Last week was a straight up meat grinder, so I hope tomorrow is more normal and look forward to rolling dice and killing what ever you set up for us to beat up on !
As a Castle Keeper: Monster - The Shadow. Love to toss that undead at players. So creepy. Magic - Feather Tokens and both cloaks and boots of elven kind Spell - Magic Missile As a Player: Monster - Bandits or Goblinoids. I like fighting head to head weapons bashing. Magic - Anything the CK will tos...
I heard that saying a while ago when watching something about WWII and the US working with England. How everyone spoke English, but there were so many little miscommunications that the difference between American English and English English caused. I always liked that saying and in the military I sa...
It's cool to be that recent discoveries have turned the commonly-accepted view of civilization and human origins on its head. When I was in school, the Australopithicus > Homo Habilis > Homo Erectus > Neanderthal > Homo Sapiens path was set in stone and taught as indisputable fact. Now most of that...
Being an archeology geek, I've kept up on the latest sites in Turkey, like Gobekli Tepe, about 10,000 BC! Lots of Bronze-ish Age stuff to bring into that. Sumer wasn't the beginning :) Atlantis could figure into all that too. And whoever built the Sphinx. The water damage would have been at least 7...
Avatar - copied from 11 Jan 2016 Name Eboergar (Boar spear) Berntson (son of Bernt – Bear strong) Race Human Gender male Age ??? Pantheon/Deity(ies): Uller – god of the hunt/winter, Mielikki – Goddess of the forest, Thor, - no surprise there … Repute 1 (local hunter) Dark Repute Disrepute Order: Sco...
Just saw this Here is the link to the old game - so I have an easy way to go back and forth while relearning my avatar and his history and exploits. https://www.trolllord.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15566 & here is the link to the old game running narrative https://trolllord.com/forums/viewtopic....
In today's game, my son's Ranger got hit by a gout of Black dragon acid and failed his save. He survived, but I'm a little unsure on the equipment saves for magic stuff. Obviously the mundane stuff is ruined. The CKG shows a CC21 for saves vs dragon breath for Steel, but what if it's a magic sword ...
Is only 1 year count as 'thread necromancy' ? I've been running a Call of Cthluhu / Delta Green game for my girls and there friend, so I've been getting into CoC monsters. I guess I knew there were some deep influences from CoC into D&D, but I never really thought about it. The more I read on Co...
I just recently watched Dragonslayer and I actually really liked it. It had a low fantasy movie feel and you get the sense of a passing age of magic leaving the world and five ways how to get rid of man moobs being pushed out my Christianity. The whole thing about a King using a lottery to appease ...
Troll Con! 8-) Yup, this! Rgr, I'd love to have one. I never had a chance to go back in the day but wanted to . Love the have a chance again. The other two Asiatic Codices and a Mezo-American Codex are about the only things I can think of. Rgr on the asiatic codices ! I've gotten (or gotten again) ...
Nice ! Consider the 'Wooden Horse' stolen and added to my HRs ! I don't have my notes at hand, but I know I did some conversions on old spells. I remember one was stick to snakes (think I lowered the level form 4th(ish) or whatever it was down to something like 2nd) there were a few others too. I'll...
I've HRed my games to give fighters (and a level or 2 later fighter sub classes) fighting style first, then weapon groups, and then finally weapon specialization. It gives fighters something cool every ??3ish?? (I can't remember exactly when I gave them the bumps) levels. It never broke the game (g...
I have my game set up where if you make a WIS check you notice things your class would be keyed in on - a fighter notices things about arms armor tactics used and weaknesses of opponents, thieves points of easy attack *for that surprise back attack" where their hidden money bag is, etc. That wa...
I've HRed my games to give fighters (and a level or 2 later fighter sub classes) fighting style first, then weapon groups, and then finally weapon specialization. It gives fighters something cool every ??3ish?? (I can't remember exactly when I gave them the bumps) levels. It never broke the game (gr...
Most of the monsters can be played, as is, by converting their AC (subtract from 20). Keep in mind a few monsters got a major boost in power curtesy of 3.X D&D, mainly dragons and the aforementioned demons and devils. They are much more dangerous in C&C than their counterparts in Basic/Expe...
I love that one. Favorite weapon for a cleric and back up for paladins. I've never paid attention to exp for it so didn't notice the difference. You know me, I've never been big on giving exp for finding a weapon etc, so it doesn't effect my game that much between 1e v C&C. I assume the differen...
My MU cast summon familar, and rolled a magical animal. The problem is there appears to be no list of magical animals. Anyone have any thoughts or advice on this one? As C&C was made to be AD&D with updated mechanics I look there for these types of answers first. Which takes me to AD&D ...
That's why having a WIGHT OUT is so deadly... Troll edits. :rofl: & you have to be careful when it is a wight out on the town. The gore can paint the town red ! Sorry I couldn't resist ... I'd add holy water/oil as items that fall into the +1 area. ... I assume pummeling as well, but then again...
I really think you're overthinking it. Just treat the monsters as they would be in C&C and give them a hit bonus based on their hit dice. For NPCs, treat them as the C&C equivalent. If you need to add a couple spells to make them equivalent that's fine. I've literally never done any prelimi...
Which brings me to my next question. Why not call a thief a thief? ..... (had to edit my answer. It was trying to be philosophically witty but came off snarky) ... I know originally in 1 e they were thief, but changed to Rogue in 2e to get away from negative names (just like 2e stopped calling Demo...
Dragons, Demons, and Devils were all too weak in AD&D. Glass cannons mostly. +1 to that! Also rgr on not to over worrying about Balance and using C&C monsters as required. For my girls' face to face game I modified 'Keep on the boarderland' to make it a C&C / Tolkien game, and then conv...
Being a fan of 'low magic' settings, I'll be the voice of decent here on this one ;) Of course if your setting is high magic, yes Rome would have continual light / flame to light the streets, and 100s of other uses for common low level 'useful' spells. However, if magic is less common, or the variou...
@Lurker this has you written all over it! The only thing I have on backgrounds was tied into the 'middle earth race' house rule . I've never focused heavily on backgrounds. I know Tree and Rigon both have (or had) good background HRs. Most of what I did is narrative and then bumping skills etc off ...
@Lurker this has you written all over it! The only thing I have on backgrounds was tied into the 'middle earth race' house rule . I've never focused heavily on backgrounds. I know Tree and Rigon both have (or had) good background HRs. Most of what I did is narrative and then bumping skills etc off ...
Welcome to the boards! We've got a good group here so don't be shy. As far as your #3 item, @Lurker has done extensive work on a modified Middle Earth, so he'll probably be able to give some suggestions. ... First, Brick, welcome to the boards ! Like Max said, I love Middle Earth and have done a lo...
My MU cast summon familar, and rolled a magical animal. The problem is there appears to be no list of magical animals. Anyone have any thoughts or advice on this one? I was sure I had a pdf that would be useful, but my search foo is weak today ... I'd have to glance through the codexs etc to see if...
There are a ton of cool little used monsters out there FF etc are great to find them, and they can be fun to throw at the players - especially when they think they know all they need to know about the monsters and are surprised when their little tricks to defeat the common monster aren't working. I'...