You may have answered this question in previous videos, but have you ever run Tomb of Horrors, Vecna Lives!, or White Plume Mountain for your Walpurgis session? (Since the objective is to kill the PCs)

Space 1889 is many things but steampunk isn't one of them. Its just speculative Victorian sci fi gaming.

Hi, Wally!! 😻 How much of the Judges Guild material has MGT2 adopted / retained as “official” Charted Space? I’m not really familiar with any of their Traveller material, but I see occasional references on travellermap (not putting the dot or the c oh em, because YT seems to block those comments or hold them for approval, lol) . I’d be interested in a video if any of it is still in the MGT2 OTU

Great video. I don't even remember this entry existing. I love how you tackle both common and obscure items.

Player used the glue with a hat of stupidity on the big bad wizard. That changed all the DMs plans.

I would not want to distill that stuff down myself. Too risky to carry something around like that in a container that could break if you fell or got hit in some way.

Is that a later printing of UA?

Funny items to highlight from Unearthed Arcana since that book's construction was so "shoddy"

Thanks for the video and the great ideas! This is definitely one of my favorite channels for Traveller (and other ttrpg) content. Just a heads-up: this adventure was also re-released in JTAS Vol #8, which includes a room-by-room description and map for the palace. I don’t have the original for comparison, so I’m unsure about any additional changes. It would be fascinating to explore how we can incorporate (or, as in this adventure, exploit) planetary cultures to bring even more life to our Traveller adventures! Thanks and keep up the excellent work!

Thanks for the video! These are nifty items with a lot of text to explain them. 😜

Thanks for the video! I always think of the Robert E Howard Conan story where he's chased through the ruins but a particularly fast Giant Slug called The Hall of the Dead.

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I just grabbed the bundle of PDFs for JTAS to go with my new slipcase of T5 books. Great timing, I'll show up for any more of these you decide to make. On the Cthulhu front that stuff can be done in T5, they have included sanity rules and the mythos beings can be fit into Traveller as anomalous entities and extra-dimensional psionic monstrosities, no magic required and all the cosmic horror you can imagine. Loved the guest appearance by Wally at the end.

the K Kree probably hate the Vargr and the Aslan the worst.

Your videos always jar my mind and give me some cool idea for my campaign. I'm looking forward to the next JTAS you cover!

Please do

The oldest that I still have is the Best of JTAS Volume 2 from 81, with stuff from JTAS 5 through 8. I keep it, along with LBB 0-6 and a few other books like the IISS Ship Files, in my Striker box set. I second the vote on Judge's Guild too. CSotIO was our first look at a complete epic setting, even before Greyhawk really took over.

Yes, please continue this JTAS series! And cats are always welcome guests 😂

Wally! Thanks for the look at an old JTAS. You could feature your cats while talking about Ship's Cats for Traveller, maybe?

im in classic traveller campaign right now thats posted up on youtube, although we've taken a brief hiatus.

Good video. Sweet cute cat

The Modular Cutter. Honest it isn't an Space 1999 Eagle Transporter.

It's like a time machine. Seeing how it began, and knowing how it turned out.

Please do more of the original JTAS - I recently put together a PDF of all the Amber Zones and they are a great collection of adventure ideas. JTAS no 5 was the first one I got as well - it must have had a bigger print run - I went to the Games Workshop shop in Hammersmith back in the day, but never saw issues 1-4 for sale.

Nice cat you got there fella

Cats are the best! Why would anyone mind seeing a kitty in a video? That's half the internet!

So many great gaming magazines back then. I only have a few issues of Different Worlds but the ones I have are excellent.

Great video. Great magazine. So much useful content. I never owned any issues but maybe 10 or 15 years ago I got those big books of reprints Far Future Enterprises was selling.

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There’s a good Conan story involving a giant slug.

FWIW, I allow the slug attack to be within a 180 degree field in the direction the slug was last moving toward.

Slugs can’t reverse or back up. But, they can easily twist or turn, or even stretch over backwards to gain purchase upon the ceiling. Snails and slugs are very flexible anyway and can easily turn around on the spot if they need to retreat.

3:05 - the saliva damage is DEATH!😵

Regarding the spitting percentage chance to hit, it tells you WHY the first shot is low percentage - it is a RANGE FINDING shot. The game reason for doing it this way, is because it is intended to be a LETHAL attack (compare with the Catoblepas). This is WHY even the highest level characters had better be prepared to RUN FOR THEIR LIVES! (Like Conan did.)

Re: the acid damage. It’s not specified, and that usually means automatic death, especially for a creature of this strength. If you’re hit, you’re dead. However, this would not completely dissolve the corpse, since the purpose is to aid digestion of the body, which it will consume. Raising such a character from death should be as normal, although the DM is free to impose a charisma penalty if they choose to (but, there’s really no reason for this, beyond the role playing aesthetic). Any items should be made to save on the Item Saving Throw table.

Nice reminder, I got a large group of lowbies who might need their tactics tested by "an old friend". 8>D

12hd is bad news for a low level party.

First Dragon I ever bought. Mainly for the Baba Yaga adventure. Never used it but isn't there a T-34 in it? The Loresmaster adventure turned into the Shadow World setting. And some of the MERP suppliments are amazing even if you don't play MERP or RM (pick an edition) for maps and settings.

Shame we never got a MadCat or a Centurion

You are covering a lot of great monsters for sure. I'm a big fan of aquatic adventures so any monster with water variants or purely aquatic based is something i love to see. although i haven't used any slugs yet they've been on my radar for some time, recently i came up with a cool tomb where the ancient kings body is in a casket at the bottom of a deep pool and is guarded by an ancient giant catfish named kings guard. personally a video on different biomes and what you'd use in them for your games may be a fun video especially if you put in things that you probably wouldn't have a lot to talk about.

Yes, Monster Card says acid damage is 4d8 or save va breath weapon for half.

What I really love about this channel is it gives me the old school DnD information I don't have time to read myself in bite-sized chunks.

Love this. Really great idea about the magical weapons only doing the amount of damage equal to their modifier; genius compromise.

Dude I probably going to homebrew my self a giant slug now

I hadn't even noticed you hit 4k subscribers! Congrats! 🥳

Apparently the old AD&D Monster Card says 4-32, save for half. I don't have a set at hand for reference, so maybe someone can check and reply below! It also appears that 2e has the same stats. If anyone has a 2eMM at hand, please let us know! I always read the resistance explanation to mean that "they must be attacked by sharp-edged weapons or with magical spells." As a player, I wouldn't expect magical blunt weapons to be effective, but I would understand if they were. Using the magical +bonus as flat damage seems like a great rule.

I'm pretty confident that they were referring to attacking the slug with magic spells and such. Nasty critter but nothing a good adventure group can't handle.

I haven't used a giant slug yet, because I always assume it is too strong LOL! I'm running a solo game now and the player is really good. He just took down a frost giant the other week (that's why I was asking about giants hahaha! I thought of throwing a juvenile at him, but wound up just throwing a full strength one). He didn't take a single point of damage. He got lucky though. It rose up out of an embankment of snow on a hill and tried to throw a huge ice boulder at him and rolled a 1, slipped and fell down. Then, his henchman is an illusionist and cast phantasmal force to make the ground seem like ice all the way down the hill, while he, a necromancer, casted enervation on him twice. It was funny, because he slid down the hill on his tummy and when he got to the bottom, he was dragging himself across the ground and going, "WHOAAAaAaaAaaaa!!!" as if he were slipping on ice, because he didn't disbelieve it LOL! He stopped at their feet and he sent in his zombie hyenas. The giant tried to stand up, but failed a save and slipped back down again LOL! The hyenas just tore him apart while they cast spells from the safety of their carriage LOL!

Another great video. I like it when you get into some of these lesser-known monsters that most DMs don't use.

The 2nd edition write up says "Only edged and pointed weapons and magical attacks can harm a giant slug." So, I guess it meant magical attacks. "Cannot be harmed by blunt weapons or spells that cause crushing or impact damage." So, ice storm hail and magic missiles and the like....