Recent content by skalvar

I am not allowed to talk about anything in Free Companies until copies of it reach the players' hands. RE: Pirate Isles If none of our Conan scholars speak up before next Tuesday (my next scheduled visit to these boards) I will describe it to you. Really, though, I'd rather one of them do the...

*chuckles* That would, in fact, be exactly the model I used. The "shopping game" has three levels of granularity: a fast mode for quick resolution, a medium mode for scene generation, and a detailed mode for building sessions around. Unfortunately in the last mode you have to apply your own...

Hey guys. Don't make me bore you with an explaination of the system by the writer. :-) I know at least two of you have a fine theoritical understanding of it. Shannon

I will continue to monitor this thread (as well as the boards in general) if anyone needs clarifications or help. :-) Frankly I am a bit suprised no one has anything to say about the shopping games. Oh well. Must have written them in a lucid moment. Shannon

Oh, you'd be suprised what you could slip into a book about the First Ones. Shannon

That was probably the sanest possible response from prolonged exposure to an interactive AI. There's a fairly famous animation problem: the closer something gets to human (or in this case sentient) behaviour the more we notice its flaws. An animated skeleton that moves with 80% fidelity...

I just checked the book and the source file. Looks like it got though six layers of checks (or seven, depending on how you count it) without a range. Range on Action Block is Touch (Close for a P12) according to my original notes. You have to be very close to set one up but the effects last a...

Yes.

No touch attack intended, since it does no damage. The description isn't entirely clear and the illustration doesn't help but these are the Drazi we are talking about. The glove does damage to the user and leaves a bloody handprint on the target. It's not a weapon, just a way of scaring the...

B_Steele; The Breaker is more of a tool than a weapon but I suppose someone could use it to deliver contact poisons. It sounds like the sketch artist went one way while I went another. Hardly uncommon in any industry. :-) Either idea works. If you wanted to go with the artists more...

Abbai Water Blade Wave Projector Brakiri Comet Grenade Comet Bringer Centauri Illusion Grenade Neck Ribbon Palm Needle-thrower Nobles's Broach Diplomats Broach Dancer's Swords Drazi Ann Shenn Jedui Kuf Gaim Gaim Hold-out Gaim Blast Caster Gaim Blast Rifle Human Incendinary Grenade Napalm...

Hello Everyone! If you have any questions about The Zocalo, its markets or the various things you can buy please post them to this thread. If there are NO questions or problems thank the editor, not me. :-) Shannon Status: WoFing between changing diapers/deciphering 'coo-la-lu-gu'

There's some great stuff in Psi Corps. The problem with telepathic range is that it seems to vary (and vary quite a lot) depending on: Training Personality Specific talent Familarity with your target and/or his mental pattern The P level of your target Your P level Psychic...

(edited because my personal problems have no place on these boards) You have the design process backwards. I designed Lyta first (as she will appear in Wheel of Fire) then engineered a PrC with some of her abilities so players could have a character become like her without having to build a...

I would strongly recommend against it. If you want your scholars to throw flames around let them use alchemy. That's what its for, in a mechanical and storytelling sense. In the Hyborian Age sorcery is VILE. It is the invocation of pure evil and soul-drinking hunger from the Outer Darkness...