Zardnaar
Legend
OSE advanced 2E hack would be sweet for me.
D&D 1E Old module question.
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OSE advanced 2E hack would be sweet for me.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
What kind of stuff would you want from 2E? The 2E d10-based individual initiative system? Proficiencies? Kits? I guess kits would be the big thing.
Zardnaar
Legend
Spheres and specialty priests
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Yeah, I could see it. Especially given how absurdly broken (some underpowered, some superpowered) a lot of 2E specialty priests were, having Necrotic Gnome or someone equally good re-write those with the same care they took with OSE Advanced classes has some appeal.
Seems like a nice idea for the third party DrivethruRPG product.
Not to mention all those henchmen and men at arms it was assumed you'd bring with you, lol. I remember seeing rules for XP for carousing somewhere, lol. Made me laugh! If my one fighter could have earned XP for all the bar brawls he used to get in... (not a dick or anything- he just loved to fight for the fun of it! And having a Drow, a half ogre, and a gully dwarf in the party meant excuses were frequently on offer.)
I'll have to look harder at those. I just skimmed through OSE Advanced, looking at the expanded class list. Didn't really look at spells. Wasn't thinking of actually playing it NOW, at the time, lol. Then I got this module, and it looked so wild, I HAD to try it!
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Even back in the day, since we moved away from XP for loot, the first thing I would do for any module I planned to run was to go through and cross out 30-80% of the loot. I love seeing my old pen, pencil, and wite-out marks in my old copies when I re-read or use them now.
Joshua Randall
Legend
You’re subverting AD&D’s intent by crossing out all that loot. The loot was (part of) how you level up.
Quasquteon (err, the person) proved this in his series of threads years ago.
Quasquteon (err, the person) proved this in his series of threads years ago.
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Luckily, subversion of AD&D's (often opaque) intent is the only way I know how to make that game work. Also, those modules are about 60% of what I still used in 3E and now 5E (with Dungeon Magazine adventures making up about 35% of the remainder).I LIKED having actual loot. WOTC D&D wants you poor and destitute, for no discernable reason. I was mostly flabbergasted because to listen to my old DM, PC's need to be po', po', po. - just like old school. Then I started reading through those old adventures- and WOW! Real treasure!!!
BTW, that same DM used to hand gold and items out by the bucketload, so I don't know WHAT he's getting on about, lol. It's like he believes we're all 1st Edition Monks- sworn to a vow of poverty.
BTW, that same DM used to hand gold and items out by the bucketload, so I don't know WHAT he's getting on about, lol. It's like he believes we're all 1st Edition Monks- sworn to a vow of poverty.
Zardnaar
Legend
I ran one yesterday. 200k in loot level 7ish.
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