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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3172305" data-attributes="member: 13892"><p>Two weeks back, I parted with my C&C books (long story). Ultimately, I was a little heartbroken, but the fact of the matter was that I probably wouldn't be playing C&C again for a long time and I have this commitment to keep. . . </p><p></p><p><em>I will not hold onto game books that I am unlikely to use in the future, nor will I spend moeny on same said books.</em></p><p></p><p>As it turns out, while I've had some minor heartache over the past two years, this commitment has made gaming a much more practical hobby for me, both in terms of finance and actual play. <em>Now</em> I'm selling my AD&D books.</p><p></p><p>While all of this decision making (on what to part with and what to keep) was going on, I had somebody on another forum (Treebore, perhaps) ask me why I prefered to hold onto my AD&D books, rather than my C&C books. </p><p></p><p>Originally, my answer was something along the lines of "local old school gamers want to use real, honest to god, old school rules" (which was true), but today I realized something while I was pouring over my AD&D books to post "Fore Sale" ads (and I'm a little embarrased that I hadn't noticed it sooner)... </p><p></p><p>With about two minutes worth of work, AD&D <em>becomes</em> C&C -- all you have to do is subtract an AD&D character's or creature's armor class from 20 to convert it to its C&C equivalent and, for task resolution, you simply have to port in the default SRD ability check rules. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Abracadabra!</strong></span></p><p></p><p>My old AD&D books just became <em>AC&C</em>! Sure, there are some class differences between this hybrid and pure strain C&C, but for the most part, the way that both games <em>play</em> becomes identical when you make the two changes that I just described. </p><p></p><p>Dammit. <span style="font-size: 12px">Dammit.</span> <span style="font-size: 15px">Dammit</span></p><p></p><p>Now I'm having second thoughts about parting with my AD&D stuff, thinking that I want to run this on the tabletop at least once <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 3172305, member: 13892"] Two weeks back, I parted with my C&C books (long story). Ultimately, I was a little heartbroken, but the fact of the matter was that I probably wouldn't be playing C&C again for a long time and I have this commitment to keep. . . [i]I will not hold onto game books that I am unlikely to use in the future, nor will I spend moeny on same said books.[/i] As it turns out, while I've had some minor heartache over the past two years, this commitment has made gaming a much more practical hobby for me, both in terms of finance and actual play. [i]Now[/i] I'm selling my AD&D books. While all of this decision making (on what to part with and what to keep) was going on, I had somebody on another forum (Treebore, perhaps) ask me why I prefered to hold onto my AD&D books, rather than my C&C books. Originally, my answer was something along the lines of "local old school gamers want to use real, honest to god, old school rules" (which was true), but today I realized something while I was pouring over my AD&D books to post "Fore Sale" ads (and I'm a little embarrased that I hadn't noticed it sooner)... With about two minutes worth of work, AD&D [i]becomes[/i] C&C -- all you have to do is subtract an AD&D character's or creature's armor class from 20 to convert it to its C&C equivalent and, for task resolution, you simply have to port in the default SRD ability check rules. [size=5][b]Abracadabra![/b][/size] My old AD&D books just became [i]AC&C[/i]! Sure, there are some class differences between this hybrid and pure strain C&C, but for the most part, the way that both games [i]play[/i] becomes identical when you make the two changes that I just described. Dammit. [size=3]Dammit.[/size] [size=4]Dammit[/size] Now I'm having second thoughts about parting with my AD&D stuff, thinking that I want to run this on the tabletop at least once :( :confused: :( [/QUOTE]
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