From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #53 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 Saturday, May 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 053 Today's subjects from The Edge: Re: [The Edge] [OnTE]:Immunity Re: [The Edge] [OnTE]:Immunity Re: [The Edge] [OnTE]:Immunity [The Edge] Cons [was OnTE: Immunity] [The Edge] CPC Handbook ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 01:13:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Kronengold Subject: Re: [The Edge] [OnTE]:Immunity Ivan Tuckwell writes: >Hello All, > >Arthur Compton is immune to astral. This means that he cannot use the gear >'Astral Doorway', correct? Pythagorean Convulsion is an astral whammy. If >Arthur attacks someone and they use PC, does it have any effect? Yes. Arthur is unaffected by PC, while everyone else is. Yes, this sucks for Arthur. Too bad. >If he was >attacked, could his owner use PC to turn the tables? Only if the attacking charcter has a VERY low number. Yes, this means that glugs are screwed by PC. >I tend to think that it >doesn't explicitly target him in either case, so his immunity is irrelevant. This is incorrect. Immunity is almost always relevant -- if a character is immune, they are unaffected (as long as they are in play) by all effects with that Trait. Yes, this means that Immune:Control characters will be able to unturn normally if you can (through various means) give the ELF Wave Generator the trait "Control". Yes, it also means that Glugs are unaffected by any of the Astral edges, even the all the time ones. >What do others think? I think I need to play this game more often. Is anyone bringing Edge to East Coast Games Fair? - -- 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: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:45:38 -0400 (EDT) From: David Freier Subject: Re: [The Edge] [OnTE]:Immunity >What do others think? > I think I need to play this game more often. Is anyone bringing Edge > to East Coast Games Fair? > -- > 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 > My question, and you can reply privately so as not to spam the list. When is the East Coast Games Fair? I keep seeing stuff about it on the trading cards games newsgroup, but all it is is who is running what games, like Shadowfist. If anyone can give dates and or a website I can go to for info I'd appreciate it. Since my cell and I are located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its possible some of us could arrange to attend and set up to play some On the Edge. Just let me know. Thanks; David Freier [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: Fri, 1 May 1998 11:20:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Kronengold Subject: Re: [The Edge] [OnTE]:Immunity David Freier writes: >>What do others think? >> I think I need to play this game more often. Is anyone bringing Edge >> to East Coast Games Fair? >My question, and you can reply privately so as not to spam the list. >When is the East Coast Games Fair? It's not as if the list is so overspammed that it can't use a useful advertisement... (I may or may not be making the ECGF -- anyone wanna split a room or something to make it easier?) That said, the ECGF is on May 8-10, in East Rutherford, NJ. The URL is http://www.andonunlimited.com/CONS/ECGF98/index.htm - -- 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: Fri, 01 May 1998 10:23:45 -0500 From: "Paul J. Lareau" Subject: [The Edge] Cons [was OnTE: Immunity] David Freier wrote: > My question, and you can reply privately so as not to spam the list. > When is the East Coast Games Fair? For any folks looking for information on specific gaming conventions, here are a couple of web links you need to bookmark: http://oeonline/~dolphin2/ Done by the Detroit group, it also has links to other gaming convention listing pages. http://www.multigenre.com/NEGCL.html This is a great list for the Northeast US. (One of the ones listed on the above) In direct answer to David's question, it's May 8-10 at the Sheraton Meadowlands, in Meadowlands, NJ. Their website is: http://www.andonunlimited.com/ECG98/index.htm Most of these conventions are looking for folks to run games. It shouldn't be considered spam to start encouraging both our OnTE and OvTE players to consider offering to run games. Atlas can't afford to be everywhere, so it might be up to the fans to keep our games alive at the 'Cons, especially now that OnTE is pretty much dead (as far as new products are concerned), and OvTE isn't apparently getting much push in distributor circles. - -- Paul J. Lareau - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [POST] 135 E. Viking Dr. #301, Little Canada MN 55117 USA [HOME PAGE] http://www.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [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: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:26:45 EDT From: AtlasGames Subject: [The Edge] CPC Handbook Hey folks. In my Copious Free Time(TM), I'm back to doing some writing on my "CPC Handbook" project. The seed of this sourcebook was already published as an article in Pyramid last year, "The CPC Files." The basic idea is a sourcebook for a series in which the PCs are CPC agents or associated characters. Rather than being naive burger, they are knowledgeable investigators of the supernatural in the service of Her Exaltedness. So my question for the list is...what cool topics would you want to see in such a sourcebook? As it stands, I envision the book as having two parts, and being targetted at both players and GMs. The first part would be the Agent's File, having information open to any player in a CPC series. It includes: * CPC Character Creation, including a half dozen pregenerated characters that can be used as PCs, NPCs, or inspirational examples * Information about the CPC * Technology - available fron CPC fringe scientists, or familiar from past threats the CPC has faced * Field Guide to the Paranormal - a sort of dictionary of weird things, from abductions to water power (fringe science that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, and then recombines them to release energy). Players can get some of the background that a CPC agent would have on fringe phenomena and terms; GMs can mine it for story ideas. (Water power violates the laws of physics, so how does this oppenheimer's machine work...perhaps through psychic energy? CPC agents are dispatched to investigate...) The Administrator's File is for the GM(s)...there may be more than one if "troupe-style play" is employed. Some sections I see it having include: * Allies & Enemies -- Some info on other forces that may cooperate with or hinder the CPC * Plots -- big plots, and smaller adventure seeds; maybe even an introductory CPC scenario. * Important GMCs of the CPC (top administrators, etc.) So that's what I'm working with at the moment. I thought, what the heck, why not see what the EdgeList would like to see covered in such a book, and what thoughts there are about the elements above. 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