DCC/Clarifications

Keeping track of Score changes

 * This is a clarification, not a rule change.

Characters have two values for each ability score.


 * Your permanent or maximum score. Despite the name, this *can* change, but only in rare and exceptional cases. The minimum permanent score is 3 and the maximum permanent score is 18. If you would gain points above 18, they manifest as temporary points. In other words, your current score can be 19 or higher even though your permanent score is only 18. While your modifier goes no higher than +3, this is useful since you keep that +3 even if you lose a point or two. Such a current score lasts as long as it lasts.
 * Your temporary or current score. When you burn ability points or take ability damage, your current score sinks below your maximum score. When you reach 0, bad things happen (see Ability Loss, page 96). When you heal back up, you regain ability points up to your maximum but no higher.

Exception: Luck

 * For most classes, you only have the one Luck score. When you burn Luck points, your score is lowered. In the rare case the Judge rewards you Luck points, your score is increased. You do not keep track of a temporary score since there is no Luck healing.
 * Thieves and Raiders do track maximum and current Luck just like for the other scores, since they do heal Luck damage and burned Luck points. If the Judge rewards you Luck points and this would take you over your permanent maximum, not only do these points manifest as temporary points above your maximum, your maximum does increase by 1 (up to 18).
 * Example: Ella the Thief is at 12 out of 13 Luck points when the Judge awards her three Luck points. Since this brings her current total above her maximum, her maximum is increased one step. So now her current score is 12+3=15 and her maximum score is 13+1=14. Her current score is temporarily above her new maximum.

Luck and the Spell Check

 * This is a clarification, not a rule change.

Page 106 of the rulebook is clumsily written. When it talks about the "Luck modifier" it meant to discuss the possible modifier from a Birth Augur.

Spellcasters do not generally get to add their Luck modifier to spell checks.

There are exceptions; like how the Cultist gets to add it to a single spell, and the Shaman adding it to Turn Unholy checks.

Spellburn
The following summarizes rules changes and additions to Spellburn:
 * Spellburn is imprecise.
 * Cultists need to sacrifice in order to regain spellburned ability points.

The following is subject to change as I understand more of what Goodman Games intend the DCC ruleset to say.

The following summarizes rules clarifications. These points are not intended as rule changes:
 * You can sacrifice points from one, two, or all three physical ability Scores if you wish.
 * You don't gain a bonus for points you don't have. If the dice indicates you lose 10 points of Strength, but your current score is only 8, you lose those eight points (putting you at zero) and gain +8 to your Spell Check (not +10).
 * The option to sacrifice 20 points in order to gain an automatic critical is separate from the normal benefit of Spellburn. That is, you do not gain +20 on the Spell Check.
 * The maximum amount of spellburn for a given casting is 20 points. This means you cannot combine regular Spellburn with the option to gain an automatic critical.
 * You normally heal one point of ability damage per ability score each day. Spellburn, however, is restored at the rate of 1 point per day in total. You do get to choose which ability score to heal back up.
 * You do not regain ability damage on any day you have attempted Spellburn.

Second Sight
DCC Rulebook page 267:

Change result 14-17 as follows (changes in bold) and then apply the same changes to the subsequent results.

14-17: The cleric has a hint of possible outcomes. He must spend the following round concentrating on a choice that must be made in the next 30 minutes. For example, he may be deciding which direction to turn in a dungeon or whether to enter a room. There is a 75% chance the cleric gets a sense of whether the action will be to his benefit or harm. '''Otherwise he gets a sense of uncertainty, and may spend the following round concentrating on another choice. The spell ends once he's been given a sense of either benefit or harm. Re-trying the same or an identical choice always gives the same result.'''