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DLA3 Dragon's Rest (2e) 2e Ash Zombie: About 50 years ago, a powerful wind of deadly fumes blew in from Hitehkel, poisoning the inhabitants of a cluster of six villages located on the western peninsula of the northernmost Rainward Isle. The survivors brought their dead to a central cemetery, the...

Iron Gods and the area of Numeria has so much to riff off of if you want. The whole second module is set in a Mad Max type gang city that even has its own not-Thunderdome gladiator arena. I, and my players, were able to get in a ton of riffing references: Star Trek, Paranoia, Shadowrun, Mad...

I was severely underwhelmed by the mechanics of Dragonmarks in 3e and the only Eberron game I played in had only a little Dragonmark house politics before we shipped off to the Jungles of Xendrik to go after giants. Dragonmarks are not the parts of Eberron that really caught my attention (the...

In my 5e game conversion of the Pathfinder Iron Gods Adventure Path we did something similar. It was a Thudarr the Barbarian Sci-Fi in D&D type area and adventure theme with a crashed ancient space ship in a fantasy world, androids, robots, and sci fi stuff along with druids and barbarians. One...

Shadow of the Weird Wizard. I've gotten a bunch of PDFs from sales and I want to try it out as a D&D like that is set up for a quick paced campaign without the grimdark/horror/gore Shadow of the Demon Lord overtones. Blades in the Dark, I'd like to try a fantasy heist system. Savage Worlds...

DLA2: Dragon Knight (2e) 2e Lich: ? Hobgoblin Zombie: The hobgoblins who formerly lived in Sargohgg used this pit to bury their dead. The pit appears to contain only rocks, debris, and loose dirt. Any character who rummages through the pit for two rounds, presumably searching for treasure...

Dead Gods (2e) 2e Visage, Insane Visage, Faithful Visage, Visage Servant: Visages are undead tanar'ri, former servants of Tenebrous brought back by the evil god's influence over all things undead. Despite having been created by a former Abyssal lord, the visages have no place among the tanar'ri...

Crypt of the Smoke Dragon 2e Undead, Living Dead: ? Zombie, Horrible Undead Monster, Zombie Guard, Weird Statue, Long-Dead Human Warrior, Undead Guardian: ? Skeleton, Skeletal Warrior, Threatening Form, Undead Guardian: ?

One consequence of the palladium active defenses is that it changes the flow of combat from D&D's quick shoot outs where a person makes an attack with a roll then the action moves on to the next person, to a more back and forth duel with both the player and GM making rolls to resolve every...

Cormyr (2e) 2e Undead: Delthrin the Deadmaster (NE hm W(N)12) is a little-known necromancer who came to Marsember's defense against a pirate attack by animating large numbers of undead to fight. Powerful Undead: ? Ghast, King: ? Ghost: There is much speculation as to the origin—and even...

Here is my memory from playing a bunch of Palladium games, including TMNT, in the 80s and 90s. Combat is at base like AD&D with add ons. Roll a d20 roll high to hit. I think anything above a 5 hits, but armor provides a higher target, if you hit above that armor target you hit them, if not the...

A friend of mine had this, I read the Gord short story and remember enjoying it at the time and skimmed a little of the City Beyond the Gate adventure. The Gord one involves the Lord of Cats and playing the chess game? I'd have to look it up in the CD files.

Class Info: Templars 2e Undead: ?

The Favor is Dress Shopping?

5e has a similar type optional rule.

If he has a 60% chance to pick it I expect him to not be able to pick it 40% of the time. Giving the thief a 60% chance to pick a lock though is a style/preference choice to have success be random as opposed to certain on specific tasks. It would be easy to have a power/ability/skill where you...

I think there is a difference. My reading is chance of failure means check to determine failure or success, regardless of how big a consequence the failure is. Their reading is no check if the consequence of failure is not meaningfully significant and so they succeed. Thus I might call for a...

That "meaningful consequence of failure" is just a failure possibility that is distinct from a success possibility. Which the two follow up questions establish. The examples, from that same meaningful consequences paragraph, of not using die rolls are: 1 "walk across an empty room" 2 "order a...

Not quite. You are reading meaningful consequence of failure as requiring an evaluation of the significance of the failure. The text seems to say that by meaningful consequence of failure if the result is uncertain, if there is a meaningful difference between success and failure. If it is...

I read this 5e advice completely differently. The 5e advice seems to be don't call for a check if there is nothing really to check about, if it is going to succeed (like walking across a room) or it is just not going to work (shooting the moon with an arrow). 14 DMG page 237: USING ABILITY...