Troll Lord Games

Can we write to her? Start a petition? I'm thankful to have what the Trolls were able to produce, but would love to see the rest get published, too.

Go0gleplex wrote:
Hey Piper...soundin a little delusional there mate...

Maybe everything he says three times is true?

Kaiser_Kris wrote: Which ones? I'm really curious if anyone's playtested the 'degrading armour' thing. It makes sense to me, as a realism rule that would actually add a lot to gameplay. And I like the idea of, every so often, the PCs having to visit a city for mundane things, keeping their ears to ...

<t>Those with a touch of gallows humor could call it Bubble and Squeak.<br/> <br/> Come to think of it, just about any traditional English recipe title would make a fine nickname for a disease:<br/> <br/> Toad in the Hole<br/> <br/> Spotted d**k<br/> <br/> Scouse<br/> <br/> Blanc Mange<br/> <br/> We...

The vintage-D&D reviews at Something Awful are funnier and more perceptive...
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/

I seem to recall from Star Trek: First Contact that warp technology just requires a coil of copper conduit and some Steppenwolf, no?

O Great Troll, by whatever name thou art known! Will the books of the 4th crusade be offered to us in .pdf? Any estimates when? Unfortunately, I'm not high enough level to cast "Bind Troll" to do my bidding.

<t>I'm thinking about adding a spell for the TEMPORARY enchantment of a weapon. My first thought is to make it a 1st-level spell granting a +1 to a specific weapon for 1 round/caster level. The reverse of the spell would be Curse Weapon, imparting to the unlucky bit of wood or steel a temporary pena...

MacLeod wrote: Hm, I think allowing the magic-user to long cast the spell in order to add a bonus to the spell casting roll would be good. Reliability at the cost of time. In those quick and deadly situations, adds the pressure of whether or not to take the gamble or be steady and concentrate for a...

HatterMadness wrote: The main trouble i see with this systems way of showing that magic is a "difficult art to master" is that it makes being a low level spell caster pure suffering. You have made them less useful at low levels because you want it to "balance" with them being so...

<t>I'm thinking now of setting the CL to twice the spell level. This way, the difficulty of the spellcaster's highest-level spells more or less scales with his character level. On the other hand, as he progresses through the XP charts, he'll acquire staves, magic robes, amulets, and other such prize...

redbeard wrote: I've thought of using spell level squared as a part of a check for casting of a spell. That wouldn't hurt lower level casters as much as it does higher level. I've also considered a mechanic where you keep rolling until you succeed, each successive roll getting an additional bonus. ...

Lord Dynel wrote: Pretty much what DD said. They, for whatever reason stuck EGG's fancy, he decided to throw "celtic-like" druids into the mix. And from that point it stuck. I think the idea of a nature priest was a good idea - it's differnet enough to warrant its own class (at least, to ...

<t>Brief intro: I'm in a 4e game right now, hope to be able to run a C&C game sometime after the 4e campaign finishes. Some of the new players in the group are put off by the welter of rules in 4e. I don't plan to propose a C&C game until after the new PHB and CKG come out, however.<br/> <br...

Any word on when this will be out in PDF?

Eisenmann wrote:
Will this be available tomorrow as a PDF?

I'd also like to know when the PDF will be released!

Congratulations and thank you for your service!

<t>This is a welcome alteration to the game. I never considered the Illusionist broken, just somewhat undifferentiated. Any world-builder worth his salt is going to make ample changes and additions to the magic system. How magic works is a large part of defining a fantasy milieu. But having a revise...

<t>I rather like the Barbarian as written. I would opt to give the class wilderness survival. Possibly some spell resistance while in berserk mode. Write in some sort of intimidation bonus. I'd also let a barbarian come out of a berserker rage if all hostiles are defeated and he/she makes a successf...

Omote wrote:
ITo be frank, other then the individule XP for monsters, I award XP pretty much straight out of Palladium Books EXP Award System 'cus it's mo betta'.

Could you give a summary of how this works?

<t>It's hard to be too precise without knowing what's going to be in the CKG. As I understand it, the philosophy of C&C is to provide a streamlined, unified version of D&D that is true to its original character and compatible with the many products developed for it. None of that should chang...

<t>My 3 cents, one penny at a time:<br/> <br/> * For the sake of beginners who may not have an experienced player to guide them in the game, please include a fairly copious example of play. I would guess it should be one complete page long, front and back.<br/> <br/> * Despite its conceptual simplic...

I love what you've done with the old bestiaries. I'll look forward to your next installment!

I'm 2e-less. Could one of you kind sirs explain how the Channeler works?

Traveller wrote: Quick And Dirty Spell Point System Characters have mana equal to their Intelligence score (if a Wizard or Illusionist) or Wisdom score (if a Cleric or Druid). etc.. I like that, especially how you make use of the spells-per-day RAW and how you handle 0-level spells. I'm not fond of...

serleran wrote: ] So, a 1st level wizard with both an 18 Intelligence and 18 Con would have: 18(2) + 18/3(1/2) = 36 + 6/.5 = 48. Ouch. ... I think that formula, if I understood it, is backwards. The formula should read: Prime x 2 + (Con/3) x (Level/2) For INT 18, CON 18, and level 1, that gives a t...

Jynx wrote: My players have gotten use to one intiaitive per battle, but I think the extra booking keeping can be easily managed by having one player be the initiative keeper and getting everyones intiaitve at the beginning of each round. It works well in the 2e, so don't see why it wouldn't work i...

Troll Lord wrote:
Hmmmm.

I'm thinking of changing the name of the Castle Keeper's Guide to the Castle Keeper's Backpack.

Have you worked out its EV and capacity?

(ducks, runs)

Wizards and Illusionists have identical XP progressions until the 11th level. Then the Illusionist requires only150K XP / lvl while the Wizard needs 250K. Why the difference? Are the Wizard's spells at level 12 and above more powerful than the Illusionist's?

Hardly able to wait for the CKG to be released, and am checking here daily for any morsel of news about its contents and status. One question, though: when it does come out, will is also be available as a PDF?