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by CharlieRock
Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:11 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: PFRPG book is frikkin HUUUGE!!
Replies: 50
Views: 9175

Maybe Paizo will do like KenzerCo (And TSR originally) and make a Pathfinder Basic and actually tackle the issue of too many rules.
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by CharlieRock
Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:09 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: The 4th printing of the Player's Handbook is fantastic!
Replies: 33
Views: 632

PeelSeel2 wrote:
I was on the fence about this, owning a 1.1 and 1.3 version. But man am I glad I went ahead and got it!!

I was pretty much the same way. Then I noticed how much wear and tear were actually on my other two PHBs.
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by CharlieRock
Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:05 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Troll attacks.
Replies: 16
Views: 991

Depends on just how "mean" you want to be as a CK. The weapon-wielding Troll is a decent enough opponent and all ... but, the 2 claws can cause Rending damage.
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by CharlieRock
Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:14 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Adventure Modules
Topic: [AC] - THE RUINS OF RAMAT - Oct.26th, 2009
Replies: 96
Views: 32219

K2h2m3 wrote:
The only reason I asked is because I have to put an order in with NK anyway.

I order from NK for almost half my gaming stuff.

I thought you were just (Like me) wary of new sites.

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by CharlieRock
Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:54 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Change to weapon damage
Replies: 14
Views: 889

<t>Blended Approach to Damage:<br/> <br/> All weapons and characters have the BTB amount of hit points and damage. However for every 8 points of damage taken the character moves one rank up the "Injured Table"<br/> <br/> -8 HP = "Trauma Level A" A -1 to all SIEGE Checks, and Initiative<br/> <br/> -1...
by CharlieRock
Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:43 am
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters
Replies: 8
Views: 822

serleran wrote:
Have you ever played Legacy of Kain? It had ranged bloodsucking, too.

No I havn't got to play that yet.
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by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:58 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters
Replies: 8
Views: 822

Go0gleplex wrote:
Vampires....just say ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
seriously...the horror genre has done vampires, zombies, and werewolves to death. or is that undeath?

Yeah, but ... Ranged Bloodsucking, man. It blew me away.
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by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:57 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Adventure Modules
Topic: [AC] - THE RUINS OF RAMAT - Oct.26th, 2009
Replies: 96
Views: 32219

K2h2m3 wrote:
Is Noble Knight going to carry this?

It's only like $8 from the BHP website. I've ordered from them before it is reliable. Uses paypal.
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by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:32 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: PFRPG book is frikkin HUUUGE!!
Replies: 50
Views: 9175

Plaag wrote: Paizo, all I really want from them is to still keep their other products going strong. Oh, heck yeah! I just got one of their Flip-Mats from the FLGS today when I picked up my C&C PHB.4 (the Theatre one with wooden floor reverse) _________________ The Rock says ... Know your roll!
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:28 pm
Forum: The Artist's Alley
Topic: My Cover Pic for the next Domesday Book
Replies: 13
Views: 6461

I like it. Very Halloween.
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by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:21 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters
Replies: 8
Views: 822

Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters

<t>I got this movie because it was "On Sale" and had Tsui Hark producing it. Tsui Hark is one of the maestros of Hong Kong Cinema and has worked with John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun Fat. So I thought this was going to be one of those "cool, foreign" numbers. <br/> <br/> Nope. Wrong.<br/> <br/> I...
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:51 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: PFRPG book is frikkin HUUUGE!!
Replies: 50
Views: 9175

gideon_thorne wrote: Welp, not that I particularly agree with the sentiment, but C&C has art done by Erol Otus. Goodman put out a C&C module or two which has just that. Erol Otus was cool and all, but he didn't personify classic D&D to my mind with his art. Elmore did. And C&C's art...
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:37 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Player Mapping
Replies: 12
Views: 1136

<t>Sometimes the players mess up their own maps for one reason and one reason only. They scaled it wrong. They either drew one hallway too long or too short or enlarged a room or shrank it. So when they come up to the same room from another side as the first time they seen it they draw it again on t...
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:29 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: The Next Big Thing...
Replies: 15
Views: 798

HeroClix got bought and their next roster is out in November.
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by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:27 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Hero Lab...
Replies: 5
Views: 979

<t>I would like to get the M&M version. Right now I just got the sampler they gave out a few years ago for the D&D3.5 one. <br/> <br/> I use the GURPS Character Assistant on a regular basis. <br/> <br/> I don't think I'd want one for C&C since those are (imo) funner by hand.<br/> _______...
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:19 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Change to weapon damage
Replies: 14
Views: 889

Re: Change to weapon damage

Fizz wrote: I've used various systems where hit points are much more limited, and they work quite well- makes one think carefully before plunging into battle. -Fizz I agree with that, however I would also like to think that the reason for playing C&C (and D&D before that) was so that I woul...
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:44 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Change to weapon damage
Replies: 14
Views: 889

<t>Well, your going to end up with some players grabbing high end weapons just to min/max their weapon min damages ... and then those weapons would be doing the minimum over half the time anyway ... so, your basically going to a sort of Warhammer system where a lot of weapons have identical effects....
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:39 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Would these house rules cause imbalance?
Replies: 22
Views: 1925

zombiehands wrote: I don't like weapon restriction either. Here is a "rule" I have thought of with but never implemented. Every class does as much damage with a weapon as their hit dice. If they use a "small" weapon they can throw it and use it for an off hand weapon when fighti...
by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:32 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Spellcasting and concentration checks.
Replies: 6
Views: 897

No movement and no concentration checks either. It's just more dynamic that way.
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by CharlieRock
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:24 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Adventure Modules
Topic: [AC] - THE RUINS OF RAMAT - Oct.26th, 2009
Replies: 96
Views: 32219

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by CharlieRock
Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:46 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: What gaming stuff are you reading?
Replies: 2022
Views: 602765

Omote wrote: Pathfinder Bestiary Got a long way to go in this one, but most of this is the same as the v3.5 Monster Manual... EXCEPT, I like this book much better. Better organized, much of it has better artwork, and a ton monsters. Though, the extra monsters and thurough appendicies don't leave mu...
by CharlieRock
Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:25 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Would these house rules cause imbalance?
Replies: 22
Views: 1925

This is where importing Weapon Mastery from the Rules Cyclopedia is advantageous.
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by CharlieRock
Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:23 am
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: What gaming stuff are you reading?
Replies: 2022
Views: 602765

Treebore wrote:
Reading through the Traveller Mongoose Core Rule book and Beltstrike module in preparation for my game, with 6 players, starting tonight.

Is that the usual number for your group?
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by CharlieRock
Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:27 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: What gaming stuff are you reading?
Replies: 2022
Views: 602765

GURPS Supers Mixed Doubles. Basically it is a tome of premade Supers NPCs. Those are always handy to have when you need someone with a little depth at a moments notice.
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by CharlieRock
Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:24 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Precanned Adventure Recomendation
Replies: 11
Views: 303

<r><URL url="http://www.enworld.org/forum/reviews/240637-goblin-fair.html"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.enworld.org/forum/reviews/24 ... -fair.html">http://www.enworld.org/forum/reviews/240637-goblin-fair.html</LINK_TEXT></URL><br/> <br/> The Goblin Fair was lots of fun when I ran it. We rerun it ann...
by CharlieRock
Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:18 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: How C&C got me a job
Replies: 25
Views: 273

<t>Congratulations. I hate going without work. Like being dangled over a deep pit by your guts. <br/> <br/> At my job there are no gamers. Only me. <br/> <br/> No comic book readers, either.<br/> <br/> Break room talk kind of centers on football, hunting deer, and motorcycles.<br/> _________________...
by CharlieRock
Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:13 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Penny Arcade dudes do 4th edition DnD ...
Replies: 5
Views: 48

anglefish wrote: I firmly believe that a GM and players on the same page can role-play with any system. I've even considered using a few wargames as a RPG-lite system. Done that. With Warhammer 40,000. And BattleTech. And first with Car Wars. _________________ The Rock says ... Know your roll!
by CharlieRock
Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:56 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: Making Orisons and Cantrips unlimited a problem?
Replies: 11
Views: 1879

<t>Fighters should not play wizards. <br/> <br/> If a player wants to play a character that allows them to roll dice every round of combat and "contribute" by the only way they know how ... inflicting straight damage, then they should play a fighter. That's what a fighter does. Attacks every round u...
by CharlieRock
Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:51 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: REALISM...Does It Have A Place In Fantasy???
Replies: 7
Views: 824

<t>No realism is actually "needed". It's just a spice that some prefer. <br/> <br/> I've gotten very detailed in my NPC Townfolk for the sake of realism. But that is about it. If I want more simulationist gaming I go GURPS.<br/> <br/> We've been non-realistic in C&C to the point that it now more...
by CharlieRock
Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:49 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades Open Discussion: General, The Rules, The Law & the Chaos
Topic: C&C Newbie - What do I really need to buy to run a game?
Replies: 16
Views: 1030

Either xerox your character sheet from the PHB or go to here:
http://www.mad-irishman.net/pub_candc.html

I prefer the mad irishman's but ymmv.
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