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I am not a fan of adjusting the abilities as you level up. DCC RPG does not really scale well to continual increasing of ability scores. It is optimally designed for one or two +1/-1 and the rest midline. If we start to raise ability scores, you will start to add power creep to the game... And you k...

I like the MDoA premise, but how do we handle mighty deeds that don't require an attack roll? Like Fafhrds' rocket assisted leap over Trollstep canyon. Whats the AC of a crazy-a$$ stunt, or is stuff like that not considered mighty and therefore covered by skill check DC 20+? IMHO - If it is not com...

One of my late suggestions to Joseph was the creation of multiple corruption tables. Type Minor Type Greater Type Major There was a long thought process involved on how it would work and I am not going to put it all in this post, but the basic thought was as follows: The first couple of corruptions ...

When we were doing our play tests (we were doing non-level zero play tests), we used the following mechanic to create characters: (4 - players party size of 8) 1. Roll three sets of stats in order and roll the profession. 2. Throw away the one you did not want and keep the other two. But this could ...

Very, very cool. Putting those weird dice to work. //H I would like to point out the downside to this discussion, but I would first like to say that I liked the idea and I did an analysis of this a while ago to see how it worked out. For combat: Criticals are determined by rolling a max on the die ...

Someone can correct me here if I am wrong, but DCC RPG has gone out of their way to eliminate the 'skill' portion of d20 SRD. People are trying to add back in skills to the game, but I believe that is not what Joseph (and company) are trying to do here. That being said, I do realize that some tactil...

But that is TOUGH feat to accomplish as the world is not a safe place and you need to use a little luck here and there to survive. I'm terribly sorry, but the "word police" has to arrest you for using THAT WORD on these boards. You need to take a "time out" for ten minutes. :P *...

My players want simplicity. They want to know without having to check a table that 3,000 is XP for 3rd level for everyone not 3rd for Warrior, 2nd for Wizards, and 4th for Rogues (examples not real). OK, I understand. They want to know the experience point thresholds in their heads without having t...

So make a party of all halflings and see if it is more powerful than a normal mixed party. This is a playtest. We did some limited tests and halflings are interesting in combat. They hit more often but do far less damage than a Warrior. Mainly because a warrior adds his MDoA die to the damage roll....

For all classes, you can recover Luck by performing deeds worthy of the cosmic powers. Gain the favor of a deity or demigod, and you'll be favored by chance: reflected in an improvement to Luck. Hmm, now that I think about it, I think this may be in the judge's rules that didn't make it into the be...

I get the fact that this is a throwback to the 1E days. Fine. I get that. I played that. I know it. One thing 3.x/D20 has done right is unify the Experience table so that all classes advance the same. One less table to memorize and less questions the players have to keep referencing "Do I get ...

That doesn't seem right. Using the D14 for your second action is supposed to be a penalty...you're rolling a D14 instead of a D20. Shouldn't that be reflected in the die you roll for spells? Like, it seems odd that one could have a penalty when rolling a certain spell (Mercurial Magic, you roll a D...

My last post didn't show up, so let's try this again. I like the %. Not married to the idea, though. My problem with a d20/DC thing, is the whole "moving the goal-post" thing. "No, I'm sorry, you're not really a high-level thief! This lock is DC 50! So there!" High level, badass...

You know I would never disagree with your. *grin* But... in DCC RPG (and other d20 OGL type games), the training, etc... come in additional HPs that the warrior has. The armor is a static number. Steel is Steel. Those are good points, Andy. This isn't a huge issue for me. But it's one of the few th...

Fighters get MdoA. Maybe Thieves should get an equivalent for non-fighting scenes? I don't know. As a player of rogues and thieves almost exclusively, I really can't agree more with this. Scratch the % dice and add a larcenous version of MdoA for them. I know I had some discussions with Joseph on a...

As an exercise I am going to re-design the table so that Luck really plays a role: if you ARE lucky, you will get a table entry with a LOW ODD, which gives an higher benefit w.r.t. someone LESS lucky than you which rolled an entry with an HIGH ODD. I realize it isn't "right". It doesn't h...

It's the top number of the dice type you're rolling (e.g. a 16 on a d16, a 14 on a d14, a 20 on a d20, etc) which means that crits are no longer exactly 5% all of the time. A little quirky, but it's not like it'll break the combat system. Especially since fumbles are on a natural 1, so if you have ...

I would think goblins would just run from a warrior with weapon and armor. If the warrior gets the jump on them, I'd think it would take five or more goblins to win. A warrior with scale and an AC of 14 means the goblins hit 25% of the time. Warrior hits goblins in leather about 50% of the time wit...

But someone with an 18 AGL doesn't represent someone who has been trained in the use of armor since birth. It just represents someone who's more naturally Agile than most everyone else. With the rules as written, I could have a Wizard with 18 AGL in Plate Mail. His AC would be 21. I could have a Fi...

Also, if the MDoA reqires a succesful hit in addition to rolling 3+, than even a 75 percent chanch at level 6 will still fail to activate about half the time. If you used precentile dice for both rolls, its like you have to roll 50 percent or less (on average for a fighter, im assuming), and than y...

I'm not in favor of messing with the MDoA die size, though, as that also affects the probability to hit for the Warrior class. Maybe I'm wrong but from what I've read the Action Dice is not the 'To Hit' dice. I thought that you roll a d20 and an Action Dice, one determining whether you hit, the oth...

Here is my take on treasure and RPing. This will consist of two separate parts, the fist section is what my personal preference will be. The second section will be what the various groups I have played with over time have said... My personal preferences: I love the Silver Standard... not Gold Standa...

some fighting, some thievery, some magic. Whereas I believe this is closer to Appendix N than the standard thief I don't like the idea of a jack-of-all-trades without a broad area of increasing expertise. Warriors get MDoAs and Wizards Spellburn, the Thief needs something as cool and useful. Someth...

I imagine that DCC's design team is only willing to stray so far from the classic system that inspired the game, and that is probably a shrewd move. I don't have a huge problem with the class' inclusion... this is, after all, a D&D-based RPG, and I've toyed with modifying or removing it from th...

What were the magic costs for Harold Shea and the Professor? What higher powers did they call on? None. Their magic was mathematically grounded. I'm not saying all Appendix N magic is the same. There's a trade off between the high fantasy of Appendix N and the sword & sorcery. For every Harold ...