#PnpdeSwap Tausche „Tiefwasser und der Norden“ (Forgotten Realms, #Adnd2e) gegen: englischsprachigen (A)D&D-Krams, Traveller-, #OSR -Krams oder Obskures.

Had the idea of using my tarot deck to resolve resolve #ADnD2e #psionics, but i have no idea what that'd look like....

Ok, so I've been tinkering with different material for my glorious return to #ADnD2e and I think I've settled on some things.

Thing the 1: I'm going to use the core rules CD as much as I can, its still dynamite after all these years.

Thing the 2: We playing in #Greyhawk! Am I super familiar with Greyhawk? NO, but there is lots of accessible AD&D material for it. And we can #Spelljammer if we want!

Thing the 3: I'll probably play #BECMI #Mystara with my kids!

Were there ever any 1st level adventures set on #Krynn for either #ADnD or #ADnD2e to run prior to the main #Dragonlance adventures if you're not using the Pre-Gens?

#TSR #DnD #TTRPG

#ADnD2e #Mystara but the only lasting effects of Wrath of the Immortals is the succession of Karameikos and the obliteration and cratering of the shires (and the sudden appearance of the remaining Hin in the hollow world)...

Weren't Kits great in 2e?
I wonder why they never kept up with them?

Sure, there's a bit of their dna in later editions, with prestige classes and backgrounds(skills too). But they(Kits) really permitted a different kind of narrower, more defined focus for a player early on.

Look at me, talking nice about D & D.
I've grown as a person.

It's still not that great of a not-quite-game, but sometimes... it's got some real nice ideas.

#2ed #ADnD2E #DnD #ttrpg

I wish D&D 3e was an updated AD&D 2e with more streamlined rules (ex. replace THAC0). It started with that, but they changed too much (ex. how multiple attacks were calculated) and added to much complexity.

Similarly, I wish they continued to revise D&D 4e. It may be my favorite edition, and Essentials made it better. It just needed more refinement.

#TTRPG #DnD4e #DnD #ADnD2e

No #MasksANewGeneration game this week. My wife and I are having dinner with family. Should still be up for #Pathfinder on Sunday though.

Also stoked we got to start our #ADnD2e backup campaign last Sunday. I know the system is cludgy at times and rules are all over the place, but I love the higher degree of freedom and wonder I feel both playing it and flipping through the books. I get excited and inspired by the material.

#TTRPG #GMLife

Got players together for session 0.5 for my #ADnD2e #AlQadim game. We've got a wizard, bard, cleric, and fighter in the party. The cleric wanted to play a cat-folk race so I slightly modified the elf: I took away the sleep and charm resistance, changed the weapon proficiencies from swords and bows to a 1d4 claws with +1 to attack rolls, and left the rest the same. The player was happy, so I'm happy. Easy peasy.

We just started a little RP and the NPC that was meant to be more of a patron is now the party thief. Unexpected, but it felt right in the moment, so now I get to add an NPC to the party.

I want to make backstab a little more useful and easier to pull off, but not make it unbalanced. Probably be just a little more liberal and let the thief use it at the beginning of combat, assuming they're not surprised or it just feels inappropriate. The players need the focus, not my NPC.

Super stoked about this as a backup game.

#TTRPG #GMLife

I decided to try and collect my thoughts for this #ADnD2e campaign, and I've been playing with #JoplinNotes. I'm really enjoying this. I can make individual sheets for everything, sync it so I can work in my home office then pull it up on my laptop or even jot down thoughts while I'm at work during lunch. Very cool.

#TTRPG #GMLife

I'm going to start with players on a barge traveling to one of the larger towns or smaller cities on the coast, near the mouth of a river. I can add mountains and desert as needed, until I flesh out the setting completely.

As the players listen to a well-to-do merchant's stories one night, the ship will be attacked as bandits attack the passengers and crew while searching for something in the merchant's cabin. If the players fight the bandits off, they'll be rewarded with an opportunity for great riches. If they fail, they'll be hired to retrieve a valuable from the merchant THEN if they succeed they'll get the offer.

I figure I can stretch out this with jobs from the merchant to gather items that help solve a puzzle to a larger haul. First they'll have to retrieve a special spyglass from a wrecked ship now populated by clever kobolds. Then they can explore ruins, dive into ancient tombs, search dank caves and do all sorts of treasure hunting shenanigans.

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#ADnD2e #TTRPG #GMLife

Looks like I might finally get to start my Arabian Nights inspired #ADnD2e backup campaign this weekend. Even if it's just finishing up character creation, I'll be stoked.

I love how easy it is to slot in weird magic items and how much easier it is to work out encounters without poorly calculated challenge ratings in the monster manual. I can just grab some monsters out of the MM and go.

I feel like since there are fewer mechanics set in stone, it's easier to really hit that sense of wonder or of dread when running old D&D or #OSR games. It feels freer to me.

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#TTRPG #GMLife

I'm making progress.

What's annoying is I use PSP7 for vector shapes and text, but SAI for the artwork. So I have to save as a .psp, then make a .psd copy to import into SAI, save as a .sai, then when I'm happy, export back as a .psd so I can import it back into PSP7 for the text.

Ferys still looks a little off, but I can live with it. Especially since I've remembered to make it look like he's been travelling through the Wastelands for days, and I'm trying to keep him looking his age, which believe it or not, is only 16. He's a tough character to get right!

I'm also trying to keep in mind my world map. He's in the southern hemisphere and travelling south, so the sun should be behind him at midday. Not off to the right as I originally drew. Also, I'll fix the flashback image colour cast when I import it into PSP.

I still have 15 pages to go. Depending on if I haven't lost the will to live by then, I MAY even try to illustrate the battle 😱

#ADnD2e #DnD #manga #wip #art #comics #ferysandzephyr

I've thought it be fun to work on a #Python project to make a character generator for #ADnD2e using the dictionary function. I could probably add in a GUI die roller that I made previously.

I don't have a reason to do a lot of programming for my day job, so I try and think of little projects like this to keep up my (quite limited) skills.

#TTRPG #GMLife #Programming

So whaddyaknow, I've actually done a bit more work on my manga remake.

Then I realised that mirroring each page isn't going to work, because then the characters themselves will be in mirror image, so now I'm going to have to go through every panel individually and reflip it, so that the layout stays left to right, but the characters look how they're meant to and travel in the correct direction!

#ADnD2e #manga #art #fantasy #wip #comic #beginner #ferysandzephyr #naminaris

Yesterday, I started on a project I've had on the back burner for many years.

I wrote my first #manga back in 2010. It's the backstory for my #ADnD2e veterans. It was while writing this that Zephy became a completely different character, and I'm so glad he did!

https://blog.outtolunch.me.uk/fiction/shadows/

I hadn't figured out vector lines on #PaintToolSAI yet, and using a tablet without a built in screen was tricky. Also my skill level was pretty low, so the end result was not very good.

My goal is to finally redraw the whole thing and also fix the text layout (I was reading manga at the time, so I drew the panels manga style, ie right to left, even though it makes no sense in English).

#art

@cynical13 Awesome. Just re-read and played some #Adnd2e Still loving it a lot.

A week or so ago, I was watching a video on older versions of #DnD and #THAC0 finally really clicked hard with me. Once life settles down a bit, I'm going to work with members of my #Pathfinder group to develop an #ADnD2e game loosely based in #AlQadim as a backup for when we are missing one or more players.

I'm dying to get back to AD&D2e. That was the game I started with and that's the version that still really excites me.

I'd happily play some version of Basic D&D or one of the retro-clones, but I think if it's going to happen at all, I'll have to be the one to run it. But that's fine, I love the freedom of the earlier editions to tell a really fun, engaging story for my players.

#TTRPG #GMLife

I'm on Chapter 5 of #BaldursGate. I first got the box set with TotSC included and maps and everything back in 2003, when it was in the charity shop I worked at. A woman was going to buy it for her son. She asked me what the age rating was, because she couldn't see it, and when I showed her it was for 15+, she decided against it, so I snapped it up and started on the road to becoming an #ADnD2e fangirl! I later found the #DnDBasic set in another charity shop a few years later for £2.50. They had a lot of miniatures too, but I never bought them. That's when I went full-on fangirl, bought the guides, started crafting my own campaign world and got my nephew to play for a short time.

I never finished Icewind Dale. I couldn't defeat the final boss. I don't think I ever installed Icewind Dale II. I'm not sure if it's because I needed a break from the series or because it wouldn't work on my crappy netbook.

AD&D2e will always be the best version for me. The only issue was the crappy alignment definitions, but people have made fixes for that, so it's fine (I'm a chaotic neutral btw).

#BG1 #StarFrontiers #DungeonsAndDragons #nostalgia #IcewindDale

I really miss playing or running #ADnD2e. That's the game I started playing, and I love the overall feel, weird rolls aside. I can't wait to get to have players start working on characters for a backup game I'm working on for when not all of my Sunday players can make game.

#TTRPG #GMLife