My scanner plate is a little bit shorter than the page. Missing from the bottom of page one is "p39 badass pipesmokin' dwarf illo" and "'rare elven adventurers' my ass. 1 in 5 starting PCs!"
Also "Spell Duels - I heartily approve!" and "needs a rule 'fire cancels ice' and etc."
As I tweeted earlier, DCC rpg is looking a lot more like what I wanted to see out of HackMaster Basic.
Most entertaining write up thus far! Kudos to you sir!
ReplyDeleteExcellent notes and what an awesome way to do it. I need to fire up my scanner.
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Definitely going to read this thing in full this weekend. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteMan, I am tempted! I was sucked in by the good art, but you saying that it may do the Hackmaster thing with perhaps a bit less of the rigorous crunch makes me seriously consider running a mini-campaign of this bad boy. I don't think Goodman will ever achieve the awesome attitude levels of KenzerCo, though.
ReplyDeleteGreat Old Ones care not for insignificant human concepts like alignment. Your concept of chaos is not big enough for all of the incomprehensible inhumanity Cthulhu has got. ;)
ReplyDeletepretty cool.
ReplyDeleteElves only tune up on table 1-3: on a roll of 28-37. that's 10%, making them just as common as farmers, not twice as common. still a little strange but maybe only so many farmers dare the adventuring lifestyle.
As much of a wiener as I am about just sticking with the Holmes set these days, I am really into what I have seen so far.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that did annoy was part of the intro: "This game is for people that bow to the thrones of Gygax/Arneson/Bledsaw etc. If you don't know those names get the eff outta here!" Well, it wasn't exactly like that, but close enough. But, I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater, I think the actual rules part of this looks neato.
Im really groovin on the handwritten notes! Niiice!!
ReplyDeleteJJ: One page of hypermacho BS doesn't spoil an otherwise cool game, in my opinion.
ReplyDeletePlease post your notes on Goodman's site so they see them. Maybe some of the bad bits would get fixed before final release.
ReplyDeleteAgree . . .
ReplyDeletelove the hand written notes,
of concern
for a rules lite game
the introductory version
weighs in at 164 ppages . . .
JR, yeah, I agree just bothered me upon my first read. I think the wording on that section could be changed to a more positive effect...anyways, I'm going to quit my bitchin' and and get ready to run some 0 level PCs through my megadungeon next weekend.
ReplyDeleteJD: Thanks for the correction! Looks like I counted farmers as elves and as farmers. That was pretty dumb of me.
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