Oathbound - an overlooked setting?

[Ghostwind]

Hey guys, a little mouse told me you might see Wildwood on RPGNow as soon as Friday if not sooner...

 

[JoeGKushner]

Hey guys, a little mouse told me you might see Wildwood on RPGNow as soon as Friday if not sooner...

Interesting to see that many vendors are now doing the online sales prior to the print version. Hopefully it works as well for Bastion as it has for Malhavoc. From indications at Green Ronin, it's been doing well for them too.

 

[der_kluge]

This is just a funny aside to this thread...

I have an Oathbound shirt that I got for helping demo Torn Asunder at Gen Con '03.

Every time I wear it, my 2 year daughter points to the main DarkSun-esque figure and says "MONKEY!"

Just thought the Oathbound fans might get a kick out of that.

 

[DMH]

I have never seen the design for the shirt. It is a faust or an asherake? Or is there somewhere with the design?

 

[der_kluge]

I have never seen the design for the shirt. It is a faust or an asherake? Or is there somewhere with the design?

This one:

 

[DMH]

Oh. Uh.



The bound god. Or Boundy as Teneb coined over on OB.net.

Thank you for posting that.

 

[Teneb]

Or Boundy as Teneb coined over on OB.net.

Just be careful with that. He gets really cranky when you call him that. Almost as much as Israfel hates being called Issy

 

[DMH]

Heads up. WW is now at rpgnow!

 

[DMH]

Thread on OB.net for my comments and collection of errata for WW:

http://www.oathbound.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=106&forum=4&post_id=707#forumpost707

 

[DMH]

One section has a rather odd name for the chapter- the "symbiotes" are actually organ transplants so that the recipent gains some of the power of the donor (be it ability scores, ex abilities or senses). The basis of the name is that the original researchers looked at symbiosis and discovered the 3 main forms and studied how organs could be mutalisitic (symbiotes that help each other). Strange, but it works sort of. 11 1/2 pages of text are devoted to it- half explaination and rules for surgery and the other half on individual organs and tissues.

The reason it is in WW has to do with the required substance for keeping the organ alive and acts as an analgesic (sp)- a drop of Haiel's blood (which is of course, very expensive).

Of course with something like this there is a ton of math- organ removal, implantation and chance of rejection. But it isn't difficult math and unless one of the PCs becomes a symbiote surgeon, it is rarely going to be needed.

Overall I find it much better than the Fleshwarper in Lords of Madness.