Dale A. Ward

Re: A Hundred and One Spells... Index cards? You can put a complete description of each spell on its own card and carry around a box with all the cards in it. When you add a spell, you add a card. If you can find them, there are spiral-bound decks of index cards. They can give you that "spell book" feeling! However, loose cards are easier to organize. Dale "Old School" Ward

Re: "Beware the generosity of Kings" - A warning And, I thought I was being clever! That deserves some rep!

Re: "Beware the generosity of Kings" - A warning If the king has holdings in a far off land (or, can pretend that he does), he could send the adventurers to act as vice-regents and protectors of the king's foreign holdings. The old adage "out of sight, out of mind" pretty much sums up how their fame will fare. Just be sure to play it up as a reward instead of a cleverly concealed banishment!

Re: Steampunk fantasy? That's the hype... or, to quote the Girl Genius website, "Work continues apace...".

Re: What're the jobs in an Army? In any setting that depends on horse cavalry, you'll definitely need a farrier. In addition to shoeing the horses, he would also be responsible for maintaining the tack and harnesses.

Re: Missing: Fantasy Hero Is there anything new on the status of FH? I'm not real big on .PDFs.

Re: How do your Star Heroes get around? Back in my early Traveller days, the group I reffed was playing a test crew for the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service's Research & Development department. They were part of a project that came to be called the "Controlled Misjump Drive". Basically, it involved using the chief engineer's Jump Drive skill as a multiplier for the number of d6 rolled for distance travelled, the navigator's Nav Skill as a modifier (+/-) for the direction travelled, and the pilot's Pilot Skill as a modifier (+/-) for fine tuning the final destination hex. Then, they would intentionally misjump the drives. Example: Chief Engineer has Jump Drive 4 Navigator has Nav 2 Pilot has Pilot 3 This ship could travel 1-4 d6 hexes (up to 24 parsecs, in Traveller scale) in a straight line course. Since a misjump always goes in a random direction (1d6 for direction out of a hex), the navigator would be called in to correct the course by +/-2 hex sides. Then, the pilot could correct the final destination hex by up to 3 hexes in any direction. Since there were no guarantees about where you would end up, it's hardly surprising that these R&D crews were very highly paid.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) SWEET Transvestite HERO!! (Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me!!)

Re: Bizarre Spell Ideas That's ever so clever!!

Re: Failed PS: Artist Roll? For things that they could obviously tell whether they succeeded or not, I'd prefer the players rolled their own dice. But, if success or failure would not be immediately apparent, I usually do the rolling.

Re: Failed PS: Artist Roll? ~snicker~ I think that's one of the few times I'd let the kid get away with calling me an @$$hole... he'd be right! But, he better be smilin' when he says it!

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous)

Re: Need a language for your fantasy campaign?

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever I just found this thread and haven't had time to read all the previous posts, so I gotta ask... Has anyone mentioned the Superman vs. Muhammad Ali "graphic novel"? Or, am I the only one old enough to remember it?

Re: What is Munchkin? ~sigh~ I can so relate... just ask Nolgroth.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... ~grin~ Actually, I have a 3D monitor and was looking over the edge of the frame to what lies behind... YUM!!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Another advanced and weird material That's a lot of gas...

Re: How do your Star Heroes get around? ~pulls his finger out of his nose and says...~ Duuuh... I dunno... I just tell my GM where I wanna go and he tells me how long it takes...

Re: Creature: Grandfather-of-all-the-Reptiles

Re: Korgoth of Barbaria ~LOL~ Repped!

Re: Korgoth of Barbaria Supposedly, new episodes are in production... but they've been saying that for 2 months.

Re: Orcs as Druidic/Celtic analogs? I can like so totally see Galadriel being like from the Valley, ya know.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Planet Template Thanks, Bob! That's exactly what I needed. Although, one would think that "Classification" could have been rolled into "System Data" (or vice versa) and "Affiliation" could have been rolled into "Government" (or vice versa).