(Discussion) General Part II

[Dungannon]

Okay, will do. The address I had was livingenworld@hotmail.com.

 

[Macbeth]

Ah, there are two email address, we might have gotten the hotmail, but the hotmail isn't checked as often. The yahoo group goes directly to each judge's personal address, making things much easier.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Dogs are more aggressive and harder to train. In addition, Dogs being able to carry people are rare to breed too. This explains their heavy cost. Since you could also settle for a pony, who only costs 30gp, I don't really see a problem.

Snicker. Dogs are pack animals, they are incredibly easy to train compared to almost any other animal. They also have a very plastic morphology, and breeding a riding dog would be trivial compared to the many other breed types out there. (since there have always been halflings and gnomes in the d20 fantasy world, claiming riding dogs would be new or rare is silly.) More importantly, dogs have a very short maturity compared to horses in addition to being smaller in size, and thus are much less expensive to breed and sell.

I'll accept a meta game balance type reaon for riding dogs being so expensive, but don't try to retrofit it to make it logical, 'cause it isn't.

 

[Uriel]

I am going to stay out of the dog/horse debate. My grandfather raised Blue-Ribbon bird dogs for something going on 40 years and I saw quite a lot of very smart )for dogs) and very,very stupid things coming from them.
Funny Side-note: He would give us his rejects, the ones with too much spirit or the 'dumb' ones as he saw them. They were often the coolest of all the lot, my fave being 'Buckshot' a bird-dog scared of shotguns (thus the name, and who wouldn't be scared of them!?!) Anyways...

Regarding the Magic item/tme thing. In short, I think a Mage making a few scrolls is fine. Someone pumping out Staffs of Power 'instantly', regardless of the Level that they have achieved or the XP that they pay I find ludicrous.
'OK, I payed the 5,000XP, the 105,000GP, and Poof, there's my Staff.

I could see enterprising Players creating 'scroll-factories' in such a setting, raking in quite a bit of dough, actually. I am not the sole Judge, however, and I have heard no objections from either of the others (I think CS was the one that proposed the Warped-Time, in fact). Not a big deal all in all, it was just my opinion.


-Uriel

 

[Uriel]

I am not pointing a finger or trying to single anyone out here,but...
( Doesn't point a finger at Kahuna Burger)

Are we going to limit the number of characters someone may play in Living Enworld at all?

I could see someone who grows bored easily, or who has CPCCS (Compulsive-Player-Character-Creating-Syndrome) making quite a lot of characters.

I personallly don't care if someone has two or even three, but I don't want to see someone with half a dozen characters involved with nearly every adventure that comes by.Now, having multiple characters in different locations in LEW is entirely another thing.

I say this to limit myself as well, for I too suffer from CPCCS (oh, the shame).

-Uriel

 

[garyh]

I am not pointing a finger or trying to single anyone out here,but...
( Doesn't point a finger at Kahuna Burger)

Are we going to limit the number of characters someone may play in Living Enworld at all?

I could see someone who grows bored easily, or who has CPCCS (Compulsive-Player-Character-Creating-Syndrome) making quite a lot of characters.

I personallly don't care if someone has two or even three, but I don't want to see someone with half a dozen characters involved with nearly every adventure that comes by.Now, having multiple characters in different locations in LEW is entirely another thing.

I say this to limit myself as well, for I too suffer from CPCCS (oh, the shame).

-Uriel

I think I was the first documented case of CPCCS. I've been trying my darndest to control it lately, though.

I think 3 PC's in a single "region" (however we define that) is a reasonable limit, and when we get to other parts of the world perhaps more can be allowed.

 

[Uriel]

I think I was the first documented case of CPCCS. I've been trying my darndest to control it lately, though.

I think 3 PC's in a single "region" (however we define that) is a reasonable limit, and when we get to other parts of the world perhaps more can be allowed.

Yes, Garyh, I hear that they have also referred to CPCCS as 'Garyh's Syndrome'.

3 in a 'Region' sounds good to me.

 

[Thels]

Dogs eat meat, horses don't. Anyhow, you still might be right on most accounts, I'm not an expert.

From a gameplay point of view: If you want a mount, a Pony is yours for 30 gp. If you want a cool mount, well, you obviously got to chip in more.

 

[Macbeth]

I agree to the three in a region idea, sounds like, unless Creamsteak has some major objection , thats official. Just thinking about characters makes me remember that I've been meaning to create a character for myself. I assume that when I get my char done I just have the other judges or maybe Thels look it over, since I can't really review my own char.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Dogs eat meat, horses don't. Anyhow, you still might be right on most accounts, I'm not an expert.

From a gameplay point of view: If you want a mount, a Pony is yours for 30 gp. If you want a cool mount, well, you obviously got to chip in more.

heh, I'm kinda a dog fanatic and similar to an expert on breeds and such... lost track of my Dog20 project when a similar one had a release date announced by an established publisher, but then I never saw it... Anyway, the carnivore thing doesn't have any impact on trainablility that I've ever heard of. Dogs are the most fundementally domesticated species on the planet. Its one of the cool things about them.

But aside from the overthinking issues, since the basic riding dog described is a light war horse shaped like a dog, is it fair to pay the light riding horse price for a non battle trained dog? (should mix the war dog with komondor till you get good cords for a natural armor boost... *goes off to breed-geek out*...)

Kahuna Burger