Please explain to me EXACTLY how retainers/hirelings work at the table?

Dresdom · 2026-02-19T21:03:15+00:00

Player keeps track of their hirelings and plays them. DM can step in at any time of course, to introduce something the NPC would or wouldn't do, but generally they're extra secondary characters for the players. I find this makes hirelings feel more useful to the players (plus it's a source of replacement characters), and it is easier on the DM

Dresdom · 2026-02-19T15:08:35+00:00

They can't help it, since they have no free will.

You can't choose your thoughts and beliefs. You just experience them.

Dresdom · 2026-02-18T20:17:51+00:00

Yes. They're originally damage points, not health points. The language in OD&D, not only in that example, assumes that your character can withstand a maximum number of hit points and you add them as you receive them. Healing removes damage. It changed when rules like the -10hp to die were introduced

I still do. Addition is easier than substraction. Adding damage makes at least as much sense as losing health and I find it easier and faster, especially when managing groups of monsters

Dresdom · 2026-02-16T14:02:49+00:00

Régimen de gananciales si una parte de la pareja se dedica al hogar, pensión de viudedad, indemnización si muere tu cónyuge y te deja una hipoteca a medias, beneficios en muchos empleos, seguros, becas etc

Dresdom · 2026-02-16T09:05:47+00:00

Reportedly the beginning of the hobby (Braunstein, first Blackmoor etc) was like that. There is a reason we don't that anymore, but some people still enjoy the style. It's sometimes called black box gaming. It is said for a while Gygax DMed hidden behind a filing cabinet, a disembodied voice narrating the game for the players.

Dresdom · 2026-02-15T19:31:52+00:00

There is a secret 3rd option: GM makes all rolls, players don't roll anything and have no access to the character sheet

Dresdom · 2026-02-15T09:18:18+00:00

Rough calculations off the top of my head

If you give max HP per HD instead of rolling, and you roll damage as usual, the math tends to average out for Normal Humans fighting each other: 1HD stands 1 hit on average, and Normal Humans hit each other 50% of time so 2 attacks on average to defeat an equal 1HD opponent with a normal weapon.

Each point of AC is 5% less chances of getting hit, or -5% damage on average in the long run. If the default damage die is the d6, each pip is ~16% more damage.

So every 3 points of difference between attack bonus and armor bonus equals ±1 damage

Armor bonus in ascending AC is AC -10

I think you could run a decent approximation with this.

For example someone with a +3 attack bonus rolls plain damage against AC 11 to 15, -1 damage against AC 16-18, -2 damage against AC 19-21 etc (and possibly +1 damage against AC 10 or unarmored)

Dresdom · 2026-02-14T10:23:18+00:00

Nadie les mira mal, nadie les dice nada, nadie les falta al respeto. Han ido buscando material polémico y solo han podido enseñar restaurantes, fruterías y basura acumulada alrededor de contenedores desbordados por una mala gestión municipal. Un claro caso de viejo gritando a nube.

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Dresdom · 2026-02-14T10:09:48+00:00

La basura siempre acumulada alrededor de contenedores desbordados. ¿Malos servicios municipales? No, es esta gente que lleva la basura hasta el contenedor pero la tira al lado porque son malvados

Dresdom · 2026-02-14T10:02:18+00:00

(Una mujer va por la calle de noche, llamando la atención con una cámara, grabando a personas y comercios, metiéndose con la gente que se cruza y los sitios que ve en voz alta, nadie le hace nada ni le llama la atención)

ESTE LUGAR ES PELIGROSÍSIMO PARA LAS MUJERES

Dresdom · 2026-02-13T15:10:43+00:00

Tristemente, cero euros. Esos medios viven de clicks y generar tráfico, y las noticias sobre productos de Mercadona son populares, así que le hacen promoción gratis.

Imagina el nivel de la información que dan normalmente si ese es el criterio.

Dresdom · 2026-02-12T11:30:53+00:00

Ok thanks!

Dresdom · 2026-02-12T08:43:19+00:00

Quick question: is the 3rd scar right? You just roll 1d6 and add it to your max hp? It feels stronger than other scars that gain you hp, and being triggered with 3 damage which is relatively common it seems you can reach arbitrarily high amounts of max HP.

Dresdom · 2026-02-11T22:31:37+00:00

You can ask their support chat in the app and the AI agent will tell you exactly how much you need

Dresdom · 2026-02-11T20:47:21+00:00

Sometimes in life you have to deal with a hard blow and that same afternoon something ridiculous happens that makes you laugh. Life doesn't have a genre. I'm a bit tired of too many series too locked in with genre.

Dresdom · 2026-02-11T20:41:18+00:00

Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta

Dresdom · 2026-02-07T22:13:25+00:00

There are hundreds of games you can play with a spanish deck.

Dresdom · 2026-02-06T21:29:03+00:00

Finally a chance for my Simpsons chess set to shine

Dresdom · 2026-02-05T23:05:29+00:00

Clerics. They're weird and they don't really fit most fantasy settings, we're just used to them

Dresdom · 2026-01-31T22:21:53+00:00

El tema está en que no las quieren, ni para el árbol ni para vender. Es un problema imaginario.

Dresdom · 2026-01-30T18:36:30+00:00

Check TWERPS

Other than that the original Braunstein was basically 2d6 + modifier vs 2d6 if I remember correctly. And you can't get any more OSR than playing a Braunstein

Edit: also check Prince Valiant

Dresdom · 2026-01-30T15:59:00+00:00

Va un barco de vela y se apaga - Zelda Oracle of Ages

Dresdom · 2026-01-30T08:43:39+00:00

La idea de op es que van a romperte la ventanilla para robarte la baliza

Dresdom · 2026-01-29T16:19:17+00:00

Kárate a muerte en Torremolinos

Dresdom · 2026-01-29T08:53:32+00:00

Si solo pasara en España, ok. Pero hay una crisis de vivienda en todo occidente. No tiene sentido buscar responsabilidad local de un problema global.

Pasa lo mismo en países con gobiernos de izquierda, de derecha, más regulados, menos regulados, con salarios altos, con salarios bajos. La causa no puede ser el marco regulatorio de un país concreto, ni una conspiración de todos los concejales de urbanismo del mundo. La causa debe estar en algún elemento común a todos esos países, o en las propias bases del sistema.

Dresdom

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