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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Winterthorn" data-source="post: 70245" data-attributes="member: 1702">Just a few hours ago I learned that a local store near where I live has stocked up on a large series of Chivalry & Sorcery books--about 10 different products IIRC. Wow, just like that.Well before D&D 3E came out, I picked up C&S 3rd Edition (I actually possess dusty copies of the 1st edition from the early '80s <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ), looking for something to rejunvenate my interest in FRPGs. It was a nice product at the time, but it had problems--especially the combat system with those action points--THAT really discouraged my friends and I.So, since it's been re-released in competion against the d20 trend, this has prompted some questions tonight:1) Have you ever played any edition of C&S?2) What did you like and/or dislike about it?3) If you know of it rather well, did it/does it inspire your interest as background material for OD&D, AD&D 1E, AD&D 2E, and/or D&D 3E. In other words, have you borrowed from it?4) Do you have any opinion concerning the lastest edition of C&S? (I'm thinking of procuring a book or two...)I've only played C&S 3E (I ran it for my friends actually), and many many years ago a friend at highschool incorporated C&S 1E material into his OD&D campaign. That experience got me hooked on RPG's in general <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ...For life.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />With respect to C&S 3E, I found the combat system most tedious to adjudicate, my players groaned at it, but we liked the PC generation and the historical medieval feel it had--the one aspect I miss in D&D. I particularly liked the way they made, in C&S, a profound distinction between the magic of mages, and the magic of priests! (I don't remember their terminology right now.) There were some good ideas "in them thar rulebooks".Funny, I've completely forgot I had some C&S stuff <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> So, maybe there's some prestige material, new equipment ideas or spells  and critters to mine from it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So. Your thoughts folks? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Cheers,-B.</blockquote>

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