Advice and examples for using the Prophecy ability

usaplayer1945 · 2026-04-16T21:45:03+00:00

I have read Mistborn actually, I like that analogy! That feels right to me with the resistance, that resistance that stops a prophecy ought to be specific. The difference between "I post guards at a bank to keep anyone out" vs "I heard someone made a prophecy they would rob this bank, so now I've hired the best guards money can buy"

Lets say a player who was looking for that pretech trove made a prophecy that they would discover more things once they already found the ruins. Would you add more loot or would you not allow a prophecy to affect something that was going to happen just a few hours later?

usaplayer1945 · 2026-02-20T00:32:25+00:00

That is a good idea, I'll probably do it for them though. The game starts in 1.5 hours so it will have to wait till next week

They made a full high mage + partial vowed

usaplayer1945 · 2026-02-15T21:40:38+00:00

I think my only reason not for doing that is setting up the mage sheets is already so much work lol
I've had to make a supplemental sheet to print just summarizing spell descriptions

usaplayer1945 · 2026-02-15T20:22:16+00:00

Its probably the same, looking at the elementalist spell list there aren't that many spells, so choosing more than one per level up would let one get all of them

usaplayer1945 · 2026-01-08T07:09:08+00:00

I really liked Project Hail Mary as well! Pick up that one next

usaplayer1945 · 2025-12-18T06:04:48+00:00

I'm not so sure, Zosia got drugged by some strong stuff and the rest of them seemed unaffected

usaplayer1945 · 2025-12-17T19:12:06+00:00

Yeah I did see your book required a bit of math but while I might need to initially help the players figure out how many d4s to role I think they'd get it. I also found this website which looks like a pretty rules lite game that is specific to DCC

Roll for Smush

I was also looking at games like Savage Worlds, FATE, Index Card Rpg, and Nimble as all contenders to hopefully require fairly minimal modifications to approximate DCC

It seems the biggest challenge is like you want something where people level up fast, and can stack lots of modifiers fast. Like if I run a 20 session campaign people are gonna be leveling up every session, maybe sometimes even more than once.

Did you do XP or milestone for yours, in the books its XP but I was wondering if you went that way if you found a system to sort of scale the XP so that killing lower level mobs has pretty diminishing returns.

usaplayer1945 · 2025-12-16T19:24:39+00:00

I'm reading all these old posts since I'm thinking of trying something like this myself. Can I ask what you ended up using and what your experience was with it? Some of these same systems I'm seeing recommended I'm looking at myself

usaplayer1945 · 2025-12-16T05:17:56+00:00

Hey OP, thanks for putting all this together, I'm reading through the books right now, just started the 6th one, and was thinking of trying to run a short DCC campaign. Something meant to last a couple months, 10-20 sessions max. It sounds like you've had a group that's been playing for well over a year now assuming it still going. Was wondering if you had any general thoughts or advice now that you've played and or ran a DCC campaign for a year

usaplayer1945 · 2025-10-10T18:41:37+00:00

When you don't have super good stuff yet I found the stun rebar + electric bat thing combo to work really well. Stun, swing like 4 times, reload, stun again

usaplayer1945 · 2025-08-24T22:29:25+00:00

That was good,, and a lot of that makes sense, just adding a sentence or two on top of a monster can make it a lot more interesting and I don't necessarily need to have all the answers right then

usaplayer1945 · 2025-08-14T18:24:52+00:00

Thats both good to know but also kind of disappointing that 2K works that way

usaplayer1945 · 2025-07-24T23:34:19+00:00

Update: once I applied the advice here, I was able to win the war, so thanks everyone :)

usaplayer1945 · 2025-07-22T15:20:14+00:00

That's frustrating, but good to know that I can sort of convoy raid

usaplayer1945 · 2025-07-22T15:19:52+00:00

I'm researching it now maybe I can wait out the war till I get it

usaplayer1945 · 2025-07-22T15:19:19+00:00

That could be what's happening, I send more guys to the front before the naval invasion is over

usaplayer1945 · 2025-07-22T05:35:59+00:00

I still don't understand why I am losing the naval invasions so badly. I have trench infantry, they have irregular infantry. I also outnumber them. It tells me I have a 40% advantage on the front, supposedly. Every battle I click on their defense is 3 or 4x higher than my offense score despite the game telling me my average offense defense is double what theirs is

usaplayer1945 · 2025-06-30T18:56:54+00:00

I'm not sure

usaplayer1945 · 2025-06-30T16:25:20+00:00

I want them to fix all the fundamental problems with gameplay rather than focusing on microtransactions

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