Magic item ideas

 Time 10:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_wxKYt_www&t=611s

• Ring of the mole - digs thru dirt or ice at 10’ per old school Turn, aka 10 minutes 
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Origins, Charm Person spell, fire-beetles, sea nymphs , slime monsters, Lankhmar

 The Swords of Lankhmar has em on pg 95

“Fire-beetles, glow-wasps, and night-bees supping at the Closet flowers…”. Though they are meant to be as fireflies and glowworms…not actual fire.

SPOILERS

Gray Mouser has a silver tiny needle in his forehead… magically charming him to the wererat chick, Hisvet. 

Also…woo nymph and sea nymph mentioned arounf pg 97.

Mentions slime monster dividing in two to reproduce. Like adnd slimes often do. Pg 100.

Ghouls, though half transparent… looking more like skeletons. 

Dire rats all over… size of housecats..

Pg 109… mentioned possible potion for evil eye kill (eye bite), clairvoyant spying, … potion to incr cunning or mental smarts.

Animals more in the salt marsh - water cobras, giant worms (size of a rat maybe, but surely gave Gygax ideas for purple worms), sea leeches, poison eels, saw beaked cadaver birds falapping low, claw footed salt soiders.

The deep voiced creepy wizard Sheelba of the Eyeless is very influential on DCC. This guy hides his face in a hood, never seen, has no eyes so far by page 105-110 (Mouser imagines blind? Skin Flesh instead of eyes?  AntennaE? A skull?… perhaps Skeletor comes from him also.). Sheelba also never shows his fingers, if he has any. Gray Mouser wonders if he has a chin or elbows. All this points to maybe tentacles for arms, eh?.  Compare to DCC magic user types and the corruption - scroll way down https://deathtrap-games.blogspot.com/2020/07/game-review-dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg.html

Fun phrase - “ten hundred and one [gods] of Lankhmar…” referring to the thousands and thousands of gods.

Draw Steel game, MCDM

 Says it is tactical and 4e influenced in a good way. 

https://www.enworld.org/threads/draw-steel-fake-variety-helps-no-one.714344/

Read https://medium.com/@pictor_dice_camp/draw-steel-is-a-lot-6843841de2f4 it

Says 

• You are big damn heroes. A level 1 character in Draw Steel is powerful, you can do some great things. The game describes you as already being a hero at a local level. You may already be a legend in your home village. You should expect to be world-famous figures by level 9 or 10. You don’t track torches and rations, for the most part, you don’t even really track money. Strap on your armour, pick up your sword, and go be a hero.
• This game has a HEAVY focus on tactical, action-based combat, with minis, on a grid. Not only does it require a grid, but it expects you will be spending a large portion of your time there. It also has a big focus on movement, including forced. Throws, slams, sending your opponent into a wall, or off the edge of the cliff. It doesn’t want anyone standing still.

Throne of the gods, adnd item, fun ideas; free 1e modules

 Page121 says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhGHabBa1E&t=301s

 https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Throne_of_the_Gods_(Magic_Throne)

https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=5574

https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Throne_of_the_Gods

Free 1e stuff here - https://www.dragonsfoot.org/

For,Gold and Glory is a 2e OSR game

Mr. Rourke says it is good and streamlined.  

Btw, the Brit adnd, becmi, etc. guy youtuber - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6FNbPlG0nM&t=304s

PF 1e Spell stuff

 

This guy responding pretty much always thinks level 2 spells aren't enough dmg so... with a grain of salt, but definitely some smart analysis too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/1m8yipv/daily_spell_discussion_for_jul_25_2025_burning/ 

Guess I'm going with same old same old burning sphere, to get hits each round while maybe doing other things. It takes a MOVE action in PF 1e tho so careful. 

I got the flurry of snowballs too, since it is a nice 30 ft cone. Might be casting it "from my bonded object amulet" once a day thing. 

Origin for gods’ avatars

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=80-_rLlRm90&t=145s

Book name: Greyhawk Adventures by Jim Ward  

The Greyhawk Graungnard around time 2:00 or so. 

Explains how you could no longer “kill gods” as of this last 1e adnd book that is transitioning to 2e. 

Has nee monsters and spells. 

Maugli Junglebook Timing vs. Tarzan - Origins?

 Maugli earlier eh 1894ish-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowgli

Tarzan soon after 1912 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan

And this old Burian art shows just how Tarzany the Maugli books were: https://www.daildeli.cz/buriankipling1.html

Part of Kipling's inspiration for the story of Mowgli is believed to have been William Henry Sleeman's account of six cases in India in which wild children had been raised by wolves.^[3] That account was first published in the first volume of Sleeman's Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1848-1850 (1858)^[4] and reprinted in 1852 as An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, by an Indian Official and in The Zoologist (1888 12 (135): 87-98).^[5] One most notable feral child was found in the wolf's den at the Bulandshahr district in 1867 and subsequently brought to the Sikandra orphanage at Agra, where he was given the name Dina Sanichar.^[6][7]

Blogs to see- D&D picts and campaign blogs, Paleo Art

WARNING some of these lead to not safe for work or home type drawings. But there are a lot of good D&D picts in the right blogs. 

 This guy, https://www.blogger.com/profile/06752759150344487501,  has many, like:

https://slumberingwarlock.blogspot.com/

https://sonofabitchdd.blogspot.com/ (this is that 2012 campaign, some cool picts, one cool map, some funnies)

https://to-the-north-and-beyond.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-03-10T18:39:00Z&max-results=7   is yet another campaign, lotsa good picts. 

=====other dudes/blogs below=====

https://neat-stuff-blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Zdenek%20Burian

I think above is from the Paleoartist guy from 1950s  and 1960s and 1970s  especially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Burian

https://kakhtus.tumblr.com/post/73552993949/old-school-paleoart-by-the-great-zdenek-burian

WHOLE BUNCH OF BURIAN: https://www.daildeli.cz/burian.html

• Maugli, Junglebook, Rudger Kipling: https://www.daildeli.cz/buriankipling1.html

Grogu Mandalorian movie Easter egg, Kenner toy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nshwo-WbwJE

Time 5:06, the INT-4 was a good looking toy.  

Here is toy https://www.carousell.sg/p/vintage-star-wars-kenner-int-4-interceptor-1179828208/

HP can represent stamina, luck, toughness, ….

 Great list time 1:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVXvY12mepA&pp=0gcJCUwLAYcqIYzv

• Stamina
• Luck
• Touhness
• Divine favor
• Grit
• Bruises
• Near misses
• Scrapes
• Glancing blows
• Shield hits
• Armor hits

BTW, the video is about doing permanent damage on crits or even less frequently crits with max dmg. Borrowing from old Runequest, where apparently you were constantly maimed bigtime. 

Ideas from the kid

 

I am Yaiminoth, the Gilded Death Knight. You will plead for my mercy.'");

 

    Atop a crumbling cathedral its deep crimson spire pierces a blackened skull. The decrepit bone raises itself and descends towards you as a misty form flows out from beneath it. The now apparent ghostly body produces a morgenstern and longsword in both hands. 'Your grave awaits thee.'

}

 

Olin'dro Unan

    The croaks and grumbles of nightmares fill your head, your lungs lose their air, your vision darkens, and your soul sores.

        "You have made a horrific mistake.

Ideas - ODOPI super hard monster manual iii from 3.5e

 Ideas - ODOPI super hard monster manual iii from 3.5e

It looks HARD. 

28 AC

218 HP or something.

+19 to hit ranged, what?!

BTW, Legend of Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom, got one of the hand monster ideas from this guy. 

REFERENCES, BLOG: https://sonofabitchdd.blogspot.com/2012/07/chapter-nineteen-dark-wizard-of.html

Next time - ideas our campaign

 Maybe have this Entrope creature. They eat away at reality between planes, and allow stuff to spill over. 

https://www.completecompendium.com/appendix/entrope/

NOTE: 

High HPs (for 2e). Maybe I give them max, so 11 HD + 6 would be 88 plus 6, 94 HP. 

Special Defenses: Info:

Struck only by +2 or better weapons, immune to elements The Doomguard - ever interested in entropy - decided to make sure that it is true and to help the process along. Hence, their magicians and alchemists began devising a means to dissolve the barriers between the Elemental Planes. Hundreds of years of research, trials, and errors took place, but eventually they succeeded. They constructed magical creatures the Sinkers named entropes. Entropes feed on whatever makes up the borders separating the various Inner Planes. As they feed, the elements of the two planes blend and “bubbles” of foreign elements are introduced into alien planes. Eventually, the Doomguard hopes, the barriers will weaken enough so that the planes constantly bleed into each other, eventually becoming indistinguishable. The first batch of these beasts escaped Doomguard control and now wander about the Inner Planes on their own, chewing away at the fabric of reality wherever they see fit. The second group is more closely controlled. Special Defenses: Combat: Because the entrope can literally break down the fabric of reality, it's nothing to fool around with. Anywhere within the Inner Planes, the beast can “eat” through elermental borders, creating a small, temporary hole in space leading to any other Inner Plane. The rent results in a mass of the foreign element bursting into the plane with great power. While the entrope itself isn't harmed by this action, anyone within 25 feet is subject to the elemental explosion. The results depend on which plane the hole leads to (a decision made by the entrope): Air, Earth, Mineral, Ooze, Salt, Water: Matter or air explodes through the hole with great force, inflicting 3d10 points of impact damage (save versus breath weapon for half). Victims must save versus breath weapon or be knocked down and/or back 10 feet; they're also stunned for 1 round afterward. Ash, Dust, Smoke, Steam: Particulate matter bursts through the tear, inflicting 2d6 points of impact damage (save versus breath weapons for half). What's more, all victims must save versus poison or cough and choke for 1d6 rounds, incapacitated. Fire, Lightning, Positive Energy, Radiance: Raw energy gushes through the rent, inflicting 8d6 points of damage (save versus breath weapon for half). Ice, Magma: Energy (along with varying amounts of matter) erupts through the tear, inflicting 6d6 points of heat or cold damage (save versus breath weapon for half). Victims must save versus breath weapon or be knocked down and/or back 10 feet. Negative Energy: This hole sucks the life energy from all victims, draining one experience level from each. Vacuum: Matter and energy is drawn into this rent. The implosion inflicts 3d6 points of damage (save versus breath weapon for half) on victims and requires them to make a save versus death magic to avoid being pulled into the plane of Vacuum before the hole closes. The entrope can open these holes once every three rounds. The rest of the time, it defends itself with two huge claws (1d8 points of damage each) and a gigantic tooth-filled maw (1d12 points of damage). The strange creature is also immune to the effects of all elements, even ignoring impact damage from thrown boulders or similar attacks. Graybeards know of only two ways to harm an entropy: strike it with a magical weapon of +2 or greater enchantment, or subject it to nonelemtntal-based spells such as cause light wounds, magic missile, and so on.

Ideas, traps, DCC People of the Pit

 Rpg reanimators did the classic DCC with Goodman’s write up “the people of the pit”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcUpyBhSpk&t=6320s

Idea… if blade in wall look for wide enough cracks. And maybe MUD COVERING the cracks to disquise it. 

Mountain or Swamp themes for dnd

 By Esper. Great ideas. 

Mtns https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vPsUBIoC7AY&t=583s

Swamps https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKn8fZdz4k&pp=0gcJCUwLAYcqIYzv

1e spells I didnt know of; Bigsby’s x 6

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXnZqa3MKQ

From 1e or 2e, from book- Greyhawk Adventures Hardcover. 

All these ARE in the wizard’s spell compendium 

Interesting stuff like:

Bigby’s 

• X
• Y
• Z

Mordenkainen’s

• Encompassing Vision - lev 2; 360 degree , 1 hr/lvl
• Defense against lycanthropes
• Electric Arc - 

Shadowdark’s new book, Western Reaches

• It is mostly a combination of the Cursed Scrolls, but some new stuff  

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=boZM4k7FCcU&t=328s

He has good points about priest build will look same tonget access to one of those two super spells… time 4:44. Consecrate and Covenant. 

Names for characters at time 6:00. This is for Dwarves and it reminds me of Tordek (3e’s miniature Dwarf) and Gimli and such. 

First syllable like

• Den
• Mel
• Bol
• Rog
• Tor
• Bal
• Gan
• Teg
• Dan

More from time 4:45 this vid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=boZM4k7FCcU

• Gim

Last syllable like

• Dor
• Grim
• Ror
• Ek
• Dak
• Dren
• Wen
• In
• Den
• Drol

Go lin names

• First syllable 
• Sl
• Zad
• Gor
• Baz
• Ax
• Sar
• Mor
• Yal
• Etc etc

2nd half

• ib
• Laz
• Ul
• Ag
• Ek
• Eg
• Ivin
• Atok

Half elf ex.s

• Calrak
• Imgarrin
• Lirdress
• Caldorin
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• galrynn
• Galsandiel (or take out the S)
• Orlena

Half orc ones (are they oure orc bames or what?)

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• Half orc
• Balaal
• Uduk
• Zoranzuul
• Ulfok
• Zardaash
• Tralesh
• Brogek
• Yelago
• Ivuun

Halflings

• Halflings
• Trobin
• Wildo
• Samby
• Roberly
• Tilson
• Bibra
• Xhumans
• Arfen
• Marten
• Ilesa
• Rinrien
• Giran
• Eltor
• Nevilo
• Romek
• Jafora
• Branas

Kobolds

• Xkobolds
• Skix
• Talaz
• Irog
• Dr ax
• Gr ulg
• Bir ig
• Min oz
• Tim ev
• Gor ak
• Yal ov

Fighting Fantasy - Legend of the Shadow Warriors

 Review by Spellsinger

Btw, the B&W art is incredible.

Haggworts? Surely inspired the Hogwarts name, eh? See comment by UchronianKing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWViNGW-1vQ&t=1304s

Me: Haggworts… Hogwarts? And their master is Voivod (not quite Voldemort but a cousin of a name maybe). Anyway, I often see connections where they do not exist, but surely Rowling read this book and was making a friendly nod with the school’s name.

https://fightingfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Haggwort

Of course there is a plant called hogwart - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croton_capitatus

Staff of SpellFocusing - gives -4 (+4) bonus to Mages casting

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PClEwKAlkY&pp=0gcJCUwLAYcqIYzv

He says in 1e at mid levels and up, the MU needs some help bcuz spells fail so much.

Charges used, but can recharge later in 1e. 

Frank Mentzer is putting out new atuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdgMeGRkKoU&t=308s

Frank Mentzer is putting out new atuff. Time 5:00. Also repackage of the R series. He means

• -To the Aid of Falx
• The investigation of Hydell
• The Egg of the Phoenix
• Doc’s Island
• … and 11 new ones or something 

Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, book one I am reading

The Swords of Lankhmar

Started reading around July 1st, 2026. Still only like 1/4 the way through it. 

Pict from https://www.reddit.com/r/badscificovers/comments/upgoye/the_swords_of_lankhmar_by_fritz_leiber/

Via https://www.mycast.io/stories/fafhrd-and-the-gray-mouser/roles/the-gray-mouser/73037

 It is good. Starts of with an action sequence… two wizards and a mob of fighter types fight them. Kinda funny. The idea around a copper or something 30 foot wire on a sword to thwart a lightning spell is interesting. Wished he didn’t use the word “stuff” when describing the lightning but i guess from the two heroes perspective it was a whatever thing… maybe.  Then again before that described as blue white ghostly fiery… semi translucent or something. And later states lightning plainly eh? 

WORDS/PHRASES TO USE IN DND

• Sniggered
• Fie fie
• A Wand to mean a quaterstaff.  Around page 35, the fiht on the deck of the Squid ship.  
• They began to drub away at each other with wands (quaterstaffs ). 
• ‘Tis poisoned too, I wot.  (Pg. 60) —verbFirst-person singular simple present form of wit
• Measure seconds as heartbeats instead. Ex. “For a score of heartbeats….”
• Kreese instead of Kris knife.  A Malay or Indonesian dagger.  Pronounced kreese afterall, hmmph. Takes a 1968 book to teach the pronunciation through actual English spellimg, Gottverdammter  Nirgendswelt!. .. So yeah, a dude from Germany time travels to them... it's a little jarring but these scifi fantasy crossovers were normal and not crossovers back then I guess. I guess.  He was a fun character at least. 
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IDEAS

• A coin in pocket but one side honed to razor sharpness to cut bonds if trapped. Pg. 62. 
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SPOILERS BELOW SPOILERS

Are there some were-rats or what?! I think the albino lady is one.  Let’s see… I am on page 31 or so.  After the double headed (one lrg one small) sea dragon with the rider mage with the German ish name.  And they see the ship was sank by rats including one white one. 

Easter Egg/Origins

• 3.5e dnd miniatures had the white albino wererat… I have it.  Related? Surely. 
• Hisvet has a pipe flute thing to inspire the rats = dnd's pipe of the sewers.
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Interesting- Does the author like mice, mammals, or … were-things?

• The Gray Mouser? 
• Wererats? 
• Fafhrd’s hairy chest (mentioned often, called ape by enemy). You get a werewolf feeling almost. 
• Pg 60 or 61, author/character acknowledges- “that most misnamed Mouser”.
• Mouser’s dagger is named “Cat’s Claw”.
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Critique/Review a little bit

• They are likable scoundrels. The over the top scoundrelness is probably taking it too far to be realistic. Fun though, if not analyzed too seriously. 
• I find it comical the author says in the preface that he wants these guys to be more realistic, and not super powerful or something... then in the main first scene 2 guys take out like 20 guys, including reacting to lightning bolts and stuff. Still fun of course. 
• He does go overboard describing clothes on new characters. You'd be tempted to almost  guess the importance of a character by how huge a paragraph is devoted to their clothing. It's a bit much on random characters and even bigger characters... all characters. I would have liked to have seen that much description on the sea serpent dragon things, or to have made the spell casting in the first scene cooler instead of half comical. Also, did he ever describe the two main guys in such detail, I kind of think not. 
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D&D Origins/Influences

• The thief class, eh? 
• Lightning bolt from hands spell probably. 
• Magic Missile maybe. Remember how it used to be an actual physical missile, like an arrow? The 2nd wizard uses a wand that reappears in his hand to cast over and over... and it floats into the air, it turns into a bird (falcon like) into a dagger with wings. Cast like 3 of them. 
• Wererats.
• Direrats.
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=====references below

Here's an old 2002 website with picts, I like this guy: https://www.stormbringer.net/mouser.html

Lizardmen art fight

 Love the b & w art

https://1eonline.info/5ff/lizardking.htm

Also that old module w lizardman king is awesome looking for low levels. 

Next time G3

 Add some ant centaur types https://1eonline.info/6mm2/formian.htm#worker

They like underground. Think Altered Beast game. At odds with drow eh? 

Giant flies fun with jump defense (hit and run, no att of opportunity). Giant horseflies v aggressive and big as horse eh - https://1eonline.info/6mm2/fly.giant.htm#horsefly

Fireball-flies for sure eh - https://1eonline.info/d/m/fly.fireball.htm

Flailsnails are fun and have neat ideas/powers https://1eonline.info/5ff/flailsnail.htm

Elemental fish for evil elemental stuff perfect https://1eonline.info/5ff/khargra.htm they swim thru rock  

These Lava Children are WAY MORE interesting https://1eonline.info/5ff/lavachildren.htm

B&W Art, goblins on wargs interesting faces

 Never saw before 

These B&W goblin art good on wargs - https://1eonline.info/1mm/goblin.htm

Also near bottom cool solo yellowish one, more evil looking. 

Cthluhu 1934 sketch and recent redo

Lovecraft’s original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu#/media/File:Cthulhu3.jpg

This recent redo is “pretty right” in keeping the alien vibehttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/cf770t/cthulhu_sketch/?solution=19b5ea3d818e8ab819b5ea3d818e8ab8&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9eca654dc2523536e5afab413df5fbefb5f&jsc_orig_r=

Deep One apparently. 

Stygia art on the 1e adnd site is good

 https://1eonline.info/11mp/stygia.htm

They also have a lot of card art from like 2e days(?). 

Dire corby arr good mage https://1eonline.info/5ff/direcorby.htm

That Important Dreamlike Feeling of Possibilities

That Important, Dreamlike Feeling of Possibilities 

Sometimes places, literature, art (visual), music, or daydreaming can lead to it. It, the feelingc can be lofty and important to oneself. Maybe it can lead to better things for yourself, your family, or the world. 

Dream, the character in Sandman is dire, serious… yet he can dream. He admires those who dream big and put others before themselves. He might be overly passionate or impulsive, but he is honorable and will risk all to correct his mistakes once he realizes what they were. 

For a comicbook, it has pretty huge thoughts. What if there were a place with no suffering, no unjustness, no politics to corrupt people and things. Utopia? Or just people working together instead of against each other. Hell of an idea. Not easy, but nothing says it needs to be. 

EC Comics says Gygax; Crypt of Horror and Weird Science

This is cool quotes Gygax elephants museum warriors https://1eonline.info/1mm/elephant.htm#african

—-relevant below

 This explains well, and can buy : https://www.taschen.com/en/books/comics/08179/ec-comics-library-weird-science-vol-1/

Via

https://1eonline.info/1mm/gelatinouscube.htm

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Science_(comics)

Quote:
Originally Posted by taliesin15
Mr. Gygax:
Any thoughts on where Oozes come from? Especially Grey Ooze and Gelatinous Cubes--are these supposed to originate from the experiments of crazy evil wizards, or from Demons/Devils?

Heh...

As the chap that made up both of them, I had better have an idea as to where they came from 

My concept wasthat both were accidental creations of careless wizard alchemists that dumped various failed magical and alchemical experiments down the drain or into some cess pit. These admixtures affected single-celled life forms, thus eventually engendering the various jellies (and a gelatinous cube is one of those), oozes, puddings. The slimes were generated in similar fashion, the waste affecting normal slime.

Cheers,
Gary
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycanid
Ya know Gary ... I have been wondering about something on and off for some time now.

Who thought up the idea of the gelatinous cube? And was there a piece of fiction that sparked it? Or was it just ... jello? :\

The 'Cube was my cration. It was inspired by the amoeba and gelatin. Perhaps I also had in the back of my mind the old EC Comisc SF story about Mars being covered in dormand gookum, that stuff having devoured all other life forms on the planet. When the crew returns to earth they are feted at a banquet, with a dessert course of strawberry Jello. "Good Grief! It;s dormant gookum!!!"

How I loved those Weird Science, Crypt of Horror, and all the rest of the EC Comics line

Gary

Comments
thank you Gary.
We made a living jello G-cube joke on monday. Who knew we were so close to the truth?
For Gary
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycanid
Care to share the story of the first time in the game you sprung it on the players? 

there was a group going through the 2nd level, and the fighter scouting ahead walked right into the Gelatinous Cube thinking some spell or gas was makinghis vision blurry. Only after that PC being nearly killed did the others note the "floating" coins and such.

That's about the best I can do recalling the incident after 35 years

Cheerio,
Gary

Comments
For the game
Wish I could have been one of your players. Thanks for everything.
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
Gary Gygax loves Gelatinous Cubes. Especially with Cool Whip.

Actually I prefer real whipped cream!

Cheers,
Gary

Comments
 

Name Drizzt related to Draz’zt the demon prince of ad&d 1e?

 Is it related?

https://1eonline.info/6mm2/grazzt.htm

I mean he is an ebon skinned super demon fighter dude with the ability to fight with two weapoms… a sword and a pilearm. Maybe he was the inspiration. 

Cthulhu art

 Btw this cthulhu art is still the best  https://1eonline.info/4ddg/cthulhu.htm

Notice not one but three humans hidden in there

  

Catoblepas the funky monster from way back before DnD

 Read the 1e site… note the Gary Gygax quotes about it being not made up and from old medieval bestiaries https://1eonline.info/1mm/catoblepas.htm

Read and see all the extra books to chexk out around Imaginary Beasts and such from wikip about Catoblepas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoblepas

Like -

- The Catoblepas was listed in the Book of Imaginary Beings (1957) by Jorge Luis Borges. It is described as a black buffalo with a hog's head that is always looking down.

-The catoblepas is mentioned in The Shattered World (1984) by Michael Reaves:

Troas cleared his throat impatiently and Beorn looked at him. On his robe was a stylized design of a catoblepas, stitched in silver thread in a rampant pose. Beorn thought it looked faintly ridiculous.

YES THAT SHATTERED WORLD that I read in probably nonth grade in the library. 

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1844103.The_Shattered_World

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Rly good dinos, pbs, 1988 animated and real life. Phil Tippet’s

Part 1 has lots of English dudes so far- 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDUW6HGQCpg

• Time 22:49 has that cool old painting… a bunch of tall skinny upright dinos, and one pinkish lizard-like meat-eater attacking one.  

Part 2 MIGHT be the BEST… HAS ANIMATIONS AND FAMOUS DUDES - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDUW6HGQCpg

3 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UDeojaTr9g&t=17s

4 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxB6BNRbQA&t=28s

And here is one copy of Tippet’s stop motion movie on dinos -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq7Lv3zrUak&t=98s

Full super cut of Phil Tippet’s Prehistoric Beast AND Dinosaur! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIY4H7cXztg

Pathfinder was fun

 Finally had some big battles. Was fun stomping some orcs. 

Burning Hands with the dmgnbuikd is awesome at this level 3 and it does 5d4+10, kinda insane. 

Memorized 3 times (sorc) and have spell focus object to cast again. And got pearl of power to cast again. 

Was nuking orcs like crazy. Tower at end had 4 orcs lined up to be hit by cone. Bam. 

Top of tower had orc boss. I cast Ghost Sound to make him think half a dozen human enemies were climbing up to get him. Made him waste a spell or two. 

At too, they cracked thru trap door made boss fall. I was still dwn there w fighter. We nuked it… and summoned dragon(ish) thing jumped on top of it too. 

Magic - thoughts from old school Tenkar comments

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMb_J8KS1c&t=200s&ra=m

A lot of interesting thoughts. Might not agree but definitely interesting. 

Ideas dnd weapons and staff

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tHCLuzEomrU&t=822s

Time 13:42 on AzMounatineer’s okd school rules

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Blood drinker sword. Has to hit enemy or it attacks friends.  

Render - a +2 to hit and +5 dmg, but curse makes it always miss first attack on a new enemy. 

The asinging sword - really sings when not in scabbard means first round wasted to draw sword. Or no chance surprise. 

Torturer - can never land killing blow, reduces dmg or no dmg. 

Nicker - a +3 sword. Always hits but only 3 smg, no bonuses apply. 

B/X style sequence of a dungeon turn

 Time 21:45 has great chart… OSE chart. Very nice. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVOQxHX3qA&list=LL&index=1&pp=iAQBsAgC

Gloomraider - I got more of the PDFs

 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/513378/gloomraider-osr-rpg-quick-start-basic-rules

Gloomraider - this indie game by  Daedalus Game Foundry, what looks like a one man army, that is based sort of on Shadowdark but also focuses on AD&D/D&D from the1970s and 1980s, but with modern (easier) mechanics like ascending AC, called DS. See below .

I even paid money for some PDFs... I think the designer and the artist deserve a couple of bucks for sure. I need to leave a review before too long on drivethrurpg. I'll put one here for now, which might be just random points:

• The vibe is very OSR. It's about dungeoncrawls and dangerous monsters and cool art. 
• Read his reply from drivethru, tells a lot of how it is made, red is my emphasis:
• "Thanks! In short I'd say GloomRaider is like Shadowdark for AD&D instead of 5e. The primary difference is the way various mechanics are handled. I go more with old school D&D mechanics as opposed to 5e mechanics. If you are familiar with all the editions of D&D, you'll see bits and pieces of many of them in GloomRaider, like: - Ability score modifiers are the traditional bell curve -3/+3 (Basic D&D editions) - Modifier improvements are more tied to leveling than increasing ability scores (Pre-WotC D&D) - Racial ability score adjustments (AD&D) - Racial traits (AD&D) - Spells (AD&D & Basic D&D) - Casting spells includes "Vancian" style - Monsters (AD&D) - Class traits more in-line with AD&D Things from Shadowdark that I handle differently: - Advantage/Disadvantage is adding or subtracting 1d4 - Class traits are a bit different, but generated similarly to Shadowdark - Incorporates "roll-to-cast" spells differently - Gear slots is very similar but has slight differences The one-hour real time light is unchanged from Shadowdark. In general GloomRaider is more like AD&D and Basic D&D than 5e and Shadowdark, but is easily adapted into Shadowdark as houserules."
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• Page 8 of the basic rules lets you know all the abbreviations and anything non-standard from old D&D
• AC = DS (defense score). Pretty smart to call it something other than AC to signify ascending AC. Most new game designers would be tempted to just go with what the public would know... so once again I get the impression that the designer is about quality over mass appeal. Good. 
• Orcs in this game are called Orocs. 
• This is to distinguish them as the pig faced monsters of 1e and maybe 2e AD&D. He mentions that he did this to help out modern players or folks who just know 10 versions of orcs. I 100% like the monstrous version before they turned into whatever later. 
• Boarocs. Harder orcs are called Boarocs, Think wild boar. Way more hair, almost like a werewolf. 
• Templars = paladins basically. 
• Sorcerers = old school Magic-Users, but more flexible casting. Reading straight under that section of the basic rules, you start with 3 spells in your spellbook (but you get stuff like detect magic, read magic, and sort of identify item for free at will casts). You only can cast 1 spell at level 1 via the memorization/Vancian style... but then you can Wildcast. OK here it is, Wildcasting is roll to cast. 
• So yeah, way more fun than a 1980 Magic-User at level 1 who couldn't do much. 
• Magic - I need to reread, but I think there are options for Shadowdark/DCC roll to cast. And definitely Vancian options. 

Example of Sorcerer level up coolness options (feels like Shadowdark):

I'm going to paste in the languages, because this shows what sorts of monsters are around:

COMMON LANGUAGES

Language Who Speaks It Alphabet

Aquan Mermaids, sahuagin, sirens Elven

Common Humans, halflings Common

Dwarvish Dwarves, gnomes, kobolds Dwarven

Elvish Elves Elven

Giant Giants, ogres, trolls Dwarven

Gnoll Gnolls None

Goblin Bugbears, goblins, hobgoblins Elven

Reptilian Lizardmen, troglodytes None

Sylvan Centaurs, dryads, faeries Elven

RARE LANGUAGES

Language Who Speaks It Alphabet

Abyssal Demons, orocs Infernal

Celestial Angels Celestial

Draconic Dragons Draconic

Druidic Druids Druidic

Infernal Devils Infernal

Primordial Elementals Draconic

Half orcs explained

 Gloomraider guy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_-gq4Ov3M&t=316s&pp=2AG8ApACAdIHCQk-CwGHKiGM7w%3D%3D&ra=m

Orcs and halforcs explained. 

Orcs 1e adnd says - brown or brownish-green with a bluish sheen… highlights their  Pinkish noses and ears. (We see the pink nose in the dnd cartoon, though they are super green there).  Bristly hair is dark brown or black sometimes with tan patches  

Orc-goblins, orc-hobgoblins, etc. 

Only 10% of halforcs favor the human side much  

The hakf human halforcs that r player characters are presumed to be the “superior 10%” type. 

Art - arty redesign of a Manticore is good

 Freaky Manticore yt guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Gcg1Lnu8s&t=196s

OSE night

 Made it through first big adv.  Secomd run of second adv. 

Magic lady, little ole lady, was a doppelganger.  Other fighter who never melees was near her and went to zero. Doppel stunned by true npc ole lady mage.  Eveybody tried stabilizing fighter2, bad rolls, so near dead.  Finally last npc saved him.  We killed freely doppel.  

Dragon (not dragon) near pool. Dangerous stuff. 

Felt more fun than this description sounds. 

Food order health

 Food order

Fiber first

Then protein

Then carbs

Supposed to help good gut bacteria. Might be true. But what’s up w Japan diet and low fiber. Then again, they have more stomach cancers (even if less all other cancer).

Pro art rig for pc

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95GvRH_e38s

Above is what Toren Atkinson uses to draw d&d and dnd cartoon stuff - see comments  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fahOLc4i5as&t=696s https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fahOLc4i5as&t=696s

Next time - G3 module D&D

 Drow. Drow. 

Eclavdra. 

And Eclavdra’s enemy?

Drow drow = ambush and run? Or a dozen sleeping arrows and capture? 

• Drow tell fire giants “take the sword fools!” They know the sword hates giants  

If capture- Exlavdra might say “you are powerful but foolish for being captured. It seems you would risk all for treasure… perhaps you are not so alien to me. We can make a deal. Release you, but I keep this sword that hates giants… it may ne of use to me. This bow of light and sword of light are hateful and stupid things in our dark world. We drow would not use them, for the enemy would spot us easily (and hurt eyes). … …. …………… … but for me you must spy on my enemy. The Spider Queen lovers haunt my footsteps. Eliminate them and you have won your freedom. 

=============Chuul?============

See my copy of Level Up Monstrous Menagerie v2. 

• CR 5-10 would be 1 to 2 Chuuls.
• CR 11-16 would be 3 Chuuls with 1d4 aboleth thralls (see aboleth). But WATER, need WATER.