Comprehensive Lava rules?

[der_kluge]

I'm trying to find a good, concise set of lava rules. Anyone have any suggestions? Something that covers magma and super-heated rock is a bonus.

Thanks in advance.

 

[fett527]

Hmmm. Maybe you should ask Col_Pladoh.

Oh. Wait...

 

[jgbrowning]

I know of one product about lava rules that I think is awesome. It hasn't been properly reviewed yet by one of our esteemed EN World reviewers, but that aside, I think it should fit what you're looking for. Concise. Complete. Pretty much the final word, IMHO.

joe b.

 

[fett527]

I know of one product about lava rules that I think is awesome. It hasn't been properly reviewed yet by one of our esteemed EN World reviewers, but that aside, I think it should fit what you're looking for. Concise. Complete. Pretty much the final word, IMHO.

joe b.

i think the word you're looking for is "brevity".

 

[Teflon Billy]

I've read the rules Joe describes over pretty thoroughly, and I think they meet my needs really well.

Firstly: They are pretty intuitive and "common sense" which is where a lot of D&D rules assumptions kind of fail, so that's nice.

Second up: They are concise enough that they can be easily absorbed and slotted into pretty much any existing campaign without much trouble.

Finally: The brain trust involved in their creation is huge, so I'm relatively certain that they have been examined from nasically every angle before going to press.

I mean honestly. Gary Gygax, Robin Laws, Steve Kenson, Peter Adkison, Ed Greenwood, Wil Wheaton and Scott Rouse all speak highly of it...

My opinion as a EN World staff reviewer kind of pales beside this volume of praise.

 

[Shortman McLeod]

I mean honestly. Gary Gygax, Robin Laws, Steve Kenson, Peter Adkison, Ed Greenwood, Wil Wheaton and Scott Rouse all speak highly of it...

When you mentioned Gygax Laws, Kenson, Adkinson, Greenwood, and Rouse, I still wasn't sure. I mean, legendary game designers and all, but still . . .

But when I saw that WESLEY FRICKIN' CRUSHER was onside, you sold me!

 

[freyar]

Don't think I've ever seen a longer section 15 in an OGL, myself. And there were quite a few playtesters. Whatever happened to brevity?

 

[Piratecat]

Wow! I'm adopting those lava rules for my campaign right now! They're simply perfect, and not a bit too complex.

 

[jaerdaph]

You can finally check your hat of d02 at the door with this one product. The fun we had implementing these rules has neither been bad nor wrong. Equal parts fluff and crunch. Nothing nerfed, nothing broken, nothing got the shaft.

 

[barsoomcore]

Whatever happened to brevity?

Every word of this product was carefully chosen and not so much as a single punctuation mark was placed in excess of what the meaning, the sense and indeed the theme of the work required. Editors reviewed, scanned, considered, thought about, debated, even argued the placement of each and every word, phrase, grouping, sentence, paragraph and period. We who produced, edited, designed, wrote, thought of and conceived this product, work, offering (if you will), hold ourselves as servants, penitents, in fact, not to put to fine a point on it, veritable slaves of Brevity, that most stern of taskmistresses (ooh, naughty) and have bent our minds, our wills, and our thoughts to ensuring that Fire and Brimstone: A Comprehensive Guide to Lava, Magma and Superheated Rock contains no more than the bare essentials, with no excessive verbiage to be found anywhere within its contents, composition, or aggregation.

We cannot say too little on this subject.