Badaxe Games - Grim Tales - Fall 2003?!

[Crothian]

very nice Lizard!!!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Wulf: A promise is a promise. Now then...Fred, you brough the pizza last week, which...

Fred: Thank God! Thank God!

Wulf: Let me finish. Which GAVE ME GAS. So I am not pleased with you.

Actually, as codified in Grim Tales under the Tasty Snacks rule, that right there is worth an extra action point for Fred! It beats earning your action points "The hard way..."

There is no limit to the depravity of the GM in these situations,so take what comfort you can from your extra action point.

GM's are gonna love this book.

Wulf

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Are you rating this reduced spellcasting in a U_K way, to compare with core rule spell casting? Are you giving guidelines as to wealth score contra gp amount?
and action points? Do they have a CR value? I know they do, but how much?

Re: Spellcasting, SR, spell-like abilities, DR, etc.

Even in a low-magic game, the CR value of these was left intact at UK's rating. Rather than recalculate the value of these abilities (a difficult task, given that the book cannot assume anything about the prevalence of magic in a Grim Tales game) they were left as is, leaving Spellcasting in the "worst case" or "base line" state of the core rules-- which are decidedly high-magic. Thus, if an error is made here, it is that creatures with magical abilities will be overcosted, not undercosted.

The most difficult balancing act was not in deciding how deadly spellcasting was when used against the PCs (that is to say, in how it increases the offensive CR of the adversary), but in how its absence affects their defense and ability to recover. As a result, rules are built in to shore up the PCs abilities assuming a low-magic world: More skill points, Defense bonus, improved Heal skill, the ability to strike true against creatures with DR, etc. Action points play an important role here: You can use them to increase your Defense, to heal a bit, to strike true.

Which brings us to Action Points.

Action Points do not have a CR value. Only PCs get action points, and as they are part and parcel of the PC experience, they are subsumed into the 1 Character Level = 1 CR paradigm. If the GM feels that action points are undercosted in his game, he's handing too many extra ones out.

Wulf

 

[Krieg]

Any questions?

Wulf

Only one...


Why are you here flapping your gums?


Get back into your cage & finish up Grim Tales so we can get our grubby paws on it ASAP!!!!

 

[Welverin]

Upper_Krust (Immortals Handbook)

Any questions?

Yeah, where can I find UK's book?

I ordered this back in November, despite not seeing an announcement of it being released, and have been eagerly waiting for it to actually come out. Now I just want it even more.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Yeah, where can I find UK's book?

I ordered this back in November, despite not seeing an announcement of it being released, and have been eagerly waiting for it to actually come out. Now I just want it even more.

I don't believe he has released it yet-- all the better for you, since he's now able to incorporate the recently-released-to-SRD Epic material.


Wulf

 

[Crothian]

There are many, many people waiting for UK's book.

 

[Von Ether]

Any questions?

When?

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

When?

Grim Tales will be out before Slavelords of Cydonia, which will be out before the end of April.


Wulf