Greetings from The Guild Companion, The August Issue (#42) is now available at http://www.guildcompanion.com/ In this month's issue, we have the following: in...
Nicholas H.M. Caldwell
nhmc1@...
Aug 1, 2002 9:24 am
5904
Might not be the best place to share these, but I'm going to anyway. Good issue of Irregular Realms this month, including a very thorough and objective review...
Phil Dack
philipdack@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:09 am
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Good discursive article - just the sort of thing I like. But it raises an interesting kettle of fish, about the balance between diversity and competency....
Phil Dack
philipdack@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:36 am
5906
Phil - Thanks for the comments! I'd like to respond to your comment on my herb comment, though - Athelas is not the only herb mentioned in LotR - there is, for...
Joe Mandala
jmandala@...
Aug 1, 2002 12:49 pm
5907
Also, IIRC, doesn't Aragorn use some herbs on Weathertop to help alleviate Frodos wound? I've not got my copy handy but I do seem to recollect him asking Sam...
Jeff Quantrill
jeffq@...
Aug 1, 2002 1:23 pm
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On 1 Aug 2002, Phil Dack wrote: <snip> ... Unfortunately, it's pretty rare for me to play RM, something I do hope to change soon. However, I've been playing a...
Johan Warlander
johan@...
Aug 1, 2002 1:37 pm
5909
... This is basically a re-working of Chaosium's Runequest skill development. ... Not sure it really encourages broad skills, though. Depends on whether the...
Phil Dack
philipdack@...
Aug 1, 2002 2:17 pm
5910
Hello again everyone! I was going to post this in the ICE forums area but I can't access the website right now, probably because of timeout way out here at...
Meyer, Bruce OS2
bmeyer@...
Aug 1, 2002 4:34 pm
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... It could have been that, or that there were too many people on it when you tried to access it. Due to server and connection limitations, only 10 people may...
Tim Dugger
rasyr@...
Aug 1, 2002 4:46 pm
5912
... Only if the Elementalist has elementally corrupted armor or if he is corrupted (likely over time or especially if he has a friendly Elemental Priest)....
Stephen R. Wilcoxon
wilcoxon@...
Aug 1, 2002 4:53 pm
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... Actually, no it wouldn't be an incomplete review as Fire & Ice is a stand-alone book in the sense that the material from the Addendum is not required. You...
Tim Dugger
rasyr@...
Aug 1, 2002 5:10 pm
5914
On 1 Aug 2002, Phil Dack wrote: <snip> ... Ahh :) I haven't actually looked at that game yet, only heard references to it in a lot of places ;) ... Well, yes,...
Johan Warlander
johan@...
Aug 1, 2002 8:40 pm
5915
... Meyer Bruce wrote: I disagree on the rasing the costs of TP's back up, I think with the amount of skills in the game this is a good way to get characters...
Meyer, Bruce OS2
bmeyer@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:28 pm
5916
... the ... My GM gives us our SD in DP per month of downtime. I just came off 3 months of downtime, in an environment that gave me X3 to my SD because of the...
Jay
jay@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:37 pm
5917
... If you want to get tricky, you could decide that a critical failure that the PC fails to realise was a failure will cancel out a cross. A critical failure...
bcd@...
Aug 2, 2002 12:13 am
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It seems to me that this non-level base system is like Eastern philosophy (egoless). Something that I do not think the majority of the western people would...
Jim Burden
burdenjl@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:21 am
5919
... to ... doing a ... material it would ... a ... 8^) ... am ... other? ... book ... the ... wording, and ... you ... I do not have the fire and Ice...
lord_marauder2000
bc_197@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:29 am
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I have a question, Where did the weapons from the back of the Arms Law: Baw, Cabis, Dag, Ge, Irgaak, Kynac, Long Knyac, Shang, Typh, and Yarkbalka come from?...
Ivan Lindstrom
qitah@...
Aug 2, 2002 2:30 am
5921
... They all appear in shadow world - I'm not sure which came first however. nash -- Brett Nash <brettn@...> This signature intentionally not...
Brett Nash
brettn@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:11 am
5922
... The "time-based" DP management has the added problem that all races are basically not equal (you might _like_ that, but it is a problem for those GM who...
Voriig Kye
voriig.kye@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:48 am
5923
Thanks Tim, I wonder if it will still be free for those that did pre-order? I am looking forward to this addendum. Once you do get home and look up the...
Meyer, Bruce OS2
bmeyer@...
Aug 2, 2002 6:24 am
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... I've not really spent a lot of thought on philosophy regarding this -- I simply didn't encounter any level-based systems until I started playing online...
Johan Warlander
johan@...
Aug 2, 2002 6:39 am
5925
... *grin* This is what I was thinking about, mostly on the assumption that I don't think most people learn from their mistakes ;) Basically, if you mess up in...
Johan Warlander
johan@...
Aug 2, 2002 6:46 am
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... I would use Presence, not SD. Pr/Pr/In perhaps. Cheers Bent D -- Bent Dalager - bcd@... - http://www.pvv.org/~bcd powered by emacs ... To unsubscribe,...
bcd@...
Aug 2, 2002 6:58 am
5927
Yes, IIRC, he asked for Athelas. ... From: "Jeff Quantrill" <jeffq@...> To: <recipient list not shown:> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:21 AM ...
Jericho
jerichob@...
Aug 2, 2002 7:28 am
5928
... From: "Johan Warlander" <johan@...> ... failure ... cross. A ... that I ... you ... think ... and be ... determine ... just ... IN or RE? "Hmmm....
Frank F. Smith
FrankSmith@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:29 pm
5929
... If you're looking at some kind of learning rationale, seems to me it should be ALL of the development stats. One of the real sparks of genius in the...
Phil Dack
philipdack@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:55 pm
5930
... You can still ask "How good is s/he?" in a levelless system. And there are plenty of such systems -- indeed, I can think of few systems left with levels...
Jonathan Dale
jh.dale@...
Aug 2, 2002 2:55 pm
5931
But where does it say all of this? I lloked through it last night and found nothing. It must be hidden obtrusively in a paragraph somewhere or listed in a...
Meyer, Bruce OS2
bmeyer@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:08 pm
5932
Corruption of a person is dealt with in section 9 (8?). Item creation (including effects of Aura on Armor) is in section 10. FYI, there is also some errata...
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