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I am strict to the rule: I add level to the class skill, if you check a skill of another class you don't add your level. Period. I have elaborated a skill system on my own but it is only a developement of the basic system presented in the PHB and the free form of the CKG. One day or another I will p...

The CKG says that, when making a SEIGE test based on another class's ability (such as a fighter using Move Silently), you don't add your level to the check. Does this mean at low levels it is possible for the 1st level fighter with a prime DEX of 18 (total bonus +9) will be better at moving silentl...

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well, probably this is the first case in your forum that someone answers a question 3 years ago. well 3 years ago I didn't play C&C yet and furthermore I am very punctilious. This morning I am browsering about cost of magic items. From another post that was about similar things, I learn that the...

taken from the super precious pdf that serleran sent to me:
"Aclis: An aclis is a small, light, throwing spear, sometimes with a very broad head, but more often with
a thinner, more refined point."
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Thank u: in my last session, my players asked me "but what is a gourd?" and I said "honestly I don't know". I hate to do that. My players must think I know all and never try to catch me flatfooted.

equipment list on the PHB pag45: what the hell is gord? I have searched for a translation for it on wordreference and dicios, but nothing came out. then I seek on wikipedia but what came out, has no sense to me: a name of person, the rogue created by EGG, a gastric desease and the word god crippled ...

I think that would work just fine, doom. I'd probably make it 10 sessions, were it me, but 20 would work well, too. Kind of like a bonding process I have thought of giving less xp for nore sessions because I hope the PCs shall find themselves in a situation like this: "must I go on fighting wi...

hey lord dynel, I think that ,if I apply my new method, the pc need more sessions than three before they get the full xp from the item: every session the pc uses the item, he gets a 1/20 pf xp for the next level. these xps are subtracted from the total xps of the item.

well, when I played, long time ago, as a DM with D&D BECMI (aka Mentzer ed), I was used to give the full value of xp of the magic item to the character who sells it. This brought to strange episode in game: a PC after an adventure in a dungeon, dound a very powerful magic sword. I thought he was...

Hi to all. I am curious to know how do you CKs handle it. Do you allow a xp reward for the user of the magic item and, again, a reward when he/she will sell it? Do you allow a full reward or only partial? Or do you give xp only when the PC sells the magic item? And in what percentage? Somewhere (I t...

thanx for your answers. I'll go with an hour for the torch and 4 hours for the lantern. I love keeping track of time but I do it only in dungeons, when there are adventures in the city I don't bother so much with time: I let the character do 3-4 things in the morning, 3 or four in the evening and 2 ...

Yesterday was my first session of cking C&C. It was a great success: we were playing at the rising knight and there were some very fun moments.
A question arose: how much time do oil for lantern and torch burn? I didn't find it anywhere and am I right saying I must houserule it?

no thanx. I appreciate very much the idea behind printings: you don't have to upgrade to the new edition, each printing only rectifies the errors of the previous editions. For sure, I think, Vth ed of D&D will try to conquest the heart (and the money) of many grognards: The reprinting of AD&...

thanx Serleran. I love monsters morale in my games. I think perhaps your house rule is too heavy for me. I have slightly change it: I keep the usual siege engine check as stated in CKG then I have added the "when to test" and the modifiers to the CL of the CKG (not all) to the "when t...

thanx Lord dynel, I think the same as u. probably I'll make the declaration phase at the beginning only for the actions that makes sense to be declared: spella, parry e combat focus (or what the hell is its name!)

thanx to all for the hints. I'm going to check the reactions of my players to the declarations of actions because we never have played in that way

I am interested in the phase of declaration of actions before the initiative. In the other rpgs I have played, I never used it. But now I am inclined to use it. Do you bother the players with "narrow" declaration (that is: attack, whom? move, where? and so on) or do you use the "wide&...

I am playing Key harvest: a game about auctions in order to buy fields and make groups of fields that make u win. The fields give crop counter that are used in order to buy further fields and so on... Nice and clever, it's made by Richard Breese, the author of Aladdin's dragon

I think I'm gonna to read again all the manual of C&C perhaps trying to translate the more difficult words into italian: with a pencil I write very little the translation upon the difficult word so the next time I read it if I remember the translation is good otherwise there is written upon. Whe...

Thank u, Serleran for having answered to my question in the Keeper advice section. I have reread the comeliness on UA and now it makes more sense to me. I think that I will let out Wis e Con bonus from CL of the wisdom check made by the people charmed. And I think I'll throw in a Charisma bonus (in ...

Thanx to everybody. hey AGNKim, il tuo italiano non è per niente orribile! perhaps tomorrow I will try to post my question in the general section about rules. Now I'm gonna to master a session of T&T of a investigative adventure made my me. I think my players are gonna end the adventure tonite s...

First of all my apologies because I haven't done my presentation until now. I have yet read all the section Keeper Advice (and I have already done a question as well, but sadly nobody answersto it :( ) So my real name is Malco and I live in Italy. I began to play rpg in 83 or 84 (I dont remember per...

hi to all. I've got questions that puzzles me after i have read about beauty in the CKG. I like very much this, but I don't fully understand how does it works. 1)there is a short description on pag 13, left column, stating that beauty is not an attribute on which you can do active test of attribute....