Recent content by Nikosandros

I'm also curious about OSE sales, but it's probably difficult to compare the two products. BFRPG is free in PDF and sold at cost in POD. OSE is a commercial endeavor with much fancier layout and art and also has some limited edition hard-covers.

Interesting. They not only updated it to be coherent with the rules, but they also reduced the movement by half.

Yes, this is an example of shoddy writing. They should have been more careful. On the other hand, I believe that the intent is clear: you can move your speed as a reaction when you roll initiative. Maybe they will update the text, but even if they do not, I do not envision actual difficulties at...

It seems to be explicitly only about the code: This is a bit unfortunate, IMHO. Do they really have plans to commercially use the Zork IP?

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...