[Necromancer] Gygax's Necropolis Back from the Printer

[mythusmage]

Actually, we dont have any plans to do a d20 Mythic Aerth at this time.

Clark

That leaves so much open.

 

[Setne]

Argh!

I blew it. I know three people who went to the Comicon, and it never even crossed my mind that Necropolis might be available there. Now I get to kick myself for a couple weeks, until it shows up at the store.

 

[Grazzt]

Re: Got It

It's a good bit of work, and the chaps at NG are to be commended.

Get a copy and one for a good friend.

So does that mean you like it?

 

[mythusmage]

Nope, thoroughly detest the beast. I'm doing what I can to inflict it on people.

BTW, I have spotted mistakes and "hold-overs".

What are "hold-overs"?

Little bits peculiar to the original game. "Special Connections" being an example.

You see, should the party triumph against the villain each surviving member gets a special connection. Someone of skill and importance who can help when help is needed, and who could call upon the PC for assistance and thus acts as an intro to adventure.

Another "hold over" in Necropolis is "ethos" ("ethoi" in the one reference I've seen so far). In the game Necropolis was originally written for (Dangerous Journeys: Mythus) "ethos" acted sort of like alignment in DnD. For example, the Arch Priest Rahotep was of the Gloomy Darkness Ethos (Ordered, Malign). Not a friendly person by anyone's measure.

Then you have "mage", "priest", and "priest-mage". Each used in a definitively Mythus manner. (A PC needs to be a special person indeed to be a mage or a priest, and to be a priest-mage (or mage-priest) requires extraordinary ability.)

There may be more, but I have yet to run across them.

 

[Orcus]

I liked keeping those terms. I dont think anyone would misunderstand that a mage is a wizard just like a priest is a cleric. I thought keeping as much of Gary's phrasing as possible was a good thing.

Clark

 

[Grazzt]

Yeah- what Clark said.

 

[mythusmage]

It did give me ideas for the following prestige classes:

Mage
Priest
Mage-Priest
Priest-Mage

The bennies would be small, so the prerequisites would be small as well. Effectively, the PC would be able to cast arcane and/or divine spells as a character of the appropriate class one level higher. Thus a 3rd level mage would be able to cast spells as a 4th level wizard, but would otherwise be treated as a 3rd level wizard.

But what pre-reqs would work best?