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Help me pick a new system

Started by TheNextDoctor, September 29, 2014, 03:53:48 PM

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#60
October 04, 2014, 04:42:35 AM
Quote from: Certified;789463Looks like I made a silly mistake.

Here's the Runescape Rule set I was referring to, which is totally not Runescape at all. (Well, maybe a little...)


Jesus christ that's an awful cover, I'd forgotten how bad it looked. It also embodied everything I dislike about Glorantha.
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#61
October 04, 2014, 09:18:10 PM
Quote from: TheNextDoctor;789264From what little I know of Savage Worlds.  It seems that your attribute tells you what die you roll.  

e.g.
1= d4
2=d6
3=d8
4=d10
5=d12
6=d20

now does a Silver Surfer type character roll a d100 or 5d20s or something like that?

don't really know the system besides reading reviews online but that's something I don't understand and feel that it might not do better on higher levels.

Can you explain this to me?

thanks
If you're Silver Surfer, what do you need to roll vs. a challenge fit for Willie Lumpkin? Nothing!

Everything would get scaled to that level. Human-scale, though, is the focus of the core book.
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#62
October 05, 2014, 07:57:52 AM Last Edit: October 05, 2014, 08:25:37 AM by richaje
Quote from: RPGPundit;790069Jesus christ that's an awful cover, I'd forgotten how bad it looked. It also embodied everything I dislike about Glorantha.

We at Moon Design agree it is a terrible cover. But that is not the approach we've taken for the last five years (and certainly not since Jon Hodgson and I have taken over doing Gloranthan covers). For example,these are the covers for the two volumes of the Guide to Glorantha:


So you may dislike Glorantha, but please don't base your dislike of Glorantha on the Captain Spandex cover.
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#63
October 05, 2014, 08:06:32 AM
Can you shrink that picture please?

richaje

#64
October 05, 2014, 08:25:55 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;790297Can you shrink that picture please?

Whoops! Edited now.
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#65
October 05, 2014, 08:25:29 PM
Quote from: richaje;790295We at Moon Design agree it is a terrible cover. But that is not the approach we've taken for the last five years (and certainly not since Jon Hodgson and I have taken over doing Gloranthan covers). For example,these are the covers for the two volumes of the Guide to Glorantha:


So you may dislike Glorantha, but please don't base your dislike of Glorantha on the Captain Spandex cover.

Those are certainly better covers.  Mind you, just about anything would be!
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#66
October 06, 2014, 12:45:14 PM
Re: Traveller, it would work for hard sci-fi, and can be easily adapted for more space opera settings, and can even work for steam-punk, or modern stuff.  But getting it to work for fantasy - good luck with that !
 

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#67
October 06, 2014, 02:17:03 PM
For Traveller, there are "Worlds Apart" and "Flynn's Guide to Magic" to bring in the fantasy elements.
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