... The Warlord's main advantage would be greatly enhanced abilities to detect threats (i.e. various Lore and Perception skills). He would also likely have...
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Lowell R. Matthews
lrm@...
Jun 1, 1998 3:16 pm
... Granted, but even so this should be a bonus to the disease RR rather than an increase in defense level, IMO. Yes, the Warlord is very healthy -- why is...
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WesJFrank@...
Jun 2, 1998 3:39 am
In a message dated 98-05-05 21:59:46 EDT, Michael writes: << Second, the Middle Earth Gazateer: What type ... The Northwestern Middle-earth Gazeteer is...
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WesJFrank@...
Jun 2, 1998 3:40 am
In a message dated 98-05-02 11:02:20 EDT, Martin writes: << I've noticed that the in the modules, the powerfull NPCs has extreemly = < high stats. An example,...
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WesJFrank@...
Jun 2, 1998 3:40 am
In a message dated 98-05-06 12:37:02 EDT, Steffen writes: << I have wondered about this and the description in Untold Tales of ... and >induction. For...
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Mark Thorne
mat545s@...
Jun 2, 1998 5:24 am
... I agree with you to a degree, but a 25th level character wouldn't likely have 25 times the resistance as a peasant. Perhaps plague was an inappropriate...
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petronivs@...
Jun 2, 1998 4:39 pm
I've been wrestling with this for about a week now. Would it be logical for Sauron to have enslaved Entwives to work in Nurn? For support, Nurn was most...
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Scott Herod
sherod@...
Jun 2, 1998 5:54 pm
I just got copies of all of C. Tolkien's HoME series and in one of them, PoME probably, there was a section which left no doubt in my mind that JRR was working...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 2, 1998 7:14 pm
Dear Michael, Eric, Justin, others... What experience I can bring to bear on this comes not from running MERP per se, but rather on running many other fantasy...
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CHRIS1224@...
Jun 2, 1998 7:40 pm
Hi Gaius, ... Sauron to have enslaved Entwives to work in Nurn? For support, Nurn was most probably very well agriculturalized, and the Entwives were...
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Eric Leblanc
jughead@...
Jun 3, 1998 1:42 am
... Hi jason and all. ... Big is good. My way is to build a story and don't worry much about the details. Let the player make the details. I'm experienced...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 3, 1998 2:59 pm
Hello Eric, Thanks for responding. We'll get this list active if it kills us! ... Right. When you know the setting, storylines will write themselves. "Well, if...
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Martin Matre
marmatre@...
Jun 3, 1998 3:56 pm
Hi All You've said much about letting the other players play a NPC. This is a good idea, but dosen't these "other players" get annoyed when it is only one...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 3, 1998 4:13 pm
Hi Martin... ... Sure you can. Bear with me a minute. The ease of doing this totally depends on the system you are playing in. In games like MERP or Runequest ...
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Robert Mitas
mitas@...
Jun 3, 1998 5:36 pm
I am curious to know if any other groups adventure in the East? If so, how do you play it? Do you use the ICE continental map? Do you make up your own ...
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Robert Mitas
mitas@...
Jun 3, 1998 5:38 pm
Hello all! I've been lurking for a while, but I'm picking up steam. ... Let me tell you a bit about our current campaign: We have been brought together by the...
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Eric Leblanc
jughead@...
Jun 4, 1998 1:18 am
... I'll put it like this. If a party is separated, what would you like better? Wait for your turn or past the time playing some other characters? I mean, i...
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Eric Leblanc
jughead@...
Jun 4, 1998 1:29 am
... Yeah, exactly. Actually, i think made up worlds are easier to deal with then prefabricated one. Playing ME is tough. There is details that you just can't ...
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Eric Leblanc
jughead@...
Jun 4, 1998 1:43 am
... I never did. The only thing i did about the East was write an essay on the History of the Dwarves for the Genesis Mud. It was part of a task my mentor in...
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Martin Matre
marmatre@...
Jun 4, 1998 10:22 am
... I clearly see all the advantages with this, but there is one great disadvantage that I simply can't ignore. Lets say that a player, John, normally play a...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 4, 1998 2:43 pm
Hello, Robert... Your campaign on the quest for Aeglos sounds like a lot of fun. Ah, how nice it would be to _play_ again, instead of run! Ah, well. ... Well,...
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Ghaladrid@...
Jun 4, 1998 3:19 pm
I've taken over a campaign where I was a playing a character when our GM moved out of the area..... To fit the campaigns together we had the party subdued and...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 4, 1998 4:02 pm
Eric, Everyone else... ... Running M-e would probably require a lot more effort on the part of the GM, unless he had a player group of Philistines (like mine!)...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 4, 1998 4:28 pm
Hello, Jim ... Your use of an Australian-style subcontinent reminds me of an old article in an issue of Other Hands on an Antipodes campaign. As I recall is...
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JASON W VESTER
vester@...
Jun 4, 1998 4:28 pm
Martin, Eric ... ... So, couldn't the GM just give that 1200 XP to the player's Mage, to spend on spells or whatever else he pleases, and call it "researching...
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Garriss, James
jgarriss@...
Jun 4, 1998 4:28 pm
... It's amazing how much easier playing is compared to GM'ing. I'm running a PBeM, but it's full. And I have my hands full. MERP GM for The FarSight Company...
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Toller Madsen
tmadsen@...
Jun 4, 1998 4:42 pm
At 01:31 PM 6/3/98 -0400, you wrote: Our current Campaign deals with the south in the Court of Ardor module. 6 out of 15 charactors come from the east and...
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CHRIS1224@...
Jun 4, 1998 5:12 pm
Hi Jason, In a message dated 98-06-04 12:28:44 EDT, vester@... (JASON W VESTER) ... an issue of Other Hands on an Antipodes campaign. As I recall is was...
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Eric Leblanc
jughead@...
Jun 4, 1998 6:31 pm
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 06:17:42AM -0400, Martin Matre wrote: HI, ... NPC's XP goes in the XP bit-bucket. I don't keep track of NPC's XP. ... No, the mage's...
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Eric Leblanc
jughead@...
Jun 4, 1998 7:00 pm
... Yeah, could you imagine that: Your players are travelling before Bilbo's time from the Gray Mountains to Long-Lake. You decide Smaug is hungry this day....
