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That first line i would 100% disagree with. Give me any char you
want i can make it. As with pure experience I know how ot use the
system. If you want a one legged blind beggar who has issues being
outside. i can make it. <br>
That's me. Not everyone can I grant that. Being a GM for 4
decades and a programmer kinda helps. Being a detail person systems like
pnp or SFB (star fleet battles where rule lawyering is a art) is easier
case I orange the details better.<br>
By no means am I fluent in every rule. But i can work the
system.<br>
So I disagree pnp can do any character out there.<br>
ok ok...maybe not a starship pilot but fantasy level ;)<br>
As to other stuff you list that's great. Good luck.<br>
But my 4 hours sleep has brain fuzzy so not gonna comment more at this
time. ;)<br><br>
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<pre>My only grievance with P&P is that the character creation rules
don't allow my make the character concept I have in my head.
Something I liked from AD&D is kits: "A kit is a
role-playing tool, a set of cultural notes
and minor abilities and restrictions used to
further define a character."
ADD you think something from Arcanum, a CRPG, where there is list of
abilities you learn in order as you level up.
So I'm thinking of make 'kits' that are a list of abilities that you gain
and the order in which you gain them with some fluff text about how you
gain them.
So for example have a DnD style wizard. The constant reading his spell
book and memorizing his spells and paying attention to the magics he
comes across on adventure with a keen eye means a wizard learns X spells
from list A at EL0 at MEL. As a wizards understanding of magic grows at
MEL Z he can learn a spell from list A or a more complex spell from list
B.
Lee Garvin recently died and Skimisher had a sell on a bundle of the
books he wrote. I reread Noble Wild:An Animal Player's Handbook for
fantasy Role Playing games.
" In order to aid the fledgling peoples, and to place some limits on
them as well, the godsraised one of every species of animal that walked,
crawled, swam, or flew to be the king of it’s kind. Each king,in addition
to being a paragon of its kind, was given the gifts of reason and speech.
Their intelligence wasincreased far above their natural brethren, and the
capacity for magic lurked within them that would find a tastefor it.
These kings and their bloodlines would become the ruling classes of the
animals, leading and protectingtheir species." Sounds lot like the
Tonah doesn't it?
IT has rules for how animals are different from humans. Like Animals
learn how to speak to different species not languages.
"The reason for this is that, to noble animals, all members of a
single species, no matter where they are originally from, speak the same
language. The only differences are in the form of differing accents and
idioms. As far as noble animals are concerned, there is only one human
language, with thousands of different accents."e
So for example A Dog might know Human and be able to speak to a human is
speaking Marentian but unable to communicate with a elf that is speaking
the same language. There is also a note that animals make terrible
translators. It doesn't go into detail, just saying,Noble animals have a
hard time even understand- ing why humans will often need to have
translators while speaking to members of their own species. For this
reason, noble animals make terrible translators." but my rationale
is that animal languages don't have a rich variety of saying the same
thing. So animals don't see the difference between saying the same words
with different accent and paraphrasing.
Most of the book is about magic. Animals don't use items so there is
alternatives for the material components of spells, scrolls and potions,
magic items.
Fore example Mat. Comps. are replaced with Blood Components that take Hit
Points form the caster. or the replacement for potions, Fetishes
"For example, a noble wolf wizard decides to grant an invisibility
fetish to a noble horse who has done him a favor. The horse now has a
shock of white hair just above his right front hoof. Anytime he chooses
he can rub the marked leg on the ground and release the spell. The white
patch will disappear, and so will the horse. Another animal could, with
the horse’s permission, rub that patch of fur and gain the benefit of the
fetish, which also uses it up."
The replacement scrolls and wands is imbuing the magic is normal animals
that is turned into a unintelligent drone obedient to their owner and are
eaten(for one shot items) "The spellthrall will only respond to the
simplest of commands: “come,” “stay,” “follow,” “sit,” “stand,” and of
course, the command words to activate its special abilities."
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