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Heh...I wouldn't call rolling a 5% chance twice as dynamic...

With this rule changes, I can't stop but think about 3 to 3.5

They really need to rewrite Criticals and clarify things, since it's such a drastic move from 5e. Is this meant as only damage that is doubled being the actual weapon dice and nothing else? No smites, no sneak attack, etc.?

I believe that this is the belief of most game designers before 5E. That the market was limited by the number of players who would play an RPG. The only way to make money in the market was to put rule-book out, rewrite rule-book, and repeat. GW, Paizo, WotC and many others have used this...

For our group...They loved Ten Town and the surrounding area... I tried to tie the party into the area...We had a Naive Medic, so I had her story tied to the Dark Duchess. She and the captain where the last survivors of the ship. The captain knew she wouldn't resort to cannibalism so he...

I highly recommend these maps. They make the castle and where everything is...easier... https://www.dmsguild.com/product/185990/Castle-Ravenloft-hires-colour-jpg-maps

Here's a write up of our last battle with Strahd: Curse Of Strahd...Took us over a year...We spent about 4 months in Beast of Graenseskov(A separate 1st to 3rd level adventure in Barovia). The final session was epic like it should be. My group was 7 players at 9th level. 3 of the players are...

This is actually pretty simple...If they want to play by the rules...role the damage from the fall...20d6...this is from them hitting the side of the pit...but they aren't finished...every round they take 1d6 to 20d6 as they continue to fall...they are falling down a slope of the pit...when it...

Or as Tolkien drew on his map...Here be Dragons

Heh...you haven't played PotA...there are so many places that you can have the whole area on you...My party had to high tail it out of the Water Temple when they set off the glyph(coming in from the back way) and they were fighting hordes of cultist in the Large Dining hall when the Dragon...

I can see that they are still around...I just don't deal with them...including toxic players...It does help that I'm looked at as the male patriarch of our group and they do give me respect when I'm running. Though I'm fair game between sessions ;). Heh, the kill 'em all was very popular in...

This is where I just don't get it from the newer generation of DM's and Players. This DM vs. Players...yes in the early days, there were toxic DM's that pretty much embodied, us against them. Most of those campaigns didn't last long as the players were either killed or left. Then we had a...

You know...I don't know which came first...playing Cordite and Steel or White Box D&D...I was playing both in '77. D&D was pretty mind blowing...met my best friend from bringing the rules to school...

One of the things I like about this thread and Enworld in general is that by and large...it's pretty nontoxic. This thread has been awesome and some interesting ideas and discussions have been made. Some of it has clarified what I like and don't like about D&D in the different editions.

Yeah...that sounds about right...It seems like we would have about 50 characters rolled before you got a keeper. Players had their favorite dice that weren't loaded but definitely had a bias to roll 6's.

You know the one thing OD&D and AD&D really got right...the fear of undead. Level Drain was something to be feared. The sight of Wights, Wraiths, Specters, and Vampires caused fighters and magic users to pee in their pants. The mechanics were horrendous, but the fear of their abilities...

You know I had a couple of friends who played with Gary during the early 80's. They are mentioned as playtesters for S4(The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth) and WG4 (The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun). I never asked them how they rolled their characters or if they played pregenerated characters for...

At my table, you couldn't roll by yourself. Someone had to witness the rolls. You could retire a character if the rolls sucked (they went off to become a farmer). We used 3d6 and you could pretty much keep rolling until you got a keeper or someone would witness for you(which wasn't very long...

The only people I remember playing T&T were playing Solo...Played a lot of Melee/Wizard by Metagaming bought The Fantasy Trip but never played. The major influencer of D&D outside of TSR and Judges Guild preAD&D in my area was Arduin Grimore by Dave Hargrave. I remember the levels going to...