secrets of the lost tomb rolling more than 8 dice

As there is not a single best spell then there shouldn't be a single best weapon (which is closely related to damage output -and some rare cases RP preferences- when other factors are eliminated). There is just not enough space for such a move.Īll these may increase the complexity of the game but they give to the fighter (or fighting man) the same decision-riddle/dilemma that spell memorization gives to spell-casters. One cannot just swing a two handed sword in a 10 feet corridor or in a room with allies and enemies all around him. In addition there should be some 'area limitations'. That's why i like Second Edition's AD&D speedfactor and THAC0 modifiers for different armour types. However, damage output is not everything in a weapon. It seems reasonable to me that a battleaxe has the ability to deal more damage than a dagger. I realize the irony in my saying this, since my own Thousand Sunsuses only one type of dice, though, in my defense, it's d12 that it uses! (Mind you, I sometimes get the notion to design another SF RPG that uses all the classic polyhedrals, but then I recognize how silly that'd be). Maybe that's why I still prefer Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu over other horror RPGs or why I see the use of all the weird Zocchi dice by Goodman Games's Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game as a point in its favor.

I have to admit that, while there's definitely something very primal to games like Traveller, which only use d6, I nevertheless miss the variety of shapes. I like rolling dice and, when playing D&D, I like rolling lots of different kinds of dice. Once we did that, things felt 'right' again and, even though we had thrown out many other bits of accumulated D&D lore in an effort to go back to the roots of the game, having only a limited selection of dice was a bridge too far, even in pursuit of that goal. So, OD&D's focus on just two of the dice seemed somehow anemic and it wasn't long before we adopted Greyhawk's variable hit dice and damage rules.

My players and I strongly associated playing D&D with using five or six different types of dice in play. Some of that sense of 'wrongness' was no doubt conditioned by decades of using all the polyhedrals. Just rolling d20 and d6 didn't feel right. Silly as it sounds, this mattered to us at the table. No, I'm not talking about the pointlessness of using a two-handed sword I'm talking about the lack of variety in the dice we got to roll. While this did have some nice side effects - daggers were capable of killing even 1st-level fighting men with relative reliability - it had a big drawback. It's a terrific post, well presented and argued, and one that in my opinion does a good job of making sense of this rule without outright abandoning it - so terrific, in fact, that I thought 'Wow, I'd love to use this interpretation in my own games.' The problem is that, when I first started the Dwimmermount campaign, I began by playing LBB-only OD&D 'by the book,' to the extent that that's possible. Recently, he made a post that attempts to reconcile Holmes's notorious rule that all weapons deal 1d6 damage but that 'light' weapons, like daggers, strike twice per round, while 'heavy' weapons strike only once every other round. One of my favorite blogs is Zenopus Archives, because, as its subtitle indicates, it's dedicated to 'exploring the underworld of Holmes Basic.' Since September of last year, its author has produced a lot of excellent posts about the version of D&D I started with back in the Fall of 1979, including examinations of the Blue Book's many rules oddities.

Secrets of the lost tomb rolling more than 8 dice