AD&D 2.0

Has any one set up d20pro to play old school D&D. I working on doing this now but if anyone has done some work on this let me know and give me some tips on setting it up. Once i have it set up i will type up a step by step setup.

opps put this in wrong section can a fourm mod move this from game lobby to Gaming Discussions other systems

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I already housed ruled + ac in my last game because i found it easyer for people to under stand combat. people jsut seem to have problems under standing - was good and + was bad.
so my ac's start at -10 to +12 being the highest all i did was reverse the ac in the monster manual.
I did a test on two charaters so far. with out editing any class files
So to start in the two character
1 med and 1 large
for there ac i had to impose a pental of -20 AC for the medium character
and -19AC for the large as size already give him a -1
this gives takes up for +10 ac that is giving naturaly in 3.xed.

i did not give them any classes as that add base attack bonus.
not sure what to do about saves as of now leaving them as 0

for attacking had to start the characters with base -20 attack roll for level 1 then add a then decrease that for every + gain from magic, STR to hit bonus and T.H.A.C.0 increase.

for the large creature had to use -19 to attack as base. there where no size pentalies in 2ed.
for small creatures you will have to impose a -21 to AC and to hit for starting.

i had to remove the Bonus to hit section to -/- in stead of STR/STR as the bonus are not the same
2nd has max scores of 1-25 on any ablity and they are not = to 3.x rules
example 19 str in 3.5 is +4 to hit and damage. 19 in 2nd is +3 to hit +7 damage.
if you recive damage bonus from STR it must be add in the dice rolled for damage section.

combat worked well after this. expect i need to adjust for initiative. can house rule d20 must me rolled for for initiative and that the higher the score goes frist as in 2nd book rules is the lower goes frist as it took you less time to be ready. but 2nd hand weapons speeds as a draw back. is there way to impose a pentaliy every round for a weapon speeds and casting time for spells these can be keep track of in notes sections? but i need a way to enforce them.

another note 2nd there was no confirm a crit. if you played with crit rule 20 crit and did only x2 damage. I just have to rule a natural 20 as confimed crit on dm side. note on the attack side to adjust your crit on all attack to x2.

as it looks for now saves have to go in the note section of character and roll core dice and Gm will have to adjust damage
from a spell based on that roll.

any other ideas or suggestions on dealing with these things.

 

I give that a try later. sounds good did the math it works out well.

Any Suggestion on mutli class character since the system is completely different???

is there a way to set size mods to 0 ???? or is that all handeled on back end. if not well have to adjust AC and to hit by adjust manual.

Weapon Proficiencies can be handel in the feat section of the character. fighters weapon Speicalization can be handed by just adding 1 weapon focus and weapon Speicalization feats. 2nd does not use skills like 3rd it uses Non- Proficiencies and these can just be handel in the note section and by useing in game dice rolls.

 

just putting in a update.
save rolls must be done manual, initiative override is check and must be set to - # for weapon speed, or creatures size. (my dice fudger suggestion and all roll approved by dm would help with these.)

Classes have been sent to manual BAB, spell per day adjusted.

I have updated Feat.txt to be used for Proficiency from players hand book only and all weapons from Arms and Armory book. suggest adding custom feats for weapon specialization or greater weapon specialization for 1.0 D&D rules or if character choose to increase a skill by extra slot. or get one from prohibited group by spending the extra slots. (Edit Update Feat.txt to include almost every proficiency made. This now in include all from Players Hand book, Complete Books. There are a few left out from Complete Dwarf and Complete Paladin book. because i did not plan to use them in my game.)


Spell list has all spells in it from Players Handbook


oh few more things
All ability scores are set to 10 on all creatures and players. players will still need sheet handy for proficiency checks and ability score checks.
STR to hit and damage mod are placed on the attack.
i have given each attack unless damage is the same for size two different attacks
1 for small to man size creatures example long sword does 1d8 to small to man size
2 for larger then man size example it does 1d12 to larger then man size.

dex mod to ac has been added as unnamed bonus, that way mod is not added to initiative.

 

yeah i did that works well. hehehe hope you guys don't add anything in the next update that kills my muli classing.

 

update (Edit Update Feat.txt to include almost every proficiency made. This now in include all from Players Hand book, Complete Books. There are a few left out from Complete Dwarf and Complete Paladin book. because i did not plan to use them in my game.) i removed old file and uploaded new file.

I am still working on building monsters from Monster manual that is taking a while.

I decided instead of using Weapons speed as penalty to Initiative i imposed a Penalty based on creature size as if they where using natural weapons. I found it time consuming to have to edit the character sheet every round because a different weapon or spell was used. this speed up the game a lot.

I am going to update spell.txt soon to include reversible spells and there names. I have a question where are the spell effects saved i been saving a lot of effects and would like to add them to my players PCs so they have the effects on the fly. i been including full spell description.

I also Have a pdf with all Non-weapon prof. descriptions I use. not sure if i can upload it but if you would like a copy pm me with you're e-mail and i will send it your way. it also list the source book i got the Prof. from.

 

yeah it good if you have any question about running 2.0 on this feel free to send me pm. or post them here. I will do my best to describe how I fix some issues here and there or did a work around. Example I turn all potions in to charge ability to keep track potions used in game as well as charges for wands and scroll count. every time one of my players wants to use one of these things. they select the ability and spell effects, approval comes to me. I approve or not. it does kind of suck because I have to keep track of them in two spots for because of Item saves, and got to make sure I pick rest to just restore spells. I usually adjust physical inventory at end of night. I been away for a bit since my group went back to playing vampire.

 

best thing i found to do is make a 2nd campaign and name is ad&d 2.0 then you can load the txt files in that folder with out messing up your 3.5 or other games.