From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #3 Reply-To: the-edge@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Sender: owner-the-edge-digest@ Errors-To: owner-the-edge-digest@ Precedence: bulk The Edge Digested Sunday, November 2 1997 Volume 01 : Number 003 Today's subjects from The Edge: Re: [The Edge] [Round Robin] Re: [The Edge] [Round Robin] [The Edge] "Nekromancy" in SHADIS Re: [The Edge] Strange OtE Variant [The Edge] [OnTE] Grey Room tournament ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 20:13:19 -0800 (PST) From: Yanni Cooper Subject: Re: [The Edge] [Round Robin] Um guys? I seem to remember someone mentioning an archive for the Round Robin stuff... where is it? Is it available via text only browsers? I'd muchly prefer to read it at home. Thanks, Yanni _____________________________________________________________________ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com [O] You recieved this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge your@email.add ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 05:13:22 -0600 From: "Paul J. Lareau" Subject: Re: [The Edge] [Round Robin] Yanni Cooper wrote: > Um guys? I seem to remember someone mentioning an archive for > the Round Robin stuff... where is it? Is it available via text > only browsers? I'd muchly prefer to read it at home. Thanks, It's not actually an archive. I copy each segment onto a web page in html. I have it on my web site at: http://www.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/ovtesty.html It is not text-only, but it is in minimal html. I don't have access to a text-only browser to check it, but I have the feeling that it will be possible to read, even though it might not be very well formatted. - -- Paul J. Lareau - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [POST] 135 E. Viking Dr. #301, Little Canada MN 55117 USA [HOME PAGE] http://www.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [O] You recieved this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge your@email.add ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: AtlasGames@AOL.COM Subject: [The Edge] "Nekromancy" in SHADIS Folks, the new issue of SHADIS Magazine (which has long been a supporter of OTE) features my article, "Nekromancy," about necromantic summoning and control in OTE. Long-time list readers may recall some notes from this article having appeared on the old OTE list years ago. The issue is #41, the article is on pp. 17-20, and it's in stores now. Check it out! :) - -John Nephew Occasional Freelancer [O] You recieved this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge your@email.add ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:47:06 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Kronengold Subject: Re: [The Edge] Strange OtE Variant Yanni Cooper writes: >Ok here's my suggestion, take it, leave it, or change it as >you will... >NOTE: I use _ to represent Blanks >- = Failure (Cancels + before _) >_ = Moderate Success >+ = Much Success >Another possible way to do it is subtract 2 from each die, That would be "subtract 3 from each die", though my permutation below would be more elegant if it was subtract 2. >this gives -2,-1,0,1,2, & 3 as possible results.. >You could then allow a person to roll dice up to their trait >and add the total to their trait. Actually, I like both of these quite a bit, either way, though I'm not sure whether you want to add your trait to the roll or not (regardless, your trait has a more interesting effect than on previous systems). For the second system, I'd probably simplify the system a bit by saying that you can reduce your effective trait by 2 and roll a die (and you can't go below -(trait x 2) in the fashion) -- it's much easier to do all your subtraction first, and this is exactly the same (as well as a bit more elegant, if I say so myself). So if I have a trait of 4, I can take a result of 4, or D6+1, or 2D6-2, or 3D6-5, or 4D6-8. This changes what the target numbers should be, naturally -- probably 2 for something routine, 5 for something hard, 12 for something incredibly difficult (for a competent person, after all, the maximum result without blowing the top off is 11), and for the almost-impossible, try 15 or 20 (or so -- 20 is impossible below 5D without blowing the top off). The nice thing here is that it does some really nifty things when you combine it with the normal WaRP dice manipulation tricks. Bonus dice work basically the same, as do blowing the top off (only thing is that blowing the top off is less likely the less risk you take -- is this a flaw? Perhaps you should be considered to have blown the top off if you end up with twice your trait on the total?), and botching is a zero (or negative; I'm not entirely sure where the boundary should be, given that there should be some chance of botching on most rolls, the question is whether you want a chance for the average character to botch when rolling one die (1D+-1), and I'm not sure which is better) on the result or worse. >Hrmm... I like this... feel free to use it, but please don't >sell it unless you gimme a cut. (: Yuck. Given that my version would probably be different enough from yours to make a different patent (and yes, this is a patent thing, not a copyright thing, so you don't actually have any legal claim on it unless you register), people can sell mine without giving me a cut -- patents of this sort are quite possible, but also really, really icky. - -- mneme@dorsai.org Joshua Kronengold |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) - ---^---- "What part of 'Pthhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\ didn't you understand?" -- Me |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ - -/-\\\-- AKA mneme at mcny.com '---''(_/--' (_/-' [O] You recieved this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge your@email.add ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 23:31:46 GMT From: robin.escalation@ACM.org (robin) Subject: [The Edge] [OnTE] Grey Room tournament Members (and prospective members) of the On the Edge cell Grey Room are hereby invited to take part in the second tournament of the fall quarter. Date: Sunday November 9th Time: 12:00 noon to 6:00pm Place: L.A. Mood City: London, Ontario The format will be constructed deck. All cards are allowed except for Deadly Inspiration, Tulpa's Secret, and Desperate Ritual. You can bring = two decks and alternate between them. The tournament will be conducted as a series of three-player games. =46our-player games will be necessary if the number of participants in each round is not divisible by three. Each round of games will be played simultaneously. After every game new groups will be formed, so = that people get to play as many different opponents as possible.=20 Victory points will be awarded as follows: 2 for first, 1 for second, 1/2 if tied for second. Final Influence scores will be recorded for each game; the total will be used to break any victory point ties.=20 Prizes will be awarded to the top three individual scores this quarter. Those that didn't participate in the first tournament can have this one count double. E-mail for further information. +--------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | robin, co-ordinator | : W.S. Burroughs | +--------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | jupiter.execulink.com/~robin/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [O] You recieved this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge your@email.add ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #3 ****************************** [O] You recieved this message because you are subscribed to the-edge-digest [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge-digest your@email.add [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org