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43350
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...
symphony88ing
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Dec 1, 2008
10:21 pm
43351
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...
Todd
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Dec 2, 2008
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43352
... 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,...
symphony88ing
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Dec 3, 2008
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43353
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...
Todd
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Dec 6, 2008
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43354
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...
Frank Sronce
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Dec 7, 2008
6:55 pm
43355
... "Temper"? ... "Magnetism"? Though this might be confused with the literal meaining. "Turning"? As in "turn-on" and "turn-off". Torben...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
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Dec 8, 2008
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43356
... What about "Compulsion?...
Tim K.
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Dec 8, 2008
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43357
Was working on ideas on how to do something like Earthdawn magic but in D20 or others? Or how to do things like computer programs? Mike...
Abrigon Gusiq
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Dec 8, 2008
7:49 pm
43358
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...
etheruk1
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Dec 8, 2008
7:50 pm
43359
... I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure what your question is. Todd...
Todd
thirdkingdom
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Dec 8, 2008
10:45 pm
43360
Incitation and Suppression -Symphony ... which can...
symphony88ing
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Dec 8, 2008
10:51 pm
43361
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...
Brian Gross
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Dec 9, 2008
4:11 am
43362
... Unless there is a good reason for splitting them up, you might want to consider sticking with the original six categories. Just a thought. Todd...
Todd
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Dec 9, 2008
11:08 am
43363
... Sway? ... Best regards, Daniel Yokomizo...
Daniel Yokomizo
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Dec 9, 2008
4:26 pm
43364
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...
Abrigon Gusiq
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Dec 9, 2008
4:27 pm
43365
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...
Frank Sronce
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Dec 11, 2008
2:18 am
43366
How about Temperance for the sleep/calm // anger rage ones, and Presence for the emotional drawing/repelling spells? ... requires ... can...
Rick
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Dec 17, 2008
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43367
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/ A very good source of wargaming, historical and even alternate reality RPG/wargaming/fiction ideas? More cause of the...
Abrigon Gusiq
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Dec 31, 2008
8:13 pm
43368
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...
Todd
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Jan 13, 2009
2:33 am
43369
... 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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
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Jan 13, 2009
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43370
... 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...
Peter Knutsen
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Jan 13, 2009
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43371
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,...
Todd
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Jan 13, 2009
1:51 pm
43372
... 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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
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Jan 13, 2009
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43373
... 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...
Daniel Yokomizo
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Jan 13, 2009
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43374
... 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...
Peter Knutsen
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Jan 13, 2009
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43375
... 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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
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Jan 14, 2009
8:29 am
43376
... 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...
Peter Knutsen
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Jan 14, 2009
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43377
... 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...
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
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Jan 14, 2009
10:14 am
43378
... 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...
Mauro
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Jan 14, 2009
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43379
... 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...
David Allan Finch
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