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nil is not null december 2013 nil is not null random osity about computers and games and politics and life and stuff tuesday december 31 2013 basement delving hollow pursuits i have absolutely no idea why i ever started buying hollow world stuff it may have been the tentative blackmoor connection i guess but in the end da1 to da4 are a lot more appropriate for that in any case i found these lying around sadly i couldn t find the boxed set to make all of this complete for whoever thinks that hollow world is something they d like to take a look at in any case let me know if you want these six items european destination preferred as before posted by peter fröhlich at 1 42 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday december 29 2013 basement delving french connection i don t have much to say about these except maybe for wondering about the color change for b2 does pink really sell worse than light blue in france did they have a orange version as well probably not i wish i had x2 in french that would be even more appropriate but i guess b3 is not too bad either inside look here s that blue b2 and the look inside i have to say that the original b2 artwork is clearly higher on the awesome scale for me than these holloway renditions anyone in dire need of french modules i cannot really find a good use for these so if you re in europe these can be yours for the price of shipping posted by peter fröhlich at 3 27 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest basement delving the japanese borderlands i am in germany for the holidays and i ended up delving in my basement to see what treasures are down there here s a first round of interesting finds in terms of d d stuff let s start with the japanese version of b2 the keep on the borderlands first of all i have absolutely no idea why the heck i have this but hey i guess in a way there s really no need to know my dwarven delver wouldn t care too much about the why of a bunch of rubies he finds either as you can see it has the classic cover unlike many of the other translations of the module it s kinda fun to take a peek inside so here you go note the glossy inside cover i have never seen another version of b2 that was made like that also note that the colors are still pretty crisp i think the scanned version available from wotc these days actually looks more faded classic roslof drawing is classic yep translated reference tables too presumably even the japanese version has the same stuff sadly i cannot tell and to get an impression of the module proper i ve always loved that drawing of the insane hermit just pure awesome if someone who reads japanese finds this i d be most interested in hearing how the descriptions translate back into english i e whether there was any re writing compared to the original to make things more culturally appropriate finally the back cover and now that i ve exploited this thing for my blog i think i ll just give it away to someone who actually speaks reads japanese any takers bonus points if you re in europe so the shipping charges don t kill me posted by peter fröhlich at 2 20 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 14 2013 hit dice for archetypal multiclassing i ve discussed the ins and outs of multiclassing and dualclassing before on this blog and i d like to go back to that topic for a quick update i have recently spent more time considering the wonderful archetypal multiclassing idea that pat bellavance put together for castles crusades brendan calls it class and a half which is highly appropriate as well unlike the bastardized 3rd edition approach that i advocated in my earlier post i very much like the effect that a your 5th level fighter wizard is very different from my 5th level wizard fighter and b the choice of a certain class combination is permanent and not constantly fudge able however there is one aspect of the original proposal where the choice of primary and secondary class doesn t make a difference hit points what you re surprised that i would have a complaint about hit points if fighters have d10 hit dice and wizards have d4 hit dice then both fighter wizards and wizard fighters have d6 hit dice for one thing this clearly leans toward the lower hit die class wizard in this case but more importantly it destroys the idea that fighter wizards are better fighters than wizard fighters sorry that last sentence is just horrible in terms of structure but it s correct in terms of content so i ll leave it for our particular example there s an easy way to fix this give wizards fighters d6 hit dice but give fighter wizards d8 hit dice instead here s what it works out to in comparison for a level 9 character of course the problem now is that there are no suitable dice for all possible primary secondary class combinations what for example should be the difference between a fighter cleric and a cleric fighter there s only one possible die between a d8 and a d10 namely a d9 and even if we had such a beast it would still create the same hit point distributions for both combination classes i played with a lot of options for this everything from always roll the larger hd to roll both hd pick the larger smaller result if your primary hd is smaller larger than your secondary hd and so on sadly none of them worked out the way i wanted them to remember that the goal is for fighter fighter wizard wizard fighter and wizard to all have distinct and sensible hit point distributions i was almost ready to give up when one last and simple option occurred to me if only your primary level increases roll your primary hd if both your primary and secondary levels increase roll your secondary hd that s it now let me immediately say that this rule is far from perfect but it s the best darn thing i could come up with everything else seemed to be a lot more broken here s what it works out to for a level 9 character again we get a clear distinction between single classed characters and multi classed characters compared to the different die solution above the weaker primary class gains more from multi classing and of course the stronger primary class also loses more the problem is that the difference between fighter wizard and wizard fighter while present is not as pronounced as i would have liked i much prefer the first approach in that regard sad that it cannot be saved for reference an ad d style version of multiclassing would sit between the two distributions generated by this approach not sure if that s a good thing or a bad thing anyone have a better approach posted by peter fröhlich at 8 50 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom who blogs here peter fröhlich munich germany i like old games and old computers i dig free software and free culture and i believe that people not 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