Troll Lord Games

I'd say chances of this being out March 2019 are pegged at zero percent (given that the Adventures Backpack was like 15 months late). (I print all my C&C books B&W...purchase the PDF, print at Lulu for about $5 each - for some reason my "color blindness" has trouble reading the text as is on the col...

Seems the only track I've been on past few years is the sidetrack.

Currently left to do is 10 Subclasses, 7 Monsters Classes, 48 Monsters, 34 Spells, 5 pieces of equipment, 22 rules/dm advice, and 25 skills.

So....are these done yet?

How is your Dark Dungeons Deluxe related to Blacky the Blackball's Dark Dungeons? http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/177410/Dark-Dungeons Are you Blacky? Or are taking his/her game and updating it? (Just downloaded yours and liking what I'm reading...what is the ETA of this or is that a sore subjec...

Reading through the Companion...and just want to THANK YOU for putting it together.

I do find it "funny" that we in the RPG fandom, support a product by purchasing it (or in the case of a Kickstarter, purchasing it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of time)....then in some cases end up doing much of the editing, etc for free. (I've done this several times myself for different games). Not ...

Well one might ask "If you're always 6 months late, why not pad your estimated delivery date by 6 months?" But, what do I know? :) Or do like Kevin Crawford - don't even start your Kickstarter until you're 98%+ done. In any case, as I said...just "anxious" to see the Backpack and had expected near J...

Actually 2 Bundles available.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2017Castles1

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Castles2

Guy at Gamehole Con just reported they said they "hope to get Backpack out by end of the year." Kickstarter said "June". Maybe they meant "June" of 2018.

Schwalb is laughing at everyone else...

Yeah - Crawford is good, but Schwalb puts even him to shame. Crawford doesn't put out much in a given year...Schwalb cranks out stuff monthly it seems. I do like that Crawford doesn't start his Kickstarters until he's basically done - unlike many who don't seem to even start until after the KS is do...

I think perhaps, I just really, really want to see the Backpack.

Adventurer's Backpack is still not out... Which led me to wonder why it seems like only Robert Schwalb of Shadow of the Demon Lord fame is the only creator I know that can put out product on a steady pace? In fact SotDL and Green Ronin's Fantasy Age both came out in 2015. Schwalb just released the 2...

As backers know by now, it appears the plug has been completely pulled on this KS and it won't be re-booted. Mr. Mentzer sent a personal note that seems to re-affirm his commitment to publishing Empyrea, but his decision is that kickstarter is not the right venue (I suppose we could post his update...

Treebore that's a good point...a good map is often all you need to spark imagination and get the game going. That reminds me of this article I saw the other day: https://www.tor.com/2017/10/10/tolkiens-map-and-the-perplexing-river-systems-of-middle-earth/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter...

19 members in a gaming group I'm in ...and zero of them will get this. Many of the gang are into more "narrative" type games - though there is no one game we all like. The 2 closest to that are Shadow of the Demon Lord and Marvel Heroic. Numenara/Strange liked by 2-3 of them, but they never seem to ...

They may regroup and do it again on smaller scale. Doesn't particularly matter to me since I wasn't going get it anyway. I just like to see good RPG stuff out there whether it's for me or not.

Been stalled for several days ....probably not going to happen. On the other hand, Monte Cook can fart in a cup and auction the cup off for $450k.

KS has been "stuck" at $52K for awhile - friend of mine said that's not a good sign. Actually none of my RPG buddies are interested at all. Someone (or some group) pledged $10K though...even if I had that kind of disposable income I wouldn't personally spend on an RPG game. I may, you know, help out...

Asking for $250K seems like a tad much - I smell failure here. But, gamers have funded dumber things that's for sure.

You've probably seen this, but evidently Frank Mentzer's upcoming Empyrea setting will have a C&C book option:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.ph ... dAqdGhyKUl

C&C seems to have most if not everything ACKS does (and more)...but it's not as "up front" about many things as ACKS is. You have to dig through the CKG to get to much of the "good stuff".

I like this comment in the CKG for Advantages:

General advantages are open to any class, offering non-characters further ways to customize their character.

What pray tell is a "non-character"?

Finally have been able to play Adventurer Conqueror King. I made a human fighter as I've never ever played human fighter. Part of ACKS is that you get Proficiencies, so I ended up with: Proficiencies (General): Adventuring, Navigation Proficiencies (Class): Weapon Focus - Sword These actually helped...

Well, one way to look at it is:

- I am the fighter, I am rolling to succeed in hitting you.
- I am the wizard, you rolling to see if I succeed in hitting you (your save roll).

Why aren't both attacks rolled by the attacker?

Well, my fighter has to roll to succeed...why shouldn't the wizard have to roll to succeed? Fair is fair.

Never been a huge fan of D&D's magic system. Pretty sure it was just Gary's way of keeping Magicians from raining fireballs onto his preferred Fighters. And recently tried to read Dying Earth by Vance and couldn't even finish it. So..not surprising...curious if anyone here has successfully ditched V...

Can you explain the "bounded" to a non-guru RPGer like myself?

bestialwarlust wrote:Does it matter if the product is good? I no little to nothing about the author but the setting seems decent.

I don't know if it matters - as I said, I don't even know who he or she is. Unless they are a pedophile I'll probably give them a pass.

Mentioned "Dark Albion" to friend just now...he went on minor tirade on RPGPundit. Stupid me didn't even know who Mr. Pundit was.

Reading Dragon Warriors (was free this week on RPGNow) - enjoying it and it's low fantasy setting. In fact it's perhaps "too low fantasy".

Is there a good/great "low fantasy" setting you'd recommend for C&C?