tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post1793024069793505197..comments2023-06-08T08:26:07.304-05:00Comments on Advanced Gaming & Theory: Ripper DMing: Temple of Elemental Evil VIIIRipperXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506064393275174920noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-82144943325105294282012-02-14T03:51:05.616-06:002012-02-14T03:51:05.616-06:00What's that figure with the Cleopatra hairdo a...What's that figure with the Cleopatra hairdo and the sling?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-81390886340424872712011-05-03T12:27:59.448-05:002011-05-03T12:27:59.448-05:00I'm currently running my players through ToEE....I'm currently running my players through ToEE. The players are almost done with the first dungeon level, and I could sense that they were getting weary of the crawl. To spice things up, I had the remaining earth temple devotees attack the party during the night. It was a big surprise and went over quite well. I added an NPC cleric who escaped, I expect that I'll make him a recurring villain!joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12351926278188565029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-79438660456180338432010-04-30T15:59:34.357-05:002010-04-30T15:59:34.357-05:00How can you tell which way the monsters are facing...How can you tell which way the monsters are facing? <br /><br />The cowboys and indians are working fine. I've glued pennies to the bottoms to make them more sturdy, they were so light that they kept falling over, but now they aren't drunk. They are slightly too big, but that is a trade-off that I'm willing to except.RipperXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506064393275174920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-87858235598303261072010-04-22T12:42:51.192-05:002010-04-22T12:42:51.192-05:00Buying monster figures is kind of a losing proposi...Buying monster figures is kind of a losing proposition. You just never have enough of the right ones, unless you buy literally everything in multiples and paint them all up. <br /><br />And then where do you store them? <br /><br />I travel to my game, at a gaming shop, and bringing painted monster figures with me is an impossibility. So we just use plastic figures for the players, and dice for the monsters. I picked up a bunch of white d6s from the dollar store, you get 10 to a pack so it ends up being 10 cents each. This is close to what you'd pay if you bought good dice in bulk, which I've seen going for 13 cents each. <br /><br />The benefit with the dice is that I can say a given monster is asleep if it has a "1" up, or entangled with a "6" on it. Keeping track is pretty easy then. <br /><br />For battles with less than 7 monsters you can number the dice instead, to keep track of monster HP and status very easily. <br /><br />For huge battles with lots of 1HD monsters, you can put the HP right on the die. Assuming, of course, that you use d6 HP dice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-91973328669821361512010-03-27T12:08:58.021-05:002010-03-27T12:08:58.021-05:00Hey Ryan,
We don't use plastic pieces for PC...Hey Ryan, <br /><br />We don't use plastic pieces for PC's. Unfortunately, trying to photograph the little boogers is a trick and they didn't come out as clear as I'd hoped. The pieces in the pics are from my collection of good old fashioned hand painted lead figures. This pictures don't do them justice. <br /><br /> My folks had started playing D&D around 1980, and I started playing the year after that. The DM that we played with, used minis, and we got into the hobby of painting them ourselves. I have right around 300 minis that have all been painted by either myself or my folks. So some of these figures are around 30 years old. The ones in the pics are some of the oldest in the bunch and they've held up remarkably.<br /><br />Here recently, I've started getting back into painting, and have a werewolf that turned out amazing, and a female lich that I have yet to start on.<br /><br />Now for NPC's and monsters, because of cost obviously, we have had to resort to using those little plastic cowboys and indians that you see little kids play with. They're cheap (only a dollar or two for 25 of them) and if they get knocked around too much it's not a big deal. We had looked into a couple of other options, like Hero Clicks, but at the local comic book shop, they still run around a buck a piece. That would cost us a mint after a while. The only issue we've really run into when using them, is they're so light, that sometimes they tip over. Super Glue and some pennies will solve that problem. Otherwise it's a quick cheap fix that will work for now :)<br /><br />Regards,<br />Tala (Rip's wife)Talahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01615889155947131767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-51220346834942155362010-03-26T18:06:32.560-05:002010-03-26T18:06:32.560-05:00I know you said you don't have any monsters, b...I know you said you don't have any monsters, but what types of plastic mans do you use for your PCs?DMWieghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03682249561077936507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370162161693557709.post-43642985767109515252010-03-18T22:43:23.501-05:002010-03-18T22:43:23.501-05:00"instead of erasing and redrawing the rooms a..."instead of erasing and redrawing the rooms again, when the Players were ready to move. We just had to slide the vinyl over to the center of the map, or higher if we knew that we wanted to head in a specific direction"<br /><br />That is such a great idea. Man, why the hell hasn't everyone else (me) thought of that before.Norman J. Harman Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.com