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I've also been allowing the bad guys to use "recovering the body". My party has been going through a slightly modified version of Atarin's Delve, and retreated back to their home town after making particularly heavy going of it. Upon their return, the bandits had swelled in number from wha...

I'm in for a couple at least, if they can be shipped to New Zealand without costing an arm and a leg. (Or is that a Major Corruption roll?)

In the absence of guidelines or actual rules in this area, I've decided to go with D12 as a standard beginning point for monster HD, especially for retro-fitting existing adventures to the game. My reasoning is that: 1. Basic/Expert D&D used D8 for monster HD, which matches the highest character...

Excellent - thanks chaps.

Much as I love the vibe and playability of DCC RPG, the more we play, the more we’re finding the rulebook to be full of undefined terms and assumed knowledge of abbreviations. We’ve used common sense to decipher the majority of them (threat range etc) , but there are a few I’d like confirmation for,...

Joseph, thanks for that clarification - this'll certainly help me a lot as I have for the first time a thief in my current crop of characters. For complete clarification though, when awarding a luck increase to characters, for a thief/halfling, is it: a) an increase to their full (original) luck sco...

P95 Because a character’s off hand is usually not as strong or coordinated as his primary hand, his secondary attack rolls usually require a different deed die. Critical hits are determined as indicated on the table below. The table, presumably Table 4-3 but not made clear, is not "below",...

Portal Under the Stars, p452 player introduction: first time he's mentioned the name is Old Man Roberts and the second time it's Old Man Robert.

I really like this, and I’d definitely be very interested in it, although my opinion is the opposite of ragboy's: I'd prefer the bigger list of items, as it's almost certain that some won't fit my style of game, some I simply don't like etc. Just because there's a list of 300 magic items doesn't mea...

I don't know about 3e monsters, but with the Basic/Expert and AD&D adventures I've already got, other than reversing the AC, the only thing I do is give all monsters d12 for HD, since characters are significantly more powerful at each level than their earlier D&D counterparts (and it matches...

Yep, I'd agree that a character with 9, 7, 8, 5, 7, 13 is...ill-favoured, shall we say. And it's likely going to be a struggle to have fun with that character. However, just to be bloody-minded about the original spell-burn situation – even if a wizard has those stats, then he can spell-burn down to...

I believe it's intended that the deed die is rolled once each round, and if the character has multiple actions, the same deed die result applies to all of them. However, you're right, it is unclear. In fact, re-reading it now, the rulebook completely contradicts itself: P42: When the warrior has mul...

Why doesn't she simply spell burn? A wizard may use spell-burn to cast spells he has lost for the day (through previous casting, for example). If a wizard expends a lost spell’s level in ability score points, he can cast the spell as if he still had it. Our wizard frequently manages to lose his magi...

Ok, thanks. I would probably have kept it regardless. So the way it goes is: level 0: + Sta HP Level 1: no Sta HP (cause that would be double dipping) Level 2, 3, etc.: + Sta HP BTW, where is that in the rules? I looked, but couldn't find it, and now it's bugging me. On page 18 in the Ability score...

And then there's an additional sentence: "The halfling's Luck modifier can apply to any roll made by an ally: attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, spell checks, thief skills, and so on." To me, this last sentence is entirely extraneous if it is referring to the halfling spending luck on an ...

Keep in mind that the use of a "withdrawal free whack" rule is what effectively kills any chase scene from occurring. The PCs don't run when they should for fear of an ignoble death and the bad guys never manage to escape to plunge down some alleyway with the heroes in hot pursuit. That's...

That's so awesome. I bet the players were awestruck, and rightly so. Oh, yes. Especially the warrior who was struck by half a dozen godly bolts which almost killed him, who then went mad and pulled most of his hair out, and finally lost 16 ability points including more than half of his strength... ...

Actually, it is possible for clerics to spellburn, as detailed in the paragraph on page 108: " Spellburn by Clerics". :-) Admittedly, not so useful in the midst of an adventure when you really need a good result on your laying on of hands... Just as an aside, it is also possible to augment...

I was pondering this spell myself the other day - it's a spell which doesn't quite seem to make sense as is. It takes 10 minutes to cast, and yet the first result is clearly intended towards a combat situation, and in fact all the results from 12 right up to 23 mention combat rounds. I initially was...

Blimey - that a great list! The only error I've found so far that hasn't already been picked up is a small typo in the Misfire section of the Flaming Hands spell. It has: (2) caster’s hands ignite causing him 1d3 damage (3); 1d4 random possessions of the caster catch fire... with the semi colon in t...

Hi all - My name is Merlin, and with a name like that, there's probably a certain inevitability that I'd end up playing RPGs. I started off with a copy of the classic intro book What is Dungeons & Dragons? back in 1983. After reading the book more than a dozen times I convinced an uncle to buy m...