House rules
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:59 pm
House rules:
- Gaming system: AD&D 1st edition (PHB, DMG, MM, FF)
- XP is not based on treasure but on:
- • • Area mapped
- • • The Asbury System (WD #5,6,7,8) for combat rolls, skill rolls, thrown spells etc.
- • • Clever, fun or inventive solutions and play. Low engagement = low XP.
- XP can be earned individually as well as group-wise.
- Spell components are not necessary in this world.
- A memorized spell that has a reversible version, can freely be cast as either version when the time comes.
- I log adventure time, to track rest, rations and wandering monsters etc
- Death rules: 0 hp = unconscious, -1 and less = bleeding out 1hp/round, -10 = dead.
- Head all 'action' posts with PC name in bold
- PC actions in default black text. PC speech in blue. OOC statements and open questions to DM in red.
- One player is welcome to be the 'caller'. Not compulsory, but helps focus and saves time.
- In this game, the DM doesn't draw the map, the PCs do. If the group wants to keep track of location, please create and upload a current map image, regularly, either directly in the current game thread or in the 'Maps' thread. Otherwise there might be random loss of direction. (Any format will do: a scanned scribble on graph paper, tile jpgs laid out in an image editing programme. Or snazzy output from some dungeon software tool. Even an Excel screen shot could work).
- Not more than once a day, not less than twice a week
- In this world, there is a dreaded disease called Ansgar's Autopathy that may affect any PC. Some typical symptoms: coma, loss of speech, random behaviour, alignment shift etc. To avoid it, one has to be constantly active. So, players who've been AFK for a very long time without explanation may discover upon returning that their PCs have been acting oddly in their absence
