tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post8630923188550803959..comments2024-03-24T19:08:45.014-07:00Comments on Old Guard Gaming : Welcome to Wyrd Greyhawk! We'll all laugh about your ignominious death.E.G.Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229893317543621720noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-66938680641089645922010-04-20T05:46:47.793-07:002010-04-20T05:46:47.793-07:00Love it. You've gotten your cake & eaten i...Love it. You've gotten your cake & eaten it too. Ie, S&S + all the best pseudo-Christian stuff (the inquisitors, the templars, the macabre-ness of fairy tales). You know, the stuff WH40K excel at. It's funny, I have gone right off the whole medieval thing in my RPing in favor or S&S, mostly because the medieval facets that leap to the fore in D&D are (for me) all the weak-ass stuff. You've reminded me how much i actually love this rich, image-saturated period of history. For that I thank you.<br /><br />PS: "Suelucidar" - priceless.<br /><br />And your elves are perfect.charles mark fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13385121479729236749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-45932945170466017542010-03-07T11:31:42.515-08:002010-03-07T11:31:42.515-08:00Chello!
Love your take on Greyhawk. It's very...Chello!<br /><br />Love your take on Greyhawk. It's very similar in feel to my own feeling for the game. I determined a couple of years ago, that if you go "By the Book" with level restrictions, healing spells, healing times, etc., AD&D can be quite gritty. Very gritty. Even downright deadly. :)Anthony N. Emmelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14017952532295866111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-52962561191118864302009-12-14T18:34:44.249-08:002009-12-14T18:34:44.249-08:00Great stuff!
I think that I may work up a sanity ...Great stuff!<br /><br /><i>I think that I may work up a sanity risk table to associate with spell use of levels above 3rd. Maybe something like Call of Cthulu has.</i><br /><br />The 2nd edition Players Option book <i>Spells & Magic</i> had several alternate magic systems, including a very Cthulhoid/Lovecraftian "cosmic horror" approach that put spell-casters' sanity <i>and</i> souls in mortal peril. If I remember correctly, the risks grew progressively greater as spell levels grew higher.David Larkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133630988557116729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-55720157892719982362009-12-14T11:40:57.115-08:002009-12-14T11:40:57.115-08:00Excellent post.Excellent post.Matthew Slepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04056247825064943944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-37558032426040228022009-12-14T09:11:01.064-08:002009-12-14T09:11:01.064-08:00Interesting spin. :D
I was thinking recently of ...Interesting spin. :D<br /><br />I was thinking recently of hyphenated gods, too.<br />--Cool synchronicity. :)Timeshadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09952601433965644275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-70021840678594801142009-12-14T07:36:54.025-08:002009-12-14T07:36:54.025-08:00Great stuff, Gene. I ditched Know Alignment (actu...Great stuff, Gene. I ditched Know Alignment (actually never used it) way back in the day (Hack, Wheeze, Cough. Everyone is considered "Neutral" until proven otherwise (through fact of social interaction). What? Nothing on my PC Robilar? For shame! ;)<br /><br />Yes, the plug and play (or push button attitude) has certainly rooted in games, but it is only an<br />example of what our real society has become under the "Me" generation. The insidiousness, and thus the contempt for actually doing something (such as getting out from in front of a computer game to actually socialize via game meets, for example),"...affects us all." As Treebeard said. :) RJKRob Kuntzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17648200357715492214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-63822547466403419002009-12-14T04:01:02.430-08:002009-12-14T04:01:02.430-08:00I knew there was a good reason I sold off all of m...I knew there was a good reason I sold off all of my Greyhawk stuff, except for the hardcover and 1983 boxed set...<br /><br />Post like this wants me to restart work on In The Shadow Of Vesve Forest from a few years ago (B2 KOTB in hex Y4-47) - except I'm already committed to restarting my own campaign world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986545310967925199.post-46962008605723850422009-12-14T01:37:26.399-08:002009-12-14T01:37:26.399-08:00> A cleric PC who casts Know Alignment is unlik...> A cleric PC who casts Know Alignment is unlikely to share the knowledge gained other than vaguely. The Cleric’s player is not allowed to pass the information to other players, only hint.<br /><br />Maybe you have more rational "in your head" but this really stuck out as arbitrary and "meta". If Alignment is gonna be a generalization then just ditch Know Alignment et al.Norman J. Harman Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.com