Café de Nuit

About the HP question, if you really want to remove the dices and set a fixed number, I wuold suggest to give more hit point to the rogues who often live a hard life on the streets, not like the average sheltered wizard nerds. About aligment, Here's what I'm concidering doing. You could very well ke...

Well, not according to 2ed DMG where they say: "It can penetrate weak points in armor". In the Combat&Tactics rules book : "For exemple a called shot can be used to attack the head of an enemy who isn't wearing a helm...". Anyway, to each his own (and I don't know about 3nd e...

In the 2nd edition PHB chapter 6, there's no helmet in the plate-mail description. The field plate description does include an helmet.

Then what about other type of armors like chain mail or studded leather ? Does it includes some kind of helmet too ? I always assumed no.

Ho well, I prefer not to use those. Players would just focus on the tiny miniatures instead of listening to my description and seeing the characters in their heads.

If you're trying to bypass armor, that's called beating the foe's armored AC. . Usually, yes. But if the fool in plate mail doesn't wear an helmet, I say that's stryking the fool on his bare head ;-). Of course it should not be easy but maybe easier than to strike through a thick metal breast plate.

AD&D have never been a realistic system, whatever the edition. Personally I play with second edition. There's a few nice rules in the skills&powers and combat and tactics books and we have a growing binder of home rules and modifications on official rules to fit various situations. Generally...

First throw them off guard by picturing the inn as a nice confortable and enjoyable place well known for its exceptional beer or wine or roasted chicken or anything. Include various sensorial conforting descriptions. Prepare a small encounter with cute females NPCs, prepare a joke for the bartender ...

Don't know how they call it in english. It's a german game anyway. Nevermind.

Sounds like you'll have a lot of trouble trying to handle a bunch of chaotic characters but it could be fun.

Now make them affraid and keep us posted .

Sory for the out of Ravenloft topic but...
Do you know if they have "Colon de cathane" card game extensions boxes in sale ?

Desertrising wrote:I found that in my campaigns the difference between horror and comedy comes from the DM.
My two cents.

Of course the DM must be well prepared and focused but it really helps if you play with good roleplayers. Actually you need at least one good roleplayer to lead the group by his exemple.

That was a good exemple of my "punishment trick" using a simple false alarm. It works even better if you previously (a few game session ago) described that buzing sound the same way and actually send a few stirge at the party. Now, you don't even need to make an actual attack. I also like ...

Ho well, I guess I'm lucky with the players I have .

I wish you will find at least one great role player. Sometimes good roleplaying is contagious. good luck.

I believe the "monster" my players found scariest so far is a little boy - a little boy that had been driven mad when he was nearly killed by the scissor man (a bogeyman, he drove needles into the boys flesh and thereby pinned him to his bed and cut his tongue out). The child developed a ...

It is very hard to teach this in a short text but I'll do my best. Trick #1 : it is all a psychological game. Terror comes from the dark recess of the mind, not from outside. Yes you have to provide many details, make (sometimes useless) descriptions, play voices, play appropriate music in the backg...