It's Christmas, spent some quality time with the family yesterday and today. We built a new kitchen cart for my oldest to keep all his cooking gear in, made a turkey, got a new laptop (using it now) oh and we started the War of the Witch Queens today!
Started with The Witch of Wydfield. Didn't get very far though, we just started with session 0.
We are going to use the Classic D&D B/X rules. I didn't pick a particular flavor yet but likely go with Old School Essentials. Right now since this is a DCC adventure for 0 level characters I had everyone roll up three characters. All very simple. I used the classic Basic rules and had everyone choose Cleric, Fighter, Magic-User, or Thief at 0 level. Once everyone hits 1st level, at 500 xp, I am going to allow them to specialize into OSE Advanced Classes or even something from BX RPG or anything really. My goal is to say "yes" first and then direct them to something that works.
I had everyone roll 2d6+3 for stats. Yes that makes them all rather low on their abilities, but they are also just starting. I am going to either allow them all a 1d6 per ability when they get to level 1 or give them 5d6 number of points to distribute amongst all their abilities. This will in turn make their abilities a touch higher than average. I am ok with that. I am still playing around with ideas. I might even adopt some D&D 5 rules and let them add +1 to a stat every four levels or so.
Since they are super low level and below-average at this point I am saying they are all refugees from another village destroyed abut terrible weather. This is of course the first "attack" of the witches with the Witch Queen now dead. No queen so the more evil elements of the witchcraft world are running free.
This is going to be one of those only every so often games. I am not 100% convinced everyone likes the old rules or are they just humoring me.
I hope to pick up the next session soon.
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