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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FriarRosing" data-source="post: 4546432" data-attributes="member: 63942">Well, our Rules Cyclopedia game has been going well. It works well for now, when I don't have the time to plan any good 4e adventures due to finals next week. Since I don't plan for RC, we can just play whenever everyone has the time. Their plan now is to take on the Orc King himself after raiding his lair for loot. I sort of accidentally gave them a wand of lightning bolt after reading the treasure tables wrong. And I'm of the mind that after I tell them they've found something, I can't take it back, no matter what. I suppose I could have someone pick pocket it off of them, but it's probably too precious and they're probably too wise for that. There were a few things I wanted to mention about our game, just to see what people thought:We don't use weapon mastery--it confuses me very much, and all of the tables with all of the symbols that mean different things for different weapons instill fear in me. Are my players missing out from our not using this?I didn't use any of the skill system mentioned in the book, but I did allow my players to choose four traits for their characters that I'll take into consideration if they try anything. I let the Magic-User be able to just do really minor magic tricks at will--essentially things like changing the temperature of an object slightly, or something like letting him decide to make some part of his body have a faint, magical glow. The Dwarf (who is affectionately referred to mostly as "Beardy") decided to have swindling, gambling, stealing and hardiness be his traits. I'm not entirely sure yet how he plans on using them. I know he mentioned hardiness would mainly affect his character's getting drunk. My plan is not have these things affect the actual mechanical aspects of the game, but just be minor things for me to take into consideration as the DM in various situations, effecting the outcome only where I think it makes sense or applies. This was partly in an attempt to make the RC game feel like it really is "our" game in addition to being Dungeons and Dragons. I guess I'll find out if it was dumb or not.I'm kind of planning on including some 1 and possible 2e stuff in the game as it goes on. I know it'll take some conversion, but really, even if I don't convert it I don't think the players will notice. I like the idea of a modular, kitbashed, as they say, D&D game. From what people have said, it sounds like that's the way many people used to play, and probably still do.</blockquote>

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