Narnia d20?

[Mark Chance]

Good ideas...

* If using clerics and bards, go through their spell lists and omit those that do not fit in with the Narnia setting.

That would be all of them. A consistent theme in all of C.S. Lewis's fiction is that the use of magic is not at all appropriate for humans.

 

[Azlan]

Re: Good ideas...

That would be all of them. A consistent theme in all of C.S. Lewis's fiction is that the use of magic is not at all appropriate for humans.

True enough. But clerics wouldn't be casting spells, per se, but praying for miracles. And, of course, all PC clerics would be Christians.

As for bards.... well, they would indeed be casting spells, albeit through their music. So, I guess that would make PC bards a no-no. Still, you might want to allow for them. After all, their magic is mostly non-violent and even innocuous, and its casting does not involve the "occult" rituals and paraphernalia of wizards and sorcerers. Again, you could say that the "magic" of PC bards is actually "miracles", related to the faith and heroism of their prayers and hymns. (You could pare down their spell list to reflect this.)

 

[Left-handed Hummingbird]

Would it be very playable? It certainly isn't as easy to create a Narnian adventure as it is to populate a dungeon with monsters and say, "go get 'em!" (I'm not saying it would be unplayable, simply that hack-n-slash D&D is extremely playable.)

I think it would. Obviously, dungeon hacks wouldn't be as prevalent as more investigative adventures, but I don't see why they would be impossible?

Is a deus ex machina a good thing?

No, I didn't really make the comment to suggest it would be a good thing. It would just happen. I think I thought I was being witty, but I realize I wasn't. Sorry.

Remember, too, that the world of Narnia is in fact part of a huge multiverse. There are other worlds than Narnia, and it is possible to travel from one to the other.

 

[mmadsen]

* Get rid of AoO's and the rules for bleeding.

Rules for bleeding? Do you mean the rules for dying at negative hit points?

 

[mmadsen]

Miracles vs. Spells

True enough. But clerics wouldn't be casting spells, per se, but praying for miracles.

A key aspect of a miracle though is that it's miraculous; you can't have reliable spellcasting mechanics for such miracles.

 

[hong]

Daily Slayers lyric post, part the 8th

To save mmadsen more gratuitous bumping.


Stand Up!
Masami Suzuki (Amelia)

Poketto kara afuresodane
Dakishimeteru yume wa daiyamondo
Kimochi bakari karamawarishite
Dokokachigau wakarukedo

Hayarino mise ruzuna kaiwa
Jiyuuno imi machigaenaide
Tanoshii koto nagasaretetemo
Daiji na mono mienai yo

Meirono mannaka akogare wa toikedo
VISION wo kaetara ashitani aeruyo

STAND UP AND BE YOURSELF! Yume wo tsukamunara
STAND UP! Imasugu honki da sanakiya
STAND UP! Chiyansu wa yosomishiteitara nigeteyukukara
Sukoshi gurai no namida no ato wa
Pika pika no ruyusho ni kaete
Akiramenai kimochi ga itsuka wa kiseki wo yobu yo
TAKING ON A CHANCE

Gurabia kara tobidetamitai
Dareka no fuku dareka no meiku
Jibun no iro sagashitaikedo
Kawaranaine itsudate

Kurosetto no naka ni shimatta
Nakitaihodo sunaona kimochi
Suki na mono wo suki to ietara
Kito umareka wareru yo

Kazaranai mama no kira kira shiteru egao
Sonna waraikata dekitaraiiyone

WAKE UP AND BE YOUR SMILE! Suteki ni narunara
WAKE UP! Jibun ni jishin mo tanakiya
WAKE UP! Raibaru wa dare demo nakute kinou no watashi
Koe wo shitari tamani wa naitari
Mainichi no haadoru wo koete
Ganbateru shizen ga honto no takara monodane
LOOKING FOR THE DREAM

STAND UP AND BE YOURSELF! Yume wo tsukamunara
STAND UP! Imasugu honki da sanakiya
STAND UP! Chiyansu wa yosomishiteitara nigeteyukukara
Sukoshi gurai no namida no ato wa
Pika pika no ruyusho ni kaete
Akiramenai kimochi ga itsuka wa kiseki wo yobu yo
TAKING ON A CHANCE


Hong "never say I don't do anything for you guys" Ooi

 

[hammymchamham]

Whats so exciting about having a game about a strech of land in the U.P. of Michigan?

 

[hong]

Whats so exciting about having a game about a strech of land in the U.P. of Michigan?

Hm? Wasn't Hell in Illinois, not Michigan?


Hong "or was it Finland?" Ooi

 

[Azlan]

Re: Miracles vs. Spells

A key aspect of a miracle though is that it's miraculous; you can't have reliable spellcasting mechanics for such miracles.

That is true. And yet...

Mana falling from the sky, daily, to feed the Israelites struggling in the wilderness, was a reliable foodsource for them. Nevertheless, it was a miracle.

Also, let us bear in mind that this is makebelieve. The point of an adult DM conducting a group of youngsters through Narnia, roleplaying heroic fantasy version of themselves, is for everyone to have fun and maybe to challenge those youngsters morally as well as intellectually. It is not (or should not be) the point to preach dogma or to teach supernatural realities (whatever those realities might be).

 

[Azlan]

Re: Daily Slayers lyric post, part the 8th

To save mmadsen more gratuitous bumping.


Stand Up!
Masami Suzuki (Amelia)

Poketto kara afuresodane
Dakishimeteru yume wa daiyamondo
Kimochi bakari karamawarishite
Dokokachigau wakarukedo

[Bla-bla-bla... ]

Hong, did you inadvertently put this block of irrelevant nonsense in the wrong post? Or are you being your usual obnoxious self, trying to derail a post with your ubiquitous, self-gratifying "humor"?