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[Broken Sword: White Box] Elves
The elves in Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword are very different from those elves found in Tolkienesque vanilla fantasies of Greyhawk et al and need to be somewhat tweaked. In fairness the elves in...
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[Broken Sword: White Box] Fairy power!
Elves, like all fairy races in The Broken Sword (including: Dwarfs, Goblins and Trolls), have the following powers and vulnerabilities: Witch Sight: all fairy can see other fairy and magical races....
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[Broken Sword: White Box] Trolls and Goblins
Trolls in The Broken Sword bare little resemblance to the classic D&D troll, they use weapons + armour and don’t rely upon claw attacks and they don’t appear to regenerate. They seem to bare a...
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MoRC is dead
I’ve been snooping around Crypts & Things and it looks like it does everything I’d want My Own Retro-Clone to do… I think I’d port my MoRC combat system over and that’s about it… but if what I’m...
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Cor! What a pain…
…in the arse Lulu.com is! Just created my own 3-in-1 volume set of OD&D! Sweet! But, boy oh boy, Lulu isn’t very user friendly. First I had to re-size my PDF as annoyingly each page was a different...
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[OD&D] First impressions
First, I really don’t get the criticism of players schooled in later editions re OD&D being unplayable. Sure, for a total newbie it would make no-sense-what-so-ever, but the rules are obviously...
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[Saving Throws] A little bit more uniformity probably wouldn’t hurt
I’m growing quite found of the Saving Throw system in D&D. It reduces the importance on stats and refocusses on Class and Level as being the primary power differentiator in the game. My only...
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Magic questions
I saw this on io9 yesterday I thought about posting it here, then I forgot, then I saw another Alliance member has posted it on their blog here, so I thought I wouldn’t bother, then I thought ‘fuck it’...
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Squadron UK is back!!!
Well, I’m pleased to see that Simon Burley’s little brush with the Games Workshop lawyers hasn’t done any long term harm… he’s relaunched Squadron UK, which was previously a re-branded reissue of...
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My OD&D
Well, my minimal Lulu edition of OD&D has arrived. (Shhh… Don’t tell the ghost of Gygax & Arneson ffs!) The verdict? It looks quite nice actually. There are some problems with it, which I...
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