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Well, I think you've made the right call for TATG. If it's a game *about* magic and wizards, then there could very logically be 'ranks' among wizards. If it's a game that thematically 'includes' magic and the supernatural, but where a 'wizard' is set differently in the landscape, the specifics of t...

In TATG, the spells have set DCs for the saves. With a crit on the spellcheck adding +5 to that number. The spells aren't out until the third book. But when it's available, you'll have some alternatives to work with. Hmmm. Makes me wonder about fixed number + caster level for a save... Depends on i...

I acknowledge that this helps not at all. But this is an issue I encountered a long while back when my group was just getting going with DCCRPG. In TATG, the spells have set DCs for the saves. With a crit on the spellcheck adding +5 to that number. The spells aren't out until the third book. But whe...

My group hasn't used the "Recovering the Body" rules in a long time. But when we did, we allowed for Luck to be spent on the roll and adjusted Luck after the roll. So there wasn't a zero-sum effect. It worked fine. At NTRPG, Michael Curtis didn't allow Luck to be spent on Recovering the Bo...

The update that's promising but not incredibly substantial has been posted at the blog.

http://landofphantoms.blogspot.com/2013/08/update-so-proof-reading-takes-forever.html

I'll be seeing some of you at GenCon. Stop by the Goodman Games booth to track me down.

What?! A free version of TATG?!

All will be revealed over at the blog:

http://landofphantoms.blogspot.com/2013 ... g.html?m=1

Double post. My bad.

Hoplitenomad wrote:There was an update to " Winter Home" on 7-29-13. It was listed on the blog but not here.

That's true. My bad on that. I cleaned up a couple of things that came up in playtests and added a male Valiant and female Hunter to the pre-gens.

One of the things I want do this year is PLAY in as many DCC games as I can. I work at the True Dungeon all day Fri and Sat but will be free in the evenings from about 5:30 until 3:00AM. I judge my home game and have only been a player twice. Smathis I really want to try TA and plan to stop by the ...

Will anyone out there be running any open DCC RPG events at Gen Con? I registered a bit late - and found to my chagrin every DCC RPG event is sold out. I recently bought the game, and want to play in as many events as possible. Thanks! I'm going to be at GenCon on Friday and Saturday. I should be a...

Well, the manuscript is finished and I've handed in a copy to Goodman Games for review. We'll see what happens, in the interim, I've got most of the art blocks set up to turn the artists loose on the project. While I was waiting for editors and readers to report back I needed something to do, so am...

GnomeBoy wrote:...because it's just an insanely good idea.

Thanks, GB!

Some good news over at the blog.

Summary: Draft is done. Proofreading now...

The classes in Transylvanian Adventures can be "multi-classed" up to a point. There are a couple of things that probably shouldn't be shared between classes. Those will be developed in more detail in the second book. But there are very pared down "multi-classing" rules in the fir...

And another new post up on the blog: Mad, Mad Libs.

This one describes the random character "background" generator and what a finished character would look (or read) like in TATG.

It's been a fairly popular addition to the Character Creation chapter.

GnomeBoy wrote: Damn. The d5 is the larger of the two...

*readies the bactine; makes 'bracing' face*

Don't worry too much. Ask Doug and Harley. I roll TERRIBLY.

Like epically... horribly... might be good if we were playing a tabletop golf-game bad...

New blogpost up on the blog: Land of Phantoms: Tales From the Tomb

Skyscraper wrote:

GnomeBoy wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:You forgot the FORT save modification also

Oily carp! You're right -- now I see why it's too much trouble...

*ducks thrown game books, bottles of mountain dew, and a shoe*

I throw a d16 at you!

Nah. I use the d16. I throw a d5.

I can never get those to roll right.

*SPOILERS, POTENTIAL PLAYERS DON'T READ* Just finished reading the adventure this morning and I love it! Not too sure on the lethality of camping outside, though - seems a bit . . . sudden. I think if I ran it I would give the PCs a lot of hints throughout the night - "you're getting cold, dan...

Omigosh, you made the "cooler version" pregens even cooler by giving them actual descriptions! You are awesome! Would it be greedy to ask for a female version of the Hunter and a male version of the Valiant in the next update? Not greedy at all. I'll see what I can do. And re: those descr...

The Winter Home is back online at: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/115605/Transylvanian-Adventures-The-Winter-Home?term=transylvanian+ad . In addition, Alex Lucard has posted a review of The Winter Home over on http://diehardgamefan.com/2013/07/01/tabletop-review-transylvanian-adventures-the-winter-ho...

I have the players adjust their Maximum HP, not necessarily their current HP. Current HP only drops after Stamina loss if it exceeds Max HP. Makes sense to me and I haven't had a problem with it. Been doing it that way for a long while, even back when Stamina was called Constitution.

It will be back soon. I updated The Winter Home tonight and RPGNow/DriveThruRPG promptly spell-mishapped all over it. Currently, The Winter Home is "inactive". Why? I don't know. I was just uploading the new PDF with the updated pre-gens. I guess this is a great trial run for the first boo...

He's been killed in combat a couple times, but death in combat only seems to be a minor inconvenience: one of the clerics inevitably heals any fallen character within the 1 round / level limit, and the "Restore Vitality" spell removes any of the permanent damage. I am planning on addressi...

Double post?

Wow! Thanks a lot. I got the revised characters. This is exactly what I was hoping for. I am going to ask the group to drop everything and play this. :) Kevin Cool. I hope your group has fun. For everyone else, the updated pregens will be available when the PDF goes through its next round of edits....