From: Martin Crim (mcrim@erols.com)
Date: Fri 06 Sep 1996 - 20:13:50 EEST
I too got some munged messages about Esrolia. Anyone know what's going on?
David Cake writes:
> I definately do think that adapting Pendragon mechanics directly
>would be a Bad Thing. Working poorly at high power levels is a persistent
>complaint against RQ, and Pendragon has the problem far worse. ...
>we want a game system
>that will handle heroes, 15 meter giants, and the Crimson Bat at least as
>well as RQ does. ...
Too true. The game mechanic which best deals with this, IMHO, is the
Ghostbusters/Star Wars mechanic, which involves variable number of dice
(reflecting skill) versus a sliding scale of Difficulty. I have run a
swashbuckler game using these mechanics, and it was very well received.
Magic was a bit of a muddle, though, when I tried to write a complete set of
rules to run a Gloranthan campaign with. David Hall, you can have this
first draft if you want.
re: Ostrich tribe
These were described in detail in Heroes vol. II no. 1. On a word per
person basis, the Ostrich tribe is the most-described group in Prax, perhaps
in all the world. Mike Dawson wrote the article, but AH holds the
copyright. In brief, they have a Sun Khan over the whole clan, and three
lesser Khans who rule divisions of the clan: Light, Spirit, and Ostrich.
The clan is patriarchal, worships Yelmalio, Waha, and Eiritha, and numbers
about 1000 ("or roughly 10% of one of the five Animal Nations' population").
They fight as skirmishers using "bent sticks" (boomerangs).
What else do you want to know?
- --Martin Crim
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