Recent content by bluejay

Hi all, here's a new piece I'm working on... http://www.jamessemple.com/music/epicjourney2.mp3 Admittedly this is a little short and jumps around as it is to be used as a showreel. If there's any reasonable interest in me producing more of this music then I might write a full album. cheers...

Thanks, that's an old track though. Unfortunately most of my newer tracks have been for different styles of games. Some of the free stuff can be found at http://www.jamessemple.com/shadowproject.php Droid Arena might work for Conan stuff although it's a bit frenetic.

Hi guys, I'm currently working on a few RPG soundtracks but I still have a few older pieces that I give out for free. I've always felt that http://www.jamessemple.com/music/battle3.mp3 would work for Conan. Perhaps I need to write some new fantasy/mediaeval music?

This conversation about fully trained warriors being able to work well in armour always reminds me of the only rule I particularly like from MERP/Rolemaster: Each type of armour had a skill associated with it. Unskilled characters took a real beating when wearing plate for instance but skilled...

Right, but who would even consider doing such a thing... :wink:

Don't you guys read Beowulf? Swimming across the sea for 7 days in full armour is all part of the job...

Gen Con UK at Reading University. I know this is slightly off-topic but a) will there be a Mongoose stand? b) will there be MRQ games being played? c) is anyone from the forum going? Given that in 27 years of roleplaying I've still not made it to a convention and that this is 20 minutes walk...

Doubt I'll expand this piece, Rurik, as it was a piece I produced for an assignment as battle music in a video game. I agree that it is pretty heavy going but I was told to make it even more intense and add more dissonance! I bought a new percussion sample package recently (Project SAM's...

Well mathematics does tempt me... I don't know to be honest. I only play with one group at the moment and we're way into Call of Cthulhu. We stopped and played Warhammer for a while but to be honest it just didn't work as well. Also I don't have a huge amount of spare time so I prefer to work...

Rurik, The Legendary Heroes rule is probably acceptable to be honest. One character is always going to have at least 50% in a skill after halving so it shouldn't be too bad. A little bit of re-rolling isn't a big deal to me.

Hmm, this is similar to an idea that I had which I sort of dismissed as awkward. I haven't checked the maths here but it certainly feels vaguely right (i.e. I have no idea to be honest)... Here's my system: - Two characters make an opposed roll. If either character has a skill of over 100%...

Are you sure about this? How many people involved with the game or on this forum have degrees in Mathematics or Statistics?

Ok, firstly I think that halving cannot be the way to go. Example: 2 guys, A and B. A has 100% in athletics, B has 40% in athletics. In a race, A has 86.9% chance of winning. Now if we give A 101% (effectively halving down to 50%) then there is no skill that we can give B that gives A 86.9%...

Yakk, I wish I had one. I think the problem is that I want a solution that fulfills a few criteria: - 1. The odds don't radically change. What would be nice is if they levelled off slightly for bigger increases. This cannot happen in a linear system (i.e. one who wins by the most or subtract...

Uh-huh. This has been discussed a lot here. You can use my calculator (in my signature) to test for yourself and the halving mechanic can significantly change the odds.