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slimykuotoan wrote: How'd you guys find the levels went for the PCs -if you played the entire series? We're they too powerful by Final Enemy? I'm afraid I can't help you there. When I ran these adventures, the party's "kick in the front door" mindset sent them to their early graves. Only ...

Glad it went so well. It sounds like a good group, and I know it's a great adventure! Is any danger on the horizon for Dunwater?

<t>Two systems that I don't think have been mentioned yet:<br/> <br/> Rules Cyclopedia D&D: <br/> Likes - 100% self-contained, simple enough to pick up quickly, great weapon mastery system, complete rules on strongholds. Monsters, spells, and cosmos included. Includes easy conversion to AD&D...

I like the physical descriptions. Soon my players will learn to fear the red, mottled-skinned orcs and their bearded axes. Now I just have to break through the front line to get to those juicy magic-users...

Treebore wrote: Those sheets should be available off of cncplayer.net. There are a lot of goodies on all those various links and sites. Actually I had trouble getting them off cncplayer.net. If you have trouble too, here's an alternate link: http://goreanmale.homestead.com/files/cnc/cnccheatsheet.pdf

sieg wrote:
BTW, that 1 hr to make 7 chars; I assume that was with just one PHB?

2 cnccheatsheets, 1 PHB, and a whole lot of goofing around.

<t>My wife was away for Memorial day weekend, so with my newfound spare time I drove a couple hours up to my home town and visited my parents and some of my old friends. Hearing I was in town, two of my friends dropped by looking to borrow some dice and invited me to a d20 modern game. I showed them...

I love it! I wish I could play in that game; it sounds like loads of fun. I like you use actions points if they are described creatively.

Will there be more? What's that manta ray thing going to do! GASP!

Scurvy_Platypus wrote: While the operating assumptions of 3.x are clearly not the operative assumptions for someone that's a fan of C&C, at least those assumptions are pretty explicitly spelled out. It makes it easier for folks that want to tweak things to adjust things the way they want. Shift...

Prince of Happiness wrote: Stupid, stupid wealth guidelines. No wonder there's a slew of posts on other boards about how to run a "low-magic" campaign because 3E has indoctrinated a slew of players to expect X amount of treasure by X level and hell to pay if you don't give it to them, bec...

serleran wrote:
Its not Robery Doyle....

But then you could go by Highway Robery!

The quickstart guide is great, and I plan on having several copies on hand for when my group starts playing C&C - alongside several copies of the cnccheatsheet.

I'm looking forwards to reading about it. How is Iron Lords of Jupiter? I've been meaning to get my hands on a copy of that issue.

Nice to have you back.

moriarty777 wrote:
I include the relevant passage below for clarification:

Thank you, Mr. Red. I often sacrifice too much precision for brevity.

Nifelhein wrote:
I never liked how AD&D 2nd edition dealt with weapons, from speed factor down to large and medium damage.

Agreed. Speed factor is an onus, and changing weapon damage based on size of opponent just throws another monkey-wrench into combat. Keep it simple!

Jynx wrote: - Flying scissor kicks off the dungeon sidewall - Impossible jumps across wide chasms while slicing a sword mid air at an escaping villain - furious swordplay atop a fast moving rail car - High flying acrobatics between 2 fighting airships - Free fall jumps off the back of a sky coach t...

<t>It is rare to find rpg stuff at garage sales. You need to find the ones where old ladies are selling their sons' stuff from the late seventies / early eighties.<br/> <br/> My wife likes to go garage sale shopping most weekends in the spring and summer, so I just go with her and hope to get lucky....

I believe you get a +2 to grapple checks for being larger than your foe. Large monsters also automatically win initiative, unless you have a reach weapon.

Last weekend, I found the AD&D first edition PHB, DMG, and MM at a garage sale for $1.00 each. They smell a little funny, but it's good readin'!

<t>EV is a measure of bulkiness. If you check your PHB, there's a (complicated) system on how you get an object's EV based on its length, width, if you can fold it, etc. It's in the equipment chapter.<br/> <br/> Encumberance is an oft-houseruled topic, since no one really likes to do the book-keepin...

Inkpot wrote:
Tavern Wench/Barmaid...

ALIGNMENT: Any, but often Chaotic or Evil

Hah-hah-hah! I love it.

Also, I've never been a big fan of psionics, but I like the simplicity of your system. I'm interested in seeing how it develops.

Treebore wrote: ...CL of 5 added for it being a 3rd level spell, adjusted by 2 levels because that is the adjustment for the difficulty of maximizing the power fo the spell. So does the spell take a level 3 slot or a level 5 slot? I like Johns' method because you can prepare in a level 5 slot ahead...

<t>In 1st edition AD&D, magic user spells went to ninth level, but illusionists, clerics, and druids were only able to cast up to seventh level spells. And I don't think there was really any attempt to balance spells of a given spell-level against those from other classes. Since, there were an u...

slimykuotoan wrote:
How'd that happen?

And more importantly, how are you typing from beyond the grave?!?

captain_breone wrote:
BTW:

I created very basic random character and treasure generators.

Check it out:
http://www.domainrpg.com/candc/

-cb

I had not seen anything like these before for C&C. Thank you for the link!

I didn't care much for the zombies servants either. In fact, I like your rewrite better than the original.

Well, I'm embarressed.

I totally did not mean it that way!

<r>I'm not sure if it's exactly what you are looking for, but you could try adapting D&D's gestalt rules. If you're not familiar, each player selects two classes and takes the best parts of both. You can find the rules on the subject here:<br/> <URL url="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes...

<t>I think it's interesting to see how people who grew up playing different games (or editions) expect to play in different ways. And they will offer different sorts of advice when you ask for it too. Although, I have to admit that my experience is limited to D&D, and there may be less of a cont...

I also like to see where people are from. It'd be nice if there were an entry for age as well on these boards.

...although come to think of it, that CONVOY thread a couple days ago was enough for me...