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Greetings for the members of the newsgroup.
Okay, now to the business - the last two years I've been reading
Conan stories by Robert E. Howard downloaded from russian sites ( of
course, in russian ) and a few in english from Blackmask.com. The other
authors' Conan stories do not even compare ( they are absolutely lame
). Also I've looking at Conan role-playing sites (Hyborian Age, Conan
D20, Scarlet-Blades and a few others ), and before this playing the
well-known RL games like ADoM, Angband, Nethack, Moria and few others.
And I've thought ( oh, really? ) - why there ain't a Conan RL, not a
Tolkien-like or other magic saturated RLs, and the Modern RLs with
pistols and stuff I can't stand playing too long - still Doom RL is
nice, thanks "Anubis".
Now the ideas I have ( but can't apply to make a RL out of them
myself, some are shamelessly stolen from Conan-fans sites ):
Little magic: Only sorcerors|priests may have spells, which must be
strange and have high-costing prequisites ( sacrifices, temp CON
draining, etc ), and also remind of some kind of super-science ( again
stolen from somewhere ).
The strange things like hypnosis.
The nations are from the Thurian Continent : The whole family of
Hyborians, and the others - Turanians, Shemites, Zamorians, Argossean,
the Blackies ( Darfarians bite - cool! ).
The classes: If you've got money you may buy the Mongoose's Conan RPG
books and study them detaliedly ( still I can't afford it ): Thief,
Barbarian, Sorceror/Priest( Scholar ), Borderor( Ranger ),
Rogue/Fighter( Pirate ), Soldier.
The Languages must be learnt.
The fighting: Creatures and People may dodge in the neighbouring
tiles depending of their level.
Example:
.....|/ PC( @ ) tries to throw a spear at the Gorrila-God( G ), and
the later succeeds a skill check and may dodge
.@...G- to any of the tiles which are indicated by lines.
.....|\
So this thing needs a facing var, which is set by the last move.
Low-level guys or creatures may dodge only back.
Mid-level may dodge back tiles+side( flank ) tiles.
High-level guys may dodge any of these tiles + plus even near to the
attacker ( still this one, may have a counter move to evade being
flanked ).
How about Conan story-like hit descriptions and criticals : severed
limbs drop on floor like items, and spill blood making tiles bloodied (
old trick, but still ).
Severed hands, make bleeding plusit is impossible to use the hand if
severed, or the speed decreases if leg.
Severed head ussualy kills ya, though some demons may fight even
without them ( still with penalties. )
Black Lothus: Smoke to regain Power points, or blow through a blow-pipe
to produce a moving cloud ( a trick is to move aside of this cloud
which slowly disipiates ).
If you have anything to share/ask/tell, get some more info - mail me at
cousinoleg@yahoo.com
GO
Greetings for the members of the newsgroup.
Okay, now to the business - the last two years I've been reading
Conan stories by Robert E. Howard downloaded from russian sites ( of
course, in russian ) and a few in english from Blackmask.com. The other
authors' Conan stories do not even compare ( they are absolutely lame
). Also I've looking at Conan role-playing sites (Hyborian Age, Conan
D20, Scarlet-Blades and a few others ), and before this playing the
well-known RL games like ADoM, Angband, Nethack, Moria and few others.
And I've thought ( oh, really? ) - why there ain't a Conan RL, not a
Tolkien-like or other magic saturated RLs, and the Modern RLs with
pistols and stuff I can't stand playing too long - still Doom RL is
nice, thanks "Anubis".
Now the ideas I have ( but can't apply to make a RL out of them
myself, some are shamelessly stolen from Conan-fans sites ):
Little magic: Only sorcerors|priests may have spells, which must be
strange and have high-costing prequisites ( sacrifices, temp CON
draining, etc ), and also remind of some kind of super-science ( again
stolen from somewhere ).
The strange things like hypnosis.
The nations are from the Thurian Continent : The whole family of
Hyborians, and the others - Turanians, Shemites, Zamorians, Argossean,
the Blackies ( Darfarians bite - cool! ).
The classes: If you've got money you may buy the Mongoose's Conan RPG
books and study them detaliedly ( still I can't afford it ): Thief,
Barbarian, Sorceror/Priest( Scholar ), Borderor( Ranger ),
Rogue/Fighter( Pirate ), Soldier.
The Languages must be learnt.
The fighting: Creatures and People may dodge in the neighbouring
tiles depending of their level.
Example:
.....|/ PC( @ ) tries to throw a spear at the Gorrila-God( G ), and
the later succeeds a skill check and may dodge
.@...G- to any of the tiles which are indicated by lines.
.....|\
So this thing needs a facing var, which is set by the last move.
Low-level guys or creatures may dodge only back.
Mid-level may dodge back tiles+side( flank ) tiles.
High-level guys may dodge any of these tiles + plus even near to the
attacker ( still this one, may have a counter move to evade being
flanked ).
How about Conan story-like hit descriptions and criticals : severed
limbs drop on floor like items, and spill blood making tiles bloodied (
old trick, but still ).
Severed hands, make bleeding plusit is impossible to use the hand if
severed, or the speed decreases if leg.
Severed head ussualy kills ya, though some demons may fight even
without them ( still with penalties. )
Black Lothus: Smoke to regain Power points, or blow through a blow-pipe
to produce a moving cloud ( a trick is to move aside of this cloud
which slowly disipiates ).
If you have anything to share/ask/tell, get some more info - mail me at
cousinoleg@yahoo.com
GO
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