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<t>I have used a simplified feat system in C&C and it's worked fine. My players liked being able to customize their PCs a bit. The way I handled it was simple. All PCs start with one feat and get one feat every three levels. There are general feats anyone can take and class specific feats. The c...

I didn't play one, but I had a player who ran a ranger/rogue in a game of mine. It seemed to work fine. We were using my multiclass house rules and not the ones in Crusader, though. I haven't read that article, so I'm not sure how they differed.

Treebore wrote: My answer is if the ground was hallowed at the time of burial they can never be turned into undead. Why? Because I had a player try to use undead to take over the world. The first step to keep that from happening is to NOT provide them with thousands of years worth of undead soldier...

Harry Joy wrote: Saw that movie when I was a freshman in college. My first year was at Murray State. Small town, with one cinema, and there was a new film every single weekend. Most films only played one week. * I went to see The Razor's Edge expecting a Caddyshack type of movie. Boy was I surprise...

Coleston the Cavalier wrote: One thing you might want to take into account is that these annual Hallow spells are just that, annual. Which means that some of these places (like a cemetary) have had this spell used for decades if not centuries. Much of that 1000gps of religious stuff might be statue...

The Godfather

rabindranath72 wrote:
So dwarves are charisma-based and elves are constitution-based?

*snort*

gideon_thorne wrote: *chuckles* I suspect the answer is going to be as varied as the number of the individual campaigns out there. But I think it would make an awesome plot hook to have the undead pop up and add tension to the scene. Whether its an inviolable rule or not, I don't know. It just soun...

Quote: ...any dead body interred in a hallowed site cannot be turned into an undead creature. Quote: Any dead body buried in an unhallowed area, however, will rise as a zombie in 24 hours. The duration of the spell is one year. It takes one day to cast and it's area of effect is a 150' radius. So i...

Omote wrote: Matter of fact, I'll probably keep a copy of BC&C in my car at all times so that there is never an excuse not to pick up and play should the need arise. -O Whee! If Steve follows my suggestion and pre-punches the books for 3-ring binders, I'll buy a 2nd copy and keep the dice in a ...

<t>IMC you have -for your basic 1H large weapons- Broadswords (which covers longswords as well), War Hammers (which includes things like morning stars and flails), and Battle Axes (any 1H large Axe). These weapons all do 1d8 which the option of wielding them 2H (no shield) for a +1 to damage.<br/> <...

<t>Well as I mentioned in the "what's the scoop" thread, here's a place to talk about your ideas for the upcoming Basic Set. What plans (if any) do you have for it? How do you hope to use it? What do you want to see from the Trolls to support it? And so forth.<br/> <br/> If the thread seems to get l...

I think I'll start a new thread. "C&C Basic: What do YOU plan to do with it?"
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<t>Personally, I think folks who are going to gravitate towards C&C because of issues with D&D 3.X aren't going to be terribly interested in 4e. There will be those who aren't worried about what rules they play and will use whatever system is used by the people with whom they want to play. <...

Troll Lord wrote:
I do have floating around in the back of my head a Basic expansion where other race classes will be presented: the Halfling, Gnome and Ogre.

Pre-punched books. I hadn't thought of that! That's a good idea!

Steve

My consulting fee is one advance copy of the Basic Set.

serleran wrote: Poor gnomes axed in C&C, too. No halflings either. (v. Basic D&D) That's OK by me, though. I rarely use all the PC races in a given campaign anyway. What I'm curious about is how the Elf class gets handled. Will it be a Fighter/Mage like in B/X or more like a Ranger? Or some...

imweasel wrote: I think I have found a reason why they have the highest epp in the game. I converted my oldest surviving character from 1e D&D to C&C, a 20th level paladin. Disregarding my converted paladin, how in the world do you deal with the insane spell resistance that a paladin gets w...

Coleston the Cavalier wrote: Yes! All shall tremble before our might! (LGGCIV meeting is a great Idea!) I am -in fact- lobbying hard with the Mrs. for a trip to WI in June next year, so I hope to attend. In addition to "AC&C", I'll be bringing my Moldvay/Cook rules as well as C&C ...

My house rules use a "streamlined" weapon list. The "medium" weapons that are normally 1H -Mace, Broadsword, and Battle Axe- offer the option of 2H wielding for +1 damage. The trade-off is no shield, of course.

I've consolidated my house rules and weapon/armor charts into one doc that also has PC generation info. It's for a Karameikos based game. Rather than try to format it all here, I've provided a link to the pdf:
Bighara's C&C House Rules

Comments welcome. Enjoy.

It's true. The SIEGE system is pretty robust. And it does bridge the gap between older systems, like Classic D&D and things like d20. I've converted a few DCCs from 3.5 to C&C as well as B10: Night's Dark Terror without too much difficulty.

<t>A buddy of mine picked me up a GenCon copy, so I've been playing it for a couple months now. It's a lot of fun. It's very random though, strategy will only take you so far.<br/> <br/> One important errata. The Orb of Knowledge and the Prophetess take a card, then decide whether to draw a 2nd card...

*bumpity*

rabindranath72 wrote: Actually, it may be a problem. I did some calculations, and on average d4s tend to do sligthly more damage than d6s! For increasing die sizes the problem tends to disappear, but you should expect an overall increased number of criticals for smaller weapons. To solve the proble...

I've had too many bad CN experiences from PCs. I simply don't allow the alignment in player characters. In fact, I usually make PCs be of a Good alignment. It just saves headaches later. Now, that works for the kinds of games I usually run, but it might not work for everyone. YMMV, etc.

Philotomy Jurament wrote: Are you using only one type of damage die? This will work, in that case. Otherwise, you're going to have 1d4 weapons that crit 25% of the time, while 1d8 weapons crit 12-1/2% of the time, et cetera. No, I'll use the various damage dies. The increased odds of a critical is ...

<t>CRITICAL HITS: If an attacker rolls the maximum die result on his damage roll, he rolls to hit again. If he succeeds, he re-rolls his damage and adds it to the previous total. If the result is the maximum die result again, he adds & keeps re-rolling until he doesnt roll the maximum. The to hi...

<t>Bear in mind a lot of this has to do with how my group plays, so they may not be for everyone.<br/> <br/> Starting off, here's some ideas about armor and shields inspired by recent threads:<br/> ARMOR: Instead of using the full list in the PHB, armor is broken down into three categories: Light, M...

rabindranath72 wrote: I still cannot believe how people can become needlessly rabid. Really. DF is creating a really bad reputation due to these accidents. Thanks for the pointer, I know that site, but there is very few activity there. I found much more interest at DF, despite it being (nominally) ...

Seriously. I thought that whole situation over there was wacko. BTW, rabindranath, you could also try over at http://www.yog-sothoth.com/ they even have a d20 Cthulhu forum.