Today is Swords and Wizardry appreciation day, and since I’ve been involved in a S&W campaign for a bit thanks to the kind invitation of +Erik Tenkar, I thought I’d throw my own thoughts into the ring. I came to S&W after being reintroduced to playing D&D through a short tour in a Pathfinder campaign. Pathfinder…
After something like a three-month pause (Peter says 1/9/2015), we return to the Castle of the Mad Archmage. We’d abandoned the arena, and returned to Level 3, looking for stuff to kill and loot in the fine, grand old tradition of delvers everywhere.. After shooting the breeze for nearly an hour, we got down to…
I’ve seen stuff like this before, with men in full harness climbing stairs and doing some basic gymnastics. It does make me think that the DEX penalties for wearing certain types of armor, especially very, very expensive and tailored plate harness, are overstated. I wonder if, instead of a maximum DEX bonus for Medium armor…