Recent content by djd

Sup4 - I hope you don't mind me voicing my opinion - because it's your game and your choice - but to me a running race seems an unlikely 'rite of passage' for a warrior / hunter type society. Most rite of passage rituals in the real world revolve around either hunting or fighting. Why a race...

It's rather counter intuitive isn't it? In most 'gloomy lands' where it rains all the time or is otherwise miserable, people drink more to cheer themselves up! Scotland, Ireland and much of eastern Europe come to mind! :wink:

I have just ordered the revised All Flesh Must Be Eatten book to have a look at the D20 conversion stats in that. Unisystem is a super system. Combines a very simple mechanic with enough detail to make combat cinematic - particulary the version of the system used in the Buffy and Angel games...

I understand what you're doing but it sounds like a game within a game to me. All I want my critical hit add-on to do is to provide a bit of instant cinematic detail for the game - a bit of splatter really, plus something to move away from being chipped to death... I'm going to try another...

Maybe make it the number of households rather than total population..? So you could multiply the total by 5 or 6. Even so, if you're looking at real world medieval for comparision- most towns were very small in terms of population.

Me, I'd switch to Eden Studios Uni system. Their Buffy game was one of the most playable and fun games ever

LOL! I think that would be a step too far for my wife - and besides I have no wall space left with all the other stuff.... :lol:

As a big fan of the setting I have most of the TSR AD&D Lankhmar stuff too- I have say that in many respects the TSR stuff is better if you want it purely for the setting. They have loads of decent maps for a start. Maps and proof-reading.... How great would Mongoose be if they could get these...

I don't think 'mostly compatible' is really good enough - especially for those of us who already had the previous Lankhmar books by Mongoose. It's a poor show.

got mine last week and I'm very impressed with it. Nice production values too :D

Glad I saw this thread as I had been thinking of buying LU. I won't bother now :(

I do my combats like that too. Makes it simpler and I learnt a long time ago that as soon as I introduce miniatures into a game certain players become too caught up in making sure their character looks like their favourite minature.... :roll:

Although Green Ronin did a pretty good job on Thieves World the maps they produced of the city were poor (and not even as acurate as the maps of the city in the books). In many ways Chaosiums old version was much nicer - despite not having as much detail. I'm sure Mongoose could make a great RQ...

You did - and they're very cool

Thanks Vincent! It's great stuff. The maps are good and the gazeteers really useful. :D