Crown and Skull AMA

CROWN and SKULL is here! Q&A time!!
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[@Renigade16]

Timestamps. 4:03 Here we go 5:07 Shout Out to Kane (Paper Craft boi!) 7:04 Scratch Built Spells 15:05 Homage to 1st Ed Fantasy Hero (12min response: "That's my *Short* answer." Lol Love that.) 17:46 Lee: 👑 &💀 VS ICRPG 18:59 Brian: Intelligent ⚔️ 21:28 Skills and Equipment ARE HP 27:51 Loot HP - Repair

[@monkeymule1286]

Here's to the Age of Crown & Skull! Love how even after a 3 yr effort making a mighty tome, there's no preciousness, he gleefully throws it to the winds to be played and hacked by fools everywhere,

[@thundreturtle]

Well that is clearly Bakes Street sax solo :D

[@Dom2Wan]

Thought it sounded like Baker St too!

[@kelvinvalleyart]

Instantly recognised your 'Baker Street' (by Gerry Rafferty) scat during the intro. 🎷😁 For some reason I associate that and 'Wuthering Heights' (Kate Bush) with D&D because they were both huge in the UK charts at the time when I was first getting into the game. Also, the sax player had possibly THE best name for an NPC ever, 'Raphael Ravenscroft'! 🎵🧙🏻‍♂️⚔️🐲

[@PhilipDudley3]

Now we need community supplements that have pre-built spells and their point costs for easy to pick up!

[@jcraigwilliams70]

Looking forward to getting my copy (though I wish I'd ordered the gold...) The only thing I might choose to ignore in the game is the number of "casts" for spells. I never cared for Vancian magic, so having a limit on how often a spell can be cast isn't my preference. I always prefer to say that if you know a spell, you can cast it repeatedly.

[@jimmybrook7119]

Congratulations mate. Must feel good.

[@Batterydennis]

Just put my order in! Very excited to get the physical book. Congrats on another great game!

[@malchitos]

Those crazy peeps on KZbin on their TV… oh that’s me … well 50% of the time.

[@Tyrgoth99]

The most epic typo is on page 342. Check the skill roll section. 😂 Love the book.

[@w00kie92]

Oof 😂

[@Runehammer1]

yep! it’s glorious, and sadly fixed in the new run lol

[@timothytoddcook8794]

Hey man Timothy here Drummer for Weight Shift .. keep Killing Brother ...

[@PhilipDudley3]

I mean, I've waited 13 months for Knave 2e and a year for Shadowdark. 2 months isn't bad.

[@jcraigwilliams70]

A couple of quick questions from me that maybe someone could answer. 1. Backpacks. So... characters can carry 10 items, but if they have a backpack, they can carry 2 more. But the backpack itself is 1 item... That's a net gain of 1 item in a backpack. That seems like a tiny backpack, unless I am missing something. I was tempted to say it can carry more (maybe 5?) and that attrition affecting the backpack affects everything in it (to avoid the character getting several more "Hit Points" as it were) but realized that when an item is destroyed, the character could just drop it and remove something from the backpack, thus "healing" in a sense. But I do struggle with the idea of a pocket-sized backpack... The only thing I can think of is that a character is *required* to have a backpack, or be limited to what they are wearing and one or two more items. 2. Custom Spells. Duration (as a spell enhancement) can be increased from 1D6 to 1 full round. But while that will *generally* be a good thing, it seems like it would only have a maximum of 5 phases, whereas rolling could potentially give you 6... Am I misreading that, or is it simply a gamble? 3. A character has a Companion. In a deadly battle, they have their companion act several rounds in a row. The character can't act if the companion acts. So... we narrate that the character is just standing around watching his friends get slaughtered? 4. Why do spells have Casts? I get that it's a balancing thing, but a character who builds a great and powerful sword for himself doesn't have a daily limit of how many times he can swing it.... One of the things that drove me away from D&D was Vancian magic. I never cared for the "wizard knows a spell, wizard casts a spell, wizard no longer remembers how to cast the spell" approach. Casts make sense with the Linked to a Physical Object limitation, since that gives you a wand with a certain number of uses per day, for example, but I find it illogical for actual cast-by-the-character spells. I'm considering a 9- or 12- point effect like Unlimited Casts.

[@Runehammer1]

1: dont count the pack 2: yep. gamble. 3: yes 4: gear effects and spell effects are of a wildly different grade

[@jcraigwilliams70]

@@Runehammer1thanks for the response. I guess the only one that still seems odd is #3. But having the character AND companion both act might be a viable option for solo play.

[@HDMRice]

BARBARIAN BROTHERS! Yes please.

[@christopherhasty5493]

Super excited for you and Crown and Skull. I have been looking for a roll under system. Interested in the magic system. Love to see what you have done with it. Best wishes for your success.

[@Runehammer1]

thank you!

[@michaelmullenfiddler]

Ok. I've listened to a couple "walk through" style reviews of your new game here, C&S*. One of them seemed dubious about the system, and hesitant about describing how spells work. I suspect that guy comes from the realm of d20 writ large, where both classes and levels are such a big fixture, whether old school or 5e, etc. Anyway, I heard these descriptions and tgiught, "hmm, this sounds like it owes at least SOMEthing to the Hero System, specifically Fantasy Hero from years ago. Then you started describing it yourself and i quickly became certain. I ran a game using the Fantasy Hero system (I also ran a super level game in the full rule set). I think i started the game using a supplement that had come out previously, then switched to FH when ot came out. Anyway, i am very happy to hear someone mention FH, and to hear that you were influenced enough to base a system off of it. I am definitely going to have to pick C$S now. *Crown & Skull, of course. Not Chivalry & Sorcery. Lol

[@chron874]

I spent the last three days building a workable FoundryVTT system with the Sandbox builder. It isn't perfect yet, but enough for me to solo to explore the system even more. I was wondering: how many heropoints a party should be getting per session?

[@ZeroPhoenixTheLastBladeTheory]

That's the biggest John Cena I've ever seen

[@michaelmullenfiddler]

That's not LOTR, it's the Hobbit. But whatever, your point taken at any rate. One rule set to bring them all and bind them? Lol

[@TheDMGinfo]

3 years well worth it

[@ronsilva7394]

Great shipping , fast !

[@prcs420]

how much work do you think it would be to run crown and skull in a homebrew world, or converting the rules to a different genre? i love the north holds, but i love the rules even more! so was just wondering from your estimations how much effort it would be to run the game in a different setting

[@Runehammer1]

normal gm stuff!

[@ajbackfromthedead]

Looked through Star Point Asylum to run for my players, it looks dangerous as hell. Would it be game breaking to give my players a 3 points free for either Evade or Resist? It seems like both those skills are super important and they might not take it because of a weird concept they might have.

[@Runehammer1]

make it 9

[@pitelf3852]

would crown and skull be a whiskey or a rum ?

[@Runehammer1]

whisky

[@joshuaspaid6794]

QUESTION I'm considering playing Crown and Skull solo. Any thoughts on a GM emulator?

[@Runehammer1]

no idea

[@TheWoodlandFellowship]

I haven't tried mixing them yet myself, but I have found that the oracles in Ironsworn are very effective for gritty settings.

[@joshuaspaid6794]

@TheWoodlandFellowship Thanks, that's a great suggestion! The gent that makes The Badspot podcast uses Iron Sworn for some of his episodes.

[@JAH711]

Are the gold editions limited? Looking through your player guide and I’m excited to give it a whirl!

[@Runehammer1]

nope

[@calebdreams]

Skull!

[@richardfreivald5813]

Hi Hankerin, been playing a one-on-one game of C&S with my brother and we’ve had a ton of fun in the first two sessions. I keep getting tripped up by the “action economy” though. The way enemy phases and tactics are written it feels like most monsters do WAY more per turn than any player most of the time, given that the player only gets one action once per round while many monsters act twice or three times in a round and sometimes have multiple actions within those phases. There are extreme cases like the Ronin (acting a whopping nine times per round, most of that doing Brutal Atr.), but even a lone orc gets to act twice as often as a player does and it feels kind of weird. Especially since enemies are generally pretty deadly as is. Is there something I’m not getting about this action system? Is it just because I’m only running one hero? What have your group’s experiences been like?

[@Runehammer1]

correct. I find that a great many rpg's have trouble delivering any real challenge, especially to a group of 4 or 5. Solo or two-some, crown will be incredibly hard to survive without lots of special gear and magic. Feel free to homebrew a goblin with 5 hp, 0 def, 0 atk, phase 2, 1 tactic... a good baseline

[@richardfreivald5813]

Cool, good to know. Right now my homebrew consists of stripping the ATK, DEF, and Tactics stats, just leaving Phases and HP. I think this should make monsters less overwhelming while still keeping them scary (and also streamlines things significantly) but I need another session before I can really say if it works or not. Anyway, thanks man.

[@ernesto906]

Im a pdf guy, i bough an ipad as a glorified pdf reader, i can read with any level of elimination, hyperlinks work, i can search for a word, etc also with the cost of a physical book i can buy 2 or 3 pdfs for the same system.

[@beardyben7848]

Dang missed it

[@michaellegg1631]

Hey brother I've got icrpg, master icrpg, ezd6, shadowdark. Crown and skull sounds good except for auto hit. Don't like it. Maybe a alternate rule could be created

[@Runehammer1]

there is no auto hit. dan misspoke a bit, give the free pdf portion a look!

[@michaellegg1631]

There is no attack roll but rather a auto hit.

[@likeapro2051]

Dude, you’re joking… right? You went thru all this trouble to try and re-invent Hero System!? Jesus what a crap system, and by association - a colossal waste of your time.

[@Runehammer1]

not at all. but love the bones in fantasy hero 1e. give the text a read and tell me what ya think 😀