Goodman Games

May have already been mentioned but does anyone remember Dragon Mountain for 2e? There was some great advice / setup for keeping kobolds relevant at higher levels than usual. Ah yes, that was a killer dungeon. I had different groups run through it, and every time it ended in a TPK at the claws of k...

Hamel™ wrote:

DCCfan wrote:Three. Conan kills a dragon in Red Nails.

Wasn't that more a "simple" dinosaur than a dragon?

Definitely. A not very intelligent, dinosaur-like beast, which Conan kills by using the poison of the Apple of Derketo, not feats of arms!

Good, I am glad there will be at least some monsters, if for no other reason than to calibrate the difficulty of challenges.

Very nice!
So, there won't be a bestiary in the book? Or as a separate book?

Hyborian Age all the way! A pretty good choice as well! :D I know that there are a whole bunch of Appendix N books out there, but Conan and Lankhmar always had the right "feel" for the literature. (Tolkien does as well, but it's a totally different feel.) I'd love a blend of the savage as...

This is true of most games, which is probably why Joesph was so interested in making the DCC RPG a self-contained and complete product from the onset. That's why I am following it. I don't really need another D&D clone, but a fantasy game with new elements and based on a familiar system is defi...

And recently Mike Mearls stated that having "everything core for 4e was a bad idea." It's difficult to learn from the past, it seems. Good thing they fixed that. Now everything is just Essential. :lol: :lol: true. Speaking of which...if you buy the two "Heroes of " books, more t...

Hyborian Age all the way!

Brilliant! Just having a steady flow of modules ready makes me want to buy the DCC RPG! It will be nice to have a good rpg, in print, for which new material is available!

Then they wanted to try something different and more complex, so I introduced them to D&D 3e (3.0) and with only the core books (does this make me an A-hole?), we still had a very nice experience. Many players forget (or don't read) what's also written in the 3.0 DMG: the DM decides what goes i...

I started playing D&D in the mid 80s with the Mentzer red box. The rest of my group started with 3.0. A few attempts have been made to get them to play something less rules intensive. We had a campaign using Basic Fantasy which went well, but after 10-11 sessions they wanted to go back to Pathf...

Ah good! Still my favoured version of D&D, and favoured tool to introduce newbies to rgps.
$20 seems a bit high as a price, though. I have seen a lot running from $3 to $5. (and I bought a set including the box here in the UK for £1.)

...or giant piles of treasures which are cursed, like in Howard's Queen of the Black Coast. Or the treasure of Smaug in Tolkien's The Hobbit, which induces dragon-sickness.
Speaking of which, are there rules for madness/sanity/corruption? These seem to be a staple of almost all Appendix N authors.

If the target demographics of DCCrpg is the people who have read/heard of the stuff in Appendix N, there is another factor which would impact on the level spread: the density of playing sessions, which for people of ~40 years or more tends to be quite low. There is no way I am interested in a 30 lev...

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. Yes. It was onl...

I would change "Dutch Courage" to "A Flagon of Wine" in homage to REH.

Definitely looking forward to it. I am still looking for the perfect RPG to play Hyborian Age adventures.

There are some very simple rules in the old Judges Guild ref. sheets, which I combined and extrapolated with some AD&D 1e rules for some interesting results. In a nutshell: - Immediately after each fight, a character can recover 1d4 hit points if he rests for 10 minutes. NO OTHER ACTIONS ALLOWE...

There are some very simple rules in the old Judges Guild ref. sheets, which I combined and extrapolated with some AD&D 1e rules for some interesting results. In a nutshell: - Immediately after each fight, a character can recover 1d4 hit points if he rests for 10 minutes. NO OTHER ACTIONS ALLOWED...

It seems this game will work mostly as a toolbox, given the plethora of sources it's based upon. Which is a plus IMO, I don't like games which have an implied setting (unless said setting is based on some literary source.) So, the idea: would it be feasible to produce different setting books (perhap...

Joseph, you might want to have a look at the unarmed combat rules in Unearthed Arcana (System I, and snippets of System II.) They are essentially a normal attack, with some "special effect" tackled on. They are very fast and easy to use, and provide effects which weapons don't, so they are...

We're definitely aiming for a pre- 3.x D&D swords and sorcery game. One of the things that really stood out in the playtests at Gegnhis was how " un-3.x D&Dish " the players were behaving. We had one group flat out flee a couple encounters that bugged them out (not trusting to &qu...

AD&D 1e Unearthed Arcana had pretty fast and simple grappling rules (System I.)
Some interesting rules also appeared in the old I1 module, which later "evolved" into the AD&D 2e system (which also was quite nice.)

I have been thinking about the ideas for the cleric class, and how it won't be a heal-bot but more of an exorcist; which is excellent news, BUT this brings the question: how is this shift in perspective going to affect healing? I have never liked the fact that clerics become healing wagons, so a mec...

Ouch. I take it you're not a C&C guy, eh Mike? :wink: I really wanted to like C&C. I was a playtester, bought the white box, and bought the first two printings. Even when my group laughed at how horribly edited the game was, I still wanted to run it. But after BFRPG came out and showed that...