Thank You for tuning in to EpicSolo! where I take on the role of both the Game Master and the Player Characters using #ttrpg rulesets while building a custom fantasy setting with each new episode.
Season 3 will feature Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy by Necrotic Gnome.
We are currently featuring Swords & Wizardry, a retro-clone of the original D&D rules from 1974--1978.
EpicSolo is all about letting the dice tell the story. Tune in to watch the setting expand from nothing into something epic and for some classic, casual, and sometimes comical tabletop RPG action inspired by the #osr, old-school Dungeons & Dragons, and PC RPGs like the original Baldur's Gate.
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Wow these are really good for learning the flow of the game!
I like descending AC and the rules in BX but adding THAC0 into OSE is such a bad decision and makes the whole thing harder to use and understand. Just found your channel, good stuff
You’ve earned my subscription for that amazing intro THA C0 song, good sir! 😊
Do monsters not get strength bonus on damage?
It's been months since the last video 😞 Is this channel still active?
The confusion over thac0 is so weird. Never understood why old DMs tried some convoluted math to make AC the target number. New D&D: d20 + modifiers vs AC Old D&D: d20 + AC vs modified thac0 Exact same equation with two parts swapped. AC in old D&D was never a target number and was never meant to be. Why so many people tried to force it to be was so weird. Like yeah you can do it but the math gets way harder to figure out on the fly. And in either case the DM has to tell you the target's armor class, or else you have to add another step into the resolution of every to hit roll.
It really doesn't seem any easier than 5e, in terms of knowing when things hit or not. Thac0 is definitely less intuitive. In 5e you can easily know what you're hitting by knowing the roll, to hit mods, and the creature's AC. I'm not sure where the "benefit" of using Thac0 comes from...?
@EpicSolo - just found your channel recently, but have to say sometimes you seem to channel Jack Black. It's uncanny!
I started with and do understand THAC0, but have found it easier when teaching new players to use ascending AC. It is just more intuitive and makes more sense to people. So, I now use ascending AC in all my games, no matter what flavor of fantasy I'm running.
This is wonderful, thank you!
Going great until the singing...😢
This is so fun to watch, well done sir!!
Jack Black + Hankerin Ferinale
WTF on those rolls. Please tell me this video is rigged for educational purposes or I'm gonna be upset that I've never managed to get more than four rolls above a 9. I've yet to roll a character that isn't heavily nerfed in at least one category.
The dice giveth, and the dice taketh away.
Just stumbled on this channel. Are you a voice actor? You're a hell of a good narrator. As a voice actor, I hear some money in that voice.
I just started my journey into Cartography and Dungeon Map making. Great video.
Seems kind of weird that the losers of initiative can fire missiles before the winning side can cast spells. Unless I've missed something, that would mean a spell-caster on the winning side could have his spell interrupted if he's hit by a missile weapon from the losing side.
Thank you! This was instrumental as a tutorial to help me take the Old School Essentials rules I've read and settle them in my mind for implementation at the table... and done with incredibly high production value to boot! Well done.
You’re welcome!
I’ve been looking for something like this for the better part of a year. Thank you!
I truly LOVE your role playing!!! The way you give each character such a great personality, the way you show the dice rolls, the music (really ramps up the excitement!!), and of course the puns! You never gnoll what you’ll find? LOL 😂 THE BEST!!!
This is all predicated on belief that D&D rules (even modern rules) are the best out there. I was never one of those guys. It stems from never playing D&D as a kid because we started in Palladium Books where it was an opposed roll. Both the player and the GM roll 1D20, add their skill bonus, and defenders win ties. Armor was treated as additional hit points, but a high enough roll would bypass it anyways.
Amazing narration and visuals!
Amazing video series!
If this was one year ago, why is it showing up in my feed now? So much out there. I’m interested. Thank you for your work. Sorry I’m so late to the game.
I hope you are doing alright.
I started playing in 83 and we used thaco not the to hit chart. We did it all in our head but didn't really like it. Even though I could do it all quickly in my head, to this day thinking about thaco is like looking at a picture of Gary's junk (I'm just not interested). AAC is a much cleaner way to go.
I know I’m late to the party, but I had to comment. This is FANTASTIC!! Malfak I without a doubt my favorite sorcerer of all time! 😂 You’re role playing is THE BEST!
subbed just because of your angelic voice.
Being a sorceror, I'd say he arrives due to magic. He doesn't know how he got here, so he doesn't know whether he has an enemy that sent him there or if he had a big spell malfunction and send him there... or maybe a scroll he found or something like that. His quests are simple... find out where he is, get off the island, and find out how he arrived and 'take care of' whatever got him there. :D
That's interesting. I wonder why you didn't roll on the fate chart for the bag of holding attempt? Looking forward to next episode!
Damn that dragon voice unnerves me in my bones, good job!
Giselle and (W)Vilhelm are delightful, can't wait to see more of them!
Looking forward to the series’s :)
How did you decide what type of monster was attacking?
What a great start! Looking forward to what's next!
Where you at?!?! You are much needed part of the OSR community!!!
I'm actually surprised by the quality of this, very underrated video. Great job! Epic jams
The Fate chart flashed by so fast, can you explain the mechanics of that and where it can be found? I went looking through my OSE rulebooks, but couldn't find it. Thanks. GREAT content, btw.
Thank You! I used the Fate Chart from the Mythic GM Emulator for several of these adventures. It’s about the only 3rd party resource I use outside of OSE these days. Always good to have an Oracle of some kind. An amazing resource for solo RPG. It can be found here: preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/20798/Mythic-Game-Master-Emulator
I like when RPG video hosts sing to me.
Now: you pre-calculate your to-hit bonuses - roll a dice, add the bonus, and declare "13" ... so you hit someone with AC 13 or above Then: you pre-calculate your THAC0 - roll a dice, subtract the result from your THAC0, and declare 6 ... so you hit someone with AC 6 or below
So simple a middle school kid can do it ! I did
I really might have to try this. My schedule can make it hard to meet a game schedule. This might be just what I need. Might be the perfect way to dig into all the rules too which only one the basics of. Thank you for the inspiration.
Puerto Rico is ~100x40 miles. So Drunken Dinosaur Island is 50% as long and 66% as high as PR.
An alternate way to do it is to add the AC to your roll. For example, using the stats in the this video, to hit an AC of 3, you would roll and add +3 and try to hit your THAC0 or higher. Example: You roll 13+2+1 (given the stats in this video), which is 16. Add the AC (+3) and the result is 19, which is equal to the THAC0 score in the video. This is much more intuitive than subtracting before the roll. And if the DM does know the THAC0 scores of the players, and the player announces 16, they would just add +3 and know it's a hit. Another example: Monster has AC of -2. Player has THAC0 of 15. Player's total roll is 19. 19 + -2 = 17. 17 is higher than their THAC0, so they hit.
Great video! Just subbed. I have watched a couple of your videos and your style is entertaining and informative, you deserve way more subs and I wish you the best of luck with your channel! Dude, I was on the edge of my seat for those dice rolls and getting pumped at the results, and all from a TUTORIAL! Great job, man!
The song was pretty good. It gave me massive Tenacious D vibes. I just got into B/X OSE so thanks helping explain this
Just figure out the math beforehand and then write out the numbers on a chart for your character. Boom, no more math.
I would adore one of these for Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea 3E