The Immortals Handbook

[Fieari]

By the way I have just started reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman - has anyone read it? Is it any good?

I read up to a bit through the third book, and I enjoyed it up until then. It annoyed me that the main characters were on what I percieved to be the wrong side at the end, and I just couldn't take reading anymore. Your milage may vary, of course, and as I said, the first two were quite enjoyable indeed.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Fieari mate!

A neat little short story/explanation of Akashic Records you might enjoy: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library

Thanks for that, very interesting...especially the point about the akashic records librarians who you will be seeing in the Bestiary section of the IH...and they are very powerful.

By the way there is also a tv show (maybe Twilight Zone or Outer Limits that deals with exactly the same premise).

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya CRGreathouse mate!

I agree, but this argument isn't enough -- if all you want is a power ranking, WotC's divine rank system is good enough. With the IH you get more (or so I must presume): what one god can do for his followers that others can't, what one is likely to notice, how many weak ones it would take to kill one strong one, etc.

Of course, and much more, but such discourse (in detail) is best left to the IH itself, or was it just a list you were after?

Though that may even be an interesting article in itself...

"Ask not what you can do for your god, but what your god can do for you".

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hello again mate!

I read up to a bit through the third book, and I enjoyed it up until then. It annoyed me that the main characters were on what I percieved to be the wrong side at the end, and I just couldn't take reading anymore. Your milage may vary, of course, and as I said, the first two were quite enjoyable indeed.

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I have the combined (1000+ page) trilogy.

By the way S'mon did Andrew Whitmore ever get round to publishing "Demogorgon", the sequel to Fortess of Eternity? (Just checked Amazon and it looks like he didn't) I couldn't finish the excerpt because prolonged reading online was hurting my head. But what I read seemed good, and Fortress was a fantastically epic fantasy.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Of course, and much more, but such discourse (in detail) is best left to the IH itself, or was it just a list you were after?

Though that may even be an interesting article in itself...

"Ask not what you can do for your god, but what your god can do for you".

Actually, I wasn't looking for anything; I was just considering possibilities. I'd prefer the IH itself gets the work.

 

[S'mon]

I like Highlander, and I know S'mon likes Highlander - didn't you create a set of Highlander RPG rules?

S'mon can best answer this I think. I wonder do you still have those Highlander rules on your computer S'mon?

I used the Highlander AD&D online Netbook rules for a couple of modern-day Highlander games with my wife playing a German-Venezuelan Immortal in Miami, AIR. I remember she beat an evil enemy Immortal by running him over repeatedly with her Volvo (before head-cutting)! Mid-level D&D PCs in a world of low-level human NPCs make for good Immortals; the 3e XP system probably simulates Quickening fine, with the addition that the winning Immortal gains some skill points from the defeated foe, and maybe a Feat too.

 

[S'mon]

By the way S'mon did Andrew Whitmore ever get round to publishing "Demogorgon", the sequel to Fortess of Eternity? (Just checked Amazon and it looks like he didn't) I couldn't finish the excerpt because prolonged reading online was hurting my head. But what I read seemed good, and Fortress was a fantastically epic fantasy.

I don't think so, just the excerpt & synopsis which I sent you. From the synopsis I didn't much like the "everything is destroyed" ending, which post-Moorcock/Elric is a bit of a cliche. I loved Fortress of Eternity, unfortunately I lost my copy (along w several other books) after loaning them to a guy I then never saw again! I do have Fireflaught, the rewritten & supposedly improved version of Fortress - from what I've read of it I preferred Fortress.

 

[Iceflame55]

I used the Highlander AD&D online Netbook rules for a couple of modern-day Highlander games with my wife playing a German-Venezuelan Immortal in Miami, AIR. I remember she beat an evil enemy Immortal by running him over repeatedly with her Volvo (before head-cutting)! Mid-level D&D PCs in a world of low-level human NPCs make for good Immortals; the 3e XP system probably simulates Quickening fine, with the addition that the winning Immortal gains some skill points from the defeated foe, and maybe a Feat too.

That's one way to get "A head" *Sorry I couldn't resist saying that after seeing that!*

I really like 3.5 D&D, but there was soime neat things in that Unisystem version too, especially since NOW I can understand more of the basic concepts of said Unisystem (I grabbed the FRRE Witchcraft Corebook at DriveThruRPG; since it was free it was worth putting up with the DRM hoops). If you want to take a look at the Unisystem conversion, drop me an email, I'll be happy to share the netbook. Incidently I also like the way the magic system is set up in Unisystem, but that's a tinkering topic for another time

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

Actually, I wasn't looking for anything; I was just considering possibilities. I'd prefer the IH itself gets the work.

Noted.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey S'mon!

I don't think so, just the excerpt & synopsis which I sent you. From the synopsis I didn't much like the "everything is destroyed" ending, which post-Moorcock/Elric is a bit of a cliche.

Yes, but remember that wasn't the whole story presumably.

I loved Fortress of Eternity, unfortunately I lost my copy (along w several other books) after loaning them to a guy I then never saw again!

DOH! There are no copies on Ebay, maybe Amazon is the place to go, I'd like a copy myself.

I do have Fireflaught, the rewritten & supposedly improved version of Fortress - from what I've read of it I preferred Fortress.

Its not even mentioned at Amazon.