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I find that the best and worst thing going for it is that it's still going to be basically D&D. I have a serious love/hate relationship with D&D. I love the tropes, but a lot of the mechanics bug me to no end. But just like Churchill said - D&D is the worst form of roleplaying except all...

My excitement has cooled down quite a bit since I pre-ordered the DCC RPG. I want to play this game and can't. This is going to be a long wait. Certainly I can sympathize with this viewpoint. I'll admit that posting discussion and speculation about a game that none of us actually has seen is a litt...

Machpants wrote:Ha! I say again Ha! Who would buy such a thing?

If it's like the one they are doing now (1000 pages costing $100 or more), count me out. I still have my monster manual 1 & 2 and the fiend folio.

I hope that somebody takes some good notes and pictures at the garycon games and gives us a detailed report.

Ravenheart87 wrote:Resurrection "not very Appendix N"? Hour of the Dragon, Xaltotun?

Good catch, I forgot about that one.

I do seem to recall that the priest of Asura says that he was really still dead with only the illusion of being alive. So I guess that would have made him like a lich.

My favorite literary version of resurrection magic comes from Martin's Ice & Fire books (I know - not appendix N). A couple of characters are brought back, but their wounds are still evident and each time they are brought back they become a bit more zombie like. It's pretty creepy.

Hey, if you run into that website again would you please post a link? In the real world I'm a physics teacher and one of our projects is an analysis of a movie scene and kids are always looking for a "would it kill them" kind of source to quote. I'd love to find something leget that has t...

Falling 30 feet should not kill someone. Break some bones, sure. But not "dead 100%, guaranteed". Now, falling 30 feet in Platemail, That's a different kettle of fish. I found the stats somewhere online - it's usually fatal if you hit a hard surface from that height. Broken skull, broken ...

Anyone tried Joe Abercrombie? His series 'The First Law' is coined Fantasy Noire...but it's got a very very gritty feel to it. Oooh... I think I just find myself a new author to follow. Check out this criticism- Think of a Lord of the Rings where, after stringing you along for thousands of pages, a...

goodmangames wrote:The Dicehead Games stores are great - I visited both locations a couple years ago. Unfortunately there are more states than qualified DMs at the moment so, no, no plans to run at Siege or Midsouthcon.

Thanks for the info.

How about at MidSouthCon? Any playtest games there?

http://www.midsouthcon.org

Geoffrey wrote:Yes, if the set is opaque (as opposed to translucent), solid colors (as opposed to speckled or whatnot), and inked. I like my dice to be easily readable.

Yeah, I can't stand the translucent ones.

Yet another die we have to get now-

Hamel™ wrote:We wanna see some compiled Character Sheets.

Here's one-

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_g5h76UahDMo/T ... 00/IMG.jpg

When I first heard about DCC RPG, I thought it will be "just another D&D clone". Now I see it as a unique game, one of the ways where D&D could have been taken - just like HackMaster. It's full of brilliant ideas and solutions. Can't wait to see the final product. I'm thinking tha...

My interest has only increased since then. I can't wait to get a beta game going.

This is what every spell caster should be using in game- http://strangemagic.robertsongames.com/2011/02/pocketmod-spellbook.html https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p-rSVEcPE8I/TWvqEQQCPYI/AAAAAAAAAIA/j7I8gCDHDLg/s320/spellbook.jpg Tell me that wouldn't be an awesome way to consult your spell tables....

A friend of my dad's would disagree. He was a paratrooper in WW2. His chute failed to open and he plummeted thousands of feet. Got up and walked 5 miles to the nearest town and spent the next 6 months in the hospital with a broken back. He's in his 80s now and last I heard he was doing fine. Not pl...

There's also the Helpless Defenders rule (PHB 3.5 pg 153), which covers anybody 'otherwise at your mercy'. The only niggle is that to apply for ranged weapons you must be adjacent -- and yet, as DM, I wave my hand and *voila* that dude you have the drop on with your leveled crossbow is, as they say...

smathis wrote:This is why I like lowering the Massive Damage Threshold. Also solves the falling damage issue.

Falling damage is definitely one of my pet peeves. Falling should be handled something like lava. Anything over 30ft should be instant death.

Harley Stroh wrote:Excellent point. I need to look into what was done historically.

//H

peg legs and hooks were always in style

Small is obviously a relative term here. :wink: small > none :) One thing that has always bothered me about D&D is that once you have a few levels under your belt you become to immune to dying in many situations. Also, due to the binary nature of hit points (i'm fine or i'm dead), if there's no...

A. Monster/npc crits scale, so no, the fighter shouldn't worry too much. While there is always *some* risk that Harold the II is going to catch an arrow in the eye from some peon, it won't figure prominently. B. Yes. Not a lot of toe loss, if I recall correctly, but prominent appendages do take a b...

I'm too lazy to sift through all the threads anymore and my questions may not have been answered yet anyway, so here goes- In the combat system of the dcc rpg: A. Will you always have a chance of killing/dying with one shot? Will a 10th level fighter still have to be careful when facing a 0 level to...

This happened last year with the only HackMaster Basic game at gencon. It was registered late, didn't make the program, and hardly anyone showed up.

That said, let us know the details on dcc games run at the con. I will definitely show up... if I actually make it to gencon again this year.