OSR Dolmenwood Books

[cavalier973]

I made the mistake of reading through the descriptions of “poor food” while eating spaghetti.

There are options for playing “kindred-as-class” in the appendix. Breggles get arcane magic at higher levels.

I dislike that the publishers continued the misguided tradition of calling a particular class “Thief”. The correct name is “Expert Treasure Hunter”.

This post probably should have gone in the “TTRPG General” section.

 

[pwhimp]

Plenty of worms in the poor food. Blech.

I've come to really like kindred-as-class. I feel it helps to avoid the humans-in-funny-hats dilemma.

I disagree about thief as a name. I think the thief class does things that no expert treasure hunter class should be designed to do like backstab and legerdemain.

Dolmenwood is basically B/X, so I think it's okay. I'm unclear where these things should go too . OSR is such a broad category that it seems weird to have the tag in the D&D older editions section.

 

[cavalier973]

At one point, it mentions that water is easy to find in Dolmenwood, because of a plethora of streams, springs, a pools.

Is that generally true of forests?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This post probably should have gone in the “TTRPG General” section.

Where OSR books go, especially D&D-derived ones, is always a gray area here.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

At one point, it mentions that water is easy to find in Dolmenwood, because of a plethora of streams, springs, a pools.

Is that generally true of forests?

No. It strongly depends on the climate, soil and what sort of plants are there.

 

[Scribe]

At one point, it mentions that water is easy to find in Dolmenwood, because of a plethora of streams, springs, a pools.

Is that generally true of forests?

Are you on Vancouver Island or not?

 

[Bill Zebub]

At one point, it mentions that water is easy to find in Dolmenwood, because of a plethora of streams, springs, a pools.

Is that generally true of forests?

Not generally true, but true of some forests. Including, apparently, Dolmenwood.

 

[Weiley31]

I like it. I will admit I'm mostly wanting Dolmenwood because the idea is to combine its classes and stuff for my OSE games.

Also, I can FINALLY under-bloody-stand how Turn Undead works now. So, I'm probably gonna just import Dolmenwood's Turn Undead and use it for the Cleric and stuff in OSE.

 

[cavalier973]

For reference, re: the Medieval peasant’s diet

May: medieval peasant menu | News and features | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

From the article:
“The findings demonstrated that stews (or pottages) of meat (beef and mutton) and vegetables such as cabbage and leek, were the mainstay of the medieval peasant diet.

The research also showed that dairy products, likely the ‘green cheeses’ known to be eaten by the peasantry, also played an important role in their diet.”

I don’t remember where I read this, but I think beers and ales also provided some nutrients to the peasants.

 

[reelo]

For reference, re: the Medieval peasant’s diet

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