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We move on to our next Castles & Crusades session this weekend (the 7th, I think). Gotta whip up the map of a multi-baron county, and also work up some political details on the evil swamp city and get a rapid response plan for the evil demi god. Also work up stats for all the relevant monsters...

:) Actually, for two simultaneously grumpy people we did pretty well at maintaining our tempers long enough to realize we were agreeing with each other! I wish you luck deciding which system to use, BR or Castles & Crusades. C&C sounds like it does what you're looking for, but BR might too -...

*heh* A little dirty laundry there... :uhoh: In the inevitable offline conversation, we discover that the other two are annoyed at the typos in the rulebook, not the actual C&C system, that Bolie won't sell me his old Greyhawk campaign materials, that Aftermath was a game too complicated for...

First, let me apologize if the tone sounded haughty; it wasn't intended to. Second, I think what I mean by the "ghost in the machine" is more fundamental than what you mean. All I mean is that there's a difference - caused by the overall system - which creates a "feel" of play. By feel of...

Well, it's obviously not news about the two who didn't want switch preferring 3E; both of you prefer to drop into the squad leader model for combats; which is fine. I prefer combats in which there's less counting of spaces and more events per minute, with fewer pauses for looking up rules...

Ah, the benefits of living near the publishers...

I've located one answer from the World Builder's Guidebook (I assume this is 2E). In this model, between five and ten percent of the population will be of character class, with half being first level and then half the rest second, half the remainder third, etc. 70 % of these would be fighters...

:( Must we start with the insults so early in the thread? :( Same thing here, Akrasia, and a good point. Castles & Crusades in my experience also tends to benefit the "table game" and my ability to build a richer campaign with better role playing (because I had more time to focus on the...

d20 Modern was my best guess based on limited familiarity - I haven't read UA - in d20 modern the three classes are based on a similar model, and that's all I was familiar with. I defer, here. I hear you - that's where I started the search that led me to Castles & Crusades. My 10 year old is...

There are so many threads in which Castles & Crusades is being compared to one game or another - mainly 3E (fairly obviously) and now Blue Rose. These discussions have almost exclusively focused on game mechanics: Blue Rose has three archetypes, 3E has varied skills, Castles & Crusades has the...

I'm working on some tables for cities and other settlements, trying to get a general idea of the level and type of NPC's you'd find in these settlements using the C&C classes. This is generally for determining, you know, if there's a cleric capable of casting raise dead in a particular place...

This is close to what Castles & Crusades has done. I don't think it's going to happen with D&D. D&D has taken the approach that the more options there are, the better, and the resulting rules complexity is an inherent and acceptable downside to the benefits of customization. As an example of...

Even if that were true, and I've seen enough of your posts to dispute it, all that's involved in a basic review is a summary of what the adventure contains, how imaginative it is, and how well it presents the material. As long as it covers these issues, it's a solid review - even if it isn't...

I just posted house rules to our group's Yahoo group. I think it's a good idea to write house rules down. I found that we're actually not using that many, and all of them center around spell use in combat.

I won't get mine for at least a week... :( Post a review on the review site!!

What is GAMA? (It's sort of off topic, but the original topic of this thread is pretty much moot now that the module is shipping).

The Troll Lords website says that it is in from the printers and shipping to pre-orders since March 9. Some trade show puts off the shipping to retailers until March 21, IIRC.

I've got a couple of house rules in my website - one of them is Akrasia's non-Vancian (Earthsea-like) magic system. The link is in my sig.

I've never heard of it, and I'm pretty up on what's out there in the public domain about C&C. It's probably something for the playtesters - that's before my time. Most of the game is OGC, but the key part (SIEGE engine) is product id. The playtesters signed an NDA, which is non disclosure...

Unless I missed it, in which case I apologize for a duplicate point, no one has mentioned what I think is the clear reason why the 6 save system is lighter (not necessarily better, but lighter) than D&D It removes the individual tracking of saving throw bonus by class. Yes, there are six...