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<blockquote data-quote="Takeda" data-source="post: 330937" data-attributes="member: 6977"><p><strong><em>Originally posted by Olgar Shiverstone </em></strong></p><p></p><p>Well, ... yeah. But just because Gandalf didn't use his big guns doesn't mean he doesn't have them. He didn't want to be <strong><em>too</em></strong> obvious and thus reveal themselves to Sauron if at all possilbe. I think that the characters in the FotR (excepting the Hobbits) were all of a rather high level. I honestly feel that they averaged (except Gandalf) about 14th level. That Orcs only have 4 hps in D&D doesn't explain how they were able to fight off hordes of them. In my opinion: the whole Hit Point dynamic is broken and Wounds and Vitality fixes it, but the Fellowship would still have to be of a high-enough level that the fate of Middle Earth would be entrusted to them.</p><p></p><p>That Aragorn couldn't track the orcs in your example could just be they dynamic as written in D20 is inaccurate, Tolkien didn't know how it was done, ... or far more likely <strong><em>"Artistic Licence!"</em></strong>.</p><p></p><p>Having magic use <strong>P</strong>ower<strong>P</strong>oints or Mana in a way that is similar to Psionics and scalable via extra Mana in casting fixes some of the magic issues, ... But again, that is just my opinion. I have put together some of my wrinkles on this subject that will likely be posted to the site on the bottom of this post as time goes on and I can find the time to write it.</p><p></p><p>To ColonelHardisson: ... Too bad we don't have teleconferencing that is cheap and easy, it sounds like your game is going to be a howl!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Takeda, post: 330937, member: 6977"] [B][i]Originally posted by Olgar Shiverstone [/i][/b] Well, ... yeah. But just because Gandalf didn't use his big guns doesn't mean he doesn't have them. He didn't want to be [b][i]too[/i][/b] obvious and thus reveal themselves to Sauron if at all possilbe. I think that the characters in the FotR (excepting the Hobbits) were all of a rather high level. I honestly feel that they averaged (except Gandalf) about 14th level. That Orcs only have 4 hps in D&D doesn't explain how they were able to fight off hordes of them. In my opinion: the whole Hit Point dynamic is broken and Wounds and Vitality fixes it, but the Fellowship would still have to be of a high-enough level that the fate of Middle Earth would be entrusted to them. That Aragorn couldn't track the orcs in your example could just be they dynamic as written in D20 is inaccurate, Tolkien didn't know how it was done, ... or far more likely [b][i]"Artistic Licence!"[/i][/b]. Having magic use [b]P[/b]ower[b]P[/b]oints or Mana in a way that is similar to Psionics and scalable via extra Mana in casting fixes some of the magic issues, ... But again, that is just my opinion. I have put together some of my wrinkles on this subject that will likely be posted to the site on the bottom of this post as time goes on and I can find the time to write it. To ColonelHardisson: ... Too bad we don't have teleconferencing that is cheap and easy, it sounds like your game is going to be a howl! [/QUOTE]
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