Garhkal wrote: I've often wondered, IF a ghost appears, does it ONLY age humans/humanoids, or would it also age animals? Theoretically, it should affect animals since the effect is supernatural. It would probably be pretty fatal in a lot of cases. because they didn't want all 3 races to be cookie cu...

Garhkal wrote: What of for animals? Say someone gets reincarnated as a wolf, or eagle? How long do THEY last age wise? IIRC most dogs/wolves live at most 18 or so years.. So what would you grade someone who say was a 30 yr old human, that then got reincarnated into a wolf as?? To be honest, we never...

Garhkal wrote: One thing i've often wondered on that, is WHAT IS THE "Age" bracket for the new body? A young adult (teen)? Full adult? Older?? Yeah, that goes back to my comparison to real life. In Hindu and Vedic religion and science (respectively), you're reincarnated as a baby, whether ...

I'm gonna have to put some thought into how I'd want the spell to work. One thing that's a bit odd about it is that in the real world idea of reincarnation, you're born into a new body as a baby. In the game, a fully grown body appears into which you incarnate. I guess there's no practical way aroun...

McDeath wrote: Demihumans and humanoids can't be all the classes humans can they? I don't believe so (talking core books as I rarely dipped my toes in the handbooks until i bought a Core Rules 1.0 & 2.0. Lol.. they had more than core Rules. No, and I've kept most of the racial/class restrictions...

I think for example the level limit for elves as wizards (what most people complain about) was 9th level in 1E and 12th level in 2E. But as I said, level limits are literally a non-issue. They literally wasted ink printing it on the page because it serves no purpose and has no effect in the game.

Tawnos wrote: I have always gone with the optional rule that is costs double the experience to go up for Demi-humans and allow them to continue forward But why ? What I mean is, what practical purpose does that serve and why is that tweak needed in the first place? It's essentially a commonly uses n...

Yeah it makes me think Gamma World, not AD&D.

Oh hell! I forgot we had these topics! I gotta go over them. I'm gonna start back on writing Undermountain in a week or so, and I'll go over these and see if I can fit some of them into the adventure. I skimmed over them when you first posted them and I'm liking what I see. My god, if we add more sp...

What I'm saying is I like the idea of reincarnation because it adds some flavor to the game. You roll on a table to see what you incarnate as. So say you were a human ranger. You might come back as a bugbear, or an orc, or a goblin, or an elf. Or perhaps you do come back as a human but the odds are ...

McDeath wrote: Fifth option is loot him and let him rot/bury him. Roll a new dude. True, that's a fifth option, but not in context of the point I'm making, which is if the player wishes to continue playing his character, and the character dies, he has only 4 options - raise dead, resurrection, wish ...

Interesting how synchronicities happen these days. I was reading some old writings I printed up about how I handle raise dead and reincarnation when used against undead, and was thinking about the reincarnation spell. Then I created a druid for my old gaming friend's game. He's using 5E rules as a b...

What's more, every "fix" for the "problem" that has ever been offered has either: 1. Accomplished nothing, making the entire issue irrelevant 2. Created the same problems incurred by the demi-human level limits in the first place 3. Created a new class of demi-humans, namely huma...

You know, sometimes I feel like I'm an alien from an advanced planet living amongst a strange and alien race of beings who lack critical reasoning skills. I had to go find an old post of mine at DF, and had to search in the 1E forum. Whenever I do that, I skim the topics just to see what's going on ...

Garjkal wrote: Found it in 1e, for the Wu jen of all places.. Though its d4 at 10th... And only replenish once one leaves.. Ah, thanks! I was wondering where that was. After you mentioned that, it rang a bell but damned if I could remember where. Wu-Jen were pretty awesome! I've never liked though, ...

I can sort of see the reasons for the different numbers of followers by class. Fighters become warlords of sorts, so they need a good number of followers and some leveled ones too, to serve as lieutenants, etc. Thieves would only get a smallish number because how many non-lawful people can you manag...

Garhkal wrote: I can't remember if it was a book, or a HR, but i did remember seeing something for mages getting followers, 1d4+1 at level 9, if they build a wizard tower... Apprentices.. Gaining an addtional one every level there after... Once an apprentice hits level 9, they leave... I can't recal...

McDeath wrote: Paladins are paragons of good and pious to boot I guess. They aren't like the religious zealots of tv. They shun sin and followers are pride. They follow their god and tell others to seek that good god and not them. I guess they're more christ like than christ in some ways. Followers ...

Looking at another old post, let's discuss barbarians. My god, they are insanely powered! Not the class itself. The only Unearthed Arcana class that was truly overpowered was the cavalier, who was in essence a 3E class in a 1E setting. But when you look at the barbarian's ability to summon a horde- ...

I stole this from a thread I started at Mortality. Tweaked it a bit, but mainly the same post. Fighters and clerics get an insane number of followers compared to other classes. It seems a bit unfair. Looking at 2E first (since I'm more familiar with it than 1E), fighters get tons of followers. If he...

Bingo! I found it! Fucking phpBB is too fucking complicated these days! More settings than a goddamned smart phone! I think it should work now. I tested it on a browser with no history of this site, and it shows the forum as readable now. Let me know if you guys can access it.

This is weird. McDeath, you can see the forum, but Garhkal, you can't? Can either of you try posting a message there?

Ok, I tried something else, let me know if that worked

Ok I think that should have fixed it. LMK.

You can't post anything there? Let me check the settings. I hate how phpBB has 60 trillion settings!