tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post4085248247933803229..comments2024-03-27T22:32:17.055-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: The Short Life & Stupid Death of Chester of the Pointy HatJeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-74646802618845133002012-10-31T07:20:10.346-05:002012-10-31T07:20:10.346-05:00Is this still an active blog?Is this still an active blog?Tetsubohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00339621610619347842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-63692075829402649152012-10-27T15:22:24.735-05:002012-10-27T15:22:24.735-05:00is this blog dead :( is this blog dead :( Jesse Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13737072478903535244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-46066574352710655862012-10-03T16:14:23.651-05:002012-10-03T16:14:23.651-05:00Too cool for words. I agree, it's those bloody...Too cool for words. I agree, it's those bloody, gory, old-school moments that really stick with you ...Lukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18210941654513813581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-13377125810654677502012-09-28T10:21:14.358-05:002012-09-28T10:21:14.358-05:00was clicking through the "random post" b...was clicking through the "random post" button on this blog and found references to an adventure called "Asteroid 1618" Found something with that name by someone named AJ Putman. Is this the writer name of jrients? if not, where can i find the asteroid 1618 for EC by jrients?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-10729726709337381862012-09-17T19:45:13.626-05:002012-09-17T19:45:13.626-05:00Pretty quiet around here.Pretty quiet around here.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899121263427112573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-39251791466723536182012-09-09T03:17:02.409-05:002012-09-09T03:17:02.409-05:00hey man sorry to off topic here but i'm trying...hey man sorry to off topic here but i'm trying to find some kind of premise synopsis for Bill Mantlo's Sword of the Swashbucklers it sounds like you read the series or TPB.Shlomo Ben Hungstienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238927958290618109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-18107038647316222362012-09-09T00:15:58.212-05:002012-09-09T00:15:58.212-05:00I adopted the low-level high danger philosophy las...I adopted the low-level high danger philosophy last week with a LotFP game on my college campus this week. Most of the people who joined the game where used to 3rd and 4th editions, and figured there was no risk in sending their first level MU up close to do battle with some lizard men.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544796707580770109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-56678431349250529092012-09-02T09:53:22.945-05:002012-09-02T09:53:22.945-05:00One of the greatest moments for me as a DM is intr...One of the greatest moments for me as a DM is introducing new players to the Tao of the Old School. Especially if they started with 4E. Last Thursday saw them blunder into a large group of goblins and hobgoblins gathered together at the back of the cave complex, the pitiful remainder of once large tribes defending their last redoubt from the marauding adventurers who had spent the last three days killing them. Five hobgobs and a dozen goblins with their assorted non-com kin.<br /><br />The players, 4 level 1 PCs, two henchmen and a charmed hobgoblin, tried to bust in the door to gain surprise, but it took them three tries so the enemy was ready for them and charged as soon as the door came down. In an epic battle in which my dice were on fire, rolling 3 natural 20's and 4 19s (all out in the open), only the wizard was left standing with a bloody dagger and a waning shield spell. He managed to revive one PC with a healing potion, but the others were all dead, dead, dead.<br /><br />I told them 'It isn't the precision tactical battles, endless gimmicky powers or battles that allow you to wade through endless hordes with little risk that will burn themselves into your memories. It is battles like these, the tense, unpredictable Zulu Dawn moments in a fantasy friggin' Vietnam of an old school dungeon with less than 6 HP and no magic weapons, where only a PC or two lives to tell the tell and reap the rewards, that will stick with you for the rest of your gaming days."Maxwell Luthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-72423777838795445912012-08-31T17:55:15.957-05:002012-08-31T17:55:15.957-05:00Sounds like a much needed support group for DM'...Sounds like a much needed support group for DM'sDaveLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01837748113498012191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-50466114522247607962012-08-31T14:45:39.243-05:002012-08-31T14:45:39.243-05:00Your adventures and subsequent philosophy is they ...Your adventures and subsequent philosophy is they way we came up gaming back in the 80s. We had a high death rate but we somehow survived more than we died. Very careful playing!. Eldrad Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292418521508905397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-25453777963512762742012-08-30T19:54:07.017-05:002012-08-30T19:54:07.017-05:00FRC1 Ruins of Adventure (probably the worst 1e mod...FRC1 Ruins of Adventure (probably the worst 1e module ever made) has an encounter in which the pcs are supposed to observe a massive humanoid hoedown while investigating various bad-doings in the Forgotten Realms. The text of the adventure explicitly says that the pcs would be crazy to attack and that the DM should do whatever he could to get them to understand that attacking the massive group of monsters would be suicidal.<br /><br />My group was never one to play adventures as written and would often perversely do the opposite of whatever the printed module wanted the group to do. I, as DM, generally cheered them on. So, when we got to that encounter, I read to them aloud the non-boxed text of the encounter that I described above, and said, "So guys, what do you think." They didn't hesitate. They spent the next half hour of real time making plans and then struck with devastating precision. It was a blast, and - of course - they won. <br /><br />--Fred the Dwarf Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-46741077812391895102012-08-30T17:53:59.457-05:002012-08-30T17:53:59.457-05:00Hey I have a blog for gaming leaders, for support ...Hey I have a blog for gaming leaders, for support and dealing with day to day issues when running a gaming communit/clan/guild. If you got 5 minutes, come over and check us out:D we don't bite. Be nice to get some more memebers fort active long standing gaming blogs. <br /><br />even if your not a community leader its good to see the ins and outs of what the leaders do behing the scenes.<br /><br />www.whatdoleadersthink.blogspot.comparabellumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03524369708566454122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-14751388498474532292012-08-30T15:24:54.583-05:002012-08-30T15:24:54.583-05:00Very interesting. My memory of the particulars of ...Very interesting. My memory of the particulars of youthful gaming is very hazy.Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-91053168828823762112012-08-30T15:14:07.725-05:002012-08-30T15:14:07.725-05:00I have to agree. Salvatore would get a trilogy out...I have to agree. Salvatore would get a trilogy out of that gnoll fight nowadays.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-18917089270734990302012-08-30T14:59:35.619-05:002012-08-30T14:59:35.619-05:00I'm with Zzarchov on this one, those Gnolls ha...I'm with Zzarchov on this one, those Gnolls had moxey. I bet in Gnoll camps that one is still told by the trackers that returned the next day and stumbled across the massacre. They died with their boots on or something.Gus Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872819206286105195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-65732935287258586212012-08-30T13:49:12.357-05:002012-08-30T13:49:12.357-05:00I bet the Gnolls were doubly surprised "How ...I bet the Gnolls were doubly surprised "How are they still winning!"Zzarchovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07714805545939725730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-34874772947956483122012-08-30T13:42:42.967-05:002012-08-30T13:42:42.967-05:00Plus one. That Gnoll combat sounds like fun.
And ...Plus one. That Gnoll combat sounds like fun.<br /><br />And the dragon thing reminds of this time I was in Wessex. And this other time...Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.com