Recent content by Nikosandros

Not to mitigate the fact that I'm getting older and crankier, but - in truth - my salary has increased far, far less than inflation and thus almost everything has become literately more expansive to me... :confused:

I wonder if the new OSE manuals will be available separately before that. They are already complete (save, perhaps, for some final edits and proofreading), since the Italian translations has been published. Has there been any announcement or hint about where and when the necromancer class will...

I was undecided between the two interpretations and I picked one... which was wrong. :D

Only fighters get the extra attacks in the OSE optional rule, unlike AD&D where all fighter sub-classes do (and cavaliers as well, if UA is used).

One thing that I really like is that they have included "Basic" tables to roll encounters and magic items which include only material from B/X. A great touch.

Do you mean when attacking elves, dwarves and halflings? The rules don't say anything specific (in general they are very terse). My interpretation is that if the target is not a "classed" character, you would look them up in the monsters listing and thus it would apply only against halflings...

1st level: no magic 2nd level: may receive divine spells 3rd level: potions 4th level: magic weapons 5th level: magic armors 6th level: may receive arcane spells 8th level: all magic items.

To elaborate a bit on this: the "Classic" line of separate products is being discontinued (but the old PDF of the Rules Tome will remain available possibly also in POD). The two new manuals are revision of the "Advanced" tomes. However, the new rules very clearly indicate which elements (rules...

From the FAQs:

Fighters get 1 attack per level against targets with less than 1 full HD. It's the same rule as in AD&D.

Training takes 1-4 weeks, either randomly rolled or chosen by the referee based on player's skill. The idea is quite similar to AD&D 1e and I could find no further discussion in the referee's book. Each week of training costs 400 gp per current character level. If a character trains without a...

It is still a faithful retro-clone. A couple of rules have been changed to make it even closer to B/X.

The optional increase to backstab is triple damage at levels 6 - 10 and quadruple at 11+. It seems to me that the section on thief skills has remained unchanged and nothing from that article in Carcass Crawler 1 has been added, AFAIK.

They get d10, like all martial classes (barbarians, cavaliers, fighters, paladins and rangers). Clerics and druids get a d8 and assassins, acrobats and thieves get a d6. In terms of HD, they get: drow d6/d8, duergar d6/d8, dwarf d8/d10, elf d6/d8, gnomes d4/d6, halfling d6, half-elf d6/d8...

+1 to hit and damage at levels 1-4, +2 at 4-8 and +3 at 9+. If giants are not a threat to the ranger lands in the campaign, the referee may change the enemy type.