Sage Advice- 13:12.584

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Table Manners: Playing in the Forgotten Realms 21:53.520
Forgotten Realms Wiki -http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Forgotten Realms Novels list – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Forgotten_Realms_novels

Game Mechanics: Playing the Uthgardt barbarians and Northmen 1:01:24.388

FR5: Savage Frontier

Creature Feature Theater – Dragons of the Forgotten Realms 1:17:39.215
Forgotten Realms Box Set, DM Sourcebook pgs 15-16)

The Dragon’s Hoard – Magical Items of the Moonshae Isles 1:30:45.442
FR2: Moonshae pgs. 61-63

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Sage Advice- 4:21.000
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Tim:
I served as a sniper for several years in the army and your discussion of all the different factors in combat reminded me of all the different calculations in taking a shot, i.e. elevation, the wind, ballistic charts, humidity, range.

Jeffrey:
Gentlemen. I have been truly enjoying your podcast. As a new DM and new to AD&D, I am enjoying the freedom that it offers compared to its newest edition. What I do miss are what I consider some really basic information stats, such as “how far can a person not trained in jumping” jump, or what are some basic rules for sneaking around if you are not a thief, because a human fighter, trying to learn to sneak around and dual class into thief has to learn sometime. Do you just make it up on the fly or do you really have stacks and stacks of books you reference when you are playing. I am new and I only have a couple of the basics books so some advice would be appreciated.

Also, and please keep in mind that I am a novice (as the last time I played was back in college in the late eighties), do you apply the martial arts techniques to a monk, or is that just for fighter specialization?

Thanks guys!

DM Rob:
Love the show! I’ve been working my way through your back catalog and I’m almost caught up. I had been listening for a long while before picking up any first edition books but I am now a convert from 4e.

I recently picked up The Compleat Spell-Caster by the Bard Games. It claims to be a system-neutral supplement but it is obviously intended for AD&D and AD&D only. The alternative classes include witch/warlock, mystics, necromancers and sorcerers.

The new classes are pretty neat and I would like to convert them for a Castles & Crusades campaign. The only snag is that there are only 7 levels of spells for any of the classes, but first edition and C&C have 9 spell levels.

Is this normal for third-party supplements? What should I do if a player gets one of these classes to high levels and expects 8 and 9 level spells?

DJ Sir Mixalot:
Yo yo! Bizzie let’s do a demo togetha! Seriously. I noticed you guys stopped reading reviews, what happened?

Table manners – Knights and Cavaliers 25:02.666
Unearthed Arcana pg 14
 

Game Mechanics – 3d6 Save checks vs D20 Saves Checks 51:27.313
 
Creature Feature Theater – Jann 1:03:37.552
Monster Manual II – pg 77

The Dragon’s Hoard – Weapons with an Ego 1:18:11.202
Dungeon Master’s Guide pg 176
 
Outro 1:25:44.882

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DM Will’s Hirsch Art Mold thread – osrgaming.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1804

Sage Advice - 17:17.858
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Table Manners – Converting NPCs from 3E to 1E 31:56.801
Dungeon Crawl Classics 1E Modules – www.goodman-games.com/1e.html
 
Game Mechanics – Converting Encounter levels or Challenge Ratings to 1E 56:36.150
 
Creature Feature Theater – Converting 3E Monsters to 1E Monsters 1:11:50.385
 
Dragons Hoard – Converting magical items from 3E to 1E 1:25:09.708
 
Outro – 1:34:30.740

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Sage Advice - 1:22.186
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Table Manners – Pixies 13:49.302
Monster Manual pg 79

Game Mechanics – Optional Rules – Armor Class and Body parts 33:08.487

Creature Feature Theater – Verbeeg 47:13.662
Monster Manual II pg 69

The Dragon’s Hoard – Recharging Magical Items 55:47.400

Charging isn’t Cheap by Peter Johnson – Dragon Magazine Issue 101 pg 29
Arcane Lore by Dan Snuffin – Dragon Magazine Issue 136 pg 46

Outro - 1:04:01.737
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Adventure Construction Set – Designing an Adventure 20:03.230

WotC Dungeon Generator – www.wizards.com/dnd/mapper/launcher.htm

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Table Manners – The Dark Elf/Drow Race 24:33.428
 
Game Mechanics – Running an Underdark Campaign 51:53.391
Dungeoneer’s Survival Guide pgs 62-133

 
Creature Feature Theater – Drider 1:18:11.105
Monster Manual II pg 60
Entering the Drider – Dragon Magazine Issue 129 pg 30

The Dragon’s Hoard – Underdark Weapons 1:29:21.282

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Sage Advice – 9:33.122
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RFI talking Props in games – Issue 19 Swords and Stationary – rfipodcast.com/show/2010/06/10/issue-19-swords-and-stationery/

 
Table Manners – Preparing for a Greyhawk campaign – 46:19.482

www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=New_Empyrea

rfipodcast.com/show/2009/12/09/greyhawk-history-lesson-101-mordenkainen/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Eight

 
Game Mechanics – The Gods of Greyhawk 1:18:56.067
 
Creature Feature – Wemic 1:36:17.976
 Monster Manual 2 pg 136

The Dragon’s Hoard – Designing Magical Weapons 1:43:01.783

Blades with Personality – Dragon Issue 109 pg 52
Mightier than the Pen – Dragon Issue 46 pg 12
Magic for Beginners – Dragon Issue 149 pg 14
 
Outro- 1:57:00.135

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Table Manners – Dwarves 32:29.143
Role Aids  704 – Dwarves

Game Mechanics – Role Aids 49:53.301
Role Aids vs TSR

www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/copyright/cases/tsr_vs_mayfair.html

www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/208188-what-actually-occured-between-tsr-role-aids.html#post3796343

 
Creature Feature Theater – Rattlesnake Monster 1:04:58.140
Role Aids 724 – Monsters of Myth and Legend pg 19
 
The Dragon’s Hoard – Gabriel’s Sword and Gabriel’s Trumpet 1:17:03.949
Role Aids 719 – Fantastic Treasure pg 52 

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- Where can you find Angels for your campaign?
- Different types of Angels?
- How would you use them?
- Allowing players to be an Angel, and fight Demons?
—–the race of the Scions and the Elysiat and Seraphist character class
—- “Would a campaign Angels vs Demons work?”

Plus your e-mails answered:

DM Brendon – Hi RFI,
Thanks for the great work on the podcast. With all your experience, I thought you might be able to help me with some ideas on how to run a “behind enemy lines” campaign. I’d like to run one soon, where as it starts off, the place where the PCs grow up is overtaken by an enemy force, and they just manage to escape, with most of the campaign taking place in enemy occupied territory.  This scenario doesn’t lend itself well to the “get a quest that requires a dungeoncrawl” sort of thing that I have done before.  How do I fill it up with stuff to do, and expose a forward path for them, so that they’re not just wondering “What the heck do we do now?”
Looking forward to the next podcast,
 
Hello guys. Just wanted to tell you how amazing your podcast is. 10 out of 10. I live in Essex, England and have been listening to you geezers while on the London Underground to work. It’s bringing loads of memories of playing d&d back in the seventies when I was a nipper. I have always been a fan since then but stop playing for many years, but you have awoken my thirst for adventure! Thinking of how those Tube trains on the underground are about the same size and shape as a purple worm. Blimey, those beasts are big. See, you have even got me thinking like a kid again. Got all my old manuals down from the loft. My wife thinks I have gone barking mad. You guys are magical, thanks for such a great show. Best wishes, DM Robby from UK. Cheers
 
Jonathan – Talks about his campaign experiences agains Orcs and how it ended badly.
April is coming up soon, and with it April Fools Day… I remember looking online a while back and finding stats for Elmo (from Sesame Street) in AD&D… I remember it being kind of creepy and hard to hit, much less kill… I think it would be hilarious hearing your reaction to it… It should be easy to find online if you decide to go with it…
 
Nick in Everett – After going threw most of your archive on iTunes, I picked up some old AD&D books off of Amazon. Well skimming the monster manual two, I found a monster that brought up Two interesting questions. The monster in question is from Page 80, is the foxwoman. My fist question is; have any of you used the foxwoman in a campaign, and two what would you say would happen to any pore soul who was not of the specified elven woman who catches lycanthropy off of her? would they gust become a were-fox or would you turn them into a foxwoman? Thank you for your time.
 
DM Joe – Dear RFI I am currently running a campaign of my own creation, and was wondering if you guys could think of any stand alone modules I could run my PCs through. they will be 3-5 level. I am trying to plan out my campaign as quick as possible, as they might go quickly through the other adventures I have planed.
Thanks,

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