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Raven_Crowking wrote:

thogard wrote:

Raven_Crowking wrote:The Martian Skeleton Man class in Crawljammer: Vault of Ash might be neat to use for this.

Is that actually available anywhere?

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Chester the Red Wizard! After having mightily spellburned (maxed Charm in the One Who Watches From Below), Chester soon afterward failed a DC 5 Agility check and fell off a pyramid to his death.

Raven_Crowking wrote:The Martian Skeleton Man class in Crawljammer: Vault of Ash might be neat to use for this.

Is that actually available anywhere?

Is it usually guessed prior to the game by reading the encounter/stat blocks or do you observe first how the players complete the encounter in game to determine its worth in XP ? I would say the latter. Did the PCs minimally interact with the threat and bypass it? Did they rush in and attack? Did t...

Pg. 188, Energy Sap results: "c-cell" and "f-cell" not capitalized in results 12-13 and 14-17.

xKRIMxGLUEx wrote:Thanks a lot Marcus, that makes quite a difference in this context.

I suppose that in most cases the starting die would be the D20 ? Except for second attack, two-weapon fighting, etc. if I'm correct, right ?

Most times, yes. In DCC stat blocks, the action die is specified.

DavetheLost wrote:"Grey" is the proper spelling.

Not in these United States!

More importantly, some are "gray" and some are "grey," and best practice is to use just one spelling.

"Grey" appears instead of "gray" on pages 97, 185, and 244.

P. 57, Sonic Generation. "sonic generation" not capitalized in the last two check results.

P. 60, Ultravision. Passive mutation with a listed duration.

p. 105, Cognitive Immortality: Each failed attempt (either from a successful Will save or not being powerful enough to succeed in the attempt) permanently reduces the mutant’s effective level in this mutation by one die on the dice chain until the mutation is either re-rolled upon level progression...

Pg. 186, SCAVOK-69: "anti-grab" should be "anti-grav"

Mutations! Pg. 42, Carapace, Manifestation (2): "... a chitinous exoskeletal;" should be "exoskeleton" or finish with a noun. Pg. 42, Claws, Manifestation (3): "Claws" capitalized. Pg. 43, Electrical Generation, Manifestation (4): "mutants" should be "mut...

I understand the point you're making but where's the line between allowing players to decide whatever they want and the Judges role as Judge? I get it, not to read the Crit's verbatim, but simply allowing players to make up whatever they want negates the need to even bother playing the game. The pl...

I'm currently reading the late Tom Deitz's David Sullivan series (Windmaster's Bane &c.), which has a nicely developed cosmology of Faerie and other realms.

This topic brings to my mind the Chronicles of Amber, with its maybe-infinite worlds of Shadow between Amber and the Courts of Chaos.

Drop the bonuses. That's why those attacks/effects are so dangerous. Same as spellburn -- it hurts, and it hurts for a while, which makes it meaningful. Exception: I don't drop the characters' hit points (fiddly to track, and kinda mean).

Artificial intelligences are less likely to recognize mutants as human, and may consider mutated animals to be pets.

Gameogre wrote:Wasn't there a second set of books as well that were not as good? I remember being a teen and reading them and being slightly disappointed.

That's my experience as well. More from the first three has stuck with me.

Lulu's running a 25% sale for the next couple of days (after I just made a substantial order...), so it's a good time to POD.

I've played in The One Who Watches, and it is gritty underground fun. We were seriously creeped out.

I concur completely. It's a big ol' slab of awesome!
Aside from the game itself, there is a lot of insight into early RPG development, plus fascinating anecdotes and cool extra ideas about all kinds of stuff.

Swag in Austin! Brown general access band.

You can't get much more Halloween-vibed than Starkweather Mountain, the 0-level funnel included in Transylvanian Adventures. It's a good tight one-shot.

He was a brave soul indeed to face the Purple Planet's hazards at level 2. It really wasn't the level of the adventure, though. It's a strong group who play cautiously. The wizard was spellburned down to minimum stats (spell or die in the previous session), failed several easy saves, blew a Spider ...

RIP Chester the Crimson, Beastmaster and Space Wizard, late of Lake Geneva, WI, an adventurer through space, time, and weird dimensions. He arrived on this strange world luckless and spellburned up to his (luxurious) eyebrows, but determined to survive, so close to level 3, never admitting defeat, u...