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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonhelm" data-source="post: 2256909" data-attributes="member: 3867">I love the rules-lite aspect and I like the old school feel.  To me, it feels more like D&D than 3.5 does.  Maybe it's the art.  <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=";)" />That's a big draw for me as well.  C&C allows me to use my old gaming books with a system that I like better than AD&D.  Likewise, I can take the things from 3e that I like and use them too.  I like all editions of D&D, so C&C makes me a happy camper.What I find is that D&D seems to be a bit too rules-heavy, and C&C is a bit too rules-light.  I personally am not the biggest fan of 3.5's combat system.  I also find that they make things a bit too complicated.  I prefer the idea of a plug-and-play system, rather than having a bunch of conditional modifiers.Likewise, I prefer D&D's single XP chart to the variable ones of C&C.  I like the modularity of D&D.I like having a skills system, though I would just use my own judgment in setting the DC's for skill rolls.  I never quite liked AD&D's skill system.  C&C doesn't have skills, instead relying on the mechanics of the SIEGE engine.  Feats...I like how they can customize things.  I like some, not others.  Prestige classes - Nice idea, but sometimes a bit complicated on the prerequisites.I love the races in C&C.  Having typical classes rather than favorite classes is a better fit for a race.  I also think that should be a role-playing suggestion and not a rules element.I guess I can examine it back and forth all day.  Point is, I like both D&D and C&C, yet neither one fully does it for me.  I'm considering a hybrid of sorts where I use C&C as my basic system (mainly with races and classes), add in the 3.5 skills, a simplified feat system, definitely use C&C combat, and make the rest up f rom there.  I'm not sure how all of that will work out.</blockquote>

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