Goodman Games

ideally, I am looking for something in which I can fit Doom of the Savage Kings in it as I plan to use Hirot as the PC campaining base. I guess I could also fit the Emerald Enchanter as another adventure location. What else would you add as I want to give my players some choice in their next adventu...

Mighty deeds of arms is a fun system and we use it a lot in my table. Recently, however, the thief in my group tried to trip a enemy, which I adjudicated as a luck check, but now I wonder what you think about those kind of situations. Does allowing the other classes to perform deeds makes the warri...

I have a 30 minute hourglass on my gaming table. This is how long your torch will last. In game time, this represent a variable amount of turns but I find it works really well by putting the players themselves under pressure. « As you debate what you do next, you can see that your torch starts to fl...

For perception checks, which are the most common checks in my experience, I use the following principles: 1. Don’t use them 99% of the time. Pay attention to your descriptions instead. If the player has a chance of noticing something, then there should be a hint of that something somewhere in you de...

Skills is where I personally draw the line between OSR and non-OSR. I have basically stolen the system from « Beyond the Wall ». You could use an attribute check instead but the problem is that they do not scale with level. What I do instead is to use Save checks in place of Skill checks and not bot...

So if you have to recalculate the Luck modifier at every loss of Luck points, how does this square up with the rules that states that you cannot regain luck points easily ?

If you are at -3 luck modifier, you could be there for a very long time

If there are no penalty for Mighty Deeds, how do you handle a player that systematically spam a Disarm move at every attack ?

Actually, when you call for a Mighty Deed and roll your Mighty Dice... do you get to add the result to you attack score to hit ?

Change your perspective: DCC has serious a Punk/No Future vibe to it. Embrace it. In many classic rpg, you spend a lot of time crafting the backstory of the PC who in essence as plot immunity because you've spent too much time on it. What attracts me in DCC, is that you play instead to discover what...

Can a Monster emulate a Mighty Deed and how do you rule for it ?

Sometime the Ogre wants to push asside the party's fighter to have a pop at the squishy wizard behind.

I guess this question must have been asked a 100 times but as a new Judge, could you give me a pointer as to when you give players a fixed bonus to resoltuion for a good idea and when do you upgrade their dice ?

What is the difference between a +1 vs. a +1d and when do you utilise one and the other ?