Comments on: DunDraCon 34: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG in development

By: misuba

misuba — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:13:56 +0000

That’s the question that most of the old-school renaissance doesn’t really have an answer for, yeah.

By: Bill S.

Bill S. — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:33:51 +0000

Why would I bother with this? I already have AD&D. It’s laughably easy to get, and cheaper than anything on the market, including PoD stuff.

Pass.

By: Mike Sugarbaker

Mike Sugarbaker — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:56:18 +0000

Chris Gonnerman said “By design, my friend.”

Yeah, but is that design? Isn’t it more like craft? (Both are worth doing, but it seems to me they’re pretty different.)

By: Chris Gonnerman

Chris Gonnerman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:19:46 +0000

Scott R. Krol said “A mechanic tweaked here or there, but overall if you’ve played one new-old system, you’ve played them all.”

By design, my friend. You can’t change much and still be old-school… C&C barely stays inside the lines as it is.

By: Scott R. Krol

Scott R. Krol — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:24:46 +0000

Years ago when I realized how much I hated 3.5 I wanted to move to a more old school system and was quite pleased when I found Castles and Crusades. At the time there really weren’t that many old school systems available and it was a nice change of pace.

Today though? Seems like you can’t roll a d20 without hitting an old school “classic” RPG. The market is far too saturated and what’s disappointing is that so many of these systems all seem the same. A mechanic tweaked here or there, but overall if you’ve played one new-old system, you’ve played them all.

Hopefully GMG will do something to distinguish their system. Overall I think they put out some good stuff, so maybe there’s hope it will be unique.

By: Norman Harman

Norman Harman — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:56:09 +0000

I guess Goodman reads Knockspell as well cause issue #1 had that exact same mechanic, 3 zero level characters per player. David Bowmen called them “thralls” rather than peasants.