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I can't post reviews on ENworld until some sort of login glitch gets fixed, but here is my review of Assault on Blacktooth Ridge (also submitted to RPG.net, but won't show for a week). On the ENworld rating system, I'm still not sure if this is four or five stars. I think it's a four, but...

I think it's a good idea to include "zero" level NPCs that have abilities beyond a d6 hit points. While I don't get as specific as you have, I think it's a great idea to build in additional detail this way!

I got my copy about three days ago (just before the Easter weekend started). It's very good. It's like Keep on the Borderlands, but with multiple small dungeons rather than the one large one. There are many plot hooks that can lead beyond the module, which is a nice touch. The map tries to...

Ad Aware is a great program (it's free). A dummy email account's a good idea, although my Yahoo account filters spam really well.

That will work. But you still have to decide whether people have a chance to attack while he's casting.

Hi, Turanil, sorry it took me so long to respond to your question from DF. The free pdf project is working on a Yahoo Group at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CandC_Society/ I'd be happy to post house rules on my site, too. I'm trying to keep the free pdf project away from house rules at...

This is how I introduced my group, only I used fifth level characters. If your players have played early editions of D&D, it will work well. I'd make one suggestion for a rule to clarify ahead of time (using one of the many methods from old D&D) - the rules leave it open whether and how a...

d20 specifically I've quit buying, because I've switched systems, but my gaming expenditures are up pretty sharply. So in terms of the gaming industry surviving, I'm doing my part - just buying Castles & Crusades stuff instead of d20.

It just showed up on my page when I went there, and I followed the link. If it didn't show up on your page, I don't know. It was labeled "You might be interested in this book Castles and Crusades" and the label under the link was testmarketing or something like that.

Amazon is running a marketing program where if you buy something from one of their affiliates or something, you can get a free C&C players handbook when you click on the CCPHB page. Don't know if I was just in the right zip code - it might not show up for everyone. The sponsors included...

You can probably get by with only the CCPHB and M&T - the CKG is going to be all optional rules. Caveat: I'd like to see multiclassing rules BEFORE the CKG comes out at GenCon. I hope that happens - I consider multiclassing rules to be pretty important, even if the players choose not to use them.

Good point. But then, in order to get a decent number of decently high level NPCs (the town wizard of 5th level), you'd have to use a distribution that slopes up even more radically than the "two levels higher" that you proposed. Maybe half the number three levels up. Hmm.

Hi again, Colonel. I have a question about Castle Zagyg. Will it contain the room that's depicted on the front cover of the AD&D Players Handbook - the horned idol with the jeweled eyes? Or was that room just invented by DAT?

Davis also mentioned on another thread that there's a considerable amount of material that was cut from Assault on Blacktooth Ridge for page-count reasons. He also strongly implied that it's eventually going to get posted on the web as a supplement. Sweet!

I don't mind ridiculous numbers of low-level PC types. Remember that LOTS of guard and military units have a 1st level fighter per 5 to 10 0 level men at arms. Now, a city is defined in the eyes of a party by the highest level NPCs - so your system (one per two levels, reaching a higher...

Our game may have been slightly weak last night, although actually the players all said they had fun, so maybe it was one of those where the DM just gets a different impression from the players. I had fun, too - but I'm more focused on social encounters than the players. I always try to work...

Henry, then, is analogous to Crom, rather than the furies... I can see it. :) Um, but getting back onto the topic I threadjacked, I just can't see C&C as a resource for 3.x. I love C&C, but it's just not that - it's a game in and of itself that covers the same sort of territory as the D&D...

You forgot about pronouncing something, and you didn't take a position one way or the other on flumphs. :)

It would be like a Greek Tragedy without the chorus! :) Are we again destined, like Oedipus, to wind our way blindly toward an inevitable confrontation with the furies, wherein Enrinyeian Henry, Tudor-hatted moderator of boards, confronts us with the Cthonic reality behind our Olympian...

At the bottom is a full entry, which as you can see, doesn't look TOO terribly different from 3E stats. The simplicity comes from the fact that when you're at the table you know a great deal of relevant info about the monster just from its hit dice. When you've got the HD in your notes, that...