tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post711453162443908054..comments2024-01-14T05:19:08.074-06:00Comments on Troll and Flame: DCC RPG Opinions Part 3 (Holy Edition)Norman J. Harman Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-35322039798840408932012-09-06T18:39:45.624-05:002012-09-06T18:39:45.624-05:00Did you ever find out how Cleric spells are determ...Did you ever find out how Cleric spells are determined? I just stumbled over this little hole last night while trying to deck out our first Cleric. Seems like that could be covered in the errata. My first interpretation after finding no list of Cleric spells anywhere and seeing the low number of spells, was that they just get to choose the number of spells known from the entire list every morning.Karkeq Yafkebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217640093410269302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-36678958224849851132012-06-06T12:10:43.353-05:002012-06-06T12:10:43.353-05:00@Norman Harman
That's cool; I can certainly ap...@Norman Harman<br />That's cool; I can certainly appreciate the cool flavor of the DCC cleric, and I do think that switching to an unpredictable resource pool for spells and healing at least mitigates the walking medkit problem, even though it may not solve it.Joshua L. Lylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03358762663581842879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-68912163484713280132012-06-05T11:45:37.061-05:002012-06-05T11:45:37.061-05:00@Banesfinger
No, there are "systems" (a...@Banesfinger<br /><br />No, there are "systems" (and flavor) that make it explicit (and expected by player) that if they don't toe the line (whatever that line maybe). <br /><br />I feel, as DM, I can and should be able to decide what types of actions are bad. That's the sort of rules heft I dislike. [it will never cover all situations, it requires a look up, it's easy (for me) to adjudicate on the fly and the type of thing I enjoy being a DM]<br /><br />@joshua<br /><br />yeah, I see that. It's a gradient of risk, not a finite resource. There's a huge difference between saying "don't cast your last spell cause you'll need it to heal" vs "don't cast cause it might (fatigue is only incurred on spell cast failure) decrease you're likely hood of healing by 5%." <br /><br />Healing is no longer "free" for cleric. It incurs risk (at least 5%) of divine disapproval. (Divine) healing will applied judiciously, tactically. Or, cleric will find themselves to be in the holy "penalty box" far too often.<br /><br />Also, if non-cleric player wants healing bad enough they can always pay for sacrifice (which reduces fatigue).<br /><br />Finally, the amount healing is scaled based on alignment differences. Providing justification in and out of character for cleric to save magic (healing or otherwise) for the faithful.Norman J. Harman Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-57572185322206904272012-06-05T09:52:00.885-05:002012-06-05T09:52:00.885-05:00Actually, that lay-on-hands ability seems to have ...Actually, that lay-on-hands ability seems to have the same paradox as "spontaneous casting" in Type III: since it's tied to the same scarce resource pool as spell casting, it doesn't matter that the character can have a bunch of spells, as he rest of the party will grumble if that resource isn't devoted to healing. The real kicker is that Type I/Type II clerics could get away with a few non-healing spells and then get to use them, but now everyone knows that every cleric spell is an expenditure of a potential heal, so Type III/DCC clerics are under even more pressure to be walking medkits. In order to patch this the limit needs to be moved to the character receiving the healing (as in Stars Beyond Number and Type IV) or in a seperate resource pool (as with the Paladin's lay on hands ability in most versions of D&D).Joshua L. Lylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03358762663581842879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-22315702304795378982012-05-31T09:54:21.141-05:002012-05-31T09:54:21.141-05:00Divine Disapproval:
Are there rules for actions th...Divine Disapproval:<br />Are there rules for actions that a specific deity would disapprove of? <br />For example, a god of merchants would disapprove of charity, a god of love would disapprove of hate crimes, etc.Banesfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938723674120202818noreply@blogger.com