Alex Schroeder: Halberds & Helmets
The Halberds & Helmets podcast by Alex Schroeder.
- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Combat
Combat: surprise, initiative, d30 rule, not using variable weapon damage, shields shall be splintered, formations, protection, targeting, retreating, fleeing.
00:12:18 |
Mon 14 Jan 2019
Skills
Skills: class abilities, the roll to open doors and bend bars, the lucky die of fate, and thieves' skills, they can all be mapped to a 1d6 roll.
00:07:51 |
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Retainers
Retainers: make sure you agree on how many characters you all bring along. As always, just use pregens. When to make the loyalty check.
00:10:14 |
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Basic Terms
Basic terms: player, player character, experience points, level, hit points, saving throw, circle, reaction roll and morale check.
00:16:13 |
Sat 05 Jan 2019
Gods, Demon Lords & Alignment
A little something about demon lords: why do their priests survive? They must useful to somebody! I like the ambiguity of the old gods. They are not all good or all evil. And I like the old threefold…
00:15:33 |
Fri 04 Jan 2019
Buildings & Wages
Buildings are a great way to spend money for XP and to let players add to the world. And buildings require servants and guards, and these require wages. And when you take mercenaries along on an adve…
00:16:25 |
Thu 03 Jan 2019
Items & Armour
Items to fight monsters and oil in particular. How do we use flaming oil? How much can you carry? Encumbrance and the rule of cool. Also: why is plate armour so cheap?
00:12:02 |
Wed 26 Dec 2018
Starting Gold & Weapons
Rolling starting gold and thinking of your parent's background. Social standing? How to buy equipment. The benefits of a character generator, again. The weapons. Fighting from the second rank, again.
00:18:55 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
Demihumans: Elves, Halfling and Dwarves
Elves are basically fighters and magic users. Halflings and dwarves have better saves and some abilities here and there. Limits on the weapons you can wield. What about armour size? I don't care abou…
00:09:09 |
Sun 23 Dec 2018
Thieves & Normal Humans
Thieves and normal humans. How do skill checks work, thieves have better skills, how does surprise work, substituting a d30 for a d20 once a day, max damage, +4 to hit, two handed swords, again; and …
00:11:56 |
Sat 22 Dec 2018
Fighters & Magic Users
Fighters and magic users. Using descending armour class, to-hit tables, all weapons do 1d6 damage, adding explosions and rays to the saving throws, not having unified advancement tables
00:11:15 |
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Race as Class
Race as class, elves and dwarves in particular. Talking about the gender of elves and dwarves. Talking about the questions Judd proposed for classes, a long time ago.
00:16:10 |
Wed 19 Dec 2018
Abilities
Talking about the six standard ability scores and wishing I could just rename Intelligence and Wisdom to Education and Yoga. But my players didn't pick it up.
00:11:33 |
Wed 19 Dec 2018
Why homebrew?
Talking about why we want to write our homebrew games and what old school D&D means to me.
00:13:57 |
Tue 18 Dec 2018
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