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Heavy_Crossbow wrote: So seeing as this miniature turned out so well and was a joy to paint, and judging by the support from all of you other people who like them, I'll just have to get more! That's it...feed the addiction. Collecting miniatures is like eating potato chips, once you start you just ...

<r>I've got an extensive collection of Reaper Miniatures. I'm a miniature addict; I just can't stop buying them. Fortunately, I'm also an obsessive painter, so they all get painted fairly quickly. The quality of Reaper figures is generally very good - plastic, pre-painted minis just can't compare. L...

<t>I use both Campaign Cartographer and Dundjinni, and I love them both for different reasons.<br/> <br/> Campaign Cartographer is CAD based software and has a fairly steep learning curve, but it comes with an excellent manual with a thorough tutorial that will get teach you the basics. Where CC exc...

DangerDwarf wrote:
Me and my crew in search of booty.

And I here I thought the Village People broke up!

1. add an index

2. Put the classes in alphabetical order - I dislike having them arranged by primes.

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Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein. You can't beat a movie that stars Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, and Bela Lugosi for classic Halloween-y goodness.

I play-tested the new healing system on Sunday night and it worked really well. The players caught on at once, after using Rob Roy as an analogy. In the final fight between Liam Neeson and Tim Roth, Liam is staggering across the floor, dragging his sword and too tired to defend himself; even though ...

Jackal wrote: I think we pretty much covered the hit point debate here: http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?mforum=trolllordgames&t=5565&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=abstract&start=0&mforum=trolllordgames Oops.. I guess I should have done a search before starti...

Orpheus wrote: It sucks, but you just have to ask yourself ,"What's more important, having my son's hair the way he wants it or him getting an education?" Education should not include soul-crushing conformity and submission to unreasonable demands by petty bureaucrats. This is exactly the...

<t>After reading this thread I started musing about the abstract nature of hit points in D&D/C&C. The premise has always been that high hit point totals reflect skill and endurance rather than superhuman resistance to damage. So the fighter with 50 hit points isn't yawning with disinterest w...

<t>This was a really interesting read. I liked the two-weapon fighting rules too, but I would definitely go with the bonus to hit rather than to damage.<br/> <br/> I might pass this site on to my players too. Many of them are young-ish and don't understand why things work the way they do in C&C ...

<t>What bloody business is it of the principal to tell anyone how long their child's hair should be? That is for the parent to decide; not the school. If I got a letter like this from my daughter's school I would go through the roof.<br/> <br/> It sounds to me as though your son is being harassed by...

<t>I don't see much in Pathfinder that is reminiscent of AD&D. It seems to me to be a very different game, both in terms of mechanics and feel. If I were an outsider, unfamiliar with the evolution of the D&D brand, and given copies of AD&D and Pathfinder, I doubt I would ever realize tha...

voynich wrote:
were i a pipe smoker, i would consider this, but only if i also had this pipe.

Whoa! That is so cool. (Now if only I had a spare $2,500 lying around and didn't have about a gazillion dollars worth of home repairs and renovations waiting to be done )

I haven't smoked a pipe in years, but I'm tempted to order some of that Old Toby - the description sounds good and also says its perfect with a pint of ale.

DangerDwarf wrote: By the book, yes they can. Look at the SIEGE examples in the book. Lifting isn't a class skill of the fighter either. I think this might be a grey area in the rules. The SIEGE examples do show the level added to the check, but the section entitled Adding Character Level to Checks...

Lord Dynel wrote: Exactly...I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks 4e is not a role-playing game! It looks like a decent wargame, but as a role-playing game I find it lacking. This is my take on it too. After playing it, I think that it is a fun tactical combat game, but it isn't a roleplaying g...

DangerDwarf wrote: So, by high level C&C you no longer require rolls outside of combat because the character has become proficient and competent in all those things? Just narrate conflict resolution at that point? For tasks which have become so routine and are no longer a challenge to the chara...

DangerDwarf wrote: Regardless of whether he is level 2 or level 12, the same 10 foot pit should pose some sort of challenge, and it is dramatically appropriate for it to do so. Rapid physical advancement due to +1/level trivializes these challenges or causes you to artificially inflate the difficul...

DangerDwarf wrote: Which is exactly the problem. That in most physical challenges, a high level PC is a superman with only a small chance of failure in jumping, climbing, pole vaulting over the enemy line, whatever. This is supposed to be a game of excitement and action at all levels. A 10 foot jum...

DangerDwarf wrote: Several misadventures later Freddy is now a 12th level Rogue and low and behold he botches another heist and once again he takes to the rooftop to evade the guards. Assuming the CK applies CL's consistently, because he is now level 12 those leaps will only be a difficulty of 4 fo...

There is also the Castle Keeper's E-screen that is free to download (found on the links, resources and utilities thread), it is super-spiffy and gives you just about all the info you could ever want at the touch of a button if you like to use a lap top at the game table.

DangerDwarf wrote: The way ability checks work in 2nd Edition, you are given a starting point there as well. The starting point is the Ability in question. Fair enough; I see your point. Being completely ignorant of 2nd ed, I was basing my comments on my recollections of 1st ed. Of course, its poss...

DangerDwarf wrote: Ah, but the same holds true for the challenge level of a SIEGE check in C&C. It's the CK's call. Your prime only gives the starting point for the check, how far you have to exceed it is based either on HD or in the case of noon-critter situation, a number decided by the CK. B...

DangerDwarf wrote: For example: A pile of rocks dislodges from the ceiling, falling towards the PC: DM: Make a Dex check CK: Make a Dex check Only difference? One is a high roll, other is a low roll. Except that ability checks were never part of the RAW as far as I can remember. I've never played, ...

DangerDwarf wrote: Coming from a primarily 2nd Edition background, what constant looking at tables? I've run a lot of 2nd Edition over the years and the game never gets bogged down due to table browsing. At most I might glance at my REF1 DM Screen (Ahhh, I love that screen) to jar my memory but tha...

Deogolf wrote: Yeah, it was harder. You actually had to use your brain to figure things out - a novel concept these days!! Well, personally, I have better things to do with my brain while running a game than struggle with the rule system. I always found that looking everything up in a table really ...

<t>I always liked Skills and Powers too. For that matter, Spells and Magic, and Combat and Tactics have some pretty cool options in them as well. I might have to dig that stuff out and give it another look through. I might want to incorporate some of it into my C&C game.<br/> <br/> Thanks for th...

I thought that it was on the 19th. That should be amusing since I'm giving a talk at the Canadian Palaeontology Conference that day. Yarrr...

<t>I regard C&C as simply another "edition" of D&D. As many members have said in their signature files: C&C is what 3rd edition should have been. I agree and consider C&C to be the true heir to the game in a way that the last two editions of WotC's D&D is not. They own the name, ...