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<t>I have Birthright, Fields of Blood and the RC War Machine/Dominion Rules. But those are too detailed for the time available and the players involved. I've talked in another thread about this, but it basically comes down to me taking the best of al lthese and combining them into something new, whi...

<t>I've pretty much stuck to WFRP for years now, but since I purchased the C&C books, I've been itching to run something with them. So far there are three different types of campaign I'm thinking about but, not having the time to run them all, I have to pick one. Problem is, I can't decide. Whic...

Quote: Re: Mass Combat..... Do you mean as a wargame or as an abstract formula to handle battles? As stated above Bowb has come up with a really cool concept for wargaming mbattles that (IMO) is simple, keeps things moving quickly, is faithful to the Siege Engine and allows PCs to influence battles...

Quote: Bowbe. The rules were tested at Troll Con, and other places. Should see the light of day soon -- perhaps in CKG or a Haunted Highlands supplement. Cool. Can you describe them? Were they basically C&C derivitives of the RC rules or more like Birthright? How detailed are the Dominion rules...

<t>Did a bit of Net-romancy and looked through the RC. <br/> <br/> I owned this stuff over a decade ago and had forgotten about these rules. Good stuff, though. Very simple, to the point and easily adaptable to C&C. I think a more interesting treatment of Dominions is probably in order, somethin...

clavis123 wrote:
Right now I'd suggest using the Stronghold and Dominion rules from the old D&D Rules Cyclopedia, along with the War Machine and Siege Machine for mass combat. The War Machine really is a nice little strategy game unto itself.

War Machine and Siege Machine? What are those?

<t>I have Birthright, and while it is a great campaign system and easily adapted to C&C, it is incredibly complex, probably to much so for some of my players. Not only that, but the rules are tied very closely into the setting.<br/> <br/> I've also looked at Eden Studios Fields of Blood suppleme...

<t>You know, I'm not trying to be disrespectful of anyone's ideas or anything, but anytime I see a list of rules like some of those above, I start to fall asleep or my brain starts to hurt. My intentions are always more along the lines of KISS. If I have to start overhauling the entire book, I tend ...

Quote: The things that mess up the "HP are not physical" concept most are monsters with poison bites and falling damage. If HP loss isn't physical damage, how could you have been bitten and poisoned - you must have been stung by the giant scorpion or had the giant sea snake sink its fangs...

Quote: Spellcasting becomes very difficult. A 20th level wizard with an 18 Intelligence, to cast a 9th level spell would need to roll a 16 --- d20 + 20 + 3 >= 12 +27. That leaves a very low % of success, and a very high chance of miscast failure; you'd be better off just applying a backlash effect ...

Quote: My preferred system is a spellcheck system. Fighters make rolls to do what they do best, why not wizards? That's why I love the WFRP magic system so much as it works in much the same way. You know how to cast the spell, but are you powerful enough and do you want to risk the potential side e...

<t>WFRP uses a flat XP reward system, 100xp per 3-4 hours of play, and that encourages smarter play on the part of the characters. It is based on the concept that every experience is valuable and failure is often a better teacher than success.<br/> <br/> Back when 3e first came out, I planned all of...

<t>Good points. I actually forgot about most spells needing 'to-hit' rolls in 4e and hadn't considered the 'saves' problem although I think the other points are really just variations on those two.<br/> <br/> Me personally, I wasn't planning on using this houserule, as I said, it was an academic exe...

Quote: I was considering making all one handed weapons do the same damage, because any could kill with one hit. I think the video you posted it brought me around to my orginal reasoning (much like your post) This is the way that WFRP does it, all hand weapons are the same, and it works well. Weapon...

<t>I understand what Gygax was looking to do, and I'm not even using this system myself, per se, just thinking of how to apply some 4e concepts to C&C in order to demonstrate how flexible (and in my mind, better) the C&C system is. In other words, why spend all that money on D&D4e when y...

<t>If 4e did anything right, it was changing spell durations into three distinct time elements instead of giving you one more thing to keep track of.<br/> <br/> Of course then they go and add a hundred little buffs, heals, effects, etc. to keep track of, which completely defeats that purpose, but th...

<t>I've heard a lot of good ideas for modifying the Vancian Magic System lately. Here's another one I came up with to bridge the middle ground between that and the 4e at-will/encounter/daily power system.<br/> <br/> A wizard can become increasingly familiar with his magic as he grows in experience. ...

<t>I have to say James Bond was well ahead of it's time. I have the main rules, the Q-Manual the great solitaire adventure 'On Her Majesties Secret Service' and the nigh indispensible 'Assault' boardgame. A little Torrent Necromancy has allowed me to complete my collection with everything else.<br/>...

<t>Actually, the Ritual idea is a goodun. Especially considering how I've always seen Vancian Magic not as 'memorizing' and 'forgetting,' but 'spell hanging' ala the Amber novels.<br/> <br/> In the Merlin series of Amber novels, Sorcery and spellcasting is the poor red-headed step brother to Pattern...

<t>I posted this in the stickied sectoin on M&T errata, but since that thread has really gotten no play since then, I'm reprinting it here. On page 126-127 in the Poisons section, there are a couple of things that seem in need of errata, unless I'm just having a real duh moment. <br/> <br/> On 1...

<t>I'm quite pleased with the SEIGE engines flexibility in this regard and I've actually used almost the exact same type of example when telling others about it on RPG.net (Maxwell Luther) and other places to show just how flexible a 'fighter' is (also, see my last post on this thread for options a ...

Taranthyll wrote: Actually I think the fighter is a lot more fun than it first appears. If you consider that fighters are the masters of combat and let them make SIEGE checks to emulate all sorts of cool combat maneuvers, they become a lot more interesting and versatile. A C&C fighter should be...

<t>After flipping through the M&T book last night and trying to identify just how many 3,4 and 5HD 'minion/soldier/ creatures there and taking into consideration the types of encounters one might have at levels 10+, I came to the conclusion that increasing Combat Dominance to include higher leve...

Quote: ... I see Vancian spellcasting as a sort of "pre-casting." Meaning the wizard knows he can't take the time in difficult situations to perform the entire spell so he pre-casts it into memory and can unleash the spell with a few spoken words. That was the way they did it in the Amber...

Quote: I've used a similar spell-casting method for a campaign in which Vancian magic wasn't appropriate (specifically, trying to recreate the Aes Sedai from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series)... What I did was allow the caster a number of spell-points equal to 1 point per spell slot per spell l...

<t>After digesting the lot of the rules by this point, my mind was turning over on the types of changes I might make to 'personalize' the game for my campaigns. Kudo's to TLG, because normally I'm a BTB guy and this is the first time I've really been encouraged to houserule, not because the rules ar...

<t>Yes, that is true, but I was referring to the base concepts and how they apply to a Paladin in that situation.<br/> <br/> Anyways, I think the character in black in the C&C alignment wheel would be Chaotic Neutral, as I don't see a Paladin hanging out with a Chaotic Evil person. The guy in th...

Tenser's Floating Disk wrote: This is in danger of deteriorating into one of those rec.games.frp.dnd alignment threads, but when you have Good and Law objectively defined in the rules, I don't think there should be too much difficulty in deciding what a Paladin should and should not do. Does anyone...

<t>Yep, yep. I got layed off in May and started my own business so my boss doesn't care if I take a forum surfing break every now and again .<br/> <br/> But C&C is growing in popularity, especially since the release of 4e D&D. I went to pick up Engineering Dungeons at my FLGS last weekend an...

Joe wrote: Exactly... Just as churches and clerics are suceptible to corruption, a paladin is above even the established church they adhere to. In todays world of contradiction, political correctness, and relativity of good and evil being subject to the beholder, an icon of good and law seems to gr...