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by Nifelhein
Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:24 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Castle Keeper Guide Forum
Replies: 16
Views: 2823

<t>I thought you would be the one to reply to me, thanks a lot, should i send it to him by mail?<br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come ...
by Nifelhein
Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:19 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Castle Keeper Guide Forum
Replies: 16
Views: 2823

Castle Keeper Guide Forum

<t>I know it requires an NDA, the thing is I can't find what one needs to do to get into the forum and participate, if anyone could please point me to the right direction I would love to be part of that forum, and maybe help whatever is on the works there too. <br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot...
by Nifelhein
Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:16 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Serleran's site?
Replies: 8
Views: 2375

<t>I have a version serleran sent to me on the 7th of october of 206, i can send it back to you if you want, serleran, and to Jason too, others still have to ask Serleran for it, I do not have his permission to send it. <br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibe...
by Nifelhein
Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:51 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Fun Mixing and Matching Systems
Replies: 19
Views: 3603

<t>Hey treebore!<br/> <br/> Darkness falls is mostly an SRD, the actual discussion boards for the setting, as PhadeOut said, goes on AtS.org, we have a whole forum for house rules and conversions, and one child forum for C&C. Midnight has seen complete conversions to GURPS and The Riddle of Stee...
by Nifelhein
Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:04 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Fun Mixing and Matching Systems
Replies: 19
Views: 3603

<t>Midnight is fantastic. <br/> The conversion has some troubles in the magical side because Midnight has magic as available to all through feats, spells are learnt by paying xp but the schools are separated by feats, with all summoning spells of conjuration being moved to greater conjuration and al...
by Nifelhein
Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:51 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Open Content House Rules from 3rd party support ...
Replies: 22
Views: 3577

<r>In case anyone was wondering, spell energy system for Midnight is spell level in cost, separated by schools, evocation and conjuration are divided in two, summoning spells are greater conjuration and available at level 5 only, costing 2 more spell energy than level, greater evocation includes any...
by Nifelhein
Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:39 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Yet more character sheets
Replies: 18
Views: 3500

I believe i have a Man Crush...
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Attributed to Herman Melville.
by Nifelhein
Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:43 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: A non-Human Campaign
Replies: 6
Views: 2204

<t>I would not bother chaning this, in fact the prime system works well enough for demi humans as is. But then I doubt all my players would enjoy not being a human, even once.<br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among ...
by Nifelhein
Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:39 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: High level playtest experience
Replies: 25
Views: 4251

<t>Youa re using the standard rules for hp, right? Dicee up to 9 and fixed after that, add con bonuses at all levels. I think the issue comes out mostly because there aren't major improvements in damage capacity, but this used to happen on AD&D 2nd edition as well.<br/> <br/> How about time spen...
by Nifelhein
Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:35 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from a newbye.
Replies: 10
Views: 2486

Hey Flecha! Flecha wrote: Well, the game doesn't almost sound complete withouth the CKG, but... I was aware that is was said to be complete already. By the way, I'm not from Brazil, but from Spain. Spanish and portuguese are, of course quite similar. My nick is my (second) surname and means "ar...
by Nifelhein
Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:42 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from a newbye.
Replies: 10
Views: 2486

<t>The CKG isn't ou yet, most sxay the game is already complete without it, but we are really hopign it will come out someday, it just seems not anytime soon.<br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...
by Nifelhein
Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:48 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from a newbye.
Replies: 10
Views: 2486

Re: Questions from a newbye.

<r>Hey there Flecha, welcome to the crusade!<br/> <br/> I bought the PHB 2nd pritning a while back and just ordered the Monster & Treasure book today, i don't know how different the books are but I already heard a 3rd printing won't be long, seems the current print run might be running out. <br/...
by Nifelhein
Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:10 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: firing missiles into melee
Replies: 28
Views: 4287

<t>Well, that would work well enough too, in fact is perfectly fine as well, maybe even simpler than having to see if it hits the shield or whatever. <br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathe...
by Nifelhein
Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:27 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: firing missiles into melee
Replies: 28
Views: 4287

JRR wrote: As I said upthread, It's not that you miss your target, your target has moved and another is in the line of fire. That is a good way of dealing with things, though it kinda requires you not to use minis, which is a thing D&D 3.X has made my group kinda be attached to... _____________...
by Nifelhein
Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:43 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: firing missiles into melee
Replies: 28
Views: 4287

phadeout wrote: Well said Nif (minus the bad spelling, I fixed some, you should get Firefox 2.0, it underlines all your spelling mistakes like Word lol). Firing into melee is not much different than firing into any other group... Melee "can" be more chaotic, but combat is abstract anyways...
by Nifelhein
Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:57 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: firing missiles into melee
Replies: 28
Views: 4287

Barrataria wrote: (...) I don't like that though because to me if it misses, how do you know where the straight line is going? Why is it a straight line for a miss? Maybe it would make sense to say: miss by 4 or less, endangers any character immediately adjacent to target, miss by 5 or more, endang...
by Nifelhein
Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:26 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: 1E vs 2e vs 3e for C&C
Replies: 17
Views: 3604

<t>Ah Phade...<br/> <br/> Well, then do not bother yourself too much, convert from the most interesting source, I have mostly 2nd / 3rd edition material, being somewhat too young for the older editions, so those would be my primary source.<br/> <br/> I will be ordering M&T this month, if things ...
by Nifelhein
Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:10 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: 1E vs 2e vs 3e for C&C
Replies: 17
Views: 3604

<t>Phade, what kind of stuff you plan to covert, for most of the monsters, for example, jut open the book, chek HD, change thac0 and AC to C&C standards and get it going, won't do any more damage than you would with a monster already converte or made to C&C.<br/> <br/> Adventures do require ...
by Nifelhein
Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:50 pm
Forum: Keeper Advice
Topic: Encumbrance Errata
Replies: 34
Views: 15931

<t>I thin the system is fairly good and simple, in fac, it takes both weight and volume into account and is not very hard to keep track of. But I guess most people have not even bothered comparing the 2nd edition one to the first, they prefer to not keep a detailed track of encumbrance, which is per...
by Nifelhein
Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:51 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Charging
Replies: 6
Views: 1515

<t>Well, in 3.X the charge gives a bonus to hit and not a bonus to damage (charging with a lance rfom horseback is the odd one there), so i would say a bonus to damage is much better than a to hit one, and in the game i am playing the rule seems to be fine as is.<br/> <br/> Just saying. <br/> ______...
by Nifelhein
Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:12 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

<t>Really, both may work, and be certain that once you are using things like this the players know it is under testing and if it comes too weak or too strong it will suffer changes.<br/> <br/> As I said before the only problems in making classes might be making the class list, if you make a whole ne...
by Nifelhein
Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:51 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

<t>So her goes, since I ahd to copy and paste urls I may have amde some mistakes in there, but I hope I don't need to fix anything at all. Articles - On thief skills in classic D&D (Robert Fisher) <br/> Forums - Classless Characters <br/> Forums - d20-style multiclassing <br/> Forums - Encumbera...
by Nifelhein
Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:40 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

<t>Well, I have learned of this quite a while ago, as tiem apssed i thought it would be nearly perfect for a friend and last month i bought him and myself a copy, they both arrived 1 week and a half ago, in a friday, he then started DMing a game in the monday.<br/> <br/> So far we all love it, I hav...
by Nifelhein
Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:43 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Challenge Level Question
Replies: 15
Views: 3278

<t>Cross posted from dragonsfoot:<br/> <br/> In general I consider a class ability to grant an extraordinary ability beyond anyone else's grasp, much like a rogue's climb and ranger's scale grant them the ability to not check for simple checks and attempt what others find impossible.<br/> <br/> This...
by Nifelhein
Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:31 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

Welcome to the Crusade.
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Attributed to Herman Melville.
by Nifelhein
Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:07 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

<t>Mea culpa, i did not say anything about having rewritten it in the first place. <br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as...
by Nifelhein
Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:40 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

<t>How about the one i presented in that last post of mine, it is a revised version of the one you changed, really. <br/> though I can put it into a specific format, since msot of the Why Play piecees are in a very different format. <br/> _________________<br/> "We cannot live only for ourselves. A ...
by Nifelhein
Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:37 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

Treebore wrote: Alright, here is my edited version so you can easily do a direct comparison to see what I changed: Treebore, I think it may be tweaked a bit more to make it clear and more cohesive, if you are fine with this fine, if you want to change it a bit abck or further, feel free. Either way...
by Nifelhein
Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:46 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

<t>I will be more than okay with that, that is a thing, specially because alongside with the gift book for my friend I made a small booklet where the "Why Play Castles and Crusades" got a place. <br/> You can send the trimmed down version either by Pm or mail, anytime. <br/> _________________<br/> "...
by Nifelhein
Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:33 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Questions from the noob
Replies: 51
Views: 8665

Re: Questions from the noob

<t>Well, i got the book last friday and haven't even read the whole thing yet, but we have started a small agme, a friend is DMing. Basically the game itself is closer to older editions than 3.X, in all aspects, but then it does not mean 3.X is useless, rather that feats will become uses for the Sie...