Goodman Games

Joseph - thank you for taking the time to share your philosophy. I absolutely agree with you. I think the challenge is whether or not to scale challenges. Metagame theory would suggest that all things being equal, a 10th level Thief should be challenged to the same degree as a 1st level one. Otherwi...

I'm in favor of just going with a Class die and being done with it. It's simple, consistent (Thieves and Fighters already have it), and establishes a marked differentiation between class checks on non-class checks. I am firmly of the opinion that if you don't have something in your background that s...

Even OD&D was 1-3 HP per full day of rest. I definitely like the complete abstraction of HP. Maybe a standard award could be something like 1d3+Level+CON Bonus. You get this bonus: Milestone (e.g. narrative moral victory; cleared the goblin cave; defeated a chieftain; acquired a quest item) Post...

The question is - what is dramatically interesting? Is it part of the narrative to do a listen check for every door? Going by OD&D as a guide (which was 1 in 6), everyone had about DC 18 to listen through a door, which makes DC 10 when not through a door sensible as well. If you don't like modif...

Thank you. Not wanting to pay for Illustrator I will continue my Inkscape route. I have built a small number of standard symbols and they work well. You are the second cartographer to say Illustrator so that must be the route to go.

I have that pack. Is that what GG is using, or is it something else, do you know?

I like Dundjinni a lot but it isn't vector based and for larger maps I like to play around with my placement of objects.

What program are you using to make the nice, clean, line maps for most of your modules?

I very much like the full color art filled ones you publish, and use them when I run my games, but I also like the clean maps you have and would like to make my own.

Thanks.

Hackmaster actually has a good rule for this. Fatigue Factor is CON/2 Fatigue Check is (CON+WIS)/2; d20 less than or equal to FF is the # of rounds you can fight without exhaustion. After that, make a Fatigue Check every round. If you fail: -1 STR & DEX To d20-ize it, I'd make the FF CON/2 and t...