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Totally. It seems like the designers have already decided on the basic math (and of course the d20 mechanic has been around forever), but ability scores seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the swings of a flat d20. To put it another way, when you and I both make strength checks, and your...

For pure bang-for-the-buck, you pretty much have to get The Adventure Begins (DCC 29) and The Adventure Continues (DCC 48), which have 15 and 20 mini-adventures respectively.

Try waiting for each download to finish before you move on to the next one. When I tried to download them all simultaneously I had the same experience as you.

Amazon, wavy pages. As other have noted, these books are for using, not for framing, but it's still disappointing and detracts from the books' sense of quality.

1) Then the players would always have to be told the level of their adversary. 2) What about non-adversary rolls like skill checks?

I ran this 25 years ago in 1st edition (and don't remember a thing about it), and then again a year ago when the 3.5 conversion was released. The group actually only had one death; at the end they cast Wall of Stone in the vault to wall in the skull, and grabbed the treasure (most of which at...

On a similar note, are there any particularly recommended Play-by-Post games here that are good reads? I enjoy reading PBPs but I find that they often either peter out just when things are starting to get good, or degenerate into endless internal monologue, or the players can't really write...

We usually do play-by-chat, which means it is really easy for non-players to drop in and watch the proceedings. Often one of these people will end up doing rules clarifications while the GM is busy. It works out great. I think doing this kind of thing face-to-face would be harder, since it...