Friday, November 25, 2011
Holmes Resources?
I'm hoping my readership can help me here. I'd like to add a page to the site here specifically of supplementary material to The Blue Book of Holmes the Physician.
So, I'm looking for any and all resources designed specifically to be expansions to Holmes D&D. I know of Meepo's companion as well as Patrick's and Robert Pinnell's (although is that still available...did he incorporate the contents into Holmes77?). Active and alternative links for those as well as anything else would be greatly appreciated.
Friday, November 18, 2011
A Personal OSR Milestone
Yesterday I had a notice that there was a package in my complex office for me. Actually, there were two. One from Lulu and one from DriveThruRPG. The contained hard copies of Hard Light and Darkness Visible. Along with my purchase of the Mongoose edition of Stars Without Number this becomes the first OSR game line with more than one print product where I own all of them.
Sine Nomine Publishing is also the first OSR publisher whose entire print output I own because of that although I'm hoping for a print version of Red Tides.
Sine Nomine Publishing is also the first OSR publisher whose entire print output I own because of that although I'm hoping for a print version of Red Tides.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Neutral good and wizard I'll buy, but cleric
I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard/Cleric (3rd/3rd Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-10
Dexterity-11
Constitution-13
Intelligence-17
Wisdom-12
Charisma-14
Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Primary Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.
Secondary Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron's vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity's domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric's Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)
The only classes with positive scores were the two I got and fighter. Rouge and sorcerer were zero and the rest were negative. Good beat the living snot out of neutral and evil (more than those combined). Gnome and halfing were the racial runner ups.
Ability Scores:
Strength-10
Dexterity-11
Constitution-13
Intelligence-17
Wisdom-12
Charisma-14
Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Primary Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.
Secondary Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron's vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity's domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric's Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)
The only classes with positive scores were the two I got and fighter. Rouge and sorcerer were zero and the rest were negative. Good beat the living snot out of neutral and evil (more than those combined). Gnome and halfing were the racial runner ups.
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