Lately, I hear a lot of referees bemoaning the abominable weapon specialization introduced in Unearthed Arcana. Players, however, might complain, when this fighter boost rule is not allowed. I confess, having played a lot of 2e, I am quite used to weapon specialization being an integral part of the game.
How about this? During character creation, a player of a fighter or ranger character may opt to spend 2 weapon proficiency points to receive a weapon specialization as usual, but they roll a d%
Lately, I hear a lot of referees bemoaning the abominable weapon specialization introduced in Unearthed Arcana. Players, however, might complain, when this fighter boost rule is not allowed. I confess, having played a lot of 2e, I am quite used to weapon specialization being an integral part of the game.
How about this? During character creation, a player of a fighter or ranger character may opt to spend 2 weapon proficiency points to receive a weapon specialization as usual, but they roll a d% to find out which weapon their character will be specialized in.
01 Aklys
02-03 Axe, Battle
04-05 Axe, Hand
06-07 Bardiche
08-09 Bec de Corbin
10-11 Bill-Guisarme
12 Blowgun
13-14 Bo Stick
15 Bow, Composite, Long
16 Bow, Composite, Short
17 Bow, Long
18 Bow, Short
19 Club
20 Crossbow, Hand
21 Crossbow, Heavy
22 Crossbow, Light
23-24 Dagger
25-26 Dart
27-28 Fauchard
29-30 Fauchard-Fork
31 Flail, Footman’s
32 Flail, Horseman’s
33-34 Fork, Military
35-36 Glaive
37-38 Glaive-Guisarme
39-40 Guisarme
41-42 Guisarme-Voulge
43-44 Halberd
45 Harpoon
46-47 Hammer, Lucern
48-49 Hammer
50-51 Hook Fauchard
52-53 Javelin
54-55 Jo Stick
56 Lance, (light horse)
57 Lance, (medium horse)
58 Lance, (heavy horse)
59 Mace, Footman’s
60 Mace, Horseman’s
61-62 Morning Star
63-64 Partisan
65 Pick, Military, Footman’s
66 Pick, Military, Horseman’s
67-68 Pike, Awl
69-70 Ranseur
71 Sap
72-73 Scimitar
74-75 Sling
76 Sling, Staff
77-78 Spear
79-80 Spetum
81-82 Staff, Quarter
83-84 Sword, Bastard
85-86 Sword, Broad
87-88 Sword, Falchion
89-90 Sword, Khopesh
91-92 Sword, Long
93-94 Sword, Short
95-96 Sword, Two-Handed
97 Trident
98-99 Voulge
00 Whip
So you are specialized in the blowgun? I guess your parents could not afford a weapon master specialized in a more knightly weapon to train you in your youth.
Oh, you are a specialist of the guisarme-voulge, huh? Good luck finding a magical version of that one.
I just listened to the podwichtel post from Steamtinkerers Klönschnack. They were asked by the Gruftschrecken ‘What are your five music albums that can inspire roleplaying?’ and recorded a great, inspiring episode. Moritz from the Seifenkisten-Blog has now added his own mustard. In good old troll tradition, I now throw in my 5 albums that can inspire role-playing. For my non-German readers: during the Podwichtel, German role-playing podcasts ask other role-playing podcasts questions that they ha
I just listened to the podwichtel post from Steamtinkerers Klönschnack. They were asked by the Gruftschrecken ‘What are your five music albums that can inspire roleplaying?’ and recorded a great, inspiring episode. Moritz from the Seifenkisten-Blog has now added his own mustard. In good old troll tradition, I now throw in my 5 albums that can inspire role-playing. For my non-German readers: during the Podwichtel, German role-playing podcasts ask other role-playing podcasts questions that they have to answer in an episode, preferably around Christmas time.
Demon The Unexpected Guest (1982)
My first album is really old school, good old metal from the early 80s. A kind of concept album that follows a story, the story of a demon summoning. Well, that’s not so surprising, since the band’s name is Dämon (demon). As an old metalhead, I love the driving guitar riffs, the fat sound, the melodies and the lyrics are ingenious, too. Each song on the album brings a different facet of an incantation into play. My favourite songs are Don’t break the Circle and Deliver Us From Evil.
Don’t break the circle
Don’t break the circle
Don’t break the circle
Don’t break the circle
Concentrate
I’m your contact link across the great divide
Many voices in my ear, hold on
I think there’s something coming through from the other side
It’s for all those who believe
The chain is stronger if the lifeline is unbroken
So beware the presence of the Unexpected Guest
Demon: Don’t break the Circle
Ayreon Into the Electic Casle (1998)
I bought the second album I want to present based on a recommendation in Rock Hard magazine. It got 10 out of 10 points, so it could only be good. Yes, it is. And it’s a concept album again. Arjen Lucassen brought everyone who was anyone in the scene into his studio for his third album (Sharon den Adel, Fish, Robert Westerholt…). A mysterious being (whose story is told in the following double album) kidnaps eight people from different places and times. To be released, they have to reach the electric castle. Unfortunately, one character after another crosses over on the way there. Basically, a DDC adventure almost writes itself.
My favourite songs are Amazing Flight, Across the Rainbow Bridge, Valley of the Queens and, of course, The Castle Hall. Man, did I shake my imaginary mat on that last one!
[Forever of the Stars (Peter Daltrey)]
At last! You enter the Electric Castle! Here, in this vast hall, where
Even shadows fear the light. Here, you must confront your past
If you have killed, beware the Gathering of Spirits
For they do fish for men. Here, the disembodied Astral World
Becomes flesh once more. I pity the men of swords
For here, blood runs cold…
[Barbarian (Jay van Feggelen)]
Cries from the grave resound in my ears…
They hail from beyond my darkest fears…
Faces of the past are etched in my brain…
The women I raped, the men I’ve slain!
Shades of the dead are sliding on the wall!
Demons dance in the castle hall…
Ayreaon: Castle Hall
HIM Razorblade Romance (2000)
Now it’s getting gothic. Or at least goth-pop. The album has a very special place in my heart. That’s when I fell in love with my wife and the album was often playing in my room in the evenings when we snuggled up together. For vampires or other urban-gothic-fantasy role-playing games with vampires, this is the right soundtrack.
Steppenwolf The Second (1968)
Back to the past, from the late 90s and the year of the big toilet into the 60s. In 1969, Easy Rider came out, a film that is rightly considered a cult and is the distillate of the hippie era. The film’s soundtrack included Magic Carpet Ride, which was on the B-side of the Steppenwolf album released the previous year. If you don’t know the 4 ½ minute song: that wouldn’t be a gap in your education, that’s an educational Grand Canyon. The album is something for headphones, time and a glass or two. Then the ideas for a travel adventure will come almost by themselves.
Gnome Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome (2024)
While we’re being old school, here’s a record that’s brand new but comes across as very old school. Stoner Rock, Krautrock. Raw, unfiltered, BASS! I have two videos for you here. The first is, of course, the link to the album
and here is the official music video for the first song, Old Soul
Watch the video. Don’t you want to roll some gnomes and throw them into a funnel or directly onto a campaign? Don’t you want to rewrite the video directly as an adventure and then play it? Doesn’t it scream ALRIK or some other OSR system (I urgently need to roll my dice again)?
Ich hab gerade den Podwichtel-Beitrag von Steamtinkerers Klönschnack angehört. Von den Gruftschrecken haben die die Frage „Was sind eure fünf Musikalben, die Rollenspiel inspirieren können?“ bekommen und eine tolle, inspirierende Folge aufgenommen. Moritz vom Seifenkisten-Blog hat mittlerweile seinen eigenen Senft dazugegeben. In guter, alter Troll-Tradition schmeiß ich nun meine 5 Alben ein, die Rollenspiel inspirieren können.
Demon The Unexpected Guest (1982)
Mein erstes Album ist wirk
Ich hab gerade den Podwichtel-Beitrag von Steamtinkerers Klönschnack angehört. Von den Gruftschrecken haben die die Frage „Was sind eure fünf Musikalben, die Rollenspiel inspirieren können?“ bekommen und eine tolle, inspirierende Folge aufgenommen. Moritz vom Seifenkisten-Blog hat mittlerweile seinen eigenen Senft dazugegeben. In guter, alter Troll-Tradition schmeiß ich nun meine 5 Alben ein, die Rollenspiel inspirieren können.
Demon The Unexpected Guest (1982)
Mein erstes Album ist wirklich Old School, guter alter Metal von Anfang der 80ger. Eine Art Konzeptalbum, das einer Geschichte folgt, der Geschichte einer Dämonenbeschwörung. Gut, ist jetzt nicht so überraschend, nennt sich doch die Band Dämon. Ich als alter Metalhead liebe die treibenden Gitarrenriffs, den fetten Sound, die Melodien auch die Texte sind genial, jeder Song auf dem Album bring eine andere Fassette einer Beschwörung ins Spiel. Meine Lieblingssongs sind Don’t break the Circle und Deliver Us From Evil.
Don’t break the circle Don’t break the circle Don’t break the circle Don’t break the circle
Concentrate I’m your contact link across the great divide Many voices in my ear, hold on I think there’s something coming through from the other side It’s for all those who believe
The chain is stronger if the lifeline is unbroken So beware the presence of the Unexpected Guest
Demon: Don’t break the Circle
Ayreon Into the Electic Casle (1998)
Das zweite Album, das ich vorstellen möchte, hab ich damals aufgrund einer Empfehlung im Rock Hard gekauft. Da hat es 10 von 10 Punkten bekommen, das konnte also nur gut sein. Ja, ist es. Und es ist wieder ein Konzeptalbum. Arjen Lucassen holte in seinem 3 Album damals alles ins Studio, was Rang und Namen in der Szene hatte (Sharon den Adel, Fish, Robert Westerholt…). Ein geheimnisvolles Wesen (dessen Geschichte im darauffolgendem Doppelalbum erzählt wurde) entführt 8 Personen aus unterschiedlichen Epochen und Orten der Erde. Um freizukommen müssen die das Elektrische Schloss erreichen. Leider gehen auf dem Weg dorthin ein Charakter nach dem anderen über den Jordan. Im Grunde schreibt sich da ein DDC-Abenteuer fast von selbst.
Meine Lieblingssongs sind Amazing Flight , Across the Rainbow Bridge , Valley of the Queens und natürlich The Castle Hall. Man, hab ich zu letzterem meine nichtvorhandene Matte geschüttelt!
[Forever of the Stars (Peter Daltrey)] At last! You enter the Electric Castle! Here, in this vast hall, where Even shadows fear the light. Here, you must confront your past If you have killed, beware the Gathering of Spirits For they do fish for men. Here, the disembodied Astral World Becomes flesh once more. I pity the men of swords For here, blood runs cold…
[Barbarian (Jay van Feggelen)] Cries from the grave resound in my ears… They hail from beyond my darkest fears… Faces of the past are etched in my brain… The women I raped, the men I’ve slain!
Shades of the dead are sliding on the wall! Demons dance in the castle hall…
Ayreaon: Castle Hall
HIM Razorblade Romance (2000)
Jetzt wird Gothik. Oder zumindest goth-popig. Das Album hat bei mir einen ganz besonderen Platz im Herzen, damals habe ich meine Frau lieben gelernt und die Scheibe lief oft abends auf meinem Zimmer, wenn wir zusammen kuschelten. Für Vampire oder andere Urban-Gothik-Fantasy-Rollenspiele mit Vampiren ist das der richtige Soundtrack.
Steppenwolf The Second (1968)
Zurück in die Vergangenheit, aus den späten 90gern und dem Jahr der großen Toilette in die 60ger. 1969 kam Easy Rider raus, ein Film, der zurecht als Kult gilt und das Destillat der Hippie-Zeit ist. Zum Soundtrack des Filmes gehörte Magic Carpet Ride, der auf der B-Seite des im Vorjahr erschinenen Steppenwolf-Albums war. Wer den 4 ½ Minuten Song nicht kennt: Das wäre keine Bildungslücke, das ist ein Bildungs-Grand-Canyon. Das Album ist was für Kopfhörer, Zeit und ein Gläschen oder Gräschen. Dann kommen die Ideen für ein Reiseabenteuer fast von selbst.
Gnome Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome (2024)
Wo wir grade Old School sind, hier mal eine Platte, die zwar brandneu ist, aber sehr Old School rüberkommt. Stoner Rock, Krautrock. Roh, ungefiltert, BASS! Hier hab ich zwei Videos für euch. Das erste ist natürlich der Link zum Album
und hier zum offiziellen Musikvideos des ersten Songs, Old Soul
Schaut euch das Video an. Will man da nicht sofort ein paar Gnome auswürfeln und die in einen Trichter oder direkt auf eine Kampagne schmeißen? Will man das Video nicht direkt zum Abenteuer umschreiben und dann spielen? Schreit das nicht nach ALRIK oder irgendeinem anderen OSR-System (ich muss dringend wieder meine Würfel rollen lassen)?
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