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    Space 1889: shipbuilding calculations seem off

    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...
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    Space 1889: shipbuilding calculations seem off

    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...
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    Norse names for weapons

    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.
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    Has there been any sort of Bronze age setting made?

    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...
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    Has there been any sort of Bronze age setting made?

    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.
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    Losing Interest in the D&D Next Playtest?

    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...
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    Iron heroes? please read

    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...
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    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, hear from crow about 2E if...
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    On 5E Skills (aka How Game System Affects Immersion)

    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...
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    "Hot Pursuit" supplement

    Wondering if anyone has ever used these chase rules, and the foot-chase expansion to it, and what your experiences were with it.
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    What themes do you want in core?

    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...
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    Where is Christopher Perkins in all this?

    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.
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    Seminar Transcript - Class Design: From Assassins to Wizards

    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...
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    1890 ship speeds?

    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...
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    Assassin-wizards: The Broken Wands

    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...
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    Assassin-wizards: The Broken Wands

    In the Tome and Blood splat book, there is an organization of wizards called the Broken Wands that operate as assassins. I always thought this was an intriguing idea and finally may have an opportunity to play this idea. My ? is, is this really a viable idea for a wizard and if so, how to...
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    d20 modern:1st timer-House rules?

    Ok lets say we go with sub-dual damage for non-lethal onto the fatigue. Not being able to ko a foe real fast is something we are used to anyway from DnD and Iron heroes. Should we then up the base damage for combat martial arts to be more n line with brawl (and so the Martial Artist damage...
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    d20 modern:1st timer-House rules?

    1)Big difference we missed so far, or the DM hasn't mentioned it yet. So when duking it out in a barroom brawl, basically no one does any damage pretty much ever, since the avg. con is about 10 and unarmed damage is 1d3? It just goes on forever? Even the Brawl feats for better damage will...
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    d20 modern:1st timer-House rules?

    Ok, got ya on the BAB. But the unarmed still, compared to the Brawl d6 is weak. Like I said, most enemies last one encounter. So subdual compared to actual is not much an issue. The brawler draws AoO, but gets a +1 to hit that the martial artist does not, and honestly better feats with...
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    d20 modern:1st timer-House rules?

    We are playing a victorian era d20Past (to be more specific) game with a heavy Cthulu and Mask of the Red Death influence. Are their any house rules wiki's or other fan compilations on the internet? Google gave me, well, a little but not much. Some specific early problems: -Making a kung fu...
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