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I'm re-reading the Hornblower series and mining it for adventure ideas for a sci-fi military campaign I'm planning. Plus, it's a very fun series to read. Nice, I loved the series back in the day when I read it. Haven't thought of it in years though. My Traveller flavor tends not to be into the 'Hig...

I've been looking for something fantasy related, but haven't really found the right thing. Check out Glen Cook's Black Company novels if you haven't already. The first is conveniently titled, "The Black Company." Oh I'd forgotten about those. it has been YEARS since I read any of them. I'...

Christmas eve, hope you all enjoy good mulled wine or spiced cider, spend time with the loved ones, get more/better gifts than you deserve, and have a Merry Christmas !

I would rule an incorporeal being would be immune to polymorph. I agree with Go0gleplex's reasoning in this matter. I'm not sure I'd allow it to work even on the Ethereal Plane as we are dealing with a spirit being that has no physical body. I'm with you 100% on that. That said, my games, no one ev...

... [edit] As much as I hate to admit it, I think there need to be more railroad adventures specifically intended to handhold a new DM/CK. I've been running a modified version of "Keep on the Boarderland" for my girls' face to face for over a year, and it has been a blast. A look behind t...

Ok, I tend to hate almost all things 'currently popular' and this includes shows and movies (just ask the Monday Night ne'er-do-wells). I even hate current popular music (some times liking things like PMJ versions of current songs vastly more than I like the actual popular version). That said, I won...

I did forget to say that foe each game (the long running campaigns and the one offs) I set them up a player folder with quick reference pages and good 'need to know' things for whatever game we are playing.

That helps out A LOT !

They all voted to keep the story going. You always loose some, we shall see. One guy is a 5e convert, one is a 20 year ago gamer. He seemed interested. Many are total first timers. The group is also VERY ethically diverse (yes ethics) . Ex."My elf fighter is chaotic neutral, so f this, my PC i...

Dm Curt First Welcome to the boards, hope you find some good ideas and advice here. As said before, I'd stay with BTB C&C for a bit until you have figured out. After that ..... modify as you see fit and enjoy! Personally, I am a habitual rule tinker. Some times they work out better than I'd thin...

Nice sounds like a good intro game. Hope some of them are new hooked on our favorite game !

jebear wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:47 pm

I'm in the UK and just getting into C&C. I'm also waiting to get a copy of The Castle Keepers Guide. Dungeonland is great and my favourite supplier. I hope that they get more stock soon.

Welcome to the board. Hope you have as much enjoyment from C&C as I've had over the years !

I can't believe I missed jumping into this earlier ... Every time I read some of it, something happened, and I had to go do some real-life things and would forget to jump in ... I like the D&D alignment, but don't overly focus on it - my face to face game is 3 young teen girls that all go to a s...

Treating that like a 1-shot, here you go on a trick that I stumbled onto that has worked great form my 1 shots. I have all the pre-gens rolled up, and a folder with the character sheet, a full background, secret and hooks etc for it. I also have a small index card sized picture and summery of the ch...

I was lucky enough to start my daughters and their best friend (plus her dad, but it was a gamer back in the day that just needed the rust knocked off his gaming skills, so I won't count him) a little under 2 years ago. So, I have a fresh look at this. I was lucky that all 3 of them read The Hobbit,...

Based on the trailer; I'd give The Bastard Sword a C- at best...likely a D. Bad make-up, so-so acting, garbage sword play (bad choreography overall really) and cheap effects. Obviously done without anything resembling a budget. Concept...not quite overly cliche. Not quite as bad as some of those th...

Well it is another year down. Hope everyone here had a Happy Thanksgiving. The wife and girls are in GA at her mom's (I couldn't go didn't have quite enough leave saved up), but I'm cooking the ham for my mom's meal and some kin and some old friends are coming over to her house, so I'll still be sur...

A few hours left on the Kickstarter. I think I'm in for the print and digital. I saw in the comments where Brian Young said the following: The 'Codex Nihonica' and 'Codex Mongolica' both will help to fill in this gap too in their own way when brought together. So it appears that Japan and Mongolia ...

Have you seen the Tome of the Unclean? It's pretty comprehensive as far as I can tell. Demons and daemons and devils, oh my! Yup. Did not like it at all. What didn't you like? I can't answer for Max, but I always thought ToU was a little underpowered. It does have interesting demons/devils, but the...

Been a bit since I posted but I never post all that often anywhere. Came into a little bit O extra money and an Amazon gift card sooo.... I made some purchases... The Warden Goodman games Metamorphosis Alpha collectors Victorious bundle Amazing Adventures And the newest C&C collectors box. Gott...

maximus wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 27, 2022 2:23 pm

Sounds like a solid system, thanks for the update!

Rgr that.

Never been a HUGE Conan fan myself, but it does sound like an interesting mash up of rules. I might have to get a copy

I would LOVE to see a Mongolian / Steppe work.

I admit China & Japan must be made, it is the most know most common and therefore the ones everyone will buy. However, I've ALWAYS wanted a steppe / transoxiana one.

Welcome to the forum.

Hopefully someone here has an answer for you on this. I haven't dug too deep into the CKG so I'm not sure exactly what the chart is for or how it works.

Nice Gramps. I think the Gardy Loo summon-teleport range is a bit big for a 2nd level spell...a quarter mile being around 1250 feet. Thanks, I made it 2nd level because no damage nor other material ill effects. As a 3rd level spell it would be very under powered because it has no damage nor other i...

I do not allow any cantrip to do damage. They are too weak of a spell for that. However. clever use of a cantrip could be damaging ... say there is a patch of oil that the opponents are running through/by. The clever mage waits until they are in the right spot and casts a flame based cantrip on the ...

Hello… First off - new to C&C but I am very impressed! I have lots of AD&D 1st and 2nd edition stuff and I have read how to convert misters, saving throws and other stuff into C&C. What I’d like to know is can spells just be imported into C&C? I have the Wizards and Priests spell co...

My wife gave me a present and inside it were 40th anniversary reprints of original Call of Cthulhu, 1st edition, so basically identical copies of the first 1" box and its follow-up smaller one. I had them already but the reprints will give me an excuse to actually use them, maybe. I actually p...

Welcome back! +1 to that ! Like everyone else has said, there isn't any earth shattering changes to the rules, new art, new lay out, cleaning up here and there in the core books. Like Anvil said the M&T has some more than the originals. Rgr on Adventure Backpack being odd and niche classes. I'm...

My younger daughter's thief has a history that included being from a fisher village, so she has a net. I've let her use it to damage by hitting with the weighted end, or entangle a target doing no damage. I'm not sure on BtB, but I had her make an attack roll and them make a contested dex save to av...

I really liked 2nd Ed specialty priests as well, but the spheres of influence were rather wonky. The default spheres really messed up traditional druids. However, Dragon Magazine #205 fixed these issues and made the spheres much more sensible. Over the last while, i've actually been working on spec...

Tadhg wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:41 pm

Owlbear!

Yeah that was a good part too !