Troll Lord Games

(been awhile for me which is why so late to the party) - Do what I did: using the old TSR module “Treasure Island”(?), which was I think the first-ever ZERO-Level module, write up something where the players are just ‘people’ who’ve been captured and the game is to escape/explore-as-they-do so. Depe...

hey...I'm just South of Joplin - NEOSHO Missouri- Chris

I'll see what I can do -- unfortunately, at home I'm on dial-up and
RPGnow is slow to load; here at work the security software won't
allow me to go there.

Bloodymage, the KISS rules look great -- was just over at yer site checkin' them out. Nice work!

"light weapons" would be the ones Obi-Wan and Luke used...

...and why is it always about SIZE?

Well, if I were that druid, I'd lay the vines down on both sides of any corridor I'd want to trap, back off a ways and wait for whatever comes down that corridor, setting off the spell when they get between the vine piles. Make for a nice roadblock to anything coming behind them as well. Or, simply ...

This'd possibly take you, the CK, a bit more tweaking, but if you want to balance (or mostly balance) all characters levelling-up: 1) Look over how much each class needs in EXP to level-up, 2) Tweak your adventure so the encounters-per-class are equivalent to what it takes to level-up. Example: If t...

Omote, 'thustra, maybe this morning my INT is down or something, but I'm not quite understanding...so help me out (again) please - IF there's an inherent difference in how 1e did saves .vs C&C saves, how should saving throws be changed/modified/plus-or-minused when running characters through a 1...

Question for those whose rules-understanding is better than mine - So, not having yet run a C&C game, but also wanting to run my 1e modules, I've a question: If I did that Save-pluses-at-higher-levels to accomodate the 1e modules, wouldn't that slant saves a different way when running a C&C ...

In my games, I'll create "stories" in the sense of having numerous plot-hooks to engage the characters in the world -- usually in the form of rumors they hear, not all of which are true, of course. Each rumor, if followed up, can lead into an adventure. After that, the greater world 'story...

In my old 1e days, "banks" were places where they'd hold you monies and protect it for a fee. I'm thinking maybe in my C&C games of having temples play the role of banks -- giving a small percentage of interest as long as you allow them to use your monies to make loans, charging a fee ...

One of our favourite characters was a Half-Orc fighter with an INT score of 5 (I think, might have been 4 even). He pretty much worshipped our paladin and, so, became his squire. That paladin became known to us as the 'rainbow knight' due to the many colors he'd turn every time the Half-Orc screwed ...

First step: find a bastard.

Well, wouldn't that be the essential ingredient?

Uh, I'm thinking that black knight, y'know, the one guarding that bridge
in "The Holy Grail"...by those Python guys...yeah, he'd make the perfect god...just the one you want...

"A truly practical adventure party would take those 7000 copper coins and make them into scale armour."

Nah, a truly practical party would turn it into wire, mine some magnets, and make a generator so they'd have light underground...

Hell, a spiky wagon is easy: the local blacksmith would simply take 4-tined caltrops and hammer one tine into the wood of the wagon leaving the other three spiking out. Of course, as they rode this wagon further and further out of town, the bumping and movement of the wagon would dislodge the hammer...

"...would you allow magic items to be "breakable" at all?" Oh, yeah - some of our most memorable games were due to someone breaking their magic item. "...is there a certain "level" of bonus that is simply unbreakable? Say, +3 or higher items?" I'd vote: NO on ...

Oh, I can see a whole bunch-a times where he'll end up knocking it into walls and such just due to its length -- roll for possible breakage. Personally, I'd say he'd have to find a damn good Dwarven smith (with enough helpers) to craft something like that. Or quest to find such a sword -- and who kn...

Possible backstory: the character was found after a battle by a barbarian who took him to the closest place to offload him onto others' care (a monestary). But, in accepting the offer of food and a bed for the night, the monks and barbarian traded tales. Since the barbarian had seen much more of th...

"Of course you can have a license!"

Me, I never shoulda said that to our teenagers...

with that, they became....uh...monsters!

Yes, welcome! The SIEGE engine really is elegant and makes
gaming super-FUN again (for me).

How 'bout the aliens from the movie "Alien"? Or the hunter-aliens from "Predator"? Or the PCs get caught in a fight between both? ...keep the same 'stats' for them as they had in those movies and any player characters who've seen those movies will start shaking in their boots, kn...

Bard:

Anne McCaffrey - The Masterharper of Pern - Masterharper and
his apprentices

Rogue:

Roger Zelazny - Changeling - Mouseglove

(maybe more to come later...)

Well, I pledged last week and am so looking forward to this book. Sure, I've got the 1st Ed. AD&D monster books, but one specially for C&C is stellar! Good work everyone. And Steve, maybe y'all are just Trollsaders? Though that sounds like its own monster class: cross between a Troll and the...

Way back when, I had a player who, realizing he could get XPs for killing things, started bashing everything that came along -- had to start knocking down his XPs for frivolous kills. So, YES, award them for good role-playing...managing to get past something by negotiating, bartering, trickery, etc,...

Well...if you really, really, really think they deserve another chance: Bring 'em back from the dead -- figure the dragon has spells, and just figure resurrection is in his repertoire. So, the dragon, impressed by their boldness, brings them back for a price: a gaes to go on a mission for the dragon...

Ohhh, Dead...love yer new icon. I think I've seen that
tract it came from way back when.

Evenglare, welcome to the crusade! There's some on here that have links to different C&C character sheets and I'm sure they'll be with you in a moment. Very friendly and helpful community here: a huge bonus over and above this wonderful RPG. And, as you'll maybe soon find out, the Troll-lords th...

You might want to do what I did: create adventures for an "evil crew" to play. When I was part of a group where different folks would DM games, mostly, yeah, the player-characters were the typical mix of Lawful-Good, Neutral-Good to Neutral, but no decidedly evil characters in the mix. So,...

Frikkin' Elf-souls, how do they work?