Troll Lord Games

<r>Chaositech<br/> <URL url="http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mpress_Chaos">http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mpress_Chaos</URL><br/> <br/> One of my few good memories of old school AD&D was a GM who had a one-year batspit crazy campaign. Part of its uniqueness was that he had a...

<r>Reserve Points:<br/> <URL url="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/reservePoints.htm"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adven ... Points.htm">http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/reservePoints.htm</LINK_TEXT></URL><br/> <br/> One of the things I like about CnC ...

<t>CnC is designed for house rules, especially those that what I call "bolted on" systems. Essentially metasystems that add a component as compared to changing how CnC works.<br/> <br/> I'd like to bring up a new d20 rule, suggest how it might be tweaked to fit CnC. I'd also be open to hearing how o...

Salu!

<t>My son is math inclined, so we started with Tunnels and Trolls instead. It was just me as player with an NPC. <br/> <br/> We crossed the Bridge of Insanity and entered the Tower of Chaos to tackle the Mad Wizard's traps. Lots of random chart rolling was done, evidently. <br/> <br/> We had fun, th...

<t>The illusionist is now a strong contender in its own right, rivaling our cleric and wizard. <br/> <br/> It's also a fun balance that while the Illusionist has some solid spells, a bad roll can knock then down a few pegs. i.e., the player NEVER casts dragon mount in urban areas. The heals help too...

Amen brother.

Gold is always a motivator. If each island is part of a trade route, that gets them in the right direction.

Treebore wrote: Having them be part of a ships crew would generally be a good start, but unfortunately modules I wish to use, such as Castle Amber, Tegal Manor, and many others, do not fit in easily with ship board adventure. So I am going to have to get creative. Ah. Castle Amber. I remember thee ...

Lord Dynel wrote: My players had a hell of a time with this, because they came from d20 where one could attempt almost anything, and was allowed, with usually some chance of success associated to it. I had a couple of players that took this to extremes. They insisted on rolling for everything, beca...

If I went straight Attribute Bonus, I would bring back the +4 to add some room for customization and take out the bell curve to make it easier to covert.

And also to increase the chance of ninjas in my game.

<t>heh. heh. I've already got the Halfing mafia in my urban game. <br/> <br/> When the little people got tired of being picked on, they got together and got organized. Then all it took was one halfing merchant to start giving out "loans" and now he own half of the city's organized crime.<br/> <br/> ...

Red box, Sears Mail Order ... right after I spent a Boy Scout weekend fighting orcs on graph paper by flashlight in a tent.

Dagger wrote: Taking an attribute as a prime essentially means your character is trained at skills related to that prime. So, there are 3 things that factor in to how well you perform a task: 1. Your attribute modifier (a measure of your innate physical/mental capability) 2. Your level (a measure o...

When we tried our own multi-class rules, our best compromise turned out to be close to the class and half rules in the 4th printing.

So far, that version seems to offer the least abusive rules with the least amount of headache.

Quote: Tales of the Freeport Watch campaign (ala the Hawk and Fisher novels series)! That is cool, but I think you might be missing out on some of the more unique aspects to running a Age of Sail style RPG: Modular: Each island is a plug and play dungeon. No need to figure out how the adventure imp...

I've run most of the Runelords and some of the Second Darkness Adventure Path stuff in my Freeport game and had a blast. So the real answer is "all of the above." Simply have the port city of Freeport between the "continents" of Golarion and Mystara in a mash up world. anglefish ...

Aneoth of Ironwood wrote: I think they should also be able to use Bracers, Rings and Amulets. Not to mention magical thongs.... After all those do not cover nakedness either (except minimally) but would add some protection. If not then Why allow Shields? Besides an amulet if worn by a nice looking ...

<t>If I have to chose between getting something at higher levels, coming with a great backstory or have things "balanced out," I'll take the first two.<br/> <br/> We had one GM who would give you stuff early, but would overcompensate on balancing things out. Out of the blue, my paladin's warhorse be...

Lord Dynel wrote: Woot! Good to see one of my threads back from he dead. To follow up, there were a few more conversations about it, but in the end we kept it by the book. Statistically, humans do have an advantage over the other races. But taking the racial packages as as a whole, the demi-humans ...

artikid wrote: I voted no, but let me explain: I accept class restrictions for demi-humans but can't stand "hard" Level limits (you can reach level X). I'd eventually could take "soft" level limits (after level x you need double experience points to level up.) The problem with h...

Out of curiosity, what powers are you looking for?

<t>I've been luck to see people play paladins on an occasional basis. The one time I played one, it wasn't so much fun. <br/> I felt that the GM wanted to use me as his plot device. If the party was lost, I'd suddenly get vision of where to go (the cool aspect of that deal), but if the GM wanted to ...

<t>For cool settings that need minimum tweakage:<br/> <br/> The Castles and Crusades Freeport Companion PDF + Pirates Guide to Freeport hardback = a highly detailed campaign city with a "broad strokes" continent nearby. <br/> It also comes with plenty of advise on how to campaign in several directio...

Treebore wrote: Like I said in the thread/poll DD linked above, demi humans are more powerful than Humans, except in the area of Primes. IT has always been known that demi humans are more powerful than humans, thats why hardly anyone played humans, especially if they were worried about "Kewl p...

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When Zeus just won't do!

What's your definition of a dwarven colony?

If you use the "large dome with a city at the bottom" as compared to dungeon style tunnels then you could adapt DB4 & DB5. Turn a human city under siege into a dwarven city under siege.

I find that until guns fire every round, players aren't interested in using them for more than a first volley.

On the other hand, when guns can fire every round, you can usually kiss hand to hand combat good bye.

Just some comments on actual player usage of guns in the game. ... let me rephase that. The Rogue and the Fighter both have multiple pistols. They use firearms in the style of a boarding action. Quick draw a loaded pistol, fire, and drop it to either draw another pistol or a melee weapon depending o...

<t>Just over the next rise. <br/> Are we there yet?<br/> <br/> Almost<br/> Are we there yet?<br/> <br/> Just over the next rise.<br/> You said that 3 miles back.<br/> <br/> Let's play license plate RPG bingo. How many old-school, rules-lite games can you spot as we drive by.<br/> I see an RPG that s...

go it.