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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8689957" data-attributes="member: 30438">Oh, how I loved the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix. So many great, creepy monsters designed to challenge players' expectations, leaving them on uncertain ground (which is one of the best routes to fear in D&amp;D in my experience).I can say that I've never met someone that played the kind of thief/rogue that routinely stole from the party that miraculously was a good player when not playing a kender or thief/rogue.For the entirety of my D&amp;D-playing span, I've never had any trouble with halflings and their place in the world(s). However, I started running DCC RPG some months ago and now I find that they just don't fit as well when you're specifically channeling Lin Carter, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, etc., and trying to avoid Tolkien (I love Tolkien to the point of having a tattoo, but I am doing this so that my campaign feels more evocative of the other parts of Appendix N).It wasn't until I'd been running my game for months that I played in a Shudder Mountains game run by Brendan LaSalle. He took the DCC RPG Halfling class and just reskinned it as a &quot;Luckiest Sumnab*tch You've Ever Met&quot; (human) class. Had I seen that before starting my own campaign, I absolutely would've borrowed that trick.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8689957, member: 30438"] Oh, how I loved the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix. So many great, creepy monsters designed to challenge players' expectations, leaving them on uncertain ground (which is one of the best routes to fear in D&D in my experience). I can say that I've never met someone that played the kind of thief/rogue that routinely stole from the party that miraculously was a good player when not playing a kender or thief/rogue. For the entirety of my D&D-playing span, I've never had any trouble with halflings and their place in the world(s). However, I started running DCC RPG some months ago and now I find that they just don't fit as well when you're specifically channeling Lin Carter, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, etc., and trying to avoid Tolkien (I love Tolkien to the point of having a tattoo, but I am doing this so that my campaign feels more evocative of the other parts of Appendix N). It wasn't until I'd been running my game for months that I played in a Shudder Mountains game run by Brendan LaSalle. He took the DCC RPG Halfling class and just reskinned it as a "Luckiest Sumnab*tch You've Ever Met" (human) class. Had I seen that before starting my own campaign, I absolutely would've borrowed that trick. [/QUOTE]

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