runescience Posted November 25, 2007 Report Share Posted November 25, 2007 Greets all. Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? I want to do some random char generation for people coming into the game with prior experience, and also random experience generation between adventures, like traveller does with its previous experience tables. Ive seen the hero/arduin char gen sys, its not so clear to me, as I do not have the orig arduin books to see how it works, and it comes close, but im not up to making my own. I know the later runequest books have it, but again I cant use them. Does any one have any/know of any tables like that for hero fantasy games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? I dont remember seeing any for Hero, there was a book for Rolemaster that had a bunch of NPC's and some tables that might prove useful I have all the old arduin books, what do you need help with? for SF games, there was a game called Battlelords of the 23rd Century that had a bunch of tables for character backrounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? one thing I would suggest is to determine how many points the characters are allowed to spend on backround rolls. then work up some tables from there to start with I would suggest keeping them to 5 or 10 pts maximum for most fantasy or SF games. say 1 table for unusual backrounds 1 table for special items, they dont even have to be magical, a specially trained pet or something, say a horse, dog, etc 1 table for character special abilities you could also balance things by having the player roll or decide on a disadvantage worth the same points as the bonus. I would offer to help work some tables up for you, but I kind of have my hands full with some other projects at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runescience Posted November 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? shadow... I will email you back questions on arduin for hero I am thinking of putting something together some tables in the FH part hero wiki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayapuppies Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? I have some that I started, based on the Central Casting Books. I can e-mail what I have if you'd like. I'm still working on them, but they've taken a rather far backseat at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runescience Posted November 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? ah yes. that would be really nice if you could. email to runescience@yahoo.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lucius Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? In The Labyrinth had some excellent "job tables" but I don't know what your odds are now of even FINDING a copy of In The Labyrinth... Lucius Alexander What do you expect, another palindromedary tagline? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steamteck Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? here you can find it. One of my favorite games of all time. simple and fun. http://www.waynesbooks.com/TheFantasyTrip.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? heres a couple of examples from Arduin they have seperate tables for Fighter, Mage, Cleric, Rogue, and Other: 01-02. Proficiency with Longswords: +1 with HTH Combat (5 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (-2 saves etc vs cold and disease; -1/2) 11-12: Proficiency with Maces and Flails: (Total: 9 Active Cost, 6 Real Cost) +1 with HTH Combat (5 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (-3 vs Sleep and Charm Spells; -1/2) (Real Cost: 3) plus +2 CON (4 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (-3 saves etc vs sleep and charm spells; -1/2) (Real Cost: 3) most everything is a bit of good and a bit of bad and are a D100 roll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? There's a campaign event generator spreadsheet here - http://www.columbiagames.com/HarnPage/apps/spreadsheet/spreadsheets.shtml [edit] Just added an excel conversion of the lotus file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runescience Posted November 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? Ah yes... my favorite TFT! I've been on brainiacs tft list for years now. I should look at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runescience Posted December 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Re: Traveller-esque pre & between adventure advancement tables? Maya: can you resend me that stuff based on the central casting books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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