Recent content by Stormonu

Weapons and Warriors? Was that like Crossbows & Catapults or a D&D thing?

I could see some old Suel Lich when confronted by a PC: "Bah, you kids and your 'safety valves' for magic. Back in my day, fireballs expanded to fill their volume, lightning bolts bounced and you could stack spells 'til you fell over from encumbrance! And mind you, you didn't get 'em for free...

Just a note, both of those are concentration spells, so unless one of the two is coming from another player or magic item, I don't know of way to have both up at the same time.

There’s a ton of 3rd party books of spells from a variety of companies. Some of the ones I own are Tome of Heroes (lots of player options, including spells, by Kobold Press) Deep Magic (several volumes, unusual spells and new casting classes/subclasses, another Kobold Press book) The...

I never saw those yellow bundles, but I do remember picking up several Spelljammer box sets ( Astromundi & War Capains) in Kay-bees in the 90’s for a quarter of the normal price.

@GreyLord , if you haven’t read this about the WotC acquisition, it’s very interesting and talks about the warehouse of old stock. Perhaps the most relevant part: Of note, this was before 3E was even a glint in the eye, before the idea of OSR and at a time 2E was in decline (and 1E was around...

Hate to tell you this, but those purges happened long before WotC was around (both in the 80's and early 90's). Though I do remember that Peter Adkinson(?) talked about purging a warehouse full of 1E product still sitting on pallets.

Based on the picture in the Fiend Folio (and its association with Beholders), I always thought the gorbel could fly/levitate. That doesn't appear to be the case, though - which makes it fit the "alien beach ball" from Dark Star even closer.

Wow! I had, and colored in that old album back in the day* and ended up getting another copy to keep in pristine shape. Also, the mini-game in it was actually pretty difficult! * my preacher actually got it for me for my birthday - this was back in the early 80's!

I've always been partial to "blood hounds" - wolves, wargs or mastiffs that have been fed vampire blood to give them a little bit of an oomph. They make great daytime guardians over a sleeping vampire and for stats you simply use the base creature and slap one or two spell-like effects onto...

Everyone keeps saying this is “Book of Vile Darkness” stuff, but I feel like this is material we’ll see in the Ravenloft book this fall.

Order of Scribes? Bunch of dang librarians!

I have certainly seen many "come learn", "beginners only" games at cons, and just recently participated in one concerning Nimble 5E.

Maybe do it as a stacked maze, consisting of two or more levels? Fighter in the narrow corridors of a maze below, the rest of the party is in a gallery-sized room above with a glass floor so the top group can watch the progress of the character below. The maze is divided into sections, so the...

Best analogy I can come up with is that the existence of McDonald's burgers doesn't harm my or others love of Mugshot's burgers, nor does it threaten their existance. D&D may be what most people are familiar with, but if that is all they ever involve themselves in, that's on them. Even my...