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I just wanted to say that Chaosium apparently have Classic Fantasy in stock again. I just recieved an email that my order shipped! :-)

Ok, so I've studied the rules a bit more, sorry for my confused posts earlier. But, if I'm reading the control spell rules correctly a successful idea roll will only leave the subject "standing around idly", still an easy target? The dragon would need to achieve a special or critical success on it's easy idea roll to break free from the spell. This would require rolling below 20 on a D100, since the modified idea roll is 100%, correct? A one in five chance of success, while the wizard has a 2/5 chance to roll his POW vs. POW. Maybe I'm still confused, but that's how I interpret the spell. If that's the case I would houserule out the need for a special or critical success and just let the subject make another POW vs. POW to break free or something I think.

Ok I get it. Still, allowing the subject to collapse will only grant a CON x 1 on a D100 each combat round after the round of collapse. Perhaps that's a bit unbalanced anyway? EDIT: Hmm, and a special is still only 20% chance for a 20 POW dragon, right? That would allow for at least 6 rounds of hacking on average if I'm thinking straight. EDIT 2: Or, does the easy modifier bring that up to 40%? If that's the case I think that might be quite fair.

Hi, I'm reading through the magic section a bit more carefully and the control spell says nothing about attacking controlled creatures. Am I off point thinking that an attack should allow some kind of "save" for the target, perhaps an unmodified or difficult Idea roll? Otherwise it would be no problem for a group of characters with a high-POW wizard to hack away at fairly powerful creatures for 10 combat rounds, probably an easy kill. Thinking about Giants (POW 11-13), Dragons (POW 20 - still a 40% chance to control for a 18 POW wizard), Greater Deamon (POW 16-17), etc. I may be totally off base, haven't actually played the game yet...

Hi all, I'm reexperiencing part of my youth by reading through some of the d100-systems. I Started out roleplaying with the swedish 1st edition "magic world" translation Drakar och Demoner, and I find the BRP-system really intuitive for the most part. I'm wondering if there's any way to get hold of an actual physical copy of Classic Fantasy? I tried ordering from Chaosium, but that site seems error-prone, and I've not heard back from them in over a week. Any european shops that carry this product that ships internationally? Thanks.