The dynamics of combat in Legend / Mythras are different to those of D&D. Not in a bad way, but the differences can trip you up if you aren't prepared for them. For one thing, a large number of low-powered bad guys can easily overwhelm a powerful character by sheer weight of numbers. This can be a n...

There is a market for a universal D100 system now that Chaosium has discontinued the BRP product line. Mythras may end up filling that gap, but at the moment it is vacant.

I was looking at doing 'Portuguese conquestador' style games. Is the renaissance version worth looking at or shall I just wing it with the legend rules? I'm well up on the historical and arms for the period, just looking for extra 'flavour' really. Renaissance would be good, but Pirates of Legend h...

Bifford wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:44 pm

It has spurred me on to want to write up my Legend: Ancient Stones settings into a proper book. Might take me a while!

Please do - I'd be very interested to see this!

Personally, I don't expect Mongoose to support this system. If they do, fine, if not, that's OK too. The entire system is SRD now, so I don't NEED Mongoose. I can publish my own stuff and keep the system alive that way. While I agree with what you are saying, it would be nice to see Mongoose produc...

Yeah, I think anyone who is looking for new material will have to convert Mythras (RQ6) material that is being published. Legend and Mythras (RQ 6) are such close cousins that this is trivial to do during play - you can use Legend material in your Mythras game too. This is a good thing for both sys...

http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/?p=849 Not a single word about Legend. Not. A. Single. Word. Not one. Not a mention in passing, not a breath, not a 'we're doing nothing with Legend in 2018, but haven't forgotten.' Its as though the game doesn't exist and never did exist. It's certainly disappo...

Yeah, I hear you on this, but I think that if you don't make stuff explicit in the spell, it leave it open to interpretation which leads to argument which leads to rules lawyering which leads to me banging my head on the table. :) In my own personal Legend variant, I have made it explicit. You need...

msprange wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:21 am

Funny this should be mentioned - we are giving serious thought to doing pretty much this for the Free Trader...

It's not a bad idea, especially if it provides details of all the ways you can void the warranty!

And here's a simple but terrifying Divine Magic spell: Accelerate Aging Instant, Touch, Rank (Priest), Resist (Resilience) This spell accelerates the aging of a single target creature. The target creature ages 1D4 years per point of Magnitude. The normal physical effects of aging apply. The victim a...

It's things like this that have made us move to Mithras where the common magic spells aren't quite so uber as Legend's common magic versions. In my own games, I draw a distinction between between Common Magic and Battle Magic. Battle Magic is not a discrete form of magic. It is a term applied to Co...

As a compromise, how about something like this: Battle Cry Magnitude 1, Progressive, Duration (Special) The caster shouts a loud battle cry when casting this spell. They must have a close combat weapon in their hands, ready to attack. For a number of rounds equal to the spell's Magnitude, double the...

soltakss wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:46 pm

Not so sure about Battle Cry and Bladesharp, Battle Cry affects the person and Bladesharp affects the weapon.

Yes...that was essentially my reasoning too.

soltakss wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:46 pm

I'd make Battle Cry incompatible with Fanaticism and Berserker, but allow it to be used with Bladesharp.

That's a good point.

An earlier draft had a comment stating that it did not stack with other weapon enhancement spells such as Bladesharp, Bludgeon, or Fireblade. But I took it out as I was n't sure if it was necessary. But I take your point.

Thanks for the feedback! It is very helpful. I can see that the wording of the Assay spell doesn't adequately capture my intention. As you have surmised, my goal was to indicate that the spell can't determine any magical properties of a substance. I'll follow your suggestion and redraft it to be mor...

Since things are still pretty quiet, here are a couple of new Common Magic spells: Assay Instant, Magnitude 1, Touch This spell determines the composition of any liquid or solid. It determines the constituent ingredients and the relative amounts of each. It does not provide exact measurements but ap...

You can never have too many meercats! Seriously though, it would be nice if Matt could drop by and let us know how things stand at the moment. It's been a couple of months since the last update and Mongoose have successfully completed a couple of big projects. Is there any light at the end of the tu...

One problem Mongoose faces is that the d100 market is more crowded than it was when MRQ II was the only kid on the block. We have BRP, Call of Cthulhu, OpenQuest, Mythras, Revolution d100, Delta Green, Renaissance, the Sabre System, and Raiders of R'yleh. Plus there is new edition of RuneQuest on th...

One thing I ***WOULD*** suggest to you guys who have Matt's ear: The Bundle of Holding !!!!!!! Get him to throw together a "Legend" bundle! Legend + 3x Spider Gods Bride + your stories + the other Legend books. That is a fantastic way to get your books out there and while it would be for charity it...

I must admit that I'm disappointed about this too. I understand that Mongoose are busy with Traveller and Paranoia and we are unlikely to see new Legend material in the short term, but the ongoing silence about future plans is irritating. We have no idea whether the product line has been abandoned c...