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)
@docsavage86403 минут бұрын
Space 1889 is many things but steampunk isn't one of them. Its just speculative Victorian sci fi gaming.
@TeflonDave33 минут бұрын
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
@docsavage8640Сағат бұрын
Great video. I don't even remember this entry existing. I love how you tackle both common and obscure items.
@box962 сағат бұрын
Player used the glue with a hat of stupidity on the big bad wizard. That changed all the DMs plans.
@CaptCook9992 сағат бұрын
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.
@pccleric2 сағат бұрын
Is that a later printing of UA?
@page121tabletoproleplaying42 сағат бұрын
Yes. The copy I showed in the video is a 12th printing from 1991. That's why it's not falling apart.
@docsavage8640Сағат бұрын
Wow, I had no idea they were still printing 1st edition books years after 2nd edition was out.
@ballisticus12 сағат бұрын
Funny items to highlight from Unearthed Arcana since that book's construction was so "shoddy"
@mashuu60692 сағат бұрын
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!
@MarkCMG3 сағат бұрын
Thanks for the video! These are nifty items with a lot of text to explain them. 😜
@MarkCMG2 сағат бұрын
BTW, there's an adage that there's no need to apologize for mispronouncing a word learned while reading because reading is NEVER a bad pursuit. Sure, it's good to learn the proper pronunciation but the apology is purely discretionary.
@MarkCMG3 сағат бұрын
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.
@maksimsmelchak74333 сағат бұрын
👍🏻😎🇺🇸🚀
@pnptcn6 сағат бұрын
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.
@johnwalsh485712 сағат бұрын
the K Kree probably hate the Vargr and the Aslan the worst.
@karlheilmann917215 сағат бұрын
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!
@bryanstephens480016 сағат бұрын
Please do
@williampalmer805217 сағат бұрын
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.
@Yhtomit300018 сағат бұрын
Yes, please continue this JTAS series! And cats are always welcome guests 😂
@garethwood230318 сағат бұрын
Wally! Thanks for the look at an old JTAS. You could feature your cats while talking about Ship's Cats for Traveller, maybe?
@Ashmoleon200622 сағат бұрын
im in classic traveller campaign right now thats posted up on youtube, although we've taken a brief hiatus.
@docsavage864023 сағат бұрын
Good video. Sweet cute cat
@OctarinewolfКүн бұрын
The Modular Cutter. Honest it isn't an Space 1999 Eagle Transporter.
@jackleg2007Күн бұрын
It's like a time machine. Seeing how it began, and knowing how it turned out.
@elliotvernon7971Күн бұрын
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.
@DMRaptorJesusКүн бұрын
Nice cat you got there fella
@docsavage8640Күн бұрын
Cats are the best! Why would anyone mind seeing a kitty in a video? That's half the internet!
@docsavage8640Күн бұрын
So many great gaming magazines back then. I only have a few issues of Different Worlds but the ones I have are excellent.
@docsavage8640Күн бұрын
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.
@maksimsmelchak7433Күн бұрын
👍🏻😎🇺🇸
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
There’s a good Conan story involving a giant slug.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
FWIW, I allow the slug attack to be within a 180 degree field in the direction the slug was last moving toward.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
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.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
3:05 - the saliva damage is DEATH!😵
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
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.)
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
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.
@SnoilКүн бұрын
Nice reminder, I got a large group of lowbies who might need their tactics tested by "an old friend". 8>D
@sebbonxxsebbon6824Күн бұрын
12hd is bad news for a low level party.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
Surprisingly, THIS is one of the very few creatures where character level is virtually meaningless. It’s more about how you choose to PLAY the encounter.
@EricMcLuenКүн бұрын
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.
@megamadd9220Күн бұрын
Shame we never got a MadCat or a Centurion
@kuriboh635Күн бұрын
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.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
Biomes would make an interesting subject. 👍
@scottgregg7994Күн бұрын
Yes, Monster Card says acid damage is 4d8 or save va breath weapon for half.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
They changed it for the Monster Cards.
@harmonicaman79Күн бұрын
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.
@harmonicaman79Күн бұрын
Love this. Really great idea about the magical weapons only doing the amount of damage equal to their modifier; genius compromise.
@bluehairash83172 күн бұрын
Dude I probably going to homebrew my self a giant slug now
@TeflonDave2 күн бұрын
I hadn't even noticed you hit 4k subscribers! Congrats! 🥳
@page121tabletoproleplaying4Күн бұрын
Thanks. Hit it a little while ago. My 800th video drops Friday.
@TeflonDave2 күн бұрын
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.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
I’m sure they modified the Monster Cards from the original intent to simplify it (you can only fit so much onto a Monster Card).
@CaptCook9992 күн бұрын
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.
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
“…nothing a good adventure group can’t handle.” This is very literally the test to tell the men from the boys. Because character experience level means NOTHING here!
@Taricus2 күн бұрын
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!
@docsavage86402 күн бұрын
Another great video. I like it when you get into some of these lesser-known monsters that most DMs don't use.
@Taricus2 күн бұрын
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....
@glenncox9128Күн бұрын
What it specifically means in the 1e rules is that blunt weapons have NO EFFECT; but pointed or edged (piercing thrusting or cutting slashing) weapons OR magical spells or devices will have NORMAL EFFECTS as appropriate to the attack form. That DOES mean the slug can be slain by large blunt bludgeoning attacks if they are sufficiently BIG & WEIGHTY enough, such as an avalanche, cave in, or Earthquake. A slug is just a homeless snail.🐌
@TaricusКүн бұрын
@@glenncox9128 I hope you fix your caps lock key....
@glenncox912823 сағат бұрын
@@Taricus FIXED! ALWAYS ON NOW! 😂 JUST DON’T ASK ME TO FIX THE CAT! 🐈 ✂️😮