 2015 2:10:37 GMT -5
I'm always up for free gaming material. *downloads*
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Post by ffilz on Apr 1, 2015 15:53:54 GMT -5
I answered No I haven't used it, though possibly I've been influenced by it. I did just skim through it. I could see using some ideas from it, and remember the posts as they came out and always looked forward to reading his next installment.
Frank
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 2, 2015 8:03:05 GMT -5
I answered No I haven't used it, though possibly I've been influenced by it. I did just skim through it. I could see using some ideas from it, and remember the posts as they came out and always looked forward to reading his next installment. Frank It is what first got me thinking about doing my own blog. |
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Post by Von on Apr 2, 2015 11:56:34 GMT -5
As I look through the PDF document I'm startled at how many of these ideas I seem to have come to in my own time - criticals for double damage and the emphasis on eliminating rolls, for instance. Great minds, and all that...
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Post by Vile Traveller on May 2, 2015 22:39:50 GMT -5
Some I do and some I don't. The biggest influence has probably been on my view of the Underworld, with a capital "U". Doors that hinder outsiders, creatures that appear only to assault adventurers, generally a more mythic and alien feeling for the whole hypogean setting.
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Post by merctime on May 2, 2015 23:31:38 GMT -5
Like some of you, I don't necessarily 'use' much of it in-game, per se... But it was probably the most important literary influence in my own personal desire to 'game before my time' and basically avail myself of years of AD&D style gaming mentality.
(Of course an AD&D frame of gaming mind isn't bad or wrong; I'm just stating a personal paradigm shift here).
Stuff like how dungeons and the underworld are viewed, as stated above; And a complete self-redesign on what constitutes the wilderness (although Wayne Rossi's seminal piece on the implied setting of OD&D was primary for the latter, really) and how it, too, is approached in-game.
These are only a couple of the things that really provided me with a very real epiphany as to how I'd like to approach my favorite pastime.
Maximum damage on the die on an attack roll of 20 is only one of a slough of wonderful little house rules that meshes well with a d6-centric system, but I still prefer to not use it and just describe any attack success wherein a damage result comes up a 6 as a' critical hit'.
...But just because I don't use it doesn't mean it hasn't been useful.
Philotomy's musings basically taught me something I've always read, but never really grasped or owned.
It taught me that Dungeons & Dragons is MINE.
And that I am free... Nay, encouraged... To make it that way.
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Post by tetramorph on May 3, 2015 13:01:14 GMT -5
Like many of the above posts:
I have learned from his view of the "mythic underworld" and that is the direction I am taking my dungeons henceforth.
I do full damage on a critical rather than double.
I LOVE his description of how abstract HP is and WHAT HP abstracts: skill, luck, stamina, and only after all that, physical well-being. I love that, it has totally changed my description of combat as a referee -- for the better.
Question: (probably for another thread)
Philotomy's Dungeon as "mythic underworld" + Rossi's OS+U&WA as Original Setting = what kind of over-all campaign-world description for 0e? Hmm. . .
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Post by merctime on May 3, 2015 13:05:23 GMT -5
Question: (probably for another thread) Philotomy's Dungeon as "mythic underworld" + Rossi's OS+U&WA as Original Setting = what kind of over-all campaign-world description for 0e? Hmm. . . Brother... not only is that a question, but also a GOAL!! |
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Post by Bandersnatch on Jul 28, 2015 15:29:41 GMT -5
Philotomy's Musings are a great resource, I highly reccomend them. Maybe he will show up here one of these days.
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Post by True Black Raven on Mar 13, 2018 23:20:40 GMT -5
I have used some things out of this, a lot of good ideas.
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Post by Yaleric on Jun 29, 2018 19:22:12 GMT -5
I have looked at it, but have never used it.
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Post by Warrior Twin One on Aug 21, 2018 0:31:27 GMT -5
Haven't seen it.
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Post by Warrior Twin Two on Aug 22, 2018 10:16:45 GMT -5
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Post by clooney on May 2, 2022 12:42:41 GMT -5
I have read it, but never applied any of it to my campaign.
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Post by Q. F o s t e r on May 2, 2022 13:05:21 GMT -5
Have read it, but never used it.
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Post by Snuffy Smith on May 3, 2022 12:14:39 GMT -5
I've never seen it.
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Post by Ibizan Zamway on May 3, 2022 21:22:12 GMT -5
Not familiar with it.
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Post by nobody on Jun 16, 2022 19:25:05 GMT -5
Never heard of it.
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Post by Kujik on Aug 15, 2022 11:49:16 GMT -5
Great resource.
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Post by The Man From Coventry on Aug 17, 2022 16:24:51 GMT -5
No
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Post by Morose on Sept 5, 2022 18:06:03 GMT -5
Never, but I ought to give it a look.
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Post by Bartholmew Quarrels on Sept 9, 2022 9:53:45 GMT -5
I have used some things out of it. I should go through it point by point sometime and note agreement and disagreement with his points.
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