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That's right. When making NPCs, don't feel constrained by the rules for making PCs. Do whatever your whim decides for NPCs. No justification is needed. For example, if you want an NPC to have the ability to turn blue anything he touches, then he has that power. ZAP! Just like that. Etc.

Ah, now we're at 98 days.

I suspect that the exact date won't be known (or even estimated) until the thing is at the printers. But I hope it'll be available before the 29th -- and that I can pick it up at DunDraCon on President's Weekend. :mrgreen: Continuing: 99 flagons of ale on the wall, 99 flagons of ale Take one down, ...

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG will be released in February 2012. To be conservative, let's assume a release date of Feb. 29, 2012. As I type this it is November 21, 2011 in the western hemisphere. That means that, as of right now, there are exactly 100 days until the release of the Dungeon Crawl Classi...

[W]hat do you guys think of an exclusive module, available only to those who pre-order? It would be packaged in with the pre-order copies but not available otherwise. Would that tempt you to pre-order? :) If it's a full, 24-page module with cool cover art like DDC #67 through #74, then I would be t...

finarvyn wrote:Conan couldn't cast spells...

Conan employs a witch-symbol in part V of "Beyond the Black River". It's not a spell, but it's something.

Wow. Inspiring stuff!

Hi everyone, Just wanted to give you a quick status update. The first chapter is with the editor! As soon as he's done the layout will begin on the first chapter, and then he'll receive the second chapter to start editing. And so on. We're on track for February. I'm sure some of you are excited tha...

I'm sorry, but orcs, hobgoblins, ogres and trolls must be in the rulebook. You can't dungeon crawl without the old standbys. There's nothing wrong with the standard monsters becoming standard. In fact, the weird monsters would feel less weird without "mundane" monsters to compare them aga...

In their place, I recommend giving half-a-dozen or so sample monsters, each one unique and nothing at all like any of the standards. A problem is that these monsters could become seen as canon - they become the standard monsters. That is indeed a danger. Perhaps if only one or two truly weird examp...

[M]any gamers may want to run older modules with the DCC rules set and not including such monsters might diminish their interest in the rules. Perhaps Goodman could go through their old DCC modules in order of intended level (0, 1, 2, etc.) and provide on their website free conversions of the monst...

The beta includes information on several standard monsters such as basilisks, bugbears, goblins, hobgoblins, orcs, etc. I vote that all this sort of thing be excised from the final rulebook. After all, these old humdrum monsters are not going to be in any of the modules for the DCC RPG. In their pla...

Blood Axe wrote:I meant a combo deal.

The book and dice.

OR...

The book and some adventures.

Etc,etc.

The book with a full set of dice would be especially cool.

Geoffrey's Isle of the Unknown sounds very promising. I like his stuff a good deal. I'll most likely use DCC in my own setting that I'm working on -- which doesn't qualify as a traditional fantasy setting really. So I find it hard to count that. So... I'll probably use DCC for my fantasy kick with ...

I do think it is important to give us a reason to check the boards however. How about some more Designer's Blogs? We haven't had a new one in almost 4 months. Perhaps the new Designer's Blogs could focus on specific changes to the Beta. And/or perhaps the Designer's Blogs could focus on specific fo...

finarvyn wrote:

goodmangames wrote:Subscription: haven't decided yet...maybe.

I'd enjoy a subscription. It would be kind of like getting a monthly magazine, only it would be modules.

With the right discount, I'd certainly consider subscribing.

goodmangames wrote:[W]hat you saw in the beta was only a fraction of the art in the finished work.

Holy cow!

IF making the November deadline would necessitate cut corners and rushed details. I'm more excited than ever about DCC RPG, but at the same time I'm more aware than ever of the immense amount of work and re-work that making the game takes. If the game will be significantly better for waiting until a...

Forgive me for tooting my own horn here. My Isle of the Unknown (forthcoming this fall from Lamentations of the Flame Princess) would work very well with DCC RPG. Toot away! :) Its major inspiration is Clark Ashton Smith, the good friend of H. P. Lovecraft and R. E. Howard. The Isle basically feels...

Forgive me for tooting my own horn here. My Isle of the Unknown (forthcoming this fall from Lamentations of the Flame Princess) would work very well with DCC RPG.

"Adventure as 1974 intended you to." That statement advertising DDC RPG has as its authorities the very highest: Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. They write at the beginning of the 1974 D&D rules under "Scope": "DUNGEONS and DRAGONS will provide a basically complete, nearly ...

What an enlightening post. Thank you! I love Jack Vance's Dying Earth book (though I find its sequels forgettable).

Great post, Joseph. For me, the funky dice are a plus. Weird, arcane dice add to the game's mystique. Imagine if D&D had been made for use only with 6-siders. :( It will be a Very Good Deed for Goodman Games to offer for sale a COMPLETE set of matching dice that are accurate, opaque, pre-inked, ...

I don't understand "As above" in the spell charts. Let's take Color Spray as an example. If my modified roll is a 32, does that mean that my spell has all the combined powers of results 24-27 and 28-29 and 30-31? Since each spell is being given its own page anyway, I suggest spelling thing...

I like Dragons at Dawn only having 40-50 spells and rules for spell research, it gives you enough to build on, then it's up to you. I really like that, too. I particularly like that only 3 spells in D@D do damage. How many spells do we need that basically say, “This spell creates a ball/beam/ray/ar...