OGL Ancients, anyone?

[CCamfield]

Did this come out long enough ago that any discussion of it has completely fallen off of the forum? Or has there simply not been any?

I picked this up (against the advice of my pocketbook ) last week and I think it's pretty cool. I'm a huuuuge fan of Greek mythology, mainly.

However the list of included monsters is pretty small. I'm wondering if anyone is interested in collaborating on translating some standard monsters to OGL Ancients.

I took a look through a copy of the SRD on my computer this evening, chopping out everything I didn't think was relevant, and this is what I came up with:

- most animals and maybe vermin (I doubt it's really accurate, but fighting a giant scorpion in the deserts of Egypt would seem cool in a Ray Harryhausen kind of way)
- bulls probably need a writeup
- centaurs
- the Chimera (needs to be rewritten for the classical fire breath + lion, goat, and snake heads)
- dire animals (at least boars and lions)
- dryads?
- giants (there should probably be one type)
- griffons (?)
- harpies
- the hydra (again, needs to be rewritten to match mythology)
- Pegasus
- satyr
- sphinx

Some other creatures that come to mind:
- Cerberus
- cyclops - both brutish and the master craftsmen
- Hundred-handers
- Stymphalian birds

 

[Sir Elton]

Hey, were is the great serpents and serpopards?

 

[CCamfield]

Serpopards???

You're right, there needs to be some sort of "great serpent" monster ... although the ketos in the book might do. Certainly for what was sent to eat Andromeda... I don't remember off-hand if the serpent that Castor fought was also water-based or could breathe fire(?!) - I do remember they encountered it at a river.

 

[Crothian]

so, what monsters do they have in tere?

 

[Sir Elton]

Serpopards???

An Egyptian monster with the head, neck, and tail of a serpent and the body of a lion or leopard.

 

[Greatwyrm]

However the list of included monsters is pretty small. I'm wondering if anyone is interested in collaborating on translating some standard monsters to OGL Ancients.

Are the mechanics significantly different enough to need a translation? I thought it was supposed to be pretty compatible with the core rules. Or am I mistaken?

 

[wighair]

As an aside, I'd recommend GURPS Greece for extra info. It has lots of interesting background stuff that complements the OGL Ancients material well. http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Greece/ The amount of GURPS specific info is fairly small.

NB. There is an good egypt book too http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/egypt/

Also the Mongoose boards seems to have more activity on this than here at EN world. http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=10

Also useful is a gazetter that someone has created...
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ccamfield/games/greece/

To anyone thinking of getting this I'd certainly recommend it. Check out the review on RPG.net http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10232.phtml

 

[Kiln Publications]

Kiln Publications will be using OGL Ancients mixed in with OGL Cyberpunk in the future for one of the Empire supplements for our Cybernet:2087 (TM) setting. That will be fun and interesting...

 

[trancejeremy]

I just got this today (I sold some stuff on ebay, and had some ebay money I had to use ). Looks really good at a quick glance.

I was kinda disappointed with OGL Cybernet, which was mostly just the d20 Modern SRD with some cyber stuff added (and some things tweaked). But this looks like it almost entirely brand new text, at least much of it. (It does look fairly close to the D&D rules, so monsters should be easy to convert to it. There is a lot of different stuff, like a new wound system and magic system, but that's mostly for characters).

 

[Shadowdragon]

I may be resurecting a dead thread here but I recently picked up OGL Ancients and am going to be starting a campaign soon. This topic came up in a Google search I did. I was wondering if anyone knows of/has made a web site that has conversions of creatures from the MM to use in OGL Ancients. How about a list of the creatures from the MM that are based on creatures from real world myths and legends (maybe even sorted by civilization)? Converting creatures from the MM isn't that hard, I just need to know which ones to convert (I may use some creatures that aren't based on any myth just because I think they fit). So far the biggest problem I'm having with converting creatures from the MM is figuring out what to do with spell-like abilities. Very few of the spells from the players hanbook have counterparts in the OGL Ancients book.