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2) If the PCs are within the 15' radius around the barbarian when the skill is used, then I would say the allies gain the benefit of the debuff as well, though once they move outside that 15' radius that debuff benefit is lost. Not working outside the 15' radius. I never would have thought of that....

Hey all, I asked this over in the FB group but it mostly went unanswered, so I'm hoping I can find a little more help over here. Two questions about Barbarian special ability Intimidate: 1) When the Barbarian uses it, do most of the DM's roll for every monster affected (which, at high levels could t...

Ah, thanks for the help. For a long time I assumed I had a later CKG because it talks about how Illusionists can cast healing spells, which is a development that didn't occur until later in C&C's evolution. Things I'd read online had me doubt that, and I began to get the idea that a CKG didn't c...

Hey gang, I'm probably looking right at them and right over them, but could someone more well-versed in this game than I am tell me what the name of the winged humanoids are in this game? I assume it has them -- every game does -- but all of the usual names (Winged People, Avians, etc) are coming up...

She could have used her wisdom drain and then charmed the whole party to join her merry band of minions. The next day or after the spell wore off the players could have slipped away on some pretence where they could gather their strength and make another attempt. I read the monster description quit...

I'd like to offer my thanks to everyone who weighed in on this question. As always, the respectfulness of this group stands out and makes it always a pleasure to be here. Some really great suggestions were offered on how to handle this sort of situation in the future, but I thought I'd take a moment...

My players, as I have discussed many times, are big on rules. The idea of a narrative game where the GM decides many of the things on the fly just doesn't "set well" with them. Tonight, we had an issue. Before the big boss final encounter, I placed a large water stream. It was healing wate...

Any one with more than 5' of movement rate should win.. if they know where they're going. Dropping off weight and crap helps too. Warriors in full gear with weapons do not catch orcs who drop their gear to flee for their lives. I always assume "everything wants to live". Thus once the goi...

I don't recall seeing this elsewhere, although I may be overlooking it. Anyone got a good set of simple rules to allow for running away from a battle and/or chasing or being chased? It's easy to get into a fight, but not so easy (for me, anyway) to adjudicate escaping from enemies when the PC's are ...

After reading these replies, I think I like the "seeing a friend/relative/lover" in danger. The way I can work it is, our male (the one who would be Charmed if he fails his save) is our main fighter. So if the other player(s) go in to rescue him and I have them outnumbered and "out-to...

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Dispel magic , naturally. Thanks for the suggestions. :) Herein lies a problem with none of us liking magical characters, of course. Not one among us has access to a Dispel Magic. Of course, what we lack in magical recourse we make up for in gaming that we feel is more "logical." (Yes, in...

I'm looking at running the next game probably next weekend. Normally, I have only two players, but we're waiting until next weekend to see if we can get our third. (Usually not; our third plays only very rarely). Regardless of whether I have two or three players, I'm planning an encounter with a Lam...

I never know what any of the abbreviations mean, ... I just smile, nod my head, and pretend I understand what it is. Which doesn't help much because it is on my computer, so no one can see me smile nor see me nod my head ... stupid modern conversations ... ;) Lol. I usually google the ones I don't ...

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Charisma is not a dump stat. None of the stats are dump stats in C&C. All of the stats are tied into saving throws. Charisma is actually associated with saves against some very nasty effects like death magic. Okay, whatever you call it. It's the stat they put their lowest scores in and never ch...

I go BTB on this. I do not know this abbreviation... can someone he'p me out here? By the Book. Ah. Thanks. Well... I'm feeling not too bright ATM. :oops: However, I also use hero points per the CKG. I do have free re-roll points, but we do them completely differently than the CKG's version. I give...

Buttmonkey wrote:I go BTB on this.

I do not know this abbreviation... can someone he'p me out here?

I tried googling it, but all I got was "bring the booty" and I'm fairly certain that wasn't what Buttmonkey intended.

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by bumping a 6 year old thread, but I'm doing so because 1) this thing is so good it deserves to be kept in the first few pages, so that way other newbies like myself find it, and 2) to express my amazement and how awesome this thing is, and my appreciation to the a...

FWIW, I don't think of the rules as written as "fire and forget." I use that system, but I think of it differently. I think of it as, spells take a lot of time to cast, and many need special items to cast... not even necessarily hard to acquire but still things they need (like dirt to cast...

Hey gang! Okay, so I've been away because we were playing a different game and just didn't have time to run two different games concurrently. However, usually when I run a game I stay fairly active in the community, and their community was awful. Every time I tried to do anything new with the game, ...

Sorry if I appeared annoyed. I do get jumpy when I perceive a narrative of some timeline in which anything made before today was inferior, and we made some great leap in RPG technology since then. Just last night I was looking at old "Giant in the Playground" thread about "modern rpg...

Aergraith, maybe I'm misunderstanding your tone, but I think you have taken my reply as a critique of C&C and the Save system. If so, I have been gravely misunderstood, and I apologize for that. Just the opposite, I was saying that, upon reflection, I see that the Save system is close to the one...

Yes, Alternate Hit Dice (p. 10, Supplement I - Greyhawk). Fighter d8 Magic-User d4 Cleric d6 Thief d4 (This class was introduced in Supplement I). Yep, Thief at d4. That's the hit die assignments I'm seeing in most games (including Basic Fantasy, which is another game worth a second or third look!).

If I were going to screw with the spell system, it wouldn't be to straight up increase the power of spellcasters. Yeah, I would never want to give Spellcasters more power, and I do realize that the system presented in the CKG will certainly do that, especially at the higher end of things. But I do ...

I've never seen the real White Box, but retroclones put the hit dice assignments like this: Fighters: d8 Clerics: d6 Wizards: d4 In book 1, everyone had a d6 hit die (and all weapons did d6 damage). Did that ever change to the assignments I've listed above? A lot of retroclones seem to do it that w...

Edit: Aww, I just noticed that this is an old thread and my answer is totally pointless. Well, fudge. Well, I so don't care, I'm leaving it anyway... I spent too much time on it to delete it now! Everyone can just feel free to scroll right on past. :lol: I have just recently discovered that one of ...

I never tried it, but i was (am) intrigued, is the system used in the Sovereign Stone setting. In this system, every spell has a casting threshold (no levels). Each round of casting, a spellcaster collects d20+level (and +modifier iirc) in spell energy. Once they have collected enough energy to mee...

Well, this took a little more study on my part, so I went to an online SRD and read about how Saves are done in 3.5 (and, I presume, probably similarly done in all WotC editions). What I found is that C&C's method is more closely akin to the newer editions of D&D than the older TSR versions ...

This has been an incredibly useful thread for me! As a group who has never played above level 5, I did not realize this important point about Saves in C&C. I'll need to explain this to my players (or at least the missus) and get feedback on her opinion. I admit, I'm somewhat rather split down th...