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Yes, you can do this with other abilities. It all depends on how you like to roll....pun intended. I, personally, do not let them know the DC most times. But to some extent this depends on how you handle luck. I tend not to tell them how much luck a character would need to expend to turn a failure i...

Archade wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:48 pm Hey guys! Been a while since I've been on the boards, but I seem to have time on my hands … here's a new spell I wrote up.

https://archadestower.blogspot.com/2020 ... solom.html

Cheers!

Nice

Since 1978, these have been my go-to methods. First from B1... ...then from the DMG...

Being attached to a Patron should be a burden. That Patron will have things they want you to do, and that's "want" as in "do this or you will regret it"... Herein lies the crux of the issue. DCC does this in several places - some subtle (like this one) and some not so. But nothi...

I’m super late to this party, but I figure I’ll still throw in a few coppers. In most cases, the halfling is perhaps not as an inspiring combatant as the warrior or dwarf, but not all cases. For those interested in the efficacy of the halfling combatant, you may find the following noteworthy: Given...

Pesky wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:54 am@Jim Skach: Yeah, ask Joseph; I will not be at Gary. Stephen Newton was also at the table, as was Steve Bean. That’s the limit of my memory, I’m afraid.

Joseph won't be there either, last I heard...

I was fortunate enough for my first DCC con game to be at Goodman’s table play testing a funnel (that unfortunately never saw the light of day) . Of my 4 PCs, 3 died pretty quickly, but my halfling barber survived! With twin razors he made Sweeney Todd look like a pansy! He dominated until the fina...

I'm not sure I ever really gave a crap about what dice people were using and why - except for the DCC Tournament sessions, where were were provided a set of dice for everyone at the table to use. If someone really thinks they have hi and lo dice - hell, even if they do - I'm not sure I believe or ca...

While working on the online DCC campaign I'm running, which has become oddly focused on commerce and economics, I realized I needed some kind of reference on how much certain things should cost (a longship relative to a horse or a house, etc). I came across a few resources I thought I would share i...

My name is Brent, and I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I have been an RPG player for over 30 years, but just got introduced to DCC. I love it! The flexibility and "rules light" flavor makes it my new game system of choice! which northern suburbs? Jim, I am in the Round Lake area...

I ran a couple games once for a group, and one guy playing a Wizard was very disappointed in his spells, primarily because of MM. Then in the first encounter, he realized he could cast the force wall thingy and get a shower of frogs (centered on himself) that fell so hard they did damage.... When h...

I agree with both of you. I agree that MM is one of the awesomely unique things about DCC. As is often said about DCC, it's about RULINGS, not RULES. I have just found that, playing the MM rules as written, a wizard may find himself with a lot of spells he really doesn't want to use, due to all of ...

I tell players with warrior/dwarf characters that if they aren't declaring a mighty deed every round, they are missing out on what makes a warrior powerful.

Every. Round.

One of the interesting things about DCC is about how at its core it is an embodiment of conflicting concepts. What this does is create a game a that can go in a thousand directions at once, and hold up. For example, it is at once simple and complex. Mercurial Magic is a great example. On its surface...

DivineWannabe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:53 pm My name is Brent, and I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
I have been an RPG player for over 30 years, but just got introduced to DCC.
I love it! The flexibility and "rules light" flavor makes it my new game system of choice!

which northern suburbs?

DivineWannabe wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:29 pm I am saying that with a result of 41-60, it is a very small margin for someone to learn a spell with no extra MM effects.

Yes...yes it is.

By intention.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't there something in the GaryCon event schedule for this? Hold on a sec... Bob is running two session of this: "A storm-tossed ship on the wine-dark sea... Castaways on a island, far from the shipping lanes... The feeling that you are not alone... Sometimes, even the ha...

Also, one last thing. DCC is meant to conquer fear. That sounds a bit hyperbolic, but let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Lean In. That is not my advice. It is advice from the inestimable Brandon LaSalle (and Harley Stroh)! The meaning is this (at least to me): That thing you fear?...

Things to remember: A) When you're playing a 1st level adventure, 10 XP is a pretty low bar. It will likely be like two or three encounters. 2) If a player is suddenly characterless, having them roll up a few 0's who, as mentioned in the suggestions below, become part of the group. It is not as burd...

Personally, I'd throw Characters and Magic and Spells under Rules discussion, particularly since character "builds" are...uhhh...not really a focus of DCC. Because I would think that you'd want GFA and Lankhmar in the top tier at the very least. MCC, too. Perhaps The thing about forums is ...

rytrasmi wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 4:40 pm Hey! It's looking good. I like that the main page seems to hold more current threads.

A suggestion, in word: "ads".

Shut your dirty whore mouth....

I allow thieves to backstab when (1) they are not in front of the enemy (flanking works too), and (2) the enemy is either unaware or distracted with something else, such as fighting someone else or performing an action (e.g., holding the gates open, casting spells). Action As for thief skills, I th...

If you have to stop the round of combat to read more than three sentences to introduce something to the action, something is wrong. This is a statement of opinion masked as a statement of fact. So that you don't think I'm speaking from a lack of experience or understanding (which I think you do by ...

I have two thieves. One of them, just out of humor during play starting talking about, like tumbling out of falls or something. Every. Time. I had already changed the way Thief Skills work (making it a generic progression by just giving them the points and letting them allocate with no more than thr...

Now I'm interested in the discussion about how often the thief can use backstab. What are the opposing views? "When attacking a target from behind or when the target is otherwise unaware". Whenever this happens, the backstab happens. A good Thief/Warrior duo has the warrior use her Deed t...