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bulletmeat reacted to deganawida's post in the thread Castles & Crusades vs. Old School Essentials vs. Low Fantasy Gaming with
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I would concur. I think it also maps rather well to your typical bumpkin-turned-hero protagonist of fantasy fiction. EDIT: It's also... -
bulletmeat reacted to Jahydin's post in the thread Castles & Crusades vs. Old School Essentials vs. Low Fantasy Gaming with Like.
Perfectly said! C&C just feels right. I think because it plays the same way I ran my AD&D games as a kid and not what was RAW, haha...
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bulletmeat reacted to Von Ether's post in the thread Castles & Crusades vs. Old School Essentials vs. Low Fantasy Gaming with Like.
I felt like the Bard was the "smart fighter," the fellow who could swing a sword one moment and then in the next could tell you the...
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bulletmeat reacted to deganawida's post in the thread Castles & Crusades vs. Old School Essentials vs. Low Fantasy Gaming with Love.
I recently got the 8th printing of the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook, and love it. I still need to do some more reading, but I'll...
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bulletmeat reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Castles & Crusades vs. Old School Essentials vs. Low Fantasy Gaming with Like.
We moved our 3E campaign to C&C when 4E came out, as I needed a break from the increasingly cumbersome 3E system as everyone leveled up...
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bulletmeat reacted to Greggy C's post in the thread The difference between Ad&d 1st and 2nd edition? with Like.
I started on 1e, and then we bought all the 2e books. There was no change, just better organization, more spells, more monsters etc...
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bulletmeat reacted to MoonSong's post in the thread The difference between Ad&d 1st and 2nd edition? with Haha.
Cool that you mention for gold and glory. Bad that you responded to a post from twelve years ago... n_n
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bulletmeat reacted to Hex08's post in the thread The difference between Ad&d 1st and 2nd edition? with Like.
1E confused the hell out of me as a child but I played it and loved it. 2E gave me, along with Vampire: The Masquerade, some of the best...
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bulletmeat reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread The difference between Ad&d 1st and 2nd edition? with Like.
Not exactly. All editions are roll high in combat. It's only NWPs and thief/bard/ranger/monk/assassin skills that are percentile. 2E's...
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bulletmeat replied to the thread OSR Interested in dipping my toe into OSR but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations?.I can understand that & I think that comes from the Ahirde setting where goblins & dwarves battled before the birth of most of the gods...
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bulletmeat reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread OSR Interested in dipping my toe into OSR but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations? with Like.
To expand on this, Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is one of the early-gen retroclones, and is more noticeably built off a 3E chassis...
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bulletmeat reacted to TeutonicBerserker's post in the thread OSR Interested in dipping my toe into OSR but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations? with Like.
Get BFRPG, it's a great version of BX with ascending AC, separation of race and class, and tons of free fan community support. All the...
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bulletmeat reacted to amethal's post in the thread OSR Interested in dipping my toe into OSR but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations? with Like.
I get a "best of both worlds" feel about Castles & Crusades, as an OSR game with a unified mechanic (although a +6 proficiency bonus...
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bulletmeat reacted to deganawida's post in the thread OSR Interested in dipping my toe into OSR but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations? with Like.
I love the spellless bard, ranger, and paladin. I especially love that the bard is explicitly a warrior-poet. Removing spells freed up a...
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bulletmeat replied to the thread OSR Interested in dipping my toe into OSR but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations?.They are very good guys. I like watching their twitch because there is a fair amount of universal rpg advice. Not sure where you are...