Castles Forlorn was cool, with the undead Loch Ness monster! Oh, I had fun with that! :twisted: Arabian Adventures was a great resource as well. Lots of cool new material. Star Frontiers I never played specifically. I incorporated it into my old Gamma World campaign. First the nuclear war, then the...

Good resource if you like Spelljammer.

I don't go in too deep into physics with undead. Undead are silent, so they're always silent - even when crossing leaves, branches, etc. As for infravision, it depends on how you use it. If you go with the infrared explanation, they can't see undead because undead are room temperature. I don't perso...

Oh god! Sorry I haven't checked in, in awhile. Been so busy with Halloween season stuff (2 movies a night, etc). I used to do it on initiative, i.e. if the priest went on a 5 initiative and cast heat metal, then the heating effect hits every round at initiative of 5. But it got tedious tracking that...

Let me know if these links work. They should.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5f5z67im8l1q ... e.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy2kytf40dlr3 ... e.pdf?dl=0

Garhkal, if you need PDFs of those, let me know. I can upload them to Dropbox

I was thinking about something just now. As she originally appeared, the demoness goddess of the Drow was named Lloth . Later, in the 2E FR, her name was changed to Lolth . I always liked Lloth better. But it just hit me...how do you pronounce Lloth? With the double-L, we might pronounce it "Li...

Lots and lots of copies!

When you get a chance, I'd love to hear from you and Garhkal in the RoU Developer forum about those spells I posted. Still trying to figure out what to do with them.

Goddamn near had a heart attack just now! All the files dated for 5-27-21 (the most current dated files) seem to be corrupted (0 bytes - empty), although I had back ups of all of them - except the core rooms for Level 8! I opened an earlier version of Level 8 Core Rooms and noticed a dozen rooms mis...

Ok guys, here's some updated news. I figured I'd start a new thread since it's been awhile. I've been getting in the mood to write, which is good since I only have technically 12 rooms left for Level 8 in order to wrap up all the room descriptions for the entire box set. Here's what's making this sl...

I tend not to see more natural (i.e. real world and similar) animals as set in their listed alignments, i.e. I wouldn't consider a worg wolf "irredeemably" evil. Especially since the monster write up says they have a "tendency towards evil". In other words, they tend to be evil, ...

Garhkal wrote: I've never been one of those who 'just because its kewl', lets real world stuff, get tossed.. I normally don't either, but within reason. I certainly wouldn't let a human ride a cheetah or something like that. But I'd let a halfling ride a cougar, because that's at least within the re...

Garhkal wrote: ITS not just their size. BUT their SPINE. I forget which site it was, but when i did a duckduckgo search for 'riding a big cat', one mentioned "Many big cats lack the TYPE of spine, that bulls, horses and other quadrupeds to, to allow them to be 'ridden'.. Tigers, are one of the ...

McDeath, I remember that combat shield! Obviously the creature on the right is a shambling mound, the center I suppose is an owlbear (though its face looks wrong), but what the hell is that supposed to be on the left? A troll? Damned muscular for a troll!

Garkhal wrote: More like finding out what cat(s), may be ridden. THEN where they would be located at to find. For issues like that. I always suggest telling them they may have to consult with a sage. Great way to burn off some of their excess gold too! :twisted: Exactly. He may know of say tigers/li...

That compendium cover, btw, is my all time favorite art for both the umber hulk and the displacer beast. The beholder, as you pointed out, McDeath, looks like it was fucking skinned alive!

One of my goofy players - he played a wizard in my original Undermountain campaign - wanted a displacer beast as a familiar. :shock: :roll: He had gotten a wish somehow - a genie bottle or a scroll or something. He wanted to use the wish to get a displacer beast familiar. Note that this was maybe a ...

Garhkal wrote: Now comes the question, of how would he LEARN any of that, in game, then go about finding one. Not sure I know what you mean. How does he go about finding the great at? Or how does he go about "taming" it? The former I would just assume the PC has heard of the great cats jus...

For small PCs like halflings, gnomes, etc., I'd allow them to ride most wild large cats as long as: 1. The cat is on the large size for its species - even a cougar could probably "ride" a halfling or gnome. Lynxes are pretty strong too. Panthers, cheetahs and the like are built more for sp...

As far as I'm seeing, they're correct. I verified Castles , Dragon Mountain , Night Below and a few others. Yeah, it's a bitch to sort out that stuff! For me, the maps for FR is a real issue because some of the module adventures came with regional maps, which I took out of the product to store separ...

Hmmm. That I don't remember at all.

I know from speaking with the mappers that a vector program is a huge must have when rendering maps. I spoke with Govi last Friday. He's doing some tweaks we needed to the Level 8 maps. I think he's still using Illustrator for the maps.

McDeath wrote: I bet they used a random generator on some of that 5e UM. No... I'd get better results with a rando dungeon. On that point, I can assure you it's not what they did. How do I know that? Because even a shitty random generator would have produced a better product! :lol: Well, that and th...

The vomiting stopped after a few minutes! :lol: I can't say for sure about Spelljammer since I hated even the 2E version. But the 3E, 4E, and 5E "Undermountain" releases are blasphemous travesties on an order of magnitude so high that I can't even express it with the help of a scientific c...

McDeath wrote: There have been more than a few articles on the matter and the biggest was Kingdom of the Dead I think with the True Ghouls (was in Dragon & Dungeon. I was disappointed there wasn't an early Van Ritchen's Guides to the lesser Dead (if you call ghouls & wights lesser. I practic...