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by GameOgre
Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:26 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: 5E Type spellcasing Bard fro C&C?
Replies: 16
Views: 3450

Re: 5E Type spellcasing Bard fro C&C?

I don't think he needs to be a full caster. I think the player just wants some spells, will check out the AB for that bard option.

Thanks!
by GameOgre
Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:45 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: 5E Type spellcasing Bard fro C&C?
Replies: 16
Views: 3450

5E Type spellcasing Bard fro C&C?

I have a friend who loves his 5E Bard. We have talked about changing to C&C but he hates the idea of a spell less bard. A while back I remember seeing a 5E type Bard someone came up with for C&C but can't seem to remember where. Anyone got a clue?
by GameOgre
Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:40 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Wow - Yggsburgh is back...
Replies: 20
Views: 2980

Re: Wow - Yggsburgh is back...

At the risk of being a wet blanket.. is the setting worth $65? I feel you man. $65 is the old $20 but nobody told my paycheck. I have about 1/3 of the spending power I had a few years ago. That said, I loved Yggsburgh when it came out and have used the book and setting many times over the years. It...
by GameOgre
Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:57 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Siege complaints
Replies: 18
Views: 1030

Re: Siege complaints

It's all so subjective, sure I can see someone running the game having a issue with the Siege engine or some other aspect of the game. Saves for one can be harder to make in C&C. There seems to be a new mostly OSR thing of chasing the Dragon though. There are so many OSR games and so many of the...
by GameOgre
Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:26 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20
Replies: 8
Views: 1587

Re: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20

This was a major pain to do. I ended up having to recreate the entire book. I would hate for this to be the first thing a new Castle Keeper has to deal with in a switch to Castle and Crusades. If I had been new to roll20 then I would have felt my purchase of Monsters and Treasures was a waste and pr...
by GameOgre
Tue Mar 14, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Your Take on PC Hit Points
Replies: 47
Views: 2190

Re: Your Take on PC Hit Points

My top secret way is to use HP RAW. Be all HARDCORE and tough love. Then make a crapload of things for pc's to spend money on that raise hit point totals. (but never over max). I had magical fruit that cost a BUNDLE but raised hit points perm by 3 points. Magical elixir's that cost a lot (and took a...
by GameOgre
Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:16 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20
Replies: 8
Views: 1587

Re: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20

I went through every monster and used the snipping tool and token maker to copy the token art and add it to the monster. What a pain in the butt. The end result is very nice. A little sad I had to fix it but.... happens.
by GameOgre
Tue Feb 28, 2023 4:08 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20
Replies: 8
Views: 1587

Re: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20

At this point it still seems to not be fixed. I'm starting a game soon so I had hoped it would be fixed. If not I will have to spend a day or two snipping pictures of the token pictures cutting them out and then uploading them back and connecting them to each and every monster. Ugg! It would be very...
by GameOgre
Mon Jan 02, 2023 6:48 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20
Replies: 8
Views: 1587

Re: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20

Yeah for sure it looks like the book on roll20 wasn't done right. The monsters are only handouts, and no tokens were made for them and linked with the handouts.

A pretty major mistake for selling a monster book on roll20 8) but I mean it happens. I can see the token art has been done at least.
by GameOgre
Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:24 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Monsters & Treasures on Roll20
Replies: 8
Views: 1587

Monsters & Treasures on Roll20

I took a break from roll20 after all the lockdowns were over. I played too much during them and got burned out on DMing. It's been a while now and im getting the old itch to play again so Im working on a roll20 C&C game so today I bought the Monsters & Treasures roll20 book and at first, I w...
by GameOgre
Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:30 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Half-orcs: How often do have you seen them used as PCs?
Replies: 30
Views: 18697

Re: Half-orcs: How often do have you seen them used as PCs?

In our 5E Games Half-Orcs are common. The bonus to Strength and Con,Darkvision and on Crit deal X3 damage make them ideal for fighter types. Also it doesn't hurt that if you drop one to 0 hit points or less they instead pop up to 1hp,once per day. Also factor in that most run the Faerun setting with...
by GameOgre
Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:02 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Mind flayer
Replies: 37
Views: 19415

Re: Mind flayer

I used to have a pdf of someone's unofficial-just for home use : Forbidden Monsters (or some such name) with all the monsters stated out for C&C. This was a while back, like maybe 2010-2013. I can't be the only one that used that source was I? I dunno but in my memory many CK's used it. I wish I...
by GameOgre
Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:47 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: D&D 5th Edition Discussion
Replies: 418
Views: 244027

Re: D&D 5th Edition Discussion

Been gone a long while playing 5E. It's a fairly decent game with some major issues cooked into the system. It does encourage the same build your character with wowzer powers in this order in this way to be UBER SNOOBER. Some classes and races are stupid unbalanced and some of those front load the u...
by GameOgre
Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:14 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Need info on monster books.
Replies: 3
Views: 2175

Re: Need info on monster books.

Thanks! I ordered both but thought id better ask.
by GameOgre
Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:12 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Half-orcs: How often do have you seen them used as PCs?
Replies: 30
Views: 18697

Re: Half-orcs: How often do have you seen them used as PCs?

It's rare but Half Orc's get plaid at my table a lot more than Dwarves.
I love Dwarves but I can count PC Dwarves on one hand in 40 years of playing.
Half orcs prob several dozen, though still low.
by GameOgre
Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:02 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Need info on monster books.
Replies: 3
Views: 2175

Need info on monster books.

Does the Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure of Aihrde have totally different monsters than in Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure?

If they have enough different monsters I will get both but...wasn't sure.

Thanks!
by GameOgre
Sat Jul 21, 2018 6:14 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Whats changed?
Replies: 22
Views: 11762

Re: Whats changed?

Thanks man! Just what I needed to know.
by GameOgre
Sat Jul 21, 2018 2:15 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Whats changed?
Replies: 22
Views: 11762

Whats changed?

I have been gone for a while and am just now getting back into C&C again. The last book I bought was the (at the time) brand new Castle Keepers Guide. I actually bought the small version or miniaturized version and loved it. I just decided last night after running 5E for the last time, that I wa...
by GameOgre
Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:48 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: C&C and 5e
Replies: 27
Views: 20636

Re: C&C and 5e

After years of playing 5E the very things I liked about it at the start are what I hate now. Advantage/disadvantage is simply and easy and stupid as hell. Adv/dis is equal to a +5/-5 mod so EVERY single modifier is +5/-5. They don't stack so its just as easy to hit a guy with a sword in the dark sta...
by GameOgre
Wed Dec 21, 2016 7:25 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Where the sale? Are they not doing the sale anymore?
Replies: 3
Views: 3698

Re: Where the sale? Are they not doing the sale anymore?

Is that right? Today is the last day but if I spend over $75 I get 50% off? Cause if this is right i'm going to be placing one heck of a big order!
by GameOgre
Wed Dec 21, 2016 7:19 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Where the sale? Are they not doing the sale anymore?
Replies: 3
Views: 3698

Where the sale? Are they not doing the sale anymore?

Where the sale? Are they not doing the sale anymore? I used to love the Troll Lord Games Christmas sale and came here to spend some money! am I just missing it? The new website seems awesome but hard for me to navigate, am I missing the 12 days of christmas Sale information? I wait all year for thes...
by GameOgre
Wed Dec 21, 2016 7:11 am
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: He slammed C&C.
Replies: 67
Views: 34362

Re: He slammed C&C.

You know I read threads like this and realize how bad things have gotten. It's a seemingly small thing and I can see many posters trying to dance carefully around and not confront things head on for fear of insulting someone especially a fellow gamer who likes C&C. I certainly don't want to send...
by GameOgre
Tue Sep 06, 2016 3:56 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Tunnels & Trolls Deluxe
Replies: 4
Views: 5418

Re: Tunnels & Trolls Deluxe

I love me some T&T.
by GameOgre
Tue Sep 06, 2016 2:39 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Returning to C&C after a long hiatus
Replies: 17
Views: 7538

Re: Returning to C&C after a long hiatus

I'm back as well after the long trying mess that was 5E. Don't get me started on 5E I will some up that I liked it even though it has major issues but liked it only about 5% as much as I love C&C. It's nice that as soon as we made the decision to switch back to C&C suddenly 90% of my stuff b...
by GameOgre
Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:42 am
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: The worst gaming experience you've had.
Replies: 25
Views: 7393

Re: The worst gaming experience you've had.

The sad thing is that really is not even on my list of worst games. Heck the other one I almost told isn't on my list of worst games and we all (nine of us)had horrible food poisoning in that one and ended up having our stomachs pumped at the emergency room and had explosive diarrhea! I consider tha...
by GameOgre
Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:20 am
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: The worst gaming experience you've had.
Replies: 25
Views: 7393

Re: The worst gaming experience you've had.

You guys just leave this thread right now. Just go on with your itty bitty bad games! I have hundreds of not thousands of games that are so horrible that to utter ANY of them would make Gygax himself come back down here and slap me in the mouth for letting them strike air. I will not tell you any of...
by GameOgre
Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:08 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: Alcohol and gaming
Replies: 22
Views: 4202

Re: Alcohol and gaming

I will be the devils advocate (it's too easy to see the issues with drinking and rpg's) and say you can have a great time drinking and role playing if either done in moderation or if EVERYONE is trashed. One of the best games EVAH, was done totally trashed, we all had a GREAT time. We just don't rem...
by GameOgre
Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:13 pm
Forum: Castles & Crusades
Topic: 5th Edition
Replies: 72
Views: 36186

Re: 5th Edition

I have been away from C&C for a long while now. I ran a 5E game since it's release off and on. I played in a Pathfinder game for about that time as well. The Entire time I missed C&C BADLY. D&D5E is a MUCH better game than 3.5 or 4E was for our normal role playing fun. Pathfinder is the ...
by GameOgre
Tue Nov 10, 2015 11:11 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Rising Knight for 5th Edition D&D?
Replies: 20
Views: 12913

Re: Rising Knight for 5th Edition D&D?

D&D 5E was just like the diet food my wife bought me. I tried it and it was fine, not the greatest in the world but without all the things I wanted to do without. Then one day I woke up and couldn't take any more. It just wasn't the real deal and no matter how much better it was than before, it ...