Suggestions for a Darktower / Grim Tales game?

[Angel Tarragon]

Sounds a bit like Deadlands!

 

[fuindordm]

Yeah, Deadlands was pretty awesome by all accounts. I never got a chance to play
it, but I nad friends who did who said it was a very solid system.

Their core resolution mechanic used playing cards, not dice. I don't know exactly
how it worked, but you were dealt a certain number of cards based on your skill
and were trying to make the best poker hand with them!

--Ben

 

[Turanil]

Their core resolution mechanic used playing cards, <snip> trying to make the best poker hand with them!

Sounds logical for an Old West game!

Anyway, I don't know Deadlands. Just vaguely heard about it, but that's all.

 

[Storyteller01]

Actually, Eastwood's character used a armored breast plate to help him defeat the rifle armed bad guy in the movie Fist Full of Dollars!

It was actually just a really thick piece of metal (don't think it was cast iron though). Another of eastwood's movies shows a bad guy put holes in the chest of a suit of full plate using a rifle. Makes a nice heart shape.

If your interested in using an one-shot OGL source, Fantasy Flight games has the Horizon line (a world in a source book, so to speak). They have a book called Spellslinge, whose main premise is that new colonies have been started in the 'New World'. I think it applied the d20 system to the timeline quite well.

If I remember correctly, firearms use ranged touch attacks, but the three classes gain initiative and dodge bonuses as they level up. The source even comes with its own undead and world map. Came with its own spell casting system as well. feat based, provided you took the one-level spellcasting class at first level (they were called 'branded classes'). The spell casting feats became bonus feats for whatever other class you took. It also comes with a new race, if your interested on keeping the players guessing...

 

[Storyteller01]

The branded classes would be especially cool, since you can't cast spells unless yur born to do so (or marked by the Man in Black...)

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Just out of curiousity: If you have Sidewinder: Recoiled or OGL Wild West, how has it inspired you to create such a setting for Grim Tales?

 

[fuindordm]

If I remember correctly, firearms use ranged touch attacks, but the three classes gain initiative and dodge bonuses as they level up. The source even comes with its own undead and world map. Came with its own spell casting system as well. feat based, provided you took the one-level spellcasting class at first level (they were called 'branded classes'). The spell casting feats became bonus feats for whatever other class you took. It also comes with a new race, if your interested on keeping the players guessing...

The Oriental Adventures Iajitsu rules could be easily adapted to mimic traditional gunslinger duels as well.

(Iajitsu skill gives bonus damage dice on the first attack in combat, if you win initiative. Kind of like a limited sneak attack. )

--Ben

 

[Storyteller01]

The Oriental Adventures Iajitsu rules could be easily adapted to mimic traditional gunslinger duels as well.

(Iajitsu skill gives bonus damage dice on the first attack in combat, if you win initiative. Kind of like a limited sneak attack. )

--Ben

I also use it in Dragon Star as Sniper Focus (sneak attack without the range limit...)

 

[Turanil]

Just out of curiousity: If you have Sidewinder: Recoiled or OGL Wild West, how has it inspired you to create such a setting for Grim Tales?

I don't have Sidewinder: Recoiled and OGL Wild West, and never said to have them. I was just looking at some of my western DVDs, remembered about Darktower, and so and thought it would be great to do some Enworld pbp set in such a world. I have Grim Tales and thought it would be perfect for such a game. It would be the perfect opportunity to do a game using thses rules, and don't want to buy still another game.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Okay. You never said that you had them, I was just wondering if you did. Which you don't. Thats fine. Anyway, I'd be interested in looking over your campaign once you have it put together, I'll be picking up Grim Tales soon myself (since everyone is talking about it, it would be nice to know the mechanics). I might be interested in running a GT Wild West game myself and would like to peruse other materials rather than come up with my own.

Later!