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Also, as part of the spellburn negotiation process, in order to emphasize that the replacement hand the wizard would get wouldn't be fully his own, I told him that the new hand wouldn't be a mortal hand. Consequently, the wizard player is planning experiments to test his new hand's susceptibility to...

So last night we played DCC and I explained to the wizard player the dangers and costs of trying to inscribe a sleep rune onto his hand. In this case, I took goodmangames' advice and had a supernatural being demand one of the caster's hands in payment. He agreed, took his spellburn damage, and rolle...

I give xp after each encounter just for book-keeping purposes, but I usually don't allow leveling until the end of the session. Even with a system with fast level-ups, I find players get distracted real fast when they've got something as exciting as leveling going on.

Okay, that's the sort of cost I think could justify the reward we're talking about. And now that I properly understand the spellburn rule, he's much more likely to end up with a tattoo on his hand that prevents him from ever lying again than of putting his enemies to sleep. I think I can get behind ...

Ah, I missed that distinction.

You remembered that there is a -8 to the spell check when casting, so that even with a +20 bonus and an 18 Intelligence, a 1st level Wizard would need to roll a 15 or better to succeed? Then simply remember that it affects all who see it, friendly or otherwise, and have it be the bane of his existe...

So I've just started running a DCC game (we just finished funneling and we'll have our first level 1 adventure this week) and I've already run into a bit of a balance issue. My wizard player rolled Runic Alphabet, Mortal as one of his random spells and he asked me if he could use the "permanent...

Hey, new DCC-er from East Tennessee stopping in. Love the game, guys.