Wow Thanks for this! Great work!

Aaron

Happy Birthday Maezar!

Many many more and thanks for this.

Aaron

P.S. Thanks for using a Mac

Well my group did get a pile of stuff in Things In The Crypt, and they are sure that the weapons hurt and killed the ghosts. But now that they are several adventures on, and that's all they know. They do not have to know the + to hit or weapon damage or special bonus that the weapon may have. It is much more fun to spread that knowledge out, and I as the game master keep track of all that as it is a group of  four and thus manageable in size.

Aaron

Yes this looks wonderful, can't wait for the real thing.

Aaron

Memories

Hi All:

Wow this touched a nerve or two.  Okay I agree that he is liked or hated by a great many people, and that much of is work is derivative. But in the early days that is true of many writers, remember imatation is etc. I agree about de Camp, I could never get into him as a writer. The Thongor books I read as a teenager and though I could see that they were not as well done as Howards books, I drank deep of this new writer and all others of this type. Hell when I started reading this stuff it was lumped in as science fiction, and I had to go to the nearest big city and buy it at a pipe shop. So when a new book came in at 99 cents or less we inhaled them. I think that all books are a vast repository for ideas that we can use in our gaming and even the worst ones have had something I could use to trip my players up. So I can see where many of you are coming from. But I still stand by the books I set down in the first post as being worth your time....  Aaron

A Note:  For years I have used a parrie system that I like. Everyone and thing gets parries, when I roll the attackers roll I ask the attacked to roll a D20 and add their defence bonus if it is 5 points or more higher then the attack roll they parrie it (Monsters just get a parrie (attack roll) and if it is 5 points higher it is deflected) Thus giving the players a small advantage over the monsters, as in this adventure they could have died many times over especially against the kings megaghost....  Aaron 

Hi All:  Part 4

Greed is bad, we should all have this tattooed across our foreheads.  Of course we went to the end of the corridor.  Of course we found the catch that opened the door to the high kings chamber and muscled the heavy slab open. There we found the king laid out like the others and two small chests on the chamber floor.  If our armor was that of gods, then this was the armor of the king of gods. While the berserker watched the door, the fighter forced the first chest open to find a gold goblet encrusted with jewels. While he did that the ranger picked up the helm, and ghostly warriors filled the corridor. Trembling with dread we met them just inside the doorway where they could come at us but two at a time. More to follow in a bit...  Aaron

Hi All: Part 2

No member of the party could read the glyphs but the story was accompanied by pictographs, and seemed to be the story of a great king and his deeds.  Feeling the need to go deeper into the barrow mound the party tore more paneling from the walls both to build up the fire and to use as torches.  they ventured down a sloping corridor approximately thirty feet where they found a passage to both the right and left. Deciding right they found a corridor with several burial chambers. the fighter and berserker checked out the first one where they found a bier and on it a helmet, a medium shield, and a long sword in it's scabbard. About then the ranger told them that more wolves had made their way in and were almost upon them. The fighter grabbed shield and longsword while my berserker did the same from the next bier and hurried to face the wolves telling the ranger to arm himself as well. after a short battle we dispatched the wolves and marveled at our new weapons, helms and shields. They seemed to be of a higher quality then we were accustomed to though plain in appearance. After thanking the spirits of the dead warriors a braver party explored the rest of the corridor finding two more biers with similar equpiment and that the passage ended just after that. More to follow in a bit... Aaron

Hi all:  Well quite a few of our current Pathfinder group did not show.  Making it a perfect time to start an AS&SH game, and my inspiration came from a R.E.H. tale. The two guys present rolled up a Ranger, a Fighter, and I made a Beserker. To get true "over the top" fantasy heros they rolled 6D6 7 times, dropped the 3 lowest dice and used the extra roll to drop the lowest roll if higher. This gave each party member at least one 18 with the lowest roll about 14. They were members of an ambushed raiding party and had fled from overwhelming odds only to be hunted by a wolf pack. When we started they had lost two companions and had lost all but 2 daggers each.  Moving through thigh high snow they made their way into the foothills, and there just before last light they found an old barrow tomb, the door partly blocked by fallen stone. Climbing in they found a corridor leading into the mound lined with wood panels that they used to start a fire just within the entrance.  Not long after they got the fire going one of the wolves jumped the barrier landing partly in the fire and we quickly dispatched it.  My berserker picked the body up and tossed it back outside earning the displeasure of the party who wanted to cook and eat it.  But redeamed himself soon after by dispatching another one.  By this time the fire was going well and they could see more of their surroundings.  That's when they noticed that the panneling had glyphs on it.  More to follow in a bit... Aaron