Goodman Games

a test of a DCC I think will be called "Sailors on the Starless Sea" That's a pretty good title. We have spent a lot of time thinking about module titles. Have you ever noticed just how many D&D modules follow the format of, "[Place] of the [Monster Name]"? Or some slight va...

Sunsword wrote:Was the single save used in OD&D? Or did S&W introduce it?

OD&D does not use a single save. It uses five categories:

Death Ray or Poison
All Wands - Including Polymorph or Paralization
Stone
Dragon Breath
Staves & Spells

S&W introduced the single save.

spackle wrote:a test of a DCC I think will be called "Sailors on the Starless Sea"

That's a pretty good title.

Most of the GG support for DCC RPG will be "the basics" (like a DM screen and a dice pack) and then lots of modules. Good, the last thing I want is an encyclopedia set of rulebooks. Also, having only a single rulebook helps ensure that the DCC RPG remains a game based on Appendix N, rathe...

Sinbad searching for R'lyeh, Kull and Cugel stepping thru a portal to Barsoom - that's what I'm after! Very well put! Consider that Abdul Alhazred completed the Necronomicon (in Arabic!) in Damascus shortly before his death in A. D. 738. Further consider that the stories of the 1,001 Nights (includ...

I initially had no intention of buying DCC: RPG. Last year I sold almost my entire RPG collection. All I have on my game shelf now are: 1. Empire of the Petal Throne/Tekumel stuff, which I love to study 2. home-made print-outs of the Lamentations of the Flame Princess RPG and the Random Esoteric Cre...

$20 for 6 dice is pretty steep. I agree. (and that 7 sider is fugly - i don't even see how that one works) I agree. I don't understand the need for a different shape for each die type either. Now I understand that one: Those sold geometric shapes are fun. The more of them there are, the more fun it...

As with monsters, I think magic items are more interesting when such an item is "the" magic ring rather than "a" magic ring. In all the classic literature, magic items are always unique. Always. The idea of a "generic" +1 sword simply doesn't belong in a game that's tr...

I remember reading on Jeff Rients's blog that his DCC character had 1 hit point.

With very rare exceptions, I prefer monsters to have armor classes that are no better than the armor class of a man with plate mail and shield. What sort of critter has a tougher hide than plates of steel?

Will monsters generated with James Raggi's The Random Esoteric Creature Generator for Classic Fantasy Role Playing Games and their Modern Simulacra require much conversion to use with DCC RPG?

"Unusual monsters" don't have to be big weird things with tentacles and an odd number of eyes. How about a small, scrawny humanoid with blue skin? Is that a goblin - or a Hyrkanian - or something else? There can still be goblins - but they need not look like a goblin. To a villager who's ...

I would argue by having one's opponents being, on the whole, common villains, the odd, bizarre, or "super-natural" becomes even more heightened. One cannot maintain a constant state of the unknown, before the whole experience begins to break down. Of course, this is but one DMs thoughts o...

Regarding monsters in general, I have something to say on the subject...one of the ways that traditional D&D lets you down over time is that you, as a player, begin to know what to expect from monsters, and that aspect of the game loses its magic - the "fantasy" becomes predictable. T...

How often should we expect new Designer's Diaries? Or is there no planned schedule?

I, too, have never seen a D&D cleric outside of RPGs. I've certainly never seen one in any of the sources in Appendix N.

mshensley wrote:I'd like to see Aereth done in the wilderlands style- you know, zoomed down to 5 mile hexes...

I agree.

That is a pretty cool idea. In the world long ago, magic was more uncertain, only much later becoming a "magical science" (a la 3.x edition magic).

I would consider running Castles & Crusades with only the following character choices allowed:

human clerics
human fighters
human magic-users
human thieves
dwarf fighters
elf fighter/magic-users
halfling fighters

Something I've played with is letting lower-level casters take higher-level spells.... On the face of it, I love that idea. I also like that idea. It allows PCs the chance (however remote) to get to the good stuff sooner. It has long seemed sad to me that ninth-level spells (to take the most extrem...

What will be the highest level of spells in this game? Ninth, or something else?

BD&D = Basic D&D. :) So that's OD&D, too, eh? I mean, as far as I can recall at this late date, there were basically two versions of D&D before AD&D. And I've just generally thought they were lumped together in most discussions. Am I wrong? Are BD&D and OD&D different be...

BD&D = Basic D&D.

DCCfan wrote:Could you give the DCC flavor name for the spell and the D&D equivalent in parenthesis? I would hate to lose a cool name like Cadixtat's Axe of Unmaking.

That's a great idea.

In Appendix N, demi-humans are The Other. They are extraordinarily rare, unique, unusual creatures. They are not human, they are not Men (as Tolkien would say), they are special. How many demi-humans even appear in Appendix N? Hardly any. Tolkien probably has the highest "population incidence&...