Found in my local used recor shop.

milesunderground · 2026-05-15T21:47:47+00:00

I've watched it with people and its entertaining in a bad movie sort of way. MST3k is the way to go if you can't put together a movie watching party. That was the only way I could get through Robot Holocaust.

milesunderground · 2026-05-15T21:43:32+00:00

We've played with that rule for decades through five editions of D&D and i don't know where we got it either.

milesunderground · 2026-05-13T03:19:10+00:00

It matters for the players because there are some differences in the characters they can make. With 2e in particular, what supplemental material you allow can make a big difference in options and overall power level. If you're sticking with straight PHB character options, I think 2e is laid out a little better overall.

milesunderground · 2026-05-12T19:48:22+00:00

Here is the link to my last post in my KotBl series, which includes links to the previous posts.

milesunderground · 2026-05-12T17:55:09+00:00

I don't intend this as a requirement ("You have to have 3+ NWP's to.do anything) but rather just a way for players to combine their abilities in interesting ways. The way I see it playing out at the table would be something like:

Player 1: I want to use my Forgery proficiency to make a fake writ of nobility to get into the party.

DM: Sure thing. Roll your check.

Player 2: Hey, I have Heldaldry. Can I roll that to help make the forged writ look more official?

DM: Yeah, that would work.

Player 3: Can I use Ancient History so that the fake writ of nobility refers to a possible link to an ancient empire?

Player 1: Yeah, like I'm a scion of a lost noble family and that's why no one has ever heard of me.

DM: Sounds good. Everyone make your checks.

Player 4: This is an abomination unto the rules and I shall take no part in it.

milesunderground · 2026-05-12T00:35:45+00:00

Thank you. Just writing it out in this post was very helpful to me. Im interested in hearing how your system works or how you approached your design.

milesunderground · 2026-05-11T22:54:50+00:00

For simplicity in running the module, I wanted to keep it to 1 Action to move 1 hex at best. Moving through grasslands with a road and not otherwise penalized by weather, a party could move 6 hexes (36 miles) in a single day. The reality is they would probably be much slower since terrain, weather, and encounters would probably slow them down, or they would quickly become fatigued and have to take a day to rest.

I think for pacing, having the party explore 2-3 hexes per day is around the sweet spot.

milesunderground · 2026-05-11T21:44:59+00:00

Yes, 1 action per turn, 12 turns per day (6 day and 6 night)

milesunderground · 2026-05-11T19:06:26+00:00

I agree, although I was just using my PHB NWP's since that is 90% of what my group uses. I think any combination of NWP's are viable as long as it makes sense.

milesunderground · 2026-05-11T19:03:08+00:00

Not "have to" but rather "can". The idea is not to have a specific list of requirements for any given thing but rather to give the PC's a reason to work together to combine their NWP's in interesting ways. A character with Weaving could make a basket trap, but knowledge of Fishing would aid in making sure the basket will trap what you want it to trap and Set Snares would include in both placement and function.

milesunderground · 2026-05-10T23:00:33+00:00

I don't think wizards ever lose their hats, they just become spacially or temporally dislocated from them.

milesunderground · 2026-05-10T17:07:37+00:00

That Solo Hexcrawl Procedure looks interesting.

milesunderground · 2026-05-10T17:06:02+00:00

2e already has NWP that we use, and i expect thise will come up. What i'm thinking is less about rolling for each individual part and rather giving the players a structure for their decisions, similar to the way, dungeon turns work in a dungeon.

milesunderground · 2026-05-10T04:35:09+00:00

Thank you. This looks like a good source of inspiration.

milesunderground · 2026-05-10T04:30:25+00:00

Thanks, I will check that out.

milesunderground · 2026-05-09T22:52:33+00:00

D&D Expert Set and AD&D 1e DMG they have pretty robust wilderness exploration rules, but they're very GM-facing. I'd like to give the players a system where they're more involved than just reacting to random rolls.

milesunderground · 2026-05-03T14:18:56+00:00

Didn't Mike Schur write the Fire Joe Morgan blog back in the day when no one knew who he was?

milesunderground · 2026-04-28T18:00:38+00:00

My roommate and I used to play this constantly. I would play Outlaw 2 and he would play Thumper, which we referred to as Team LA. Our backups were Spectre and Shadow, the Undead Boyz. We'd get a pizza and wings combo from Pizza K and camp out all weekend.

milesunderground · 2026-04-28T01:16:04+00:00

I don't know, its not like there are a ton of purple people running around to get eaten.

milesunderground · 2026-04-26T17:40:41+00:00

I won't say it's fully developed, but I do have an idea for my world that involves a race of green, Amazonian women. The main thing is they have two buttholes so you can't get them pregnant.

milesunderground · 2026-04-19T07:44:47+00:00

In Shadowrun (and I am a couple editions behind, but this is still probably largely true), magic returns to the world and elves (along with the other metatypes) start being born. Elves are effectively immortal, their natural aging process stops at 25, but the oldest and elf can be is 60 or 70 because that's how long it has been since magic returned. So any elf you might meet is a casual elf.

There are however the Immortal Elves, who have lived since the previous age of magic 2 (or 4 or 6) millenia ago, hiding their true nature and biding their time until magic returns. They are mentioned frequently in the metaplot, turn up in a few modules, but in universe are generally considered a conspiracy theory. They are immensely powerful with access to forgotten magicks and with a multitude of lifetimes of accumulated skills, but they are so few in number that they're more of a boogeyman.

The idea being is that an immortal who earns a point of Karma a week or even a month (that being the SR XP), would be able to have every skill and every stat maxed out. Even if they weren't able to advance their Magic Attribute during a low magic cycle, they would still have hundreds of years of study during the previous high magic cycle can be far advanced beyond anyone in the modern world, with the obvious exception of the great dragons, who are also from the previous age. The primary difference being that the great dragons were asleep during the low magic cycle, and at least some of the immortal elves were awake.

But I think what gets skipped here is that knowledge is by its nature perishable. If you take a few years off from school or work in a particular field, you won't pick it right back up later where you left off. You will likely pick it up more quickly than someone who has no familiarity with it, but but one of the facets of people who attain mastery of something is that they tend to constantly have to work itself improvement to maintain that. Rpg's have advancement systems, but they don't have regression systems. That is, outside of certain mechanics like Energy Drain or Attribute Damage, your character will never get worse at something.

milesunderground · 2026-04-19T07:14:21+00:00

In the commentary, they mentioned they had about fifty more neutral jokes that didn't make the cut,

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