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Post by doublejig on Jan 3, 2015 19:18:24 GMT -6
Collected, this is an interesting list. It compares favorably to any other from any system, I'd wager. OD&D, hmm,...
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Post by doublejig on Jan 3, 2015 18:15:11 GMT -6
I don't think that this is something you can teach, of course; But to my mind, a critical point that determines (or will determine) whether a player is 'good' or 'great', is how excited they are to play. I can't say it enough. If a person is willing to slug through the math, get used to rules, and learn how to produce fun ideas... Through enthusiasm... Then that player is destined for greatness in the right gaming group. That's my take, and has been my experience over the years. If they are excited, they will grow in leaps and bounds, just because they are trying hard to, and loving every second of it! Great thread subject, by the way, tetramorph! I've got to agree. And, I'll add, if someone shows up to game table, then the good player, bare bones, is the tenacious one, committed to the mapping, the investigation, and expedition. When he makes his weapon selections and spell choices, he'll be aware. He won't just nod at race and alignment. He's in it for the long haul (and the major score).
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Post by doublejig on Jan 3, 2015 16:28:48 GMT -6
Compilation is a good idea. Why not call it, The Darkness Beneath - with brooding "smoke on the water bass line" cover and scary title font.
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Post by doublejig on Jan 3, 2015 15:54:24 GMT -6
My friend, me thinketh thou hast indulged in the mushrooms of magick... ...and "Roil the Purple Worm" is now my new favorite album title. Kesher-are you in or not?
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Post by doublejig on Jan 3, 2015 15:49:44 GMT -6
my bad - girl thingy on da cables?
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Post by doublejig on Jan 2, 2015 13:02:04 GMT -6
Red dragon overture,... Centaur with a club,... Owlbear in a tunnel,...
Looking for those adjustments to a well written module that anchor the ecology or story more deeply into what the unicorn has provided? A new secret door, clever in application, which allows for a double ended assassins attack; no small encounter - This 'assisted' giant spider doth sting so. A corpse shoot or garbage bin, which collects from previous forrays the accursed or fallen, maybe into an undead charnal pen or a more active ambilatory undead laboratory, which then in turn features more squarely a keyed heavyweight on the level; these under found hobgoblins are fed examples.
Troll gnaws bone. Water, waste, and food; mushroom magic chivalry; as rough hewn game table images of saturant mood and striated themes roil the purple worm of any quality early structure, the thirst here isn't for just templated ortho-concurrency, the "gamed" as some badass concord, its forward, like with the roper in the tunnel (i.e., like in the 4e). Nay, instead, if awning has screaming hippogriff, then to what sentient elm canopy? To what manticore freed land? To what castle on yonder cloud? The unchanged form of the familier of a chaotic evil caster, it's not an imp.
Fetid carrion crawler,... That "sprite with a stabbing blade",... Decades of old school experience,...
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Post by doublejig on Dec 29, 2014 16:14:24 GMT -6
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Post by doublejig on Sept 16, 2014 7:39:02 GMT -6
party: smoke 'em if you got 'em
ash: T1 The Village of Hommelet, an adventure for 6-8 first level characters tray: But wait, it doesn't say that, it says, introduction to novice level
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Post by doublejig on Sept 10, 2014 15:10:04 GMT -6
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Post by doublejig on Sept 10, 2014 11:22:44 GMT -6
Hopefully Geoffry doesn't mind if I semi-hijack his thread but it seems pertinent... I've been using Photobucket for years. Now that I've been forced to abandon Opera and switched to Firefox...then PaleMoon (FF alternative) and now IceDragon (Comodo's Firefox build), I've obviously had to use a third-party ad-blocker. I'm using BluHell Firewall extension for this purpose and the only site I've had an issue with so far is Photobucket. It won't load anything on that site. I'm often going to the site, then finally remember I have to turn off BluHell, then reloading. Of course, the rest is the same as ever: takes forever to load the page, then forever to load again after signing in, then forever to upload, then waiting for it to refresh, then navigating to the pic, then copying the url or html code. There's got to be a photo hosting service that's simpler, quicker and lighter. Just as we would abandon Adobe Reader for something like PDF-XChange or Sumatra, or use IrfanView or FastStone (my personal fave) for photo editing instead of something more bloated. I'm loathe to sign up for a gazillion services just to find out. Any suggestions from those who have experiences with Photobucket alternatives? No stronger words as to the perils of Open Source or other free software. If you go with purchased software, such as even for a web forum, the same old general rule always warrants consideration: you get what you pay for, and likely not a lot of irritating advertisements.
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Post by doublejig on Sept 10, 2014 10:58:07 GMT -6
As a sysadmin I just wanna say this: backups <3 Any system with built-in redundancy gets brownie points. Extraordinarily important; a huge multi-year book project stored in version control is just as lost as any other file, if the harddrive shoots craps, if there is no backup to an external drive (for those who can't stand the internet) or cloud (for those who can). Also, there are very strong cloud solutions to the general problem being discussed, if internet development is tolerable, and more and more better functionality arriving everyday, but these weren't part of the initial post. Maybe someone has insights and recommendations regards the good ones. Additional hardware whether in-house or outsourced must include: - a scanner - a good printer - a book binding machine - a cappaccino machine?
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Post by doublejig on Sept 10, 2014 10:44:41 GMT -6
Here's some further considerations: If starting from scratch, Book development, for example, could be structured around multiple text files, each written in Textpad, and then edited collectively, meaning search and replace across all files in a single folder with WildEdit, before being imported into heavyweight pagelayout software like Quark or Indesign or Pageplus, etc. An advantage with this strategy over MS Word, which is a superlative word processor, but one that must address myriad documents, especially those which the business world requires rather than specialize in the production of a book, for example, is at each stage of the process, the most specific tool is brought to bear on the work. E.g., let the pagelayout software handle all font, size, and presentation, which are to be applied to the final copy of the text. If working with existing word documents, It is a pain in the ass to import a word file into a text processor; you won't know how much MS Word is actually doing behind the scenes until you see what the text looks like when the support is stripped away, but this result should not surprise those who write for kindle for example. This work must be done, however, if search & replace across multiple files in a single folder is an issue. Thus, there is constant manual adjusting of text back and forth between doc and text and viceversa. As a consequence, it's best to drop the Word Processor out of the process altogether. With the new mindset in place, once Textpad and Wildedit are set up, the next strong move is version control software. Here, all files are placed under a common version control database. To make changes to files, it is checked out, a chapter, for example, edited it, and then checked back in. The version control software then keeps track of changes between files. Importantly, version control software supports release version, which then mirrors real life development. Here, a set of files be collected into a release version. E.g., this is v.1 of my book. Suppose now make changes are made to chapters 2,3,and 12. Now, a new release version can be create, this time v1.1. Because of version control support, there is now 1) v1, 2) v1.1, and 3) tools, which track the history of the changes that have been made. At any time any of the release versions can be printed, for example. Simply put, it is the purpose of version control software to prevent "work loss" in an ongoing development process. With these 3 tools in place, Textpad, Wildedit, and a version control software, a writer, or small group of writers, could crank out pre layout text with great surety and resiliency against data loss, presupposing harddrive backup as a given. Group writing is supported, because files, which one person checks out are "read only" to other people accessing the version control until they're checked back in. Keep the wi-fi. Set up this system. And, in-house development will be supported.
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Post by doublejig on Sept 9, 2014 20:59:25 GMT -6
... said to be bordered by the Sea of the Blind Sage,...
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Post by doublejig on Sept 9, 2014 20:40:52 GMT -6
The Scorpions: There's noone like you,...
Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!
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Post by doublejig on Sept 9, 2014 3:57:49 GMT -6
*AFS News* AFS 5 will start shipping in batches by order date received early next week possibly Monday. I plan to re-print issues 1-4 sooner than later and will have them available this summer. I will offer a 'Five from Beyond' multi-pack deal to those new to the zine. Thanks Sweat! Is there a schedule for AFS6?
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Post by doublejig on Aug 23, 2014 8:34:36 GMT -6
Anyway, here is my quote, from page 9 of the DMG: Good stuff. Here's one from the DMG 1e, p.86, that warrants extra attention, because Gygax chose to put it in all caps: ONCE A CHARACTER HAS POINTS WHICH ARE EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE MINIMUM NUMBER NECESSSARY TO MOVE UPWARDS IN EXPERIENCE LEVEL, NO FURTHER EXPERIENCE POINTS CAN BE GAINED UNTIL THE CHARACTER ACTUALLY GAINS THE NEW LEVEL. Two points: 1. In that this quote galvanizes the to and from regards expeditions and delves, I think this quote is as emphasized; from a campaign's inception, through its middle levels, and ultimately unto player character realm creation, this ebb and flow is particularily indicative regards the proper pace of the game. 2. Behold! This is my coveted 19th post. I am now slightly over the half way point from 1st to 2nd level, and so no further experience can be gained by me on this forum. I must return to base to train at a cost of 1500gp. When I return I shall be squarely at the 2nd level! I'll be back in a week; God willing!
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Post by doublejig on Aug 22, 2014 12:32:20 GMT -6
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Post by doublejig on Aug 21, 2014 5:31:37 GMT -6
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Post by doublejig on Aug 21, 2014 3:42:26 GMT -6
I played B1 in 1979. D&D; it's a good game, a tough game. Is it always fair? That was never promised...
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Post by doublejig on Aug 21, 2014 2:30:21 GMT -6
How do you get images to embed?
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Post by doublejig on Aug 21, 2014 2:13:27 GMT -6
The Vikings (silent movie, released 1929). Donald Crisp as Leif Ericsson; I only saw a few minutes of this film but enjoyed what I saw. Lot of generational heaviness to the old silent movies.
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Post by doublejig on Aug 18, 2014 8:05:10 GMT -6
I never saw this work over a long running campaign. Instead, competition between members at the party level generated sometimes fantastic fireworks. The DM was usually minutely involved, picking sides, setting up scores, moving secrets, and then action would culminate in some event, side show, or betrayal, which may well have been - Best ever, but also led to the end of adventuring for that party. Long running campaigns are business like or the experience to high level doesn't get done.
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Post by doublejig on Aug 18, 2014 7:27:41 GMT -6
$5 for a pdf, no matter the length. $10 for a book as an ideal.
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Post by doublejig on Aug 18, 2014 6:56:27 GMT -6
Here's a good one:
"Fighters and clerics will be the principal territorial developers. Magic-users will typically become involved to a lesser extent, for they have many more demands upon their time. The real benefit of having player characters develop territory is the addition to your milieu. These areas become focal points for action in the campaign if properly encouraged and handled, and if things slow a bit slow, a DM-invented threat to some territory is bound to get things moving with elan." - DMG AD&D 1e, p94
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Post by doublejig on Aug 18, 2014 0:36:23 GMT -6
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Post by doublejig on Aug 18, 2014 0:11:31 GMT -6
Many early publications contribute to the game table notion of human. Implementor can tweak with these matters for different races. But, man can also be delineated in terms of his cosmopolitan nature, which then includes location and sanity.
Some choices by population: Urban man, Town man, Rural man, Rambling man.
Others by geography: Mountain man, Swamp man, Desert man, River man, etc.
Others by sanity: Enlightened man, Gilded man, Sane man, Off-kilter man, Marble short man, Friggin' nutcase man, Feral man.
Since, these guys can show up anywhere, it's always location, location, location. Are these breakdowns useful enough to require comment, adjustment, or bonus?
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Post by doublejig on Aug 14, 2014 19:41:16 GMT -6
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Post by doublejig on Jan 13, 2014 13:39:16 GMT -6
Bogob's Loyalty (a micro setting); Today's News: Ring of Thieves defeated!!!
I emailed this write up to the editor as a possible submission.
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Post by doublejig on Apr 11, 2012 5:16:37 GMT -6
check out dmguide.com
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