tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096473056453931834.post8772644411315094379..comments2023-11-11T03:38:28.863-05:00Comments on Once More Unto the Breach!: Facing Down the BeastAnthony Simeonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312134763577949405noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096473056453931834.post-32164611292527489732011-06-26T15:08:18.036-04:002011-06-26T15:08:18.036-04:00Bill! Thanks for the pep talk when it comes to our...Bill! Thanks for the pep talk when it comes to our still-young Dragonlance game! Yes, I agree that a good game with a good group of people goes a long way to helping to keep me focused on the game at hand.Anthony Simeonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312134763577949405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096473056453931834.post-63128986371213857922011-06-24T22:21:36.395-04:002011-06-24T22:21:36.395-04:00Well, we're enjoying the opportunity to play i...Well, we're enjoying the opportunity to play in your Dragonlance campaign as well! I must admit that I too tend to fall victim to gamer ADD. Our current C&C group keeps me looking forward to game night each week though, and that definitely helps me keep focused. <br /><br />Lately, I find that I have just a few game systems that I really like and lots of game concepts that I find interesting. I'll often peruse new game books in order to see how different games handle putting together different settings, but I tend to find very few games that make me take pause long enough to consider switching systems. Often, I find that I might borrow from several games' settings for use in one of my few favorite systems. <br /><br />I am very curious to check out yet another game company's take on translating Tolkien into a game system. I gotta respect the ambition involved in any earnest effort given to a project involving Middle Earth. I hope Cubicle 7 does a nice job with it...Wulfgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06656952338527596848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096473056453931834.post-52026375357763525752011-06-24T11:36:23.494-04:002011-06-24T11:36:23.494-04:00I'm really sorry C&C doesn't get more ...I'm really sorry C&C doesn't get more love in Old School circles. I mean, the frigging Castle Keeper's Guide came out earlier this year and I saw maybe one post about it.<br /><br />C&C is definitely my go-to game if I want to run "AD&D"--I agree about using the original material (Mentzer or Moldvay or what have you) for running Basic D&D. There's definitely something very specific about the feel of BECMI-era D&D (aside from all the awesome Elmore illos, of course).<br /><br />Do you know about ODDities? It's a fanzine that (at least in its earlier issues) feels very Mentzer-focused. You can find the issues in Dragonsfoot's <a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/cd/" rel="nofollow">Classic D&D section</a>.<br /><br />@Martin: Converting pre-3.x stats to C&C is an absolute breeze. I routinely did it on the fly while running the game. Basically you're just flipping AC to ascending rather than descending, deciding if the creature has a Physical Prime or Mental Prime (obvious based on creature type), and noting the creature's Hit Dice in order to determine attack bonus...and that's about it, actually. Converting 3.x stat blocks is also fairly easy, although sifting out the relevant stuff from all the cruft can take a little while longer so it's not as easy to do it on the fly.David Larkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133630988557116729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096473056453931834.post-529986148110667892011-06-24T10:47:48.890-04:002011-06-24T10:47:48.890-04:00The more I keep reading about your description of ...The more I keep reading about your description of <i>Castles & Crusades</i>, the more I'm thinking I'm going to have to pick it up to use for my "old school" one-shots. The only thing that gives me pause is that we're using all of the old AD&D Modules (S4 is up next), and as the DM I'd hate to have to spend the time to go through and convert everything. Last time I ran an old-school game through S3, we used OSRIC, so the conversions were pretty much nil. <br /><br />Still... C&C just sounds so cool. Although I love Pathfinder, part of me wishes that I'd stumbled across C&C before I switched my 3.5 game over to Pathfinder. It sounds like C&C has more of the pulpy old-school feel that I was trying to shoot for in my game.Martin R. Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11672657745232101753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096473056453931834.post-24214417718227019592011-06-23T22:54:49.015-04:002011-06-23T22:54:49.015-04:00I keep itching to run Barbarians of Lemuria. The g...I keep itching to run Barbarians of Lemuria. The gaming gods whisper:<br /> <br />"BoL + Hyborian Age = Awesome!"Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192212467523179768noreply@blogger.com