From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #18 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 Wednesday, December 31 1997 Volume 01 : Number 018 Today's subjects from The Edge: Re: [The Edge] My first post [The Edge] Demo Game Moderators Wanted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:10:25 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Kronengold Subject: Re: [The Edge] My first post B. Blackmoor writes: >Hello, my name is Brandon Blackmoor, and this is my first post to >the OtE list. Hi, Brendan; welcome to the Edge. >Any comments or suggestions from Thundarr fans or from people more >familiar with OtE's rules than I are welcome. I'm not at all familiar with Thundarr, but I have been playing OTE since well before I was in A&E, so... 1. Why did you change technical traits from 0/1/2 to 0/2/3? The perception that 1 die traits are too wimpy? Actually, if anything, I'd make technical traits 0/1/3 -- this would cost the same number of "points" as 2/3/4, and encourage people with unusual/technical traits to make them superior more than the current system does. After all, there should be some way of designating a rank novice in a trait. 2. I rather like the concept of describing spell effects by assigning bonus/penalty dice -- attempting spells that are beyond your ability vastly increases the chance of a botch, and it leaves your target number free for other stuff, but what DO you want to do with the target number? For damaging spells, it's easy, however, for your other spells, it isn't really clear. Also, you don't get into costs, even though you do specify a Magic Pool equivalent to 3.5x the magician's rating. For instance, with Defensive spells, instead of giving bonus/penalty dice for how good you want the spell to be, I'd do the following: The maximum defensive rating is based on the number rolled (possibly plus a couple of dice if you want to up the power, if not the skill, of novice mages). Cost is based on the actual defensive rating chosen (and increases dramatically when someone tries to push past the spell). Bonus/penalty dice are assigned due to other factors -- how many people affected, etc. - -- mneme@dorsai.org Joshua Kronengold |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) - ---^---- "What part of 'Pthhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\ didn't you understand?" -- Me |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ - -/-\\\-- AKA mneme at mcny.com '---''(_/--' (_/-' [O] You received 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:22:01 EST From: AG Jeff Subject: [The Edge] Demo Game Moderators Wanted Hello, all. Steve Fritz, a generally cool guy who coordinates Atlas demos in New York, is looking for someone to run some Over the Edge demonstrations for him, especially at ICON at the end of March. If you're suitably geographically located and are interested, drop me an e-mail. Thanks in advance. Jeff Tidball Atlas Games/Trident Inc. [O] You received 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 ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #18 ******************************* [O] You received 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 To get off digest, subscribe the-edge [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org