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Lankhmar

Started by crkrueger, March 30, 2015, 04:45:02 AM

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#30
April 20, 2015, 08:23:08 PM
Quote from: Brand55;826930Shane said on the Pinnacle forums that this was the case and their license wasn't exclusive. I believe they got the license first but I'm not 100% certain on that.

That's great.  Thank god the Leiber Estate didn't have some marketing drone shit-babbling in their ear about "diluting the Brand".
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#31
April 22, 2015, 12:11:00 AM
I'm glad that there's more than one option and lots of stuff out there.  But that said, DCC kicks the living shit out of SW at doing Lankhmar.
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#32
April 22, 2015, 01:03:28 AM
Isn't DCC the game in which you make like 6-7 characters and which one(s) survives the first adventure is the one you play for the rest of the campaign?
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#33
April 22, 2015, 09:54:56 AM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;827296Isn't DCC the game in which you make like 6-7 characters and which one(s) survives the first adventure is the one you play for the rest of the campaign?
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#34
April 22, 2015, 12:43:17 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;827277I'm glad that there's more than one option and lots of stuff out there.  But that said, DCC kicks the living shit out of SW at doing Lankhmar.

I'm interested in why you think DCC is a better system for Lankhmar than SW.  Are there mechanical issues that make DCC better?  I've read the SW Lankhmar rules but I have not seen the DCC Lankmar rules, so I don't know how they are planning to change it to fit in with the Lankhmar setting.

I think the Wizard corruption rules from DCC fit in well with the Lankhmar setting.  On the other hand I like how the SW system encourages longer casting times including the ritual rules.

Simlasa

#35
April 22, 2015, 01:42:47 PM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;827296Isn't DCC the game in which you make like 6-7 characters and which one(s) survives the first adventure is the one you play for the rest of the campaign?
I think I remember reading that DCC Lankhmar won't use the Funnel approach to starting PCs.

Quote from: mkro95;827410I think the Wizard corruption rules from DCC fit in well with the Lankhmar setting.  On the other hand I like how the SW system encourages longer casting times including the ritual rules.
DCC has rituals as well, up till now there hasn't been much done with them... but they're another thing I seem to remember being mentioned as a part of DCC's Lankhmar.

Christopher Brady

#36
April 22, 2015, 04:26:32 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;827417I think I remember reading that DCC Lankhmar won't use the Funnel approach to starting PCs.

So I did remember right (and for the record, I was only repeating what I heard, not claiming any sort of stance of it being 'good' or 'bad'.  Just to clarify.)

I see that the Savage Worlds PDF version of the book is out, anyone get it?  I want to, but I'm poor, broke (at the moment) and I want to know what the opinions on it are.
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#37
April 22, 2015, 08:12:34 PM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;827461So I did remember right (and for the record, I was only repeating what I heard, not claiming any sort of stance of it being 'good' or 'bad'.  Just to clarify.)

I see that the Savage Worlds PDF version of the book is out, anyone get it?  I want to, but I'm poor, broke (at the moment) and I want to know what the opinions on it are.
I've only read through it once, but I thought it captured the feel of Lankhmar from the books. I'm torn because I really need to finish running my Hellfrost campaign before I get my players into Lankhmar.

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#38
April 22, 2015, 09:29:14 PM
I'm reading the very last Leiber Lankhmar story right now.

Jesus, this shit is GOLD. It's like if Charles Bukowski wrote fantasy.
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#39
April 23, 2015, 06:15:19 PM
Quote from: Bren;827380[strike]Black Mouser[/strike]...[strike]Brown Mouser[/strike]...[strike]Orange Mouser[/strike]...[strike]Blue Mouser[/strike]...[strike]Striped Mouser[/strike]...[strike]Calico Mouser[/strike]...Gray Mouser.

This made me laugh!  I'd like to see a list for Fafhrd just to see how many consonants can be strung together.

Bren

#40
April 23, 2015, 08:06:51 PM
Quote from: Narmer;827751This made me laugh!  I'd like to see a list for Fafhrd just to see how many consonants can be strung together.
Oh that's easy...
[strike]Fapherd[/strike], [strike]Fafferd[/strike], [strike]Faferd[/strike], [strike]Fafherd[/strike], [strike]Fafherhd[/strike], [strike]Faferhd[/strike], Fafhrd,
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#41
April 23, 2015, 08:52:29 PM
Quote from: Narmer;827751This made me laugh!  I'd like to see a list for Fafhrd just to see how many consonants can be strung together.

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[strike]Fahfrd[/strike], [strike]Farfhd[/strike], [strike]Fffrhd[/strike], [strike]Faafrd[/strike], [strike]Fffhrd[/strike], [strike]Fhfhrd[/strike], Fafhrd.
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#42
April 29, 2015, 03:59:38 AM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;827296Isn't DCC the game in which you make like 6-7 characters and which one(s) survives the first adventure is the one you play for the rest of the campaign?

In my experience it's not usually like that.  In my campaign I have players make three 0-level characters, and it's not uncommon that 2 or even 3 survive to first level (at which point I have them pick one of the characters, while the other survivors stay in 'reserve' as 1st level backup characters).  

And "play for the rest of the campaign" is very ambitious.  In our campaign (which has been going for about 2.5 years now of fortnightly play) the longest-lived PC made it to level 6. Every player who has been in at least half of the sessions has been through at least 2 1st-level+ characters.
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#43
April 29, 2015, 04:03:41 AM
Quote from: mkro95;827410I'm interested in why you think DCC is a better system for Lankhmar than SW.  Are there mechanical issues that make DCC better?  I've read the SW Lankhmar rules but I have not seen the DCC Lankmar rules, so I don't know how they are planning to change it to fit in with the Lankhmar setting.

I think the Wizard corruption rules from DCC fit in well with the Lankhmar setting.  On the other hand I like how the SW system encourages longer casting times including the ritual rules.

First, welcome to theRPGsite!

Second, I just think the stylistic qualities of the game are completely set up for a Lankhmar type setting.

For ritual stuff, one thing I could see them doing is making any use of spellburn require a ritual-casting.  In my own game, to offset the tendency to just blow absolutely everything in a single huge spellburn against the main opponents, I made the house rule that you can only spellburn from one attribute per round (so that if you want to spellburn multiple attributes you have to take extra rounds of casting time).
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Melichor

#44
April 30, 2015, 11:47:40 AM
Quote from: Bren;827767Oh that's easy...
[strike]Fapherd[/strike]

I would have crossed fap-herding off the list pretty quick too.
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