Troll Lord Games

old school gamer wrote: Looks good so far, I do kinda wish you had given some more abilities to the soldier class. It seems a little sparse. The idea was to keep it as close to C&C as possible. I pretty much just ported over the C&C Fighter. Even in Mongoose Publishing's Conan the soldier i...

The zip file for the pdf is now up on mediafire.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jd2wy0xhnjo/C&C Conan.zip

<t>I have completed my C&C conversion of Mongoose Publishing's Conan rpg. <br/> <br/> The conversion documents replace the standard C&C rules on Race, Class, Equipment, and Magic, along with my house rule documents on SEIGE checks emulating skills, and Adventuring in the Hyborian Age (which ...

While it is not a perfect fit, I agree that either a knight/cleric class and a half, or knight/paladin class and a half would be the closest fit.

Upon further thoughts, I'd go with a knight/paladin class and a half.

<t>Yes it will work. Yes you have permission to do it. <br/> While I've kept the prime/non prime challenge bases BTB, I have added skill/ability checks, based very loosely on 3.5 skills. Many are based on the C&C relevant special class abilities, but weakened for 'everyone else'.<br/> <br/> For ...

Breakdaddy wrote: Any specific reason why the other guy is using OSRIC instead of AD&D? I see AD&D original 1st edition and 2nd edition books on ebay going for cheap prices. I haven't looked at it yet, but he says he likes it because it is better organized, with a few tweeks he likes. We wi...

<t>I just ran a mid-sized battle (600 vs 280) during the last session of my C&C campaign. I chose to use Mongoose Publishing's Open Content Mass Combat System, which is designed for 3.5, but I revised for C&C.<br/> <br/> Other than my players not being familiar with the OCMS rules (which tre...

<t>Well, after 19 sessions over 11 months, the C&C game I've been running has come to a close.<br/> <br/> "The Heroes of the Gnarley" campaign took place in the Gnarley Forest, in The World of Greyhawk, during Common Year 576-77.<br/> <br/> The campaign took six players (playing initially a gnom...

<t>This article really reinforces what I already thought of D&D4$. It is a board-gamey, WoW-like game for short attention spanning gen-nexter's, which was concieved for $$.<br/> <br/> Not that 3.x was any better. It took all the fun out of DMing (3 hours to stat out NPC's and monsterr, anyone?),...

DangerDwarf wrote: I like racial classes as it reinforces a humanocentric game. You generally see more human PC's chosen and fewer mundane demi-human NPC's. It helps maintain the appearance of a world were elves are squirreled away in the forest, dwarves are locked away in a mountain fortress and h...

<t>Yeah, 24 mpd for 30' per round races, but for those wee folk who are 20' per round, I only allow 16 mph. If it is a mixed group, I only allow the slowest rate.<br/> <br/> I half the rate if traveling overland (flat, but no roads), or traveling mountain roads or traveling forested game trails; I q...

Absolutely #1 reason I hate high-level play. There is no real fear of death. You never heard Boromir or Conan say that.

<t>I always confused maces and flails. I thought a mace was a flail, and didn't know what a flail was.<br/> <br/> I could never figure out what 'splint mail' and 'banded mail' were.<br/> <br/> I always pictured 'magic missile' as an arcane ICBM launching from behind the magic-user and striking the t...

Go0gleplex wrote: Don't show up drunk or with booze. I wouldn't last long in your game. I thoroughly enjoy my 2 Newcastle's every 3-5 hour session. I need to 'loosen up' when I play. Much like going out with the wife dancing, I need a little liquid aid. I keep it at 2, however, since at 3 I can ten...

<t>So, in the 12th century, a coat of mail cost about 100 shillings, or 5 troy lbs of silver (20s to a troy lb of silver).<br/> <br/> In C&C (D&D) parlance, 5 troy lbs of silver is just a hair over 4 lbs. of C&C (D&D silver), or 64 sp (1 oz coin x 16 oz per lb).<br/> <br/> 64 sp, com...

Best watched with the 'mute' on. Shakira can eat crackers in my bed anytime.

<t>If I feel the monster should do more damage than listed in M&T I will add their hit dice to the damage. <br/> <br/> For example: The ogre does damage as "Slam (d10) or by weapon". Now, shouldn't an ogre do as much damage at least as the strongest human (str 18, or +3)?<br/> <br/> An ogre is a...

<t>I treat 0-level humans as "monsters".<br/> <br/> 1HD (d8)<br/> <br/> hit points based on career/status (children 1, women or adolecents 2-3, standard male 4-5, burley male 5-6, warrior type 7-8)<br/> <br/> armor class 10 (modified by armor)<br/> <br/> Saves (primes) as physical or mental<br/> <br...

St. Cuthbert is my first choice, Pholtus is my second.

I like my rpg religions a bit zealistic.

clavis123 wrote: In my campaigns I make it clear to the players that most clergy are just ordinary people who cannot work miracles...PC clerics who can work miracles are rare, militant zealots, and will be remembered as saints themselves. Same here. Most priests are just 0-level humans. They cannot...

<t>OK, so in my game (set in Greyhawk 576), the neutral gnome wizard/illusionist got his head bit off by an owlbear in the Cairn Hills while searching for a specific cairn. <br/> <br/> This gnome had previously been delving into evil necromantic tomes and willingly suffered corruption (moving toward...

<t>I had a player in the last few months (playing C&C in Greyhawk 576CY) who came to me with his idea for a human barbarian, with 3's in intelligence, wisdom and charisma, and 18's in everything else (we use point buy), and had his right hand hacked off with a ball-and-chain hammered on the stum...

I'll never give up my Presssioussss, NEVER!!!!!

<t>My group consists of 6 players and I (as CK).<br/> <br/> We play every two weeks, for around 4 hours a session.<br/> <br/> After 14 sessions (since April--about 7 months) the rogue is 5th level, the ranger and cleric are 4th level, and the wizard/illusionist is 3rd level. The remaining players ei...

1. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

2. Robert E. Howard's Conan stories

3. Michael Crighton's Eaters of the Dead

I'm 40, and I have a 3 year old daughter and 1 year old son. I'll be 54 when she's 18 and 57 when he's 18. I was planning on retireing at 56, but I guess I'll probably have to wait til he's 18 (when I'm 57).

<r>Speaking of playing out of arch-type, the blog BXBlackrazor has an older article with an interesting take that 'Conan' is a thief. The writer argues that REH's Conan is not a fighter, or a barbarian, rather he is best portrayed as the thief class (moves silently, climbs sheer surfaces, reads magi...

<t>This is a great and timely topic.<br/> <br/> I am running my players through C&C, but I have been jonesing for some good old "Olde Skool" B/X D&D play--including having them map for themselves (with key rooms drawn by me using Dunjinni). I want to run them through an old B/X game shortly ...

What about my all time favorite name:

Galep-Dredel, the wizard who lifted Fortress Inverness from its foundation, and founded the Ghost Tower.

<t>I do a point buy for my game.<br/> <br/> Base of 8 in all six attributes.<br/> <br/> 1 point each for attributes 9-15<br/> <br/> 2 points each for 16-17<br/> <br/> 3 points for 18<br/> <br/> 24 point pool.<br/> <br/> All points are cumulative. (if you want a 16, you pay 7 points to get to 15, and...