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p for each point of damage sustained to the individual who sustained it 30 xp for each point of damage sustained by everyone divided equally by all and we ll retain the 1 xp per gold piece value of treasure brought back from an adventure divided equally by all pcs since then i ve heard from one player who isn t happy with the experience change he pointed out that this directly impacts the draft mechanic on growing magic items slowing down the process he is correct it cuts the rate of advancement in half i m sticking to it though you may recall i borrowed this directly from alexis smolensk and his blog the tao of d d i still really like the idea of experience being based on combat damage both caused and sustained but found that it was leading to some players going against type in order for their pcs to earn more experience with the change the distribution of experience is leveled somewhat taking it closer to the od d baseline which of course is an equal division of the total earned by the entire group as for the change to ability checks you need to know that for character creation i ve stuck strictly with 3d6 in order for character stats this makes the even distribution of results on a d20 a lot tougher on the pcs than if i allowed 4d6 drop the lowest or some other method of character generation so far the new method has worked admirably definitely a keeper the next change i intend to make is to update critical hits and misses more on that in the near future posted by dave at 2 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ability checks experience house rules od d wednesday april 13 2016 da bonz last week in one of the facebook groups i belong to jonathan songe scott offered to send free copies of his mini adventure da bonz to seven people in the group i don t recall his exact words right now but at the time i thought that d be cool but i don t qualify a day later i noticed he still had some so i put my name in pm d him my address and got word it would soon be in the mail it came on saturday and i eagerly read it i just wasn t sure how soon i d get to run it since my weekly group had several other things going on monday night came and while the party was deciding what they wanted to do the mage headed to the bar they frequent in order to fill his wine skins for whatever journey they decided upon ah ha i couldn t have asked for a better set up the bar was empty and the bartender complained that his regulars were all at that new place down the road the mage went alone and found himself at da bonz he surveyed the establishment bribed one of the npcs who appeared to be taking notes and learned enough to know that the rest of the group would be interested and they were da bonz is a mini adventure a prop and a magic item and can easily be slipped into any fantasy game included is a map of the building a key that describes the map and the various npcs found there a small pouch and 4 dice as well as a chart to allow the dm to locate the named effect and several pages of detail about said effects pcs pay for admission and then for a chance to roll da bonz the set of 4 dice that came with the set 3 of the dice have rune like symbols denoting the numbers 1 to 6 the 4th just has two one represents fortune the other misfortune less powerful than a deck of many things da bonz nevertheless can have quite an impact on the pcs both for good and for ill most effects are categorized both by type and strength and the descriptions include both a fortune and a misfortune each of the 5 pcs in monday s game chose to roll da bonz and two of them rolled a second time when they finally decided to leave da bonz and head out to explore they ran into an npc they knew who was now down on his luck the mage offered to buy him a roll of da bonz and they went back inside sadly this resulted in fortune abysmal for the npc who only thought he d been down on his luck before the booklet itself has a laminated cover and is almost the same dimensions as my od d lbbs i think it s a4 folded in half inside the front cover is the map inside the back cover is the chart of effects in between are 12 pages including a table of contents an introduction the effects descriptions details of the various locations depicted on the map and more i liked the writing i liked the map i liked the dice i m now trying to decide how to get my other group to visit da bonz same campaign world different city because i know they ll like it too of course several of them read this blog so i shouldn t have to try to hard they ll ask me about it the only issue i had running it was that i only read it over once beforehand foolishly thinking it s only 12 pages i got this true but they re packed with information and the first few rolls of da bonz had me scrambling my only issue with the product itself was the font size used the margins were big enough on most pages that increasing the font size a pt or two wouldn t have affected the layout but would have made it easier on my old eyes all in all i enjoyed da bonz immensely as did my players and will keep an eye out for other game aids by jonathan scott posted by dave at 10 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels da bonz jonathan songe scott od d monday february 8 2016 where has the time gone too much time has passed since my last post so i figured i d just share this awesome video about time h p lovecraft fans rejoice check out this animated short of the shadow out of time video i need to start posting regularly again posted by dave at 10 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lovecraft monday may 4 2015 starting a lords of creation campaign i think i ve talked about my teen players before several of them run their own games now which thrills me even though i m only a player in my son s osric game right now i ask my son questions about the other games after he plays and i m always intrigued one runs a game called tephra several run mash ups of different versions of d d with pieces of other games thrown in and one runs a rules loose game he created using the metamorphica to create characters all of them seem to mix genres freely it makes me happy see that creativity and i enjoy hearing my son tell me about their games even if i m not playing it got me thinking though that if they don t care much for genre specificity i might be able to run a game of lords of creation for them although i ve owned it since it first came out i ve only run a few short one shots it really didn t fit the tsr mold we were used to i decided to give it a try on the 26th of april i started small just my son and one of his buddies both high school seniors i told them both that rather than roll up characters they were gonna be themselves i had them assign themselves values for muscle speed stamina and mental but told them nothing higher than a 15 or lower than a 7 they then traded character sheets just to provide input to each other for luck i had them roll 2d10 three times and take the average i set the game in early june 2019 that would make mike a new college graduate and greg who plans on a three year school a graduate with one year of work under his belt i let them adjust their stats a little to account for the next four years then had them pick skills based on their college and work plans we played several hours and they both seemed to have fun since i d told mike i could run the game for five players until i was comfortable with the rules we planned to play again on tuesday the 28th since they only had a half day of school when everyone got to the house i sent mike and greg to the basement to play video games while i ran the same character creation scenario with jake logan and donald i ll write about the two sessions in the near future but the one thing i wanted to point out now was a real surprise to me in spite of all these guys having played in my od d and traveller campaigns and in each others games playing as themselves brought an entirely different vibe to the game no matter what i described or how poorly i described it it was clear especially with my son that the experience was far more visceral now that it was happening to them rather than characters they d made up i had a blast and it seemed like they did too posted by dave at 12 11 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lords of creation od d tephra the metamorphica traveller thursday january 22 2015 corvis lord of the winter master of the icy pit king of the frozen waste corvis is a member of the concordat and is worshipped in cittá and places dominated by ice snow or winter he appears as a tall gaunt man with pale blue skin white hair and icy grey eyes his symbol is an icicle or a symmetric 6 pointed ice crystal he uses a large icicle as a weapon to stab with or as a wand to cast ice related spells corvis is neutral clerics of corvis may wield clubs maces daggers or throwing stars modeled on snowflake designs they create or anything they can fashion from ice they may not wear metal armor his clerics most often dress in pale blue white or grey and black they gain the following abilities at 5th level his clerics resist cold as per the 1st level spell at 9th level his clerics resist fire as per the 2nd level spell in addition he grants them access to the following spells when they reach the appropriate level ice storm from 4th level mage list as a 4th level spell cone of cold from 5th level mage list as a 5th level spell control weather from 6th level mage list as a 6th level spell posted by dave at 12 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels concordat corvis the nine hundred gods of cittá monday january 19 2015 2015 gaming goals i posted my 2014 gaming goals on 1 jan 14 as with my 2013 gaming goals i didn t do so well although i was a little better i didn t make my 26 sessions goal and i definitely failed in my blogging goal i started my od d player s guide but didn t finish it or print it for my players i didn t host any non rpg game nights either although we did play a horserace game as one of our non game parties drew down to 8 people or so on the plus side i created 5 player character sheets one for each character class warrior mage cleric thief and adventurer and included a bunch of class specific information on the back of each i ll post them here in the near future but each time we play either i or one of my players points out another edit i ve got to do finally i did manage to start a second group in my od d campaign world i m now running both a teen group and an adult group so what are my goals for 2015 here they are run at least 35 sessions between od d campaign and my traveller campaign blog at least thrice weekly on average all year long finish my od d player s guide and distribute to my players continue to invite new players to join my games running additional session for subgroups as time allows host non rpg game nights to try out some other games what are your gaming goals for 2015 posted by dave at 5 49 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gaming goals od d traveller older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me dave view my complete profile labels i will survive 1 1e 2 2e 1 2nd edition ad d 1 4e 1 ability checks 1 adnd 3 adventurer 3 aeron alfrey 1 ancient aliens 1 annals of the annelids wormpacalypse 1 appendix n 1 arden 1 ardeni 2 ardeni information service 1 art 2 awesometivity 2 background 1 bill and ted s excellent adventure 1 blog hop challenge 1 blogging 5 boot hill 1 bubble cities 1 bwap 1 cake 1 calendar 1 carto cacography 1 chaynu subsector 1 cittá 3 clans 1 class 1 concierge 1 concordat 5 corrin aledrinker 1 corvis 1 da bonz 1 database 1 dcc 1 destination unknown 1 dm 1 dmg 2 dnd 2 empire weather 1 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