Recent content by TheGrandNuge

The listed Skyrunner Hull Size in my Cloudships and Gunboats book is 4, not 3. So it it using 75 tons per hull size. Maybe the tonnage is a typo, and should be 400(?). OR Regardless of what the tons/hull size each ship works out to in Cloudships and Gunboats, should I be using 100Hs for all...

On the off chance anyone still likes this world and has the books to refer to: The calculation for altitude for screwgalleys seems completely off in the Sky Galleons of Mars and the Cloudships and Gunboats supplements. Each turncrank position, equal to the number of turncrank men I figure, is...

We are playing a Viking campaign. My berserk obsessively collects spears and names them. I need a Norse name rescourse or some good words/names from you folks to name his spears. I'm running out of my own at this point.

If by sources and textbooks you mean non-gaming stuff, then: The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. It's not cheap, but try the library. If its not there you may be able to order it from another library to your own. Archaic State Interraction:The Eastern Mediterranean in the...

Green Ronin did a series of books called their Mythic Vistas series, at least a couple of which might interest you. One was The Trojan War and another was Testament, set in bibilical times.

I don't understand the problem here. Is WotC forcing everyone involved to cease all home roleplaying in favor of their playtest? Are they making everyone wait around sitting on their rears in between new material? 4 Weeks is really the attention span people have today? Honestly? You do mostly...

Iron Heroes, please live! If anyone from the now defunct old montecook.com Iron Heroes message boards happens by this, or anyone with any knowledge of it, please post if there's anywhere to go now. Anybody's blog or something where a lot of us frequent where one could still talk IH if need be...

If anyone from the now defunct old montecook.com Iron Heroes message boards happens by this, or anyone with any knowledge of it, please post if there's anywhere to go now. Anybody's blog or something where a lot of us frequent where one could still talk IH if need be, hear from crow about 2E if...

What I don't really know is, What's the check like, actually? My rogue with an 18 dex can succeed at more stuff without rolling than my barbarian with a 12. But when encountering something they both have to roll against, what is the actual check? What bonus does my ability score translate too...

Wondering if anyone has ever used these chase rules, and the foot-chase expansion to it, and what your experiences were with it.

If the assassin is going to be a class unto itself, I think other things mentioned such as cavalier should be its own class as well. One of many things interesting to see and discuss in open playtest will be what is a class and what's a theme. Regardless of which, or a third option entirely, a...

Might have been nice if they would have let Sean K. Reynolds back in as well. What about Skip Williams? Thoughts on him? He was a huge name for a long time.

warrior abilities Since i love the ideals behind so much of it, I have to bring up the thought of using some sort of Iron Heroes type of Token mechanic for limiting and setting frequency for non-spellcaster abilities. It's a great idea, and much more believable than just generic and arbitrary...

Does anyone know of a good online rescourse for 1890's steam ship speeds? Or just know the answer to the following question: Our party travelled from England, I think Dover, to Alexandria, Egypt by steamship. How long would that trip have taken in 1890? Any good rescources for this sort of...

What about the actual kill though? The target him/herself. Obviously some things will be situational, like using summoning spells to handle guards around the target. But what spells to actually take the target out? Debilitating spells to set up a coup de grace? How to do that, for instance? I...