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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.

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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...

This is really tough, I guess I don't really have a favorite. I could go with anything from Oriental Adventures and above here. I really really like the art in the PH, DMG, DD&G, MM, FF, and MMII. MM has the Trampier goodness and the DSC devils and demons, FF has the Nicholson weirdness, and...

City of Delights (2e) 2e Crypt Servant: From the Ruined Kingdoms of Nog and Kadar came rumors, and finally proof, of this special form of undead created to serve their masters for an eternity. Since the method for creating them was uncovered, crypt servants have been created for more modern...

I saw it in the games of Honey Heist and Kids on Bikes I played in. Non D&D, Non-OSR, but low mechanics games. The player skill was more improv and riffing on character concept and class archetype themes and making those work in the situation and the DM going with it or throwing in twists.

24 is a little less of that, but not great. Instead of the 14 Outlander background whose feature allows bypassing survival rolls for food foraging entirely, the new 24 background of Guide (the most outdoorsman option, the only one granting survival skill) gives you a specific 1st level magic...

Cities of Bone (2e) 2e Shalmaneser the Senile, Arch-Vizier of the Fourth Dynasty, Lich Sorcerer 4, Undead Chancellor, Corpse Animated By Ancient Necromancy, Invaluable Obedient Servant, Forgetful Lich, Decrepit Senile Lich, Harmless Buffoon, Senile Lich Chancellor, Desperate Lich: Shalmaneser is...

In Moldvay B/X Basic the only example I can find is an optional rule on page B60. Everything else is 2d6 based (reaction rolls, morale) d6 based (listening, finding traps or secret doors), or percentile (thief skills) or more frequently the DM just decides. The one optional example is right...

For me disarming traps is mostly a D&D thief specific thing. Possibly a bomb squad type thing too in modern type games. Indiana Jones in the Raiders opening avoids the pressure plates, he doesn't jam up the dart throwers. It is only the very specific idol pressure plate where there is an...

It is so disappointing that Classic Doctor Who is no longer on Tubi. I was making my way through the Doctor Five episodes when it disappeared.

It would be to show that some are good at it and some are not. Those who train at disarming traps (generally thieves/rogues/Indiana Jones) are good at it and can get it done more. Others not so much. Mechanics showing that a thief has a +10 to the disarming roll while a wizard has a +1 would...