Cthulhu Dark Fantasy?
- Thread starter JoeGKushner
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kengar
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JoeGKushner said:
Take a look at Warhammer RPG (not the wargame). It is probably the "original" Dark Fantasy game system & setting. Chaos encroaches upon the world, horrible beasts in the wilds, evil cultists, gotta love it.
There is a "Warhammer d20" thread on this forum where the debate has been going on between whether WHRPG's feel would "port" to d20 mechanics. I am of the opinion that the original game's mechanics do a lot for the feel of the setting, and d20 isn't well-suited for it. Even if you didn't play the exact game or setting, though, there are a lot of good ideas there. Worth a read.
JeffB
Legend
Re: Re: Cthulhu Dark Fantasy?
Unless you don't count Stormbringer from Chaosium which predated even the WHoriginal boxed set that had an RPG booklet by 2 years or so.
That being said, yes WH RPG is a way cool setting....
kengar said:
Take a look at Warhammer RPG (not the wargame). It is probably the "original" Dark Fantasy game system & setting. Chaos encroaches upon the world, horrible beasts in the wilds, evil cultists, gotta love it.
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Unless you don't count Stormbringer from Chaosium which predated even the WHoriginal boxed set that had an RPG booklet by 2 years or so.
That being said, yes WH RPG is a way cool setting....
Jaws
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I was going to. But I didn't want the players to be limited on what classes they could choose. Of course, half of the players decided they wanted to be spellcasters in one form or another.mmadsen said:
So I added CoC magic to D&D magic. I had to keep game balance so it would be fair to every class.
Peace and smiles
j.
DSC-EricPrice
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This dark fantasy is something that interests me a lot but I think some type of mix would have to be reached on the magic aspect. Without better magic some dramatic decrease in monsters would be needed to keep heroes out of their homes while they recovered...
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Part of this can be overcome with proper use of NPCs who have healing abilities either through PrCs like the Surgeon from Broadsides or herbalistic rules from various companies. Of course the healing won't go as fast, but that's part of the appeal.
I'd probably knock down the Massive Death rule too. Probably make it 20 points or something. Make the characters think twice about fighting.
Of course might be a perfect tiem to run some more rules from Wheel of Time like armor defense bonus since most of these eras don't have full plate and other types of main protection armor.
I'd probably knock down the Massive Death rule too. Probably make it 20 points or something. Make the characters think twice about fighting.
Of course might be a perfect tiem to run some more rules from Wheel of Time like armor defense bonus since most of these eras don't have full plate and other types of main protection armor.
pensiv
Explorer
http://www.eldritchdark.com/ has lots of Clark Ashton Smith work. They say that his work is in the public domain and claim to have permission of his estate to host them on the web.
