Troll Lord Games

<t>just some random musings...<br/> <br/> - sounds like a really neat idea, C&C is almost reaching the point now where the products being released is exceeding my gaming budget... not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but worth commenting on<br/> <br/> - so, all this work going in to the mag, ...

<t>I'm thinking a pretty standard combat - fighting swirling all around, the mage hanging back preparing a spell, maybe one other martial companion tasked with protecting him... normally, he can step in and deal with the hand-to-hand stuff, but he has to stick near the mage, and some distance away, ...

ya, I'm building an alternate fantasy do-dad from the ground up using C&C... not yet ready to post anything yet... still ironing out some of the more pesky kinks.

does away with Vancian magic altogether, couple of other differences as well...

Cheers,

J.

<t>how would you rule protecting a companion.<br/> <br/> for example. a mage is casting a spell, and you as a fighter want to make sure that the spell isn't disrupted from all those archers who are planning on firing arrows at the mage. <br/> <br/> How would you play this out?<br/> <br/> Cheers,<br/...

<t>a 3rd edition game. a portal to hell was opened and the only way to close it was to insert a 'key' when inside the 'void space' between realms.<br/> <br/> I was a 6th or 7th level Mage and "sir widford bradley" who was a pompus oaf - proclaiming himself leader and smartest man alive - all to the ...

<t>I think an ~16bln/year industry has something to teach, WotC does well to listen.<br/> <br/> because I don't care for the changes that they are making, doesn't make it wrong, it just means that I'm no longer their target market and audience (which I'm not).<br/> <br/> things are changing just too...

slimykuotoan wrote:
I think this is exactly the issue; WOTC is using the video game model to make the game palatable to that crowd.

I think it will flop.

why?

Cheers,

J.

<t>[quote="Treebore"][quote="serleran"]My views have been expressed often enough. Essentially, I don't agree with the "add levels to the monsters" stuff that is very d20-esque. Instead, I suggest supplanting them, using the "best" available to the creature. An alternate way is to use the creature's ...

Quote: Although there are some that can see through the BS and hype there seems to be 10 people who can't for everyone that can. See, that's the funny part, for the most part, I'm assuming that people who visit this forum have either decided that C&C is their primary game, or a game they play -...

RakintheBlue wrote: I think the problem is that they have such a huge following and therefore will have a lot easier time shaping what tabletop will become. "I want to make money, wotc is freakin huge and rich...let's follow their buisness model!" I'm wondering why that is a problem? if e...

<t>What I find funny, had this new game been called "Galactic space bunnies fighting demons from Hell", we'd have for the most part said either Meh or wow, I'm willing to at least kick the tires of this system.<br/> <br/> But because it has the title "dungeons and dragons" for some reason that makes...

yup. happy about the releases. was really unsure about the Eastmark folio at first, but then I decided to get it anyway, and I'm glad that I did.

Also, the Wilderlands stuff is great!!!

Cheers,

J.

believe Skatharos is from Montreal - but I haven't seen him around the forums for a long while now...

Welcome fellow canuks, and people who live in canukistan... welcome to the crusades!!!

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J.

Actually, I think the crusader issue is the Way it is shipped to Canada, open rather than packaged. I've had problems with all but 1 issue.

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J.

and one more woe to my TLG Shipping nightmare - still no Crusader #6
Sorry trolls, you must REALLY hate me

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J.

Guess I'm just perpetually unlucky when ordering from the Trolls ..

oh well...

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J.

nope, not signed ... and one of the folio books has 3 covers on it..

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J.

<t>guess, not being a collector of anything, I'm wondering what useful purpose just having 57 of 300 in pen on my inside cover has/does, considering I could have done that at home...<br/> <br/> From the TLG Front page: "The East Mark Gazetteer will be a little late as we ran out of some of the compo...

<t>I had a friend pick up the CZ Folio at Gencon this year.<br/> <br/> got number 57 out of 300.<br/> <br/> I was wondering though.... Wasn't EGG supposed to sign it, or did you have to go up and bug him... My friend is not a C&C fan, and old-school fan so he wasn't aware of any signing rules an...

welcome dutch!!!

Cheers,

J.

<t>but but but but, you're taking away one of the most favorite pastimes of any hobby geek,<br/> <br/> that of our right to be pretentious and superior when looking down on other forms of the same entertainment.<br/> <br/> [pout]<br/> <br/> man, you take all the fun out of it<br/> <br/> Cheers,<br/>...

sure, you're right, but if you don't look good to begin with.... nobody will be reading how awesome the content is.

Cheers,

J.

<t>So, a long time role playing friend of mine went to gencon this year and I begged and pleaded with him to pick up a few things for me. He does not play D&D - he's an Indy role player. Thought I'd share what he said to me... I'll just post the whole thing...<br/> <br/> From: Friend 4:53 pm (5 ...

cleaverthepit wrote:
Guess which way I vetod

there was no drunken strip club patron option, so, Davis, I give up???

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J

I call them roughish rapscallions, and to hell with all you monosyllabic 'old skoolers'

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J.

<t>andakitty, just wondering, what have you been reading that is contradictory to your way of telling stories??<br/> <br/> for me, MOST rule systems contradict in some way or another my ability to simulate the kinds of stories that I like to tell - even rules lite systems.<br/> <br/> Cheers,<br/> <b...

[quote="johns"]It appears to me that 4E is just a bunch of geeks at WOTC making their house rules official. [/quote]

funny, thought this was exactly was C&C was as well
Cheers,

J.

<t>too bad treebore, you are no longer a "target market"... these changes that I'm hearing about for this next edition - only reinforce in my mind at least that people at Wizards or hasbro or whatever it's called has seen the winds of change, and as the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them...

4getfull

4saken

cheers,

J.

4mula roleplayers???

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J.