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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 91366" data-attributes="member: 871">Well, since I still have some of the 1st & 2nd Ed. Lankhmar stuff lanying around, as well as all of the stories, I figured to work on a Lankhmar conversion just for the heck of it.  Here's a few things I've brainstormed so far, & I would really appreciate some feedback on it.Races Available:*Human: have a "generic" human for the majortiy of Lankhmarts & many other cosmopolitan folk, & additional info for specific cultures, ala the Clan Humans from OA.  Cultures I've considered are pretty much from the 2nd Ed. book: Northerners, Land Mingols, Sea Mingols, residents of Klesh, & Eevanmarenseers.*Nehwonian Ghoul: essentially human, except for the transperent flesh & visible skeleton.  Not sure how to work out their benefits from this attribute from 2nd Ed. to 3rd.*Additional Races: I thought that, for a bit more liberal Nehwon setting (for some who might see the low-magic setting to be a bit restrictive), I'd include stats for creating characters of non-human races.  Maybe include a guideline rule to restrict the # of non-human members of the group to half or a quarter of the group's size (1 or 2 of a 4 member group, for example).  The races I've considered including are:     *Ice Gnomes     *Half-Elves (originally based on the appearance of "winter elves" on the 1st Ed. encounter charts for Nehwon in Deities & Demigods.     *Half-Orcs (only for a "liberal" version of Lankhmar---the end result of some evil wizard's experiements)     *Spirit Folk (possibly the end result of a dalliance between some feminine nature spirit & mortal adventurer).*NPC Races: I also considered providing info for races available for NPCs, either for weird allies or supernatural opponents for the party to face.  Genasi, Tieflings, & Aasimar for something supernatural, modified Nezumi stats for human-size rats from Lankhmar Below, info for Simorgyans, Invisibles of Stardock, humans from Quarmal, & maybe a few other creatures.Classes Available:*Unchanged Classes: Barbarian, Fighter, Monk, Rogue.*Modified Classes: Bards & Rangers---need to give them suitable replacements for complete loss of spellcasting ability.*Forbidden Classes: OA classes (pre-samurai Asian-style cultures, like the Mongols), Cleric, Druid, Paladin (too many abilities would have to be removed/changed to work in Lankhmar), Psion (see NPC Classes), Psychic Warrior, Sorcerer, Wizard.*New Classes: Black Mage, White Mage.  I was thinking of how magic sort of worked in Nehwon, & I really don't recall the use of spellbooks.  I figured on basing these 2 classes on sorcerers, but with a few changes, like multiclassing restrictions (forbidding multiclassing, with the exception of certain prestige classes after a certain level), different spell lists (an arcane list of cleric/druid/shaman spells for the white mage; a sorcerer/wizard/wu jen style list for the black mage), AL requirements, potential "school" spell lists, ala the OA Shugenja, plus a few other things.*Prestige Classes: A few from 3rd Ed. could work (like the Duelist), some would need to be modified if not reinvented (the Assassin for members of the Slayers' Guild), as well as a few new prestige classes: Elemental Mages (different from what's in tome & Blood---it would include Ice as a path instead of having it be a part of Water; maybe include Wood & Metal as well), Lankhmar Guild Thieves, Priests for various deities of Nehwon (sorta based on how priests were designed in the 2nd Ed. Lankhmar rules), etc.*NPC Classes: Aristocrats, Commoners, Experts, & Warriors would be available.  Adepts would not---might use them as part of the design element for white/black mages.  Maybe allow Psion as an NPC class for humans of Quarmal.Magic:*PCs can only use arcane magic---no divine magic.  The gods are more prone to punish than reward their followers.  A few opponents, OTOH, would be exclusively divine magic.*Not sure of increasing casting times: maybe provide such rules for a more conservative Nehwon game.  Require mages to have at least a spell component pouch to cast spells (& maybe a holy symbol to boot, though the magic's still arcane).*Maybe provide rules for placing caps on the total plusses a magical item can have: maybe up to +6 in bonuses/abilities instead of +10.  Allow for PCs to come across more masterwork items as treasure, or even rare alloys which simulate materials such as darkwood, mithral, or adamantine.Well, that's what I have so far.  I'd really need to work out this system before I attempt to build characters w/ it.  I can only guess at what the Twain would be:*Fafhrd, NG male Northerner-human barbarian/bard (maybe ranger/bard, but I don't really recall Fafhrd fighting w/ 2 weapons frequently).*Grey Mouser, N male human rogue/black mage/fighter (maybe throw in Duelist prestige class, or have it in place of fighter).I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback you could offer on this.  Like I said, just doing this for fun, & I figure there's a few Lankhmar fans out there who'd might like to chime in.EDIT: Couldn't type in the residents of Klesh as listed in the 2nd Ed. book---filter doesn't like it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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