Folks at our table insist on differentiating between bonuses to AC and penalties to attacks, because of how THAC0 and rolling dice in general work - am I missing a real huge difference here, because for me they are essentially the same thing?!
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In the 1995 boxed set Introduction to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the starter town - Freedale - is represented not only by a quasi-3D perspective bird's-eye view, but also by a menu of sorts. Although the aim of this product is to gradually accustom neophytes to tabletop gaming, I wonder if any DMs who run long-term campaigns have used similar lists absent any accompanying maps in order to facilitate resupplying at various hamlets, villages, towns, et cetera, that are deliberately designed to be simple (i.e., these pockets of civilization do not play a greater role later down the road).
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I gave a quick look at the dungeon master's guide and it states therein that through sheer theory, monstrous PCs can be done indeed (with GM caveats)...the reason I state thus is that, coming mostly from 3e (and pathfinder 1e), it's interesting to me that before savage species entered the fray, Dnd definitely had a precedent already for allowing monstrous pcs (without level adjustment though) which expands the scope of available options beyond the core ones
Hi, I'm trying to get a game going for new players to AD&D2e. i would like an easy website for them to use, then just send me a PDR with all the info filled out. Because I will be running this game online. I have found 2, but wondering if there is anything better
Been thinking about a very minimal “2e but fixed” setup and wanted to see what other tables do. My current idea is:
core 2e (no Player's Option stuff)
no NWPs, just background + roll-under ability checks instead
max HP at 1st, Death’s Door
Target 20 instead of raw THAC0 at the table
Doing group initiative modified only by casting time.
I can lay out my reasons if asked, but what do you guys do?
Can I use a bow while an enemy is engaged in melee with me? Are there any penalties or attacks of opportunity?
I’d like to know from a Basic Rules perspective, but if there are any optional rules from Combat & Tactics, for example, I’d like to know those as well.
New to AD&D 2e. I love that 2e has tons of optional rules to make the system more or less complex.
What rules options do you suggest I use to make the game go faster and easier for late elementary/early middle school kids?
I would love for it to feel more like BECMI D&D, so I can introduce the system to them, and then add complexity later.
Yes, all the settings' monsters there are fashioned as one of a kind beings designed for boss battles, but have anyone just pitted more common monsters such as from the monstrous compendiums inside the setting? How did you deal with mooks and/ or commanders? Or even antagonist ideas that weren't from birthright proper?
I have made FREE digital battle maps for use with the Dark Sun Freedom module from 2e AD&D. They recreate ALL of the maps from the DS1 Freedom module, and I also created a couple of additional maps that I found necessary to use when running Freedom.
Linked below are the night time versions of the same maps for $1.50, and 4 maps that flesh out the city of Tyr for $3.
I will be making maps of DS2 Road to Urik in the coming months as well :)
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Coming soon in domain play, what is the best (old or new) system to resolve mass combat in a currently domain play focused campaign?
OK, first of all, when I think of the Underdark; the tunnels, the passageways, the massive caverns that hold cities and such, I think 3 dimensionally. On a global scale, I think of the Underdark as a massive ball of swiss cheese, with tunnles and passages going in every which direction. Some slope up, some down. I really don't think that if you walk out one of the tunnels around the edges of Menzoberranzan that they are all flat like dungeon hallways. That being said, the main chamber of Menzo is 2 miles long. The drow of Menzo were known to have a patrol radius of 5 miles.
I was doing some research on creating a drow city and discovered that Menzo is 2 miles under the Surbrin Valley. Honestly didnt know this before. I thought it was MUCH deeper than that.
This is where my rant comes in. My brain suddenly combined all this information and led to one question: WHY, in Salvatores ball sack, did it take Drizzt, who has both Intelligence and Wisdom of 17, TWELVE FUCKING YEARS TO FIND HIS WAY TO THE SURFACE?. He'd already been there once! He made it Blingdenstone and by all accounts thats 45 miles away. Just doesn't make sense to me. Ok rant over.
I have a question for those who have played Battlesystem. Has anyone actually used the ruleset? Is it essentially Warhammer Lite? I know there are the Birthright rules too but I do t really understand the difference
Hi all, hope people can help. Am running Night Below, bought the print edition from DMSGuild and came with PDF copy. Attached is the map for dungeon in Broken Spire Keep (party going in on Sunday) but what is that strange red square around room 24?
