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• More than 200 liens since the 1980s that were filed by contractors and workers who said they were stiffed.

• Records released by casino regulators in 1990 that show 253 subcontractors on a single project were not paid in full or on time.

• Twenty-four Fair Labor Act violations by the Trump Plaza casino and Trump Mortgage for failure to pay minimum wage or overtime. The cases were resolved with an agreement to pay back wages.

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1 hour ago, tkdguy said:

Waterdeep is one of the settings I've always been curious about but never got the chance to try.

 

"Daunting" comes to mind. However, if you want a popular and large city in the Realms, you could do worse. If I ever decide to run any of the "Undermountain" modules, I'll certainly have to become acquainted with Waterdeep.

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5 hours ago, Ragitsu said:

 

"Daunting" comes to mind. However, if you want a popular and large city in the Realms, you could do worse. If I ever decide to run any of the "Undermountain" modules, I'll certainly have to become acquainted with Waterdeep.

 

One reason I never bought the sourcebook is that I rarely find players to run a game, and my campaigns don't last very long. Maybe I'm just not as good a GM as I thought I was. Still, I can always try a solo game. 

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On 12/30/2020 at 11:10 PM, tkdguy said:

 

Maybe I'm just not as good a GM as I thought I was.

 

There isn't a DM/GM alive that doesn't at least occasionally doubt their decisions.

 

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Wight

 

Climate/Terrain:    Any land
Frequency:    Uncommon
Organization:    Solitary
Activity Cycle:    Night
Diet:    See below
Intelligence:    Average (8-10)
Treasure:    B
Alignment:    Lawful evil
No. Appearing:    2-16 (2d8)
Armor Class:    5
Movement:    12
Hit Dice:    4+3
THAC0:    15
No. of Attacks:    1
Damage/Attack:    1-4
Special Attacks:    Energy drain
Special Defenses:    Hit only by silver or +1 or better magical weapon
Magic Resistance:    See below
Size:    M (4-7’)
Morale:    Elite (14)
XP Value:    1,400

 

 

In ages long past, the word “wight” meant simply “man”. As the centuries have passed, though, it has come to be associated only with those undead that typically inhabit barrow mounds and catacombs. From a distance, wights can easily be mistaken for any number of humanoid races. Upon closer examination, however, their true nature becomes apparent. As undead creatures, wights are nightmarish reflections of their former selves, with cruel, burning eyes set in mummified flesh over a twisted skeleton with hands that end in sharp claws.

 

Combat: Wights are fierce and deadly foes in combat. When attacked, they are unharmed by any weapons that are not forged from silver or enchanted in some manner.

The wight attacks with its jagged claws and powerful blows, inflicting 1-4 points of damage with each successful strike. In addition to this physical harm, the wight is able to feed on the life essence of its foes. Each blow that the wight lands drains one level from the victim, reducing Hit Dice, class bonuses, spell abilities, and so forth. Thus, a 9th-level wizard struck by a wight loses 1-4 hit points and becomes an 8th-level wizard; he has the spells and hit points of an 8th-level wizard and he fights as an 8th-level wizard.

Persons who are slain by the energy draining powers of a wight are doomed to rise again as wights under the direct control of their slayer. In their new form, they have the powers and abilities of a normal wight but half their experience levels, class abilities, and Hit Dice. If the wight who “created” them is slain, they will instantly be freed of its control and gain a portion of its power, acquiring the normal 4+3 Hit Dice of their kind. Once a character becomes a wight, recovery is nearly impossible, requiring a special quest.

Wights are unaffected by sleep, charm, hold or cold-based spells. In addition, they are not harmed by poisons or paralyzation attacks.

Wights can be engaged and defeated by individuals who are well prepared for battle with them. Physical contact with holy water is deadly to wights and each vial splashed on one burns it for 2-8 points of damage. In addition, a raise dead spell becomes a powerful weapon if used against the wight. Such magic is instantly fatal to the creature, utterly annihilating it.

Wights cannot tolerate bright light, including sunlight, and avoid it at all costs. It is important to note, however, that wights are not harmed by exposure to sunlight as vampires are.

 

Habitat/Society: Like the other undead that infest the world, wights live in barrow mounds, catacombs, and other sepulchral places. They despise light and places which are vibrant with living things. As a rule, the wight is hateful and evil, seeking to satisfy its hatred of life by killing all those it encounters.

Although wights are often found in small groups, they are actually solitary creatures. Without exception, encounters with multiple wights will be a single leader and a number of lesser creatures which it has created to serve it. In these cases, the leader of the group will be more than willing to sacrifice some or all of its minions to assure its own survival or victory.

 

Ecology: Like all undead, wights exist on both the Prime Material and Negative Material planes simultaneously. It is this powerful link to the negative world that gives them their fearsome level-draining ability. Further, it is this draining which provides them with sustenance.

As they are not living creatures and have no rightful place in our world, many animals can sense the wight’s presence. Dogs will growl or howl with alarm, horses will refuse to enter an area which wights inhabit, and birds and insects will grow silent when the creature passes near them. In addition, their presence will gradually cause the plant life around their lairs to wither and die, marking the region as unclean.

 

 

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I hate it. I hate hate HATE playing fighters. And being forced into it by a crappy random dice roll for the next two years or so of my free time is just unacceptable. I can never hit the side of a barn with a PC with tons of bonuses to hit so it’s going to be incredibly boring and frustrating to just keep missing with the only thing I am supposed to be good at. I would rather just not bother playing.

Original D&D worked with 3d6 because the bonuses started much lower. Keeping the mechanic to generate scores the same but keeping the higher scores only produce bonuses is BS.

Coupled with that, we die all the time. We don’t have any PCs with an 18 strength but one with a 17 strength. We had a henchman with 18 percentile strength but he was lost to us a while back. Ad&d is designed to be hard. DMs might fudge the dice and soften the blows of course if that’s what they want, but it’s a random dice rolling game, and the dice can be fickle, and they only have to be fickle once and PCs are gonnas.

It was a terrible idea to incorporate into Ad&d 2E as the default method of generating PCs.

High stats never designated heroes besides. That’s a common projection people who advocate having low ability scores like to promote that simply isn’t true.

The high ability scores was to give the PCs a fighting chance is all. Being heroes was all about how they played.

But if you aren’t even strong enough to wear your armour or lift your sword it’s complete BS to say you are still a hero. NO, you are just a chump with a target on his back who is going to soon be wormfood.

It’s no fun at all playing a wizard who can hardly ever wiz, failing to learn almost all the spells they come across and never being clever enough to know more than fifth level spells no matter what their level, or a cleric who only gets one cure spell to start and that one might just fizzle if cast or worse, kill the recipient by accident. It’s a game at the end of the day. It HAS to be fun. It’s free time after all.

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