tkdguy

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I've built up a collection of resources over the years: not just sourcebooks and adventures, but also writings, homemade maps, downloads, etc. But I've also forgotten or misplaced a lot of what I have, mainly due to disuse and disorganized bookkeeping. As a result, I tend to reinvent the wheel a few times instead of recycling what I've already got. Worse, I usually can't find what you need when I look for it. My next project will be organizing my stuff so I can find what I want without having to go over everything with a fine-toothed comb. It will also save me a lot of time and effort when I need to add details to my homebrew campaigns.

I usually cobble my homebrew campaigns from different sources. I'm not good at designing urban areas, but I have city maps from different rpg products, so I just adapt them to my game. So what if my fantasy version of San Francisco looks more like Lankhmar? It's FANTASY after all. It just makes my life easier.

Agreed, let's keep those comments in the political thread to avoid locking this one. If you need to reply, just copy the text and paste on the Politicql thread.

I've been there.

It's like when you're a world-class chef, but your friends only ever want Pizza Hut.

If I play characters with magic, I usually make them multiclass, usually fighter/mages. That's probably because I grew up with B/X and I liked to play elves because of the Silmarillion. I rarely play a pure spellcaster. Clerics never held much appeal for me. On another note, how feasible would airships be in a fantasy campaign? Even if magic is used to create lift, there are so many large flying creatures around that the airships could become targets.

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I understand why Gygax preferred fighters; most of the stuff he read had fighters as the heroes, while magic-users were usually villains. I grew up on mythology and Arthurian legends, where the main heroes were warriors. That's probably why I prefer to play fighters as well.

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One way to spice up solo play is to run a monster vs. monster combat. In my campaign, rocs and griffons are natural enemies, so when they meet they fight to the death. I just ran a such a battle. The roc was winning for most of the fight, but the griffon got in a few good hits afterwards, and won initiative in the last round. I allowed the roc a dying blow, and the griffon survived with 2 hit points remaining.