Knaves and Knights

      I am running with 5E superheros as PC's, so I am going to use the Monster Manual stat block from 5E as well. In this post I am just going ask any 5E Dungeon Masters to give the old school monster feel a try.      During one of my games, I pre rolled a Goblin encounter from the number appearing recommendation in OSE. The total came out to 30+. My players had never seen anything on such a scale. They were excavating a recently uncovered tomb, but after returning from town, the tomb had been overrun with the goblin army. This encounter would have surely resulted in a TPK if tackled head on. The players knew this, and it provided them with a situation to take the gaming outside of the character sheet. They had to recon and gameplan ahead of time. They still ended up in a TPK situation, but I used that as an opportunity to funnel them into Keep on the Borderlands.     Shifting gears here a bit, Gray Ooze in 5E is totally overwhelming when compare...

      In this entry I will discuss what I am using from 5E and OSE and why. I also go a little bit into what I am modifying to fit the style of play I am trying to evoke.     For creating characters in my current OSE5E game, I decided to use the standard array as the baseline for attributes. In other games I prefer a 3d6 variation, but for this specific situation I am using the array just to get the ball rolling. The idea behind this is to have the players have a really decent character. This will make the players more comfortable when transitioning into an old school play style. They will have a lot of health, and also have a really high AC. First and foremost I want to have players at my table, and I am willing to throw them some bones up front in order to make that happen.     Having the characters fully stacked will ensure that they won't go down to a one shot arrow.. (although I much rather prefer that style of play in the lower levels). I say all...