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<t>I will also acknowledge Heroes Unlimited, but I would politely disagree with CharlieRock's comment "If you like anything Palladium does" and include Rifts in the mix. I enjoy Palladium Fantasy and Heroes Unlimited and have read a few TMNT books, but Rifts is a giant, clunky, dishevelled monstrosi...

For classless I run Iron Gauntlets from Precis Intermedia (was Politically Incorrect) Games. Fun, easy, classless. The core book, companion and a few .pdfs have given me an awesome game syste,. The Atomik Grimoire add-on is a superb magic system.

DangerDwarf wrote:
I think part of it is due to our society becoming a bunch of PC, faint hearted pussies.
Or, you might be right about that whole takes forever to roll up a charatcer thing too.

That would be option the first, I believe. Even Warhammer has softened around the edges.

I run a True20 Yahoogroup here: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/true20/

You may feel free to post any ideas regarding T20/C&C options there.

<t>On a positive note, it does appear that Castles & Crusades is garnering interest with people who do not wish to continue with D&D as per a thread which has been on the first page of ENWorld for a couple of days. As long as people are also civil and helpful there (which can be difficult wi...

<t>I will say that the ENWorld threads are very amusing, the widespread panic is unbelievable. And there is someone who just started posting there named F4NBOY who is like the Herald of the New Age of Glory in which 4E can do no wrong. Mildly amusing are the postings of a sycophant who acts like a W...

4E will only encourage me to run more C&C. I am not even interested in the new edition of D&D, it seems poorly handled and too soon.

I have enough 1E art and art from other resources to keep me going with C&C.

I'll dig it out and PM you when I have it in my hands. I probably scrounged the dice for AD&D but I still have them in my box of dice, I do remember that they are the hideous variety of dice.

If you are missing any part of it, let me know, I have the boxed set sitting untouched in the garage, packed away for about twenty years. I think I bought the P&P boxed set for $5 when a local bookstore closed.

Bought the book yesterday morning at Hastings for 30% off. Read it in the afternoon and into the evening. Not a bad book at all, and filled with Alan Lee illustrations.

<t>I haven't seen many game-breaking problems with skills myself in my 20+ years of gaming either, however it is nice to run the SiegeEngine and work with players to develop their characters without skill lists. A skill breaks down to being nothing more than a bonus roll on a check for specialized k...

<t>Nifelhein:<br/> <br/> Like I said, I don't want to discourage anyone from using skills. For me, the SiegeEngine works like this:<br/> <br/> The fighter in my previous example starts with his class package. I look at this as a first job. He wants to be a ship's navigator so he hires on a ship and ...

<t>While I am not discouraging anyone from using a skill system with C&C, the system is nice and rules-lite enough that I personally don't want to overcomplicate my game with skills (I will save that for my True20 and Warhammer rpg games). Here is what I do:<br/> <br/> Say a fighter wants to be ...

Also wishing you the swiftest of recoveries and a full and happy life devoid of further such complications.

Thank you for the synopsis, Seleran, I will keep an eye out for it.

What is Wizardry like for the PS2, Seleran? I am looking to pick up an interesting game or two, I have played out my current slew of games.

However, there is Trampier's art, who had done many of the infernals in the MM. I find his work has more impact, with that old woodcut feel to many pieces and bold confident lines to all of his work.

serleran wrote: I was disappointed with this game. It didn't have the same neatness that the original Bards Games version has, I think. Maybe I'm just an old codger, but I thought it was cheapened in being redone. Oh, I agree heartily here. I was interested in seeing the game remade until I saw the...

gideon_thorne wrote: *snorts* Anyone looked at True 20? Specifically Blue Rose? I like to tease Steve and Davis about moonlighting for GR cause the core engine is so similar. The two systems are amazingly compatable. I found True20 to be almost exactly like Morrigan Press' Atlantis:the Second Age r...

dcs wrote: Right -- if it's warm, it's because of global warming. If it's cold, it's because of global warming. If it's dry, it's because of global warming. If it snows, it's because of global warming. Well, the point of the program on global warming was that not everything warms up immediately. Th...

Nelzie wrote: I may joke around about being "that guy" in game from time to time, but really doing that sort of thing and going anywhere near detail is just plain wrong, wrong and wrong. Those guys always have creeped me out. While there is usually a bit of carousing happening in the back...

Julian Grimm wrote: Scary is the right word for modern day fearmongering. You guys are the ones in the snow, in the eastern states, out of season, not me. If anything the plight of the snowbound leads credence to the global warming theory. If you'll pardon me, I must be off to polish up my guns as ...

While science fiction, the flavor text in Rifts:Mystic Russia is a great read, introduces several ideas for specialist mages and an interesting list of relative spells. Many people hack on Rifts and while the mechanics are not the best the flavor text is often useful to mine for ideas.

<t>Actually, global warming causes the jet stream to be altered and disrupts the normal flow of air over the Atlantic, causing cooler temperatures in eastern North America and western Europe. The normal circulation transforms to areas of still air as well. At least that is what they said on Discover...

<t>I was usually able to read Warhammer material around my grandparents quite easily (my parents never thought roleplaying was bad and often bought me rpg material), as long as there was no dreaded D&D logo about and if you are familiar with Warhammer you know that it is decadent, dismal and fil...

Lurker wrote: I had a kin (not sure exactly how relater we were) kill him self & role playing got blamed but as earlier said here, he had BIG issues with or without RPGs. Word spread through the family grape vine that I also games so there was a while when any time I saw someone from that side ...

Orpheus wrote: Never mind the fact that I pointed out that I did not drink or do drugs, I played D&D and listened to Iron Maiden so I must've been flirting with Satan. I can relate to this part of your post. I played AD&D, listened to heavy metal, had long hair, hung out with girls (to put ...

<t>I have run evil campaigns before, in 3.0-3.5 the last time and it was fun. The players were building horrible nasty characters that were vile and monstrous. Then, at around tenth level I took these over and had them role up new characters, a group that would oppose the first group. <br/> <br/> Su...

<t>As mentioned in another thread in this section, but relevant here: I enjoy the simplicity of the C&C rules, especially as it allows me to add my own that help with the flavor of the game, like languages. <br/> <br/> Language can be quite disarming and an excellent icebreaker or at least can b...

<r>Heavy rotation of the trailer on the sci-fi channel. It draws nearer. You can almost hear the clanking of the Viking's armour. The imdb has a trailer up as well if you need a fix:<br/> <URL url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/trailers-screenplay-E27315-10-2"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.imdb....