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<t>Kelvan Ironfist<br/> <br/> Dwarf Fighter 2<br/> <br/> Neutral Good<br/> <br/> Str 18 (+3)*<br/> <br/> Int 10<br/> <br/> Wis 15 (+1)<br/> <br/> Dex 9<br/> <br/> Con 18 (+3)*<br/> <br/> Cha 10<br/> <br/> AC 16<br/> <br/> Armor: coat of plates, medium steel shield, normal helm. (EV=6)<br/> <br/> HD:...

<t>Has anyone included the idea from 3.5e where dwarves aren't as affected by encumbrance as other races... at least with respect to movement penalties? Maybe movement penalties only start at 1/4 when they reach "heavy burden"? 3.5e would go so far as to make it "overburdened", but I think that'd be...

<t>I'd been looking into different reputation systems, because the campaign world I was working on was one that used the concept of "consentual reality"... so as stories of the characters' exploits began to spread, and perhaps be exaggerated, the collected belief of the people would start to have an...

Good to be on board.
This will be my first game of C&C.

ShawnG wrote:
Sorry for not responding, you are certainly welcome to play!

Cool, thanks!

<t>I didn't receive a reply to my post on the previous page, but if you're looking for someone else, I've come up with the following character:<br/> <br/> Kelvan Ironfist<br/> <br/> Dwarf Fighter 2<br/> <br/> Neutral Good<br/> <br/> Str 18 (+3)*<br/> <br/> Int 10<br/> <br/> Wis 15 (+1)<br/> <br/> De...

<t>I'd like to join in, if it's cool with everyone. <br/> I just rolled the following stats:<br/> <br/> Roll 1: 6, 6, 5, [1] = 17.<br/> <br/> Roll 2: 5, [1], 3, 2 = 10.<br/> <br/> Roll 3: 6, 3, 6, [3] = 15.<br/> <br/> Roll 4: 4, 5, [1], 2 = 11.<br/> <br/> Roll 5: [6], 6, 6, 6 = 18. (I couldn't BELIE...

This is my second Thanksgiving.
It's cool being Canadian living in the US... I get one Thanksgiving in October, and another one in November.

<t>Hmm... I missed this thread the first time through.<br/> <br/> My name is Scott Sutherland. I'm 37 years old, born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I have a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Guelph, and what you yanks would call an "associate degree" in meteorology from York Unive...

My dishwasher was just playing the beat to "We Will Rock You." My wife laughed pretty hard when I started singing that to the beat.
Oh wait, you mean when I'm preparing/playing. D'oh. I don't play in any tabletop games, unfortunately, so I have nothing else to contribute.

Nice. I like what you've done with them serleran. Have you had any time to finish off the halfling yet?

<t>How about doing a simple thing of making Dwarves and Halflings into fighters with the racial abilities, Elves into multiclassed fighter/wizards, Gnomes into illusionist/rogues (or druids if you want to make them more intuned with nature), barbarians for Half-Orcs, and Half-Elves... hmm... maybe H...

<t>Well, it's been proven again and again by the internet that anonymity can sometimes make an a*sho*e out of even the best of people.<br/> <br/> I try to remind myself that given this medium, we very often only have our own assumptions to work off of. I've had plenty of times that people have assum...

phadeout wrote: Take a monk with 90 HP and a Wizard with 30 HP. If the wizard took 20 HP of damage, it would be like the Monk taking 60 HP (to have the same type of grevious wound). It's not just you. That's exactly what hit points mean. They're a relative measure of a character's combat skill. I'm...

gideon_thorne wrote: Yes, they are gnomes. ^_^ Logically, I thought they were gnomes, but looking at the pictures, I really started to think they were goblins. They definitely look closer to the goblin drawing than the drawing of the gnome in the gnome entry. Honestly, I like the appearance of the ...

Yeah, if PCs gained back 1 hp/level for resting, as they do in d20D&D, I'd definitely have said the former was right, but with them only getting 1hp back for resting, like in AD&D, it was defnitely the latter for me.

I assumed it was the latter... 1d4 + (1*level).

<t>Star Trek V was garbage. As were Star Trek Generations and Insurrection and that latest piece of crap... the one with the romulan clone of Picard. I can't remember the name of it, but peeeeeyew... =P<br/> <br/> ST 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and First Contact were the good ones, and I'm a big Trek fan. I don'...

Oh, I also have the two books from the 1e Greyhawk boxed set, but I'm missing the big map and the box. I'm looking for a good copy of this though.

<t>Holmes edition Basic set<br/> <br/> Moldvay edition Basic set<br/> <br/> Cook/Marsh edition Expert Set<br/> <br/> Forgotten Realms Campaign set (1e)<br/> <br/> Forgotten Realms Campaign set (2e)<br/> <br/> Menzoberranzan <br/> <br/> War Captain's Companion (spelljammer)<br/> <br/> Lejendary Adven...

The only time I've ever awarded xp for a magic item to only one character was when that character figured out what the item was, completely on his own, without benefit of Identify or any other spell. Other than that, I've always just divided the total xp between all the characters.

Very nice intro serleran.
I headed over to that forum, Rhuvein, but I haven't joined yet. I will be, though.

<t>My AD&D DM also didn't like the idea of treasure or magical items giving an xp award. If you were able to figure out what an item does, all by yourself, through experimentation, he'd award you the xp for it, but otherwise, zilch.<br/> <br/> He put together a system that gave a base of 500xp/l...

Scurvy_Platypus wrote: Please don't think I'm being adversarial, as I'm not trying to be... ok. Quote: One thing to at least think about though, is do you really need such a system? Actually, I stated above that this system isn't really necessary... really, no house rules/rule variants are necessar...

Yeah, I've run into that problem with 3.5e... combats just take far too long... to many tiny little factors you have to keep track of and such. C&C is just so much more concise.

<t>That's cool, Antonio. Written out a lot shorter than mine, but with similar ideas. I like how you did wound points for creatures, with the different base for each size. I think that would definitely solve the problem I had with not liking "fodder" races suddenly going up quite a bit in overall "h...

<t>Yeah, there are effects, but not for losing Vitality. When you lose Wound points, either from a critical hit or after your Vitality has been exhausted and you take further damage, you have a -2 penalty to all your actions, you cannot run or charge, and you have to make a Con check with a CL based...

<t>One school of thought is that this system explicitly differentiates between the character's or creature's actual physical health and their combat experience... the thought being that hit points represent something of a sliding scale... the character isn't actually getting physically tougher, but ...

<t>Sorry. You posting only the link and saying nothing else made your post seem rather dismissive. I've had people do that to me before in a rather "yeah, whatever" way, so I apologize for getting defensive.<br/> <br/> I didn't say I wasn't interested in other systems that do similar things... I was...

<t>Wow, people really like throwing that link at me when I post my version of these rules anywhere. <br/> Thanks for trying to help, but I'm completely aware of the existance of those rules. I made my conversion from SW -> D&D a couple of years before the UA was published, and I like the way I d...