Goodman Games

I'm all for hit points healing at a rate faster than 1/day. I think ability damage makes a better model than hit points for long term wounds, and ability damage already heals slowly at 1/day. I like meinvt 's idea of 10% back, or 25% back for a full day of rest. I'd even go for 50% back of hit point...

A lively read. I'm happy to hear a report on how quick combat can be. That helps me think about adventure design. I think I will need to concentrate on building a sense of place and time and a strong atmosphere. Since combats are so quick, I think DCC will be (and needs to be) more about the adventu...

The -4 penalty is too harsh. There are enough penalties already for using a two handed weapon. You do 1 point extra damage and lose either the ability to make an off hand attack or the benefit of a shield. Either is much more effective than one measly point of damage, a -4 to initiative makes two h...

Part of the point of my No Skills thread is involved here. I'd prefer the class die solution and get rid of the table if possible. Thieves should just be good at ability checks involving actions conducive to crime. PERIOD. The Judge then can determine if sneaking past a guard or making a disguise o...

3d6 roll in order sounds good to me to start. I think it will be great fun with the character funnel. I want to play test DCC before considering any different generation method, and I haven't had a chance to run it yet. I think the players will accept it if they are running 0-level peons, and take i...

I also like tovokas 's idea and reasoning. I think luck is well done in the number of things it modifes, from corruption to crits. Why not let the Birth Augur just be a small bit of luck or skill for the character, and then not have to fuss with it thereafter. Halflings and Thieves especially will b...

I'm in favour of getting rid of spell level Remember that spell level does serve a purpose -- it puts spells into piles so that young wizards can't try the hardest spells right away. Magic Missile is cool, but it loses some of the pizzazz once you can cast Fireball. Without spell levels, wizards co...

Why not scrap the -4 penalty altogether, for 0-levels and for classed characters? Just have untrained weapons do a reduced damage die and use a worse crit table. That way if anybody wants to hit someone over the head with a chair or fence with a fireplace poker or try to backstab the king in the gar...

Mighty Deeds of Arms.

Lucky thieves.

The art.

Did I mention Mighty Deeds of Arms?

I think it comes down to what TPTB want "level" to mean. I'd personally prefer it to mean that a fourth level thief works well with a fourth level wizard that works well with a warrior that works well with a fourth level cleric; and that when I pick up a module that is for fourth level cha...

Add another vote to losing the % based skill rolls. And I also was wondering why so many thief skills? It seems that thieves don't get to pick them, the chance is assigned by alignment, and hide and move silently are either the same, or 5% different, and the same goes for finding traps and disabling...

I have to say I am impressed. Many of my concerns have fallen by the wayside. There are still some rough edges and things I'll never get one of my friends to accept. Oh yeah, many of my concerns have abated, particularly my concern that this game would be Dungeon Charts Consulting. The number of ch...

I was also downloading at 6:30 a.m. EST, and did a quick runthrough. Now I've got to go back and read more carefully...

Just so everyone knows, Gamestation.net has "Zocchi Pack" inked dice sets available. They're collections of D3's, D5's, D14's, D16's and D24's. You still need to get the D7's and D30's separately, but there you go. They might have always had these, but I just found them a little while ago...

Wowza! Two weeks before free RPG day! That's totally unexpected. And completely awesome.

Are you sure none of these are very powerful? Yes, but only in a limited sphere- in combat -compare this to wizards being able to invoke patrons - and at higher levels -launch magic missiles through a crystal ball, and I think there needs to be that probability of warrior's (as level increases) pul...

Once upon a time-- long, long ago-- I was dming a game where the players tracked some hobgoblin raiders to their camp. It was a tough fight, but the party had a mondo fighter who could absorb damage and dish it out, and he could hit the hobgoblins on a 9 or higher. He hit the first round, wounding o...

I do wish there was a "scale" for the effect of an MDoA, though. With sample ideas of what type of roll could get what type of result. Something like.... 3: Stop an opponent from disengaging in combat, give an opponent -1 to their next attack, disengage from opponent and move 10' 5: Trip ...

Check out the date on the rock - bottom left - hah! :D :lol: I was wondering why Hugh was wearing bellbottom trousers, then it sank in that it was an homage to the '70s, but I totally missed seeing the date. '79 might explain the gal, too, if she's our segue into the 80s, what with the leotard-and-...

Apologies lately for the "radio silence" lately but there has been a lot to get done. The good news is that it is getting done! The first draft of the beta rules layout is in the hands of proofreaders. On track to release at least a week before Free RPG Day, maybe more. When I saw your na...

Now with the release of the DCC RPG I have the opportunity and excuse to pick up what promises to be my kind of game, great old school feel with original mechanics. My group may not make the jump this time either but honestly if all I get to do is read some good product I'll settle for that. Yay Go...

When I saw a picture of the die online I could see the R and P, but not the S, and was wondering what they stood for. Red? Purple? Rock, Paper, Scissors makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! I don't think I would have figured it out even seeing the S. I would have been thinking, what the heck col...

Great map by Doug Kovacs. Art and style and function all rolled into one.

I can see giving the players a map. A partial map. An ancient, outdated map. The fun for everyone would be discovering what has changed over the centuries and the things that never made it on the map in the first place.

Infravision - looking forward to all the old arguments we had back in the 80s with this. I remember those well; everything from hide in shadows should be worthless to recent footprints should be visible. :roll: I just ruled in my campaign that infravision didn't exist; instead some characters got D...

In DCC RPG, the stat blocks are usually 2-3 lines long and there aren't that many of them; Excellent. Makes me want to check out DCC modules for this reason alone. Those 3e and 4e wall-o-text stat blocks are so offputting, I don't think I own any modules at all based on those systems. I loved how e...