Castle & Crusades - Monsters and Treasure Book used in DnD?

[Angel Tarragon]

Does anyone have the Castle & Crusades Monsters and Treasure Book? If so how easy/difficult do you think it would be to port into a game of regular DnD?

 

[VorpalBunny]

I'm still waiting for my pre-ordered copy to make it to my door, but judging from the preview it should be as difficult to "reverse engineer" C&C to AD&D as it is to convert AD&D to C&C.

In other words not too difficult.

 

[Turanil]

Does anyone have the Castle & Crusades Monsters and Treasure Book? If so how easy/difficult do you think it would be to port into a game of regular DnD?

C&C is a lite system, and as such, while it is possible to use 3e monsters in C&C, the reverse is almost impossible: M&T monsters are too succinct to be of any use into d20. (Frankly, this question just looks like a "postcount=postcount+1"...)

 

[VorpalBunny]

Heh. Y'know it never occured to me that "regular D&D" = "3rd edition D&D". To me, "regular D&D" is still the basic set.

Oh well, that probably explains why I like C&C so much.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

Actually, I would expect the C&C monster book to be basically compatible with d20. If it truly follows the nostalgic path it should, in fact, be one of the best C&C products to use in a D&D campaign.

Unless Monsters and Treasures includes all of ten pages of (C&C-style super-abbreviated) monsters and the rest is full of lame magic items... which would be, if not nostalgic, at least appropriate to the current form of D&D.

Old monster books, at least the wonderful 2e Monstrous Compendiums (caught 'em all, long after I stopped playing the system!), contained reams of fluff relative to their mechanics. I'd expect C&C to follow a similar course. C&C orcs shouldn't be all that different from D&D orcs, so grabbing the book for longer monstrous culture writeups would be worthwhile.

Anyway, I've seen C&C monster stats and they already include as much or more than I use for a typical monster in d20.

 

[der_kluge]

Yea, give it time. I think this book just arrived from the printers like last Friday or something. I doubt anyone has it yet.

But I suspect C&C monster stat blocks will look a *lot* like 1e monster stat blocks. Call it a hunch.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

C&C is a lite system, and as such, while it is possible to use 3e monsters in C&C, the reverse is almost impossible: M&T monsters are too succinct to be of any use into d20. (Frankly, this question just looks like a "postcount=postcount+1"...)

I'm not looking to use the monsters within in a DnD game, but am interested in what people think about the Treasure portion of the book and if it would be appropriate for a DnD game.

 

[Voadam]

Actually, I would expect the C&C monster book to be basically compatible with d20. If it truly follows the nostalgic path it should, in fact, be one of the best C&C products to use in a D&D campaign.

Unless Monsters and Treasures includes all of ten pages of (C&C-style super-abbreviated) monsters and the rest is full of lame magic items... which would be, if not nostalgic, at least appropriate to the current form of D&D.

Old monster books, at least the wonderful 2e Monstrous Compendiums (caught 'em all, long after I stopped playing the system!), contained reams of fluff relative to their mechanics. I'd expect C&C to follow a similar course. C&C orcs shouldn't be all that different from D&D orcs, so grabbing the book for longer monstrous culture writeups would be worthwhile.

Anyway, I've seen C&C monster stats and they already include as much or more than I use for a typical monster in d20.

From the preview linked above it looks more like 1e short entries than 2e full in-depth descriptions, but that might just be the preview demonstrating the stat blocks. Will have to wait and see.