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serleran wrote: It is intentional. "Name levels" are supposed to be harder to achieve - after that, they get slightly easier. It's part of the general assumption about the game, itself. Of course, unlike older versions of D&D, there is no in-game benefit to "Name Level." i.e...

serleran wrote: It is intentional. "Name levels" are supposed to be harder to achieve - after that, they get slightly easier. It's part of the general assumption about the game, itself. Interesting, Jackal, that you've seen the actual formula - I thought Davis had not shown it to anyone, ...

<t>... Or am I in need of edification?<br/> <br/> One of my group pointed out some interesting "anomolies" in the EPP tables for the various classes. I didn't have a ready answer for why these might be there, so I thought I'd go through the tables and list the ones I found (based on 3rd printing PHB...

<t>Great chart, Matthew. Nicely consistent stats. I like the speed adjustment. I don't know whether I'd use it in my games, but it's well done.<br/> <br/> My weapon chart is more abstract. I wanted a list of equipment that was deliberately vague in terms of the specific items. i.e. "Long Spear" incl...

<t>My family actually had a long history of elopements. My mother and father were the first on either side of my family to not elope for something crazy like 4 generations. My mom's parents were married for 2 years before anyone knew. (He was 25, she was 16 when they eloped. She lived at home until ...

Taranthyll wrote:
I don't think that it would be possible. As I understand the GSL, Goodman games will no longer be able to publish material for C&C. If you agree to the GSL you henceforth give up the right to publish anything under the OGL.

Whoa.
That's harsh.

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The rings are thought to blunt an opponents blade when used for blocking, while the distinctive snap they make is distracting.

From a Martial Arts site.

<t>That's me on the right with the goatee and stupid grin. <br/> I did hand write "BIGHARA" on my badge since that's the only name most folks on the boards have for me.<br/> <br/> @Gideon/Pete: You and I actually had several conversations during the con (I was sitting watching you sketch an orc one ...

papercut wrote: It is kinda sad that a class is balanced around an item they get at mid-high level. How about a Holy Avenger like sword/skill set that levels as the character does and requires quests to upgrade? By the time that pallys get their Avengers, Clerics will have already been out shining ...

seskis281 wrote: And this I can tell you from personally querying Steve on the subject... The C&C stuff sells great. Their d20 lines never sold nearly as well. The business logic that if the "guerilla" of the market does something, all others must do likewise was proven wrong in the d...

Young Kevin Kline as the Pirate King. Nice.

RLW wrote: Thanks for clarifying that SR is a "fixed" value, unaffected by the caster level or level of the spell. Having looked over some higher HD creatures in M&T, I see now that adding caster level would make SR rather meaningless for them. Wait, now I'm confused again. The headin...

RLW wrote: Mmm, this PDF copy of the PHB makes searching easy. p. 34: Elves get +10 to their SR p. 35: Half-elves, +2 or +4 (depending on lineage) p. 46, 50: SR is characterized as a "special ability," hence not universal to all creatures. It is separate from but additional to a saving th...

I used to use a multi-class house rule where it required the PC to have the necessary Primes. It seemed to work OK for us.

<t>I got lucky and a fellow on another RPG board sold me one of his RC's for $10. I also printed out the pdf and had it spiral bound at Kinko's for a 2nd "public" copy.<br/> <br/> While I prefer Moldvay/Cook as it suits my style of Classic D&D, the RC is one heckuva impressive piece of work. It'...

Endless Flight wrote: Hi, Is the PDF on RPGNow the 1st printing or 2nd printing? It says 1st, but I want to make sure I'm getting the latest version, or is the errata not that much different from 2nd? Thanks much! The pdf I bought a while back is the first printing. It still says 1st printing at Dr...

clavis123 wrote:
I'm another CK that doesn't limit Combat Dominance to d6 or lower HD. A Fighter can use Combat Dominance against any creature with 1 HD of less, of any type.

I bumped it to 1d8 HD, just to include orcs, etc.

Wikipedia wrote: n late 2005, University of Melbourne researchers concluded that the Perentie (Varanus giganteus), other species of monitor, and agamids may be somewhat venomous. It had been thought that bites inflicted by these lizards were prone to infection because of bacteria in the lizards' mo...

<t>There have been several threads about this over the last couple years. If you want to do soem searches, I'm sure you can read through those. The jist of it is the Fighter is the best at fighting. he's better at it than barbarians, rangers, paladins, and knights. And, as serleran points out, the S...

adaen wrote: Its for this reason that I tend to gravitate away from the D&D hitpoint system (not because it is "unrealistic", but b/c it just gets inconvenient at a point). I also favor fully transparent difficulties and rolls for most things....that means all the bonuses/penalties ca...

serleran wrote: You'll find that spellcasters have the game at high level. While I haven't run a high level C&C game myself, serleran makes a good point. This may or may not be a big issue for you and your group, depending on your play styles. Groups that tend to work together won't have as muc...

Cool I just picked up the 3rd Printing PHB & 2nd Printing M&T (+ the $10 3rd P PHB in pdf)!
I paypal'd the email address "troll AT trolllord DOT com" (That was the address I had for them in my paypal history)

DangerDwarf wrote: Yeah, they seem to expect the full treatment every session now. damn their sense of entitlement in expecting to see me make a fool of myself. My players are like that about props and minis. I paint minis and build terrain/scenery for fun. Several times I have spied the perfect fi...

<t>While I am looking forward to seeing how certain optional rules are going to be handled by the CKG (especially things like Mass Combat), I'm certainly not putting my game on hold for it. <br/> <br/> Since C&C "broke the mold" for the 3 book concept by putting Monsters & Treasure together ...

Ghul wrote:
Heh. The only thing it's missing is a Chinese menu in its hand.

Cheers!

Well, his hair IS perfect.

Rhuvein wrote:
The CK handbook was bitten by a wolf, so it's a were-CK handbook now.

And it's on the prowl!!

Owwwwooooooooo!

Nice werewolf smiley thingy.

And an awful pun.

I use a simplified feat system in my house rules (1 feat @ 1st, a new feat every 3 levels). Among the feats available is to bump a score by +1. The most you can (eventually) raise a score in this way is to 20+racial modifier.

Aladar wrote: One possible consideration for a CK having a drow PC in this campaign: May be not everyone in every town is even going to know what a drow is (unless there are elves). So the drow PC could go into a small human village or town where the folks have never heard of the drow, much less se...

Aladar wrote:
bighara,

That is a very good (and simple) analogy with Superman of how a paladin should act. I need to print this out and have one of my players read it.

Thanks.

No problemo. Superhero analogies are what I'm here for!

Matthew wrote: Bah! Paladins are great, people just don't understand them. Paladins of contrary alignments should get their own class and stop sullying the good name of Paladins everywhere! Hear, hear! I say "Bah!" to non LG paladins. The only thing that makes the paladin a worthwhile cla...