<< This sounds interesting, but the hit locations table must be relatively small, since it means that you don't have the full range of percentage rolls for...
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Frank T. Sronce
fsronce@...
Feb 1, 1999 3:24 pm
... Hm, I rather like that. Reversing the numbers after you hit works well, because it makes the previously insignificant 1's place into the much more...
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Lucifael@xxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 3:42 pm
From the discussion as it has gone so far I can see that dice conventions are very much a targeted thing. On one end of the chart you have the Purists who ...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 4:08 pm
... I believe you're entirely wrong and missing the point. The difference isn't between whether one likes roleplaying or not. The difference is whether one...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface@xxxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 12:25 pm
Hallo, ... I worked for six months on a project for AH. I was working on a new version of Powers & Perils, an old game of theirs which had poor execution....
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Lucifael@xxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 4:33 pm
In a message dated 2/1/99 11:09:05 AM EST, hawthorn@... writes: << I think it's a great disservice to the entire roleplaying community and especially to...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 4:43 pm
... All I can suggest is, get out of your cave. If those are the only Rolemaster players you've met, shame on them for being bad examples, and shame on you...
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Lucifael@xxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 4:56 pm
... Rolemaster players you've met, shame on them for being bad examples, and shame on you for overgeneralizing from those bad examples, and double shame on you...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 5:06 pm
... You can't see anything positive in statements like this? ... Yet you can claim that there's positivity in something like this? ... Then *you* accuse *me*...
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Lucifael@xxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 5:12 pm
No acctually what i see is someone who has no legitimate ideas to add to the group. What I see is some one what can do nothing but accuse and rant. I am truly...
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Paul, Brett
Brett_Paul@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 5:14 pm
Please make sure that once a thread has degenerated into a flame war, something I think we can all recognize, that it is moved to private e-mail. Such e-mails...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 5:22 pm
... Then you're looking in the wrong place. If your idea of "legitimate ideas" is dissing half the roleplayers out there, I'm not too worried about whether...
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Paul, Brett
Brett_Paul@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 6:40 pm
Frequently, when telling someone what roleplaying is like, people use the phrase "it's like a board game without the board." Someone on this list recently...
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Stang, Mark
mstang@xxx.xxxxxxxx.x...
Feb 1, 1999 6:42 pm
Well, one idea might be to use the board to represent attributes or things that are highly fluid during play, such as: Hit points, or conversely damage taken ...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 6:48 pm
... On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:40:40 -0600 , "Paul, Brett" <Brett_Paul@...> ... Actually that could be an interesting idea for a way to track status in a combat...
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Lucifael@xxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 6:53 pm
I seem to remember in the distant vagueries of my mind something about a game that used a board to conduct combat on. You had certain places that your players...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 7:47 pm
... On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:06:28 GMT, hawthorn@... (Frank J. Perricone) ... This turns out to have been unavailable due to a typo, but it's there now. My...
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A Kohler
hawkwind@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 9:49 pm
... From: Paganini Nathan E Banks <paganini@...> To: rpg-create@onelist.com <rpg-create@onelist.com> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 8:55 PM ...
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BSHEFFER@xxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 9:47 pm
In a message dated 99-02-01 13:41:32 EST, you write: << I was wondering, what uses could there be for a game board in an RPG? >> Lots of times people don't...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 10:07 pm
... What I means is that under a roll under system you have a goal number that you must roll on percentile to hit the target. If you roll under you hit, if you...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 10:07 pm
... I'm not sure who this was in response to, but my system and world settings for it, can be found on my website (see URL below): Joe Fantasy Realms Journal...
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A Kohler
hawkwind@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 10:07 pm
... From: Paganini Nathan E Banks <paganini@...> To: rpg-create@onelist.com <rpg-create@onelist.com> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 9:18 PM ...
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A Kohler
hawkwind@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 10:16 pm
... From: Martin Lévesque <lemartin@...> To: rpg-create@onelist.com <rpg-create@onelist.com> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 11:16 PM Subject:...
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Paganini Nathan E Banks
paganini@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 10:16 pm
Yeah, actually. Which brings up an interesting question.....dice rolling in an RPG really IS like an if-else statment. How would you handle a switch type of...
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A Kohler
hawkwind@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 10:28 pm
... From: Lucifael@... <Lucifael@...> To: rpg-create@onelist.com <rpg-create@onelist.com> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 10:40 AM Subject:...
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A Kohler
hawkwind@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 10:44 pm
Well, like a table, really. This result is this, this result is this, etc. A good example of this is the hit location charts that have been discussed recently....
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Paul, Brett
Brett_Paul@xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 10:55 pm
Of all the applications I've heard suggested for a board in an RPG, I think I like the beginner-aid the best. What a convenient way to lay out the rules to a...
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Seanchai
Seanchai@xxxxxxxxxx.x...
Feb 1, 1999 10:59 pm
... of trying to drag every GURPS player into playing Everway, or every Everway player into playing GURPS. Yet you can claim that there's positivity in...
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hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
hawthorn@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 1, 1999 11:10 pm
... On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:59:19 -0500, Seanchai <Seanchai@...> ... Sorry, my use of quoting was a little weird there. I was saying that that *was*...
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Ken St-Cyr
kenstcyr@xx.xxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 11:31 pm
... The spinner hit location gizmo isn't silly at all. It's pretty nifty. Especially because you can have concentric circles, with each ring representing...
