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40564
... Greetings...., Naz? This list is primarily devoted to pen and paper type game design so any discussion about programming would be off-topic. But if you...
JAPartridge
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May 1, 2006
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40565
It's your world, manage the prices and expenses whatever you wish. But be reasonable. If in your world, gold coin is an easy-to-obtain thing, mean, there is...
OzanToptaž
occultsearcher
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May 4, 2006
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40566
... Easiest thing I have found to regarding prices is to just base the game prices on real world current ones and read $ for Gold Piece. (My campaign is...
grim_well
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May 4, 2006
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40567
In costs, well, alot based on class of room.. A days wages basically for a low end room for a low end person. Also location, how often is the Inn used, cause...
Michael Adams
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May 4, 2006
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40568
At Swordpoint has several magical materials in it. One of them is called echo stone. Echo stone is a stone that absorbs emotions and then echoes them,...
Dave Harper
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May 4, 2006
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40569
... When the same question came up last year for At Swordpoint, I ended up using a system where there are still prices for things, but wealth levels let you...
David Harper
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May 7, 2006
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40570
... A few suggestions: Laying On of Hands: Many religions do something like this in which a priest or simply any faithful member lays their hands on a sick or ...
David Harper
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May 7, 2006
3:20 pm
40571
... It's a nifty idea, but I think it's a hard one to write rules for. Honestly, all I can think of is something like giving the Echo a rating... and then...
fsronce
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May 7, 2006
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40572
Hi all, I have a student who works on using run-time code generation for speeding up spreadsheet calculations, and he is in need of sample programs. I know...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
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May 8, 2006
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40573
... I can email you my "most recent" Sagatafl character creation spreadsheet. Problem is, it is at least a couple of years since I last worked on it. The...
Peter Knutsen (list)
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May 8, 2006
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40574
Hey Torben, A long time ago I uploaded a - what I thought - pretty decent probability calculation spreadsheet to this group, aptly named PROPABILITY.XLS...
Christian Loidl
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May 11, 2006
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40575
... Perhaps you're right - simple can be good, and I don't need complicated rules bogging down my system any more than they already are! The ideas above are...
David Harper
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May 11, 2006
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40576
... Thanks. I'll have him look at it. Torben...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
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May 11, 2006
7:23 am
40577
The Action Movie RPG already has 31 character subtypes. 5 Combat subtypes, 14 Skilled subtypes and 12 Special subtypes. Skilled divides into two or three...
Peter Knutsen (list)
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May 12, 2006
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40578
... [...] ... For this character type, I'd prefer to stick with motivation. I already have subskills for social interaction and tactics, so what's left, what ...
Peter Knutsen (list)
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May 12, 2006
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40579
... Explicitly supernatural, and also I can't see a way of doing this that won't turn into D&D-style instant healing. It could be a bonus to rolls to fight off...
Peter Knutsen (list)
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May 12, 2006
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40580
... Sure LooH can become instant healing but maybe it needs to be related to a specific skill -- like acupressure, so that the healing 'seems' miraculous but...
andrew_kennett@...
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May 15, 2006
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40581
Call it mixing aura, your life force intermingling with theirs and a transfer of power.. Mike Address changing to Abrigon@... or Abrigon@... ...
Michael Adams
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May 15, 2006
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40582
... Hash: SHA1 ... Well, if you look at Reiki as a model, you might get some good ideas. It has a limitation, most people who do Reiki get tired after a while,...
D. Moonfire
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May 15, 2006
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40583
"Kelly & the Flock" <SilverCrow@...>'s evil twin Skippy ... I remember playing 1st and 2nd edition AD&D, in which the cost of a meal at an inn was...
David Harper
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May 16, 2006
4:15 pm
40584
... Two words, Dave: percentile dice. ;-) (I figured the inevitable proof would be better coming from a friend.) -- Travis S. Casey...
Travis Casey
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May 16, 2006
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40585
... Heh, true that. Can't believe I missed that one...I even mentioned it later on. Dave (currently simplifying his skill system and cursing Word for not ...
David Harper
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May 17, 2006
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40586
... I was thinking about heredity briefly before I gave it up as too complicated, but I was thinking about a system for determining a child's nature given two...
David Harper
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May 17, 2006
2:27 am
40587
Hallo, OK, so I just changed my day job work and I have a lot more time to think without many distractions. Sheesh. Anyway, here's a thought on a die-rolling...
Larry D. Hols
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May 19, 2006
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40588
... Sounds fine to me. Pretty straightforward bell-curve system - sounds like you'd want to start difficulties at 12 and go up from there. One thing you need...
David Harper
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May 20, 2006
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40589
Hello to all integrants of this group! This is my first post here and I thought I would take the oportunity to greet all. However, this is not just a greeting...
kerangor
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May 20, 2006
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40590
So my first thought is: keep this simple--unless your group likes taking time out of play to calculate stuff on the fly. You might want to go with some...
Nickolas Miller
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May 20, 2006
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40591
I'm back working on Hyperborean Mice again. This time I'm thinking about the idea of saying that the magics worked by mice should be _small_ magics. So I'm...
fsronce
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May 21, 2006
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40592
Illusions like a boy mouse cross-dressing to mislead the cross-gender foe into think he is really a cute female. -w...
Chad Wilson
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May 21, 2006
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40593
... taking ... go with ... on from ... target (height, ... calculate ... the fly ... way out of ... Yes, keeping stuff simple is one of my weakest spots....
kerangor
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