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Yeah I agree, it's not how I like to run higher level campaigns either. I would like to rework these spells so the AC bonuses weren't so high, but I think this would make my players sad. Things get grim really fast when the monster calibrated to take on the two AC 30 warriors each with a bonus 20 HP...

I like it! I would try it against the party as it is. If it's too easy for them to kill it you can always announce something like "the snyggdra flies into a rage!" and then bump its stats up on the fly. If you act out the rage a little bit the party won't know you didn't have it planned al...

I don't think my real world notions have much to do with it: I just don't find it very interesting to develop complex thoughts about alignment in fantasy games. The simple standard works well to explain alignment to my players and to keep the game rolling. My players don't seem saddened and this cer...

When I prep an adventure, I try to define a trap in such a way that if the thief (or any character) specifically looks for a certain thing, then the trap is found automatically, but I allow thieves to use their "find traps" score to do a generic sort of automatic search. (I always roll the...

I used to fashion campaigns that tried to tell epic stories, but I gave up on this years ago -- I guess I finally realized that players weren't really at the table to be a part of my cool story, and that the party, despite playing weekly, could barely remember even the basic elements of my cool stor...

There are spells in the DCC rules that give very large AC bonuses to characters. The party in my campaign typically has several enlarged characters with a +4 or +6 AC bonus and Protection from Evil which is effectively another +3 or +4 to AC against chaotic monsters and monsters with "clear har...

In January we introduced a druid into our campaign. We've been playing him like a cleric but have customized several spells. I've enclosed our version of "heat metal" below. (We've got a 1st level "Control Elements" spell, but I can't seem to find the text of that at the moment.)...

I introduced magic armor when the party defeated their first giant wyrm. I let the party blacksmith forge its metal plates into shields and scale mail that had reduced armor check penalties and gave the wearer 5 points of damage reduction against acid attacks.

Those are good. Thanks!

In our campaign I tell the players that law = pro-civilization, chaos = anti-civilization. This has worked out pretty well. The lawful gods and powers are bringers of culture, art, science, and the defenders of kings. The chaotic gods represent animal powers and primal urges. The neutral gods are fo...

We don't allow casters to dismiss their own spells. I find this makes the characters think twice about casting spells like "Enlarge." :) I generally rule that proper magic spells persist after the caster dies, but that many supernatural-type monstrous abilities are broken on the death of t...

We've been playing that characters can cast spells of any sort while engaged in melee with no penalty or other chance of failure -- this seems to be what the rules indicate. I've been thinking of allowing creatures to a get a free-whack at creatures casting spells in melee (with any damage counting ...

We have played DCC straight through to eighth level and I've run a session once every week for almost the last two years. I've been making little tweaks periodically to the rules to make the game more enjoyable for our group, and this MDoA tweak, as with most of our other tweaks, has grown organical...

Wizard's Turn: "The 15 trollish spearmen, 23 brownie slingers, 15 hob footmen, 12 pixie archers, and 4 fomorians that I summoned last round will act first and attack the dragon." <Rolls 69 separate attack and damage rolls, including three critical hit results.> "Now Notlob my focal fa...

Our house-rule is to roll the deed die with each attack and to give each attack its own opportunity for a MDoA. How is that working out, given that as you level up to get those additional attacks, you also get a bigger Deed die, and thus have a better chance of pulling off a Deed...? I think it's n...

Our house-rule is to roll the deed die with each attack and to give each attack its own opportunity for a MDoA.

I like it! A little side note: I've been running one DCC campaign for almost two years, and several other campaigns for a total of maybe six months. We've gone through maybe fifty characters. I've only had one halfling PC in all that time make it out of the funnels, and he died during his first sess...

New characters and replacement characters both enter the game at one level below the average level of the party. When this level became higher than second level, I let them start midway through the level in terms of XP. We recently -- after a particularly bloody combat -- added a house such that rul...

One thing that came up in a recent game is whether or not a cleric can heal the effect of petrification (basilisk, medusa, cockatrice, etc)? I ruled it required 4 dice of healing...how would others handle that? Since the only ways to reverse petrification given in the rules is a roll of 34-35 on th...

The mechanic we use is that anybody -- warrior or non-warrior -- can use an action to attempt to do something that would normally be about a 3 or 4 result on an MDoA. This is in lieu of an attack. Depending on the action attempted I make some judgment on the spot about what sort of die-roll is invol...

Those rules look good. My kids started their own campaign and didn't quite get the idea that race-is-class; when I asked them who was in their party they included a dwarven cleric and an elven thief. I'm not quite sure how they're handling the rules for this but it seems to be working out for them.

Nice. I might use these next session.

We've played with a house rule that allows wizards to swap-out spells by making a check and spending 1 day/spell level. The only spell for which I think this hasn't really worked is "Wizard Staff," but it actually doesn't come up very often -- usually the wizards pick the spells they like ...

Very nice. We've mostly been playing online (using MapTool) but I miss using minis and the white board.

This is interesting. We've been playing that attacking or casting a spell means that one cannot move afterward (though I've allowed MDoA's to allow 5' per MDoA-2 after an attack.) I'll have to think about allowing movement after actions if this is the way the rules are actually written. Since most o...