Recent content by Olaus Petrus

I agree. There has been no new Legend books in ca. five years, which means that Legend would need re-launch to generate some interest. Like msprange said D100 RPG market has moved forward, and it would be practically impossible to sell old rules without interesting campaign setting to new...

I thought that Legend was abandoned but apparently it is not completely dead yet (although no new releases so far).

We have had this discussion about new books going for a year (if we count also the previous thread). I haven't bought Legend books since January 2015, when I ordered Elementalism directly from Mongoose, because it wasn't available in my local RPG store at that time. So, despite all the...

Enemies with more combat actions and equal or higher weapon skills than your hero have advantage over him. But even lesser enemies can defeat the most skillful hero if there is horde of them. Then there are magical attacks etc. which can make the battlefield very dangerous place even for the...

I didn't mention what I wanted, because I already said it in the thread which we had in July about the same topic and didn't feel like repeating myself, because both the OP and Matt participated to that July thread. But I'll answer to your question by quoting myself: If you want more...

I was kind of expecting something for the Christmas shopping season, because Matt said, back in July, that they had books planned for Legend. But it doesn't seem like anything is coming out.

Currently some professions allow plenty of variety while others don't give option to choose from different skills. But you're right that one solution could be adding more alternative skills (as long as those are suitable) to the professions.

Making culture and profession more important in character creation is a one approach and it works in many roleplaying games and settings. Biggest downside of this approach is that if your party has, for example, two or more Orlanthi warriors then these characters probably have very similar...

Good luck. New material for Legend is always welcome. Is it going to be about mesm... hypn... I mean serene trance?

Personally I don't see problem with those words, because also fantasy literature uses them. Here's an example of the usage of the word mesmerism from Robert E. Howard: "For there are worlds beyond worlds, as Kull knows, and whether the wizard bewitched him by words or by mesmerism, vistas did...

Rules are rather clear. If characters has sword & shield combat style and the character loses his/her sword, then the character can still continue using his/her shield with the full sword & shield skill. Character who has lost his/her sword can, besides attacking and defending with his/her...

Elementals and especially Undine (it's description says that it's body is composed of a formless mass of liquid) were the first thing which came also to my mind when I was thinking what kind of stats and attacks a slime monster should have. Quickest way to create such a monster would be using...

I can understand if someone gets tired of the campaign setting. In our group we play different RPGs with different GMs to keep the things fresh. D100 is one of our favorite systems and we have played both Glorantha and other settings. Although I don't understand why new Legend releases were a...

I've been wondering the same thing. What I'm hoping the most are generic books, which I can easily adapt to Elric of Melniboné campaign setting or to my own one-off sword and sorcery settings.

Generally I agree with soltakss advice, but because you're using a licensed campaign setting there are some additional things which you need to consider. Even if you don't want your adventures to be rehash of the novels, there's still that one very important question (which applies to any...