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There are, perhaps, things the party could do other than run up to foes and attack them. Is melee combat the only option in your game? Do they even out more with ranged attacks? A "walking tank" may not be the best at running over rooftops or wading through sewers, either (esp. if they're wearing ar...

Raven_Crowking wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 03, 2020 12:44 pm

By RAW, a Halfling fighting with two weapons automatically hits and crits on a 16. Armor Class be damned!

I stand corrected. And, that's awesome!

BanjoJohn wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:17 am

Wouldn't a halfling still only crit on a natural 16 when doing two-weapon fighting? 6.25%?

As long as the attack beats AC. It's almost double that to roll a 16 on at least one of the two dice. Bonuses would help the attacks land, but RAW crits come up about 12.1% of the time.

I've been running DCC for my middle school students at our weekly after-school gaming club. Does this qualify as "public" gaming for Road Crew purposes? I'd love to give out some swag to these bloodthirsty preteen murder hobos.

I'm not sure "should" figures in. What affects time for a round in an RPG: Do the players know what they're doing when their turns come up? Can the Judge quickly rule (if needed) and describe the action and then move on to the next thing? One feature more DCC-specific is lookup time. Spell rolls, cr...

RAW a warrior/dwarf can attempt a reed with any attack , so I wouldn't limit to one per round. I waver a bit on the multiple attack deed die issue. I'm leaning at the moment towards this: one deed die for the round if it makes sense as one action or deed attempt (say, the dwarf hitting high with the...

You're right! The spellcasting classes will differentiate the most. Thief skills vary by alignment. For warriors, I can think of only the lucky weapon as different from one to the next. Developing signature Mighty Deeds can help with variety. On the whole, DCC just isn't as baked-in option-heavy as ...

P. 73 of the rulebook: One flask of oil burns for 6 hours in a lantern.

That's it.

Yes, IIRC they were included as a stretch goal for the 4th printing KS. (Irrelevant datum: I never got the dice or pencils, and wasn't able to get it resolved; BUT I managed to acquire all 3 dice at conventions. DCC judges are nice people who give away swag.)

DCC #94: Neon Knights is a Purple Planet tie-in, and adds a bit of territory. I think the PP is a really rich setting, and has plenty of room to expand outside the plateau and underplanet. (Where are those sky raiders going?) It might work better in campaign play to tone down its default hostile nat...

I've used warm vs. cold, light vs. heavy, even had the item pull or drop for a big reaction.

GnomeBoy wrote: Maybe a lead wizard who knows the spell is guiding the others in the circle, such that they don't need to know it, just be able to follow instructions...

I think I'd rule it this way, but roll a new mercurial magic result for each wizard that didn't know the spell. And apply them all, of course.

If they held an all-DCC convention in Cross Plains, Texas, I would attend every year. The smallish North Texas RPG Con is in DFW every year (first Thursday-Sunday in June). There's usually good DCC representation -- I can fill up my schedule pretty easily, and I've gotten to play with some awesome ...

I think VTTs may be "easy" to use for a game in which everyone's rules-as-written are the same rules. DCC can be trickier, with mercurial and corruption effects, rolls affected by spellburn or luck flying around or situational dice chain effects or judge fiat or house rules.... DCC is punk rock, and...

I played through this module (as a chaotic thief). The party actually functioned together very well until the end. I can't speak to the other players' motives, but my character sold out to Chaos without reservation. I played it cool, supporting the mission (aside from a little side-looting) and bidi...

If I were in your situation, I would try using the Kith class from the Purple Planet (84B has the write-up). I believe there was an Orc class or two in one of the Crawl! issues you could adapt.

This just means that when a plantient burns one point of luck, the die result is increased by two.

As with pure human characters, the plantient regenerates luck only up to the permanent luck score.

I'll (humbly) suggest checking out the 2018 Gongfarmer's Almanac, due out in a few weeks. There may be some ideas.

Rufus wrote:
Attack rolls:
* 1d16+0 primary
* 1d16+0 offhand

Damage:
* 1d6-1 primary
* 1d6-1 offhand

Is that correct?

That's it! Only other things to keep in mind: he crits on a 16 on either attack, and only fumbles on a double 1.

Alignment.

Does that mean we'll need more dice to play DCC in the future? I was thinking 14 was probably enough, works well. You never _need_ more dice. You could run the entire game with one d6 (or a coin flip) if you put effort into it. A well set up dice chain (as opposed to roll and add bonuses) lets you ...

DavetheLost wrote:I'm not sure if the first is an actual error, or is a description by people who are not familiar with riding animals.

Fair point, those are the descriptions according to refugees. The next paragraph, though, notes that they are all pure strain humans.

I spotted a couple of things in MCC4: Warlords of ATOZ.

Pg 2: "that they are huge striped lizard-mutants," --> "that they ride huge ..."

Pg 5: "any still-living Warlords will appear to bit down hard" --> "bite down hard"
"it will detached itself" --> "detach"

Pg. 181 of the revised pdf: "mega fauna" and "mega-fauna" are both used. "Mega-fauna" is on pg. 8. The accepted zoological term is "megafauna."