So that natural 20 for a character on 0 Sanity suddenly becomes a very big deal. Not being insane should be reward enough, just as not being poisoned is your reward for passing a Constitution save. Alternatively have it just be one effect, I was thinking something like your Sanity goes up by +1 or is set to 10, whichever is better. I'd maybe do away with the heroic courage table personally, or just have it be optional, as fewer things to remember and tables to roll on is usually better. To balance this a natural 20 should always pass a check, and natural 1 always fails.

This means it's easier to hold onto your Sanity while it's strong, and harder when it's low, meaning loss of sanity is more tense. Basically if you have Sanity 20 then you've got +5 to the check, whereas if your Sanity is beginning to ebb down at 8 you have -1 and so-on. I like the idea, though I wonder if parts of it could be streamlined a bit further.įirstly I'd maybe treat Sanity as an ability score and have the checks simply be straight Sanity checks no need to penalise lower INT players. The poster or artbook things are very good ideas.if the artwork wasn't so engaging, it would never work though, I think that is what really makes the idea valid.Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures Heck, things are sent from China all the time for small orders. A package bought and sent through eBay would work easily. As D&D players, we would eat those things up- not literally- and couldn't wait for the next time that our parents would take us to the city, so we could buy more D&D stuff and figures among other things.Īnyway, what I am trying to say is that the actual production costs of die cast metal 25 mm figures for gaming or shelf display, might not be as big an outlay as we might think.

They would take them to a bunch of game shops, like the Complete Strategist in NYC and others to market them to the store owners themselves. That is how a lot of those figurines were sold back then. Plushies, I would probably not purchase, but 25mm metal cast figures, definitely.īack in the early-mid 70s when I was playing D&D with my friends (yes, I'm that old, I did play later, but that time period is what is relevant), many of the figures that were available were cast by guys who did it in their garage, had someone make them labels and packed them in bags themselves.

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