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42439
... 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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
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May 1, 2007
8:24 am
42440
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...
goldvampirefire
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May 1, 2007
3:18 pm
42441
... 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...
"Klaus Æ. Mogensen"
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May 1, 2007
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that mechanic should already be in place its called a game master! ... From: Klaus Æ. Mogensen <klaudius@...> To: rpg-create@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Chris and Anne House
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May 2, 2007
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42443
... No it isn't. -- Peter Knutsen sagatafl.org...
Peter Knutsen
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May 2, 2007
2:22 am
42444
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,...
Hawke
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May 2, 2007
2:53 am
42445
... 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...
Hawke
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May 2, 2007
2:58 am
42446
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...
Sean Clark Hess
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May 2, 2007
3:45 am
42447
... 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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
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May 2, 2007
6:51 am
42448
... 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...
Hawke
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May 2, 2007
7:15 am
42449
... Ok, the older rough drafts are now on the site. Let me know if you have any other problems. Cheers! -- --Hawke _______________________ ...
Hawke
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May 2, 2007
7:57 am
42450
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...
Leszek Karlik
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May 2, 2007
10:15 am
42451
... 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....
Peter Knutsen
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May 2, 2007
10:47 am
42452
... 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...
Hawke
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May 2, 2007
11:50 pm
42453
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...
Ken Burnside
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May 11, 2007
8:59 pm
42454
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...
Ken Burnside
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May 11, 2007
9:03 pm
42455
... 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...
foxiekins
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May 13, 2007
10:56 pm
42456
... 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...
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torbenm1
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May 15, 2007
8:00 am
42457
... 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...
vbwyrde
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May 15, 2007
11:35 am
42458
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...
goldvampirefire
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May 15, 2007
3:49 pm
42459
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...
dan_lee30269
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May 16, 2007
1:23 pm
42460
Well, I'm an avid consumer of R.P.G. games but I know very little about the industry itself. But I would like to participate....
goldvampirefire
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May 17, 2007
1:23 am
42461
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...
Peter Knutsen
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May 19, 2007
3:54 pm
42462
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...
goldvampirefire
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May 20, 2007
1:51 am
42463
... 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...
Clay Dreslough
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May 20, 2007
4:07 pm
42464
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. ...
Travis Casey
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May 20, 2007
4:51 pm
42465
... 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...
Peter Knutsen
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May 20, 2007
8:43 pm
42466
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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
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May 23, 2007
2:09 pm
42467
... [...] ... 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...
Peter Knutsen
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May 27, 2007
10:28 am
42468
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...
goldvampirefire
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