... I don't think HarnMaster would be too bad for ME. It would need a new religion and magic system, though, and race descriptions for hobbits and orcs. The...
Well, I don't like the Middle-Earth campaign setting very much> I would rather stick with my world (My world describes a cult who took over the government and...
... There are orcs in Hârn - there's even a sourcebook ("Nasty, Brutish and Short"). ... I have been toying with ideas for an epic fantasy game that can...
Below are responses to what I've done with my Ea d20 (not the from scratch Ea RPGS)... ... No argument there,but I've avoided touching the combat system,...
... I get your point about a GM setting the feel and mood and play style through reward and punishment for behavior and the like. But I also get the point...
I liked the mechanics.. Anytime I start imagining making a character, you've done your job well :D Hawke, I keep hearing you talk about Ea, but I went to the...
... The Gargun are not really orcs, though they have some superficial resemblance. In NB&S, we find that Gargun lay eggs, for example. Torben [Non-text...
... Well, THAT's embarrasing. ;-) In moving to new servers and site software, I had setup in development mode and looks like I forgot to turn the account...
On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:51:11 +0200, Torben AEgidius Mogensen <torbenm@...> wrote: [...] ... "Burning Wheel" is pretty Middle-Earthish. It's ME with serial...
... Klaus has been borrowing my BW core books for some time now, and he has my permission to lend them to Torben, on my behalf, if he's done with them himself....
... Hmm. I was just reading a couple of reviews on RPG.net and wikipedia after you mentioned that. Sounds like it does give a lotof nods to it, especially in...
Torben, I'm evaluating a set of mechanics for a wargame that was submitted to me, and I need some data crunching to check the probabilities. Premise: Roll low...
Hit the enter key one too many times there. Anyway, what I'd like to see are the cumulative odds of getting a 25 or less with the range in dice running from...
... I wouldn't know how to use Troll on my system, even if I *did* have it installed... For a breakdown of roll quality, you'll have to wait for Torben, but I...
... I have included the standard Troll output below for each of these. It shows the probability of obtaining each result and the propability of obtaining at...
... When I started playing RPGs (D&D) oh so many moons ago (1978) it seemed to me that the great appeal of the game was two-fold. One was to explore another...
Well, my first and most favorite roleplaying character is a fugitive child who has psychic abilities and is being hunted down during a vicious civil war, but...
Guys, I am looking for someone who would be interested in doing a column/ blog on RPG books, games, creators and the industry itself. Would anyone be...
I'm unhappy about this, because I think that the Weapon Master, the one who has chosen to obsessively achieve mastery of a single archaic weapon, is a really...
Well, my sugestion would be:first, you would use that occupational character class only on a specific setting or campaign or take any modern special...
... So 20d6 is too much in your opinion for the Weapon Master Subtype. And 16d6 is too little. But then you mention later on that even 18d6 is too much. I...
Reading through all of this, I found myself wondering, "How do these things fit with the Modern Action genre?" Many of them, to my mind, simply don't. ...
... Yeah, I know it sounds kinda weird, but I'm trying to strike a very delicate balance here. There's also a purely practical concern of not making the...
Hi, I have made some additions to Troll, so if you use it you might want to download the new version. The main change is addition of recursive functions, which...
... [...] ... A few minutes ago, another "Terrain Ability" occured to me. The idea is that the character is so "in tune" with his Native Terrain than whenever...
I would add this information that I personally use in the R.P.G. that I'm creating. First, being an urban creature like I am I would suggest that anyone using...