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Solo Review, Part 2: Continued Exploits on the Island of Nesila & testing out HexRoll even more [Old School Essentials] [SoloDark] [Recap ish]

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Continued Exploits on the Island of Nesila I figurd it would be fun to go around and use my realizations about how I would play with HexRoll learned from last time and keep the story going for at least a little bit longer. I have not fully explored the island, yet, but were already starting to see several coastlines. That being said, I had not yet set foot in a dungeon and that is the point of OSR style play, especially low level play. I am going to need to do some delving since no matter how well the town and wilderness hexes do or not work, in principle those are mostly flavor to explain why a dungeon is there. First, the Conversion Looking at the monster stat blocks, the stat blocks were derived from  Old School Essentials so I sent my poor six heroes through the painful process of being converted. I did not use any kind of "official" SD → OSE converter sheet. I just went, "They have +2 to STR, they get +2 to STR." The exception was the Thief ...