Troll Lord Games

Well for me, 2.5 & 3e D&D has to go pretty high on the list. Plenty of games I don't like I can just shrug and walk away but at a certain point a game I had previously loved changed in ways that meant we grew apart. Sad. This may seem strange for a guy who has Palladiums TMNT & Other Str...

So even though the core rules have not changed, enough things have been changed to make the 4th printing definitely the best version to have. no arguments from me here. I'm happy with the 4e printing save for the Illusionist. But you can't please everyone, right? Yep, thankfully the illusionist is ...

I use this one. Similar to BFRPG Simple Encumbrance System PC can carry as many items as he has strength points without penalty. System is based off # of items with a very simplified EV. Add 2 items for a strength prime. Add 2 item for a constitution prime. Eg. 10 strength + con prime = 12 items wit...

Wow, I don't think anyone will take a review seriously where they reviewer dismisses sections he hasn't even read as "can't imagine it being useful", as if his imagination is a limiting factor for the book. Or says he was looking forward to one section "but it's only 13 pages". :...

I always selected spells that the Bard would use. Like for a Jester, I'd pick spells such as Grease or Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter. Two of my favourite spells also! Grease is so damn useful! You can thwart charges, lay it as a trap, use it offensively to take down opponents or defensive...

what is the last digit in the number on the spine.

I believe all the 4th printing books end with the number "4", and the 3rd print with the digit "3".

It made sense to me. For C&C, it makes even more sense to allow other classes to cast spells. Seeing as wizards can attempt to pick pocket and such with a siege check. Why not the other way around? Heck, if an Illusionist can walk around pretending to be a cleric, the least the Bard can do is m...

I never liked how bards could cast spells in 2e, but that is neither here nor there.

It looks workable, but TBH I probably would have pointed the player at the bard class Bard, the class and a half rules and then whichever flavour spellcaster he wanted.

nice writeup. a Carolingian campaign, eh Zarathustra? Sounds fun. Who gets to be Count Roland? LOL I'm thinking roughly 790 AD - I want King Offa still in power in Britain and the continental Saxons still sticking to their guns (swords?) so Roland would be dead. But I WAS thinking of using some of ...

Very nice.

I plan on making the Avars in my Carolingian campaign a hobgoblin culture as a little surprise should my pc's ever head east, this has some nice tidbits I might steal to flesh them out.

TMNT & Other Strangeness- Used to read the comics and was blown away when I found the rpg and saw a tv cartoon version. I don't really like Palladium systems in general but TMNT is just about scaled down enough to keep in hand. I had/hope to still have alot of fun playing this game. Gunslingers...

The problems with incorporating "Celtic" religion into a game are manifold. You can encounter real difficulties trying to pigeonhole the Irish Tuatha De Danann. Yeah I couldn't recreate the entire world, as was, in minutiae, into my setting so where possible I went with gross oversimplifi...

well without forelegs it doesn't get a claw/claw/bite routine unless flying, that must be it.

Cool, glad someone got some use out of it too. I have made the mistake in the past of foisting page after page of background info. on players and I do believe it is just that, a mistake. This write up fits on two, back to back printed, double column pages for me. There is nothing wrong (in fact I re...

They need another scot to play the same Spaniard? Hell, maybe they'll actually get a SPANIARD this time to play Ramirez ;) Too bad Antonio Banderas is getting too old. I could never accept a real spanish Ramirez! My brother and I still fall about laughing about Connery playing a fellow called Ramir...

Well they are definately going to have to find another Scotsman to play Ramirez- Ewan McGregor?

And they need a weird voice for the lead...

Even though I still think Westley would be a Fighter I agree with the Charisma Prime and I don't fault your reasoning behind choosing Bard. Actually, I feel torn between agreeing and disagreeing with you! xD In the end though, I do think that a Prime in Charisma (with the same scores you gave thoug...

Andred of Albans wrote: Very true and you can always add more "nordic" spells and such later

I would be very interested to see any "nordic" spells you have devised or collected...

Well this is my take on the Celtic pantheon for use in my campaign. I included a few tidbits on Celtic beliefs/life simply because my players didn't have as good a grasp on the Celts as they did other cultures in play. (there is another background file for them with more but that is beside the point...

Thanks trolls. I have been trying to justify getting the Black Libram of Nartarus despite being a full time student (and the debts that come with it).

Now I can. yay!

I like Don Quixote so far. would make an interesting NPC!

Haven't heard of some of the others, maybe I need to get out from under my rock.

Looking forward to these films, I certainly enjoyed reading the Hobbit about 100X more than I did reading LOTR.

@ CSperkins- glad you like it, you seem to have caught my flavour idea dead on. @ Andred. Yes, of course the druids were Celtic shamans but I found the druid a better fitting archetype spellwise and weaponwise for my Norse priests. Perhaps I should call them something other than "druids" t...

After my years of playing superhero games, I'm leerly of stating out ficiton characters. Most of the time, people tend to stat the hero at the apex of their career, which makes them cameo NPCs of the rarest sort in a game. And naturaly, most fans overstat their heroes. I perfer to stat heroes at mo...

ooh ooh I'll play. One little test I did before I chose C&C as a system was to see if I could recreate the three heroes from the Princess Bride; Westly (dread pirate roberts), Inigo Montoya and Fezzik. Westley would be a Bard. I can see this being contentious but the clincher for me is the scene...

I never seem to be happy with other takes on "real world" pantheons so here is one I did for my campaign. It doesn't pretend to be better or more true than others, it simply how I like it. The campaign is set in an alternate earth circa 800AD (790 to be more exact). It is quite brief, just...

I've a question about traps :) In the 4th edition of C&C and M&T, I haven't found any rule covering the different types of traps, and no guidelines for the damages of traps by levels. Where can I find this informations ? You don't need a rule, you just imagine the trap and the consequences ...

yeah i think you're on the right track. Sooner or later someone is going to want to play a minotaur or pixie etc etc and this would be a good way to do it perhaps.

the last section all seem like 1e/2e spells or abilities to me. I'd just port them over.

Don't feel bad. Finding a dragons hoard should never be THAT easy...