immortals handbook

[Necropolis]

Hi again

Hi Again

I didn't posted here for some time but don't forget that i forgot about you and your great book

Anyway any news on the new website ? when it will be online ?

Any news on when you will release the book ?

Any teasers or something till the book will be out ?

Thanks

 

[Gez]

Hello Craig,

What do (any of) you think of the Epic Level Handbooks extension of the Skill Tables?

The best part of the book, probably. I know some people object to non-spellcasters eventually gaining supernatural powers, but that seems only logical when you finally accept that the world is a world where magic exist. The rules don't suppose magic is an anomaly or something that should not exist. (And the few times when they try to go this road, they create the ugliest, brokennest stuff ever; like the Forsaker class.)

Maybe you don't know how to pronounce "hoolabooboola" the exact right way to shape a fly spell, but that don't prevent you from having supernatural capacities. And I would say that, given the number of magic item the character has used or carried, the number of magical fields he's been in, and the number of spells that have targetted him or included him in his area of effect; the mere argument of "but they're not spellcasters, they should have nothing to do with magic" simply don't hold.

In fact, by simple personal experience, they probably know far more about magic than a first-level wizard.



Incidentally, I'm working on a "BAB-based" magic system. It's not called BAB but MM for Magical Might, but it's the same principle. I think I'll post a thread as soon as I've polished the thing a bit.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Leopold mate!

Appreciate the confidence dude!

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Again

Hey Necropolis mate!

I didn't posted here for some time but don't forget that i forgot about you and your great book

Thanks mate! Its okay not to post, sometimes I think its a little silly having so much discussion on a book that isn't finished yet, but I am glad people are so interested in it.

Anyway any news on the new website ? when it will be online ?

Working on that means I am not working on something else.

The main annoyance is that the whole website issue just falls on the wrong side of "I don't know what I'm doing." I'm sure its very simple when you know what you are doing but at this point its a somewhat daunting prospect.

Any news on when you will release the book ?

...because I haven't got my fingers burnt enough answering that question in the past!

Any teasers or something till the book will be out ?

Thanks

I don't want to really release any teasers until I have the book virtually completed.

Once I have the first pdf finished I can concentrate on getting a website and teasers and all that side of things.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hello Craig,

Bonsoir mon ami!

The best part of the book, probably. I know some people object to non-spellcasters eventually gaining supernatural powers, but that seems only logical when you finally accept that the world is a world where magic exist. The rules don't suppose magic is an anomaly or something that should not exist. (And the few times when they try to go this road, they create the ugliest, brokennest stuff ever; like the Forsaker class.)

Maybe you don't know how to pronounce "hoolabooboola" the exact right way to shape a fly spell, but that don't prevent you from having supernatural capacities. And I would say that, given the number of magic item the character has used or carried, the number of magical fields he's been in, and the number of spells that have targetted him or included him in his area of effect; the mere argument of "but they're not spellcasters, they should have nothing to do with magic" simply don't hold.

In fact, by simple personal experience, they probably know far more about magic than a first-level wizard.

Not sure I concur with this last statement, but I agree about supernatural abilities.

Incidentally, I'm working on a "BAB-based" magic system. It's not called BAB but MM for Magical Might, but it's the same principle. I think I'll post a thread as soon as I've polished the thing a bit.

Sounds interesting.

 

[Voadam]

Hi Roman mate!



Absolutely. At that point we have to go beyond knowledge.



What do (any of) you think of the Epic Level Handbooks extension of the Skill Tables?

I don't have the ELH but the examples I've seen (either climb or balance on a cloud) seemed a bit silly.

Feats always seemed a better arena for supernatural effects than skills (using a supernatural cloud running feat that lets you make climb or balance skill checks to do so seems a better path to generating the effect in D&D).

Some skills will always be useful to max because they are opposed and you go against opponents who can be your equal.

Skills should be applicable to nonmagical epic games as well as to the default fantasy D&D ones, a sci-fi game could get into epic level skills as well so if you include supernatural effects from skills they should at least be labeled as supernatural effects so that nonmagical d20 users can know which effects are just really good uses of skills, and which are only appropriate for magic worlds.

 

[Chosen01]

Immortals Website

Quote: Originally Posted by Necropolis
Anyway any news on the new website ? when it will be online ?​

Working on that means I am not working on something else.

The main annoyance is that the whole website issue just falls on the wrong side of "I don't know what I'm doing." I'm sure its very simple when you know what you are doing but at this point its a somewhat daunting prospect.

Maybe you can ask Dicefreaks to be the temporary site of the IH. I'm sure they'll help you out.

 

[Gez]

Hello,

Sounds interesting.

You can look at it now. Well, most of it, anyway.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate !

Skills should be applicable to nonmagical epic games as well as to the default fantasy D&D ones

Isn't the term non-magical epic a contradiction of sorts?

An epic game is inherantly 'larger than life'. Not necessarily requiring the supernatural specifically, but certainly some sort of surrogate 'supernaturalism'.

Or can you think of something 'epic' that doesn't encroach upon things we don't understand?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Chosen01 mate!

Maybe you can ask Dicefreaks to be the temporary site of the IH. I'm sure they'll help you out.

They already offered sometime ago, and I may still take them up on the offer in a temporary capacity, but I want to have substantial enough material to warrant the intrusion upon their great site.