Goodman Games

It's been mentioned before, but I really feel like it's worth reiterating that Jabberwoky Media's "failed Kickstarter" didn't fail in the sense that they took people's money and then failed to deliver the products. It failed to fund . That's a totally different animal. No one was out any m...

Awesome news, amigo! I'm looking forward to this for sure. Cheers, VP! I think this has a much better chance of getting funded than BoHM , seeing as it is much less of a niche game. But who knows, if it does well, maybe I can do a BoHM version of Void Hunters in the future... Fingers crossed for su...

Awesome news, amigo! I'm looking forward to this for sure.

Clangador wrote:Are wizards too powerful to be allowed in "the known worlds?" Must this threat be dealt with post haste? Is it already too late? Do wizards already secretly rule the world(s)?

Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes.

I decided to consider the "lucky roll" more as an astrological thing. I actually wrote up a replacement table where each result - though mechanically the same - referenced a constellation or other celestial event (comet, eclipse, etc.) for each listing. Positive and negative Luck mods mean...

I like your approach, maxinstuff. I think that generally solves the problem. Which, as you note, won't likely show up in play for a very long time (if ever).

Forgive me if this has come up before (I didn't see it in a quick read of the errata thread), but I just noticed something that seems to be an error. The text of the rules says the following: In general, your spell succeeds if your spell check is equal to or higher than a base DC of 10 + (2x spell l...

With regard to the super powerful staff, you might want to take a look at the section called "Ire of the Gods" on p. 365. It suggests that characters who wield magic items of a certain power level ("+2 enchantment or better" and "any extremely powerful staff" are specif...

I'll say it once again... the spine of the Easley cover printing is just plain awesome. Keep on taking my money, Mr. Goodman.

Very nice! I especially like the spine of the latest hardcover. Looking forward to seeing these in person come June.

I just remembered the other thing I was going to say... If a player is profoundly unhappy with the results of his or her Mercurial Magic roll and they want to change it, that's a great place for the "Let them quest for it!" spirit embodied in the rules to be applied. That might be obvious,...

I'm in the "always use mercurial magic" camp. It's one of the tasty things that makes DCC DCC for me. Then again, I haven't played a huge amount and the one wizard in the game I'm running didn't wind up with anything too debilitating, so that could be part of it. Though, to be fair, that p...

One of the selling points of DCC for me is the lack of continual "core" releases. I'm happy to support the line with core book (print & pdf) and module purchases (and one of these days there's going to be another special edition cover that's going to yank my wallet out of my pocket and...

JahgDaglet wrote:I would pay $250 for a copy of the gold foil core book... someone, please? anyone?

Your wish is my command...

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E for me. F or H are close, and both were favored by my wife, so that's something.

Gizrond wrote:A game publisher that is more concerned with quality than quantity?

You guys are really taking that whole 1970s thing literally, aren't you?

How very Chaosium/GDW of them

What you have described above, phloog, is precisely how I interpret and implement the Luck rules. And even if we hear differently it's probably how I'll continue to run them. Though I do understand your desire to get an official answer.

My group did the "hide under the statue" bit and, after a stretch of trying to figure out how to disable the rotation ability, I let them gum up the works (assuming a hairline fissue between the statue and the floor) by tearing sheets out of the "black grimoire" of a character wh...

I'm very early in my campaign, but the rough idea for me is to use homebrewed adventures as bridges between the published modules I'm interested in running. So I started with Portal Under the Stars and now we're in something of my own design as the players are making their way to Hirot for Doom of t...

I think of Luck points gained above the starting Luck value the same way I think of temporary hit points. Those points sit there until they're used, but they can't be healed. It's just that in this case no one except thieves and halflings heal at all. And bonus hp *can* take your total above its sta...

Personally, I prefer not to play with minis, but the crowd I run with likes to have 'em on the table. So in the two games I've run so far we have done the battlemap & minis thang. The first time around we used lego minifigs and for the second session we used the classic old Steve Jackson Games C...

I'm another in the "lucky to have a great mom" camp. She bought me the Moldvay basic set and sat through a couple of my first fumbling attempts to DM. She was also very supportive of my entire gaming youth, allowing me to have folks over fairly regularly (or ferrying me to whatever other f...

I'm going to have the "dryad" be a magical carnivorous tree that dangles a shapely figure of a maiden in front of them and tries to entice them close enough to be grabbed, hauled up into the center of the tree, where it drops them into a venus-fly-trap-like maw that slowly digests them. T...

Just a quick note to say that I'm still not sure how I'm going to proceed, but if my players do wind up facing the Dryad I'm planning on using Ssisssuraaaaggg from PUtS as a baseline for the stats for the "tree demon" style Dryad. A few mods here (perhaps some additional attacks that do a ...

Oh wow. I don't think I've ever played with one initiative per combat ever. Well, maybe in RuneQuest where strike ranks hard code things a bit. But never in a system with any kind of variable initiative. I'm far too fond of the chaos of battle and the turning of tides. Though I did notice a critical...