Todd, I would be very interested if you could send me the spell weight tables you are using. I've struggled to create a magic system that deals well with the...
Symphony, I went ahead and transfered the most recent version of the Third Kingdom to the Third Kingdom folder in the Files section. You will find the...
... I ... it ... a ... that turning a person ... would also require ... I agree on the difficulties in changing a statue into a person! From my point of view,...
You have a way of converting plasm into physical ... At this point, no. Certain characters can draw on ambient plasm (as opposed to slowly regaining POW), and...
Thinking about splitting up my 6 magical arts into 12, but that requires me to invent new names for most of them. Any suggestions for magic which controls both...
Hi everyone My name is Michael Rees and I've been playign rpgs for nearly 20 years now. I'm also always writing up rpg systems. I'll be watching or reading...
Mike, Marvel RPG (or any other "4-color" superhero) system would help you keep the comic book flavor when playing this. If you wanted to run this in a very...
Not exactly a question, more like an expression of an idea I had been working on, on how to recreate Earthdawn like magic, with threads and such, in another...
Thanks for the suggestions, folks! And yeah, Todd, I keep going back and forth on whether or not they should be separated out. Eternal indecision. :-) I'm now...
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/ A very good source of wargaming, historical and even alternate reality RPG/wargaming/fiction ideas? More cause of the...
I'm getting close to wrapping up the platytest version of the Third Kingdom and want to get it printed through Lulu. I vaguely remember reading something on...
... This depends a lot on both the paper size and whether you use one-column or two-column text. Generally, the longer a text line is, the larger the font...
... Very long ago, I read in the manual to an Amiga DTP program, called Professional Page, that one should choose a combination of font size and column width...
So, Peter and Torben, what it sounds like you are saying is that I can use my printer to determine what Lulu's printed word would look like. In other words,...
... In terms of size, I haven't seen any difference between my laser printer and Lulu's print. However, the print seems slightly "thinner" at Lulu, so if you...
... In the "GenCon 08 Small Press Game Design & Publishing Crash Course" there was some talk about this (either on the Layout or Editing courses). You can...
... Actually there might be. When I convert an MS Word document to PDF format, it seems to me as if the document shrinks somewhat, for some very strange...
... If you upload your document as a PDF, I don't think so (at least, I haven't experienced any such). What happens when Word is converted to PDF is anyones...
... Yes, I use a 3rd-party programme called PDFCreator, as a "driver". ... That still doesn't explain why everything looks slightly "zoomed", with the margins...
... It could just be a bug in the converter. I was thinkig it might be caused by point-size differences (a PostScript point is 1/72", where a traditional...
... I'm using a different driver, called PrimoPDF at home, but it works on the same principle: it creates a virtual printer and prints the .doc to a PDF file...
... It is true that a point is not a point but in this case I don't think it matters as most systems use Adobe Points through out now (of course I suggest you...