The Worship Points System

[S'mon]

And, BTW, thanks for the further explanation on Thrin!

Incidentally Craig/U_K was not present for this campaign; it was played through from the POV of a chaotic-evil PC Red Wizard champion, Mortis Deathlord - in the first battle he was captured by the good guys and turned to LG by Celestia using a helm of opposite alignment, he subsequently led the strike team that killed Emperor Carnak!

 

[Upper_Krust]

Thanks poil brun and Simon for the advice!

I agree that unless you can get a good fast offer from a publisher, self publishing online of the initial version would seem the best bet for dissemination.

True.

You can get paid using Paypal etc.

Unfortunately International Users need a Credit Card. I don't have one at the moment (and can't get one).

Hence the reason I would have left this aspect in the hands of a publisher.

However, I suppose I could simply get you to handle the transaction Simon? What do you think?

On the copyright issue there's no reason why different publishers shouldn't publish different versions; U_K holds the copyright in the work and unless he transfers copyright in it he can do what he likes with it.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Who can I get to do the cover!?

I was having a look around RPGNow.com and all of the products have covers.

Does anyone on these boards advertise doing such covers!? (I may inquire on the General Discussion Forum)

I already know exactly what I want on the cover, I could certainly sketch it out for someone.

If I can't find someone, I may just end up doing it myself, should only take me an extra day or two! But I would be happier leaving this in the hands of someone with direct prior experience.

 

[S'mon]

Thanks poil brun and Simon for the advice!

Re Paypal - I have Visa & Amex credit cards, I guess I could handle payments if you need me to (taking a nice fat administration fee of course )
and send you a cheque every month or whatever. Probably worth contacting publishers right now though, maybe send them the contents list and a short sample, more if they ask for it. They don't need to see the completed work to express interest. You could refer them to the obvious interest here in EN World as well!

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Simon!

Re Paypal - I have Visa & Amex credit cards, I guess I could handle payments if you need me to (taking a nice fat administration fee of course )
and send you a cheque every month or whatever.

I appreciate the help! (though we'll need to have a private chat about exactly what you mean by a 'fat' fee!? Is that a technical term!? )

At the moment I just want to keep all my options open.

Probably worth contacting publishers right now though, maybe send them the contents list and a short sample, more if they ask for it. They don't need to see the completed work to express interest. You could refer them to the obvious interest here in EN World as well!

There are a few industry people I wanted to talk to before I inquired with any publishers. I will probably email them on Monday listen to what they have to say and then email potential publishers the week after that (which will be about a month before I plan to have the work completed).

 

[poilbrun]

There are a few industry people I wanted to talk to before I inquired with any publishers. I will probably email them on Monday listen to what they have to say and then email potential publishers the week after that (which will be about a month before I plan to have the work completed).

I hope it won't take too long to get it published... We might have the work in early march!

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi poil brun mate!

I hope it won't take too long to get it published... We might have the work in early march!

Barring complications the writing will certainly be finished in March (hopefully early March).

So *sticking his head on the chopping block yet again* expect it to be ready very soon after that (one, maybe two weeks at the most).

 

[Upper_Krust]

SUPERnatural armour?

Hi all,

somehow managed to contract the flu (or at least a bad cold) over the weekend - fortunately it hasn't impeded my progress.

Anyway, I wanted to ask peoples opinions on a matter. As you may or may not know the WPS rewrites (or advocates changing) a few of the Core Rules, notably: the Vorpal weapon special ability; applying Resilience to Golems; Challenge Ratings above 20; Fort saving throw for the Harm spell and Armour Maximum Dexterity Bonus (see below for more on this last point).

To that list I am considering also changing Natural Armour as follows:

Firstly my reasoning is that Natural Armour is often (seemingly) confused with SUPERnatural armour.

Take an outsider such as a Succubus. Its actual skin is not naturally tough, but rather SUPERnaturally tough. Likewise with most celestials including the Solar.

My suggestion is that Natural Armour and Supernatural Armour be seperated.

eg. A Pit Fiend would have Natural Armour +7 and Supernatural Armour +13 (equal to its Hit Dice).

Okay, up to this point your thinking so what, its still got the same AC.

Well, the difference is twofold.

- Supernatural Armour ceases to function within an anti-magic field.

- Natural Armour reduces the creatures Dexterity by a like amount (Minimum 10)*

*This is the same as Armour except that there is no minimum (someone with Dex 12 wearing Full Plate will be treated as if having Dex 4)

So how would you apply this addendum, simple.

Firstly the rule only need apply to Outsiders.

Start with Base Natural Armour

eg#1. Pit Fiend NA +20

1. Outsiders have a Supernatural Armour equal to their HD.

eg#1. Pit Fiend has Supernatural Armour +13

2. Subtract SnA from original NA.

eg#1. 20 - 13 = 7, Pit Fiend has Natural Armour +7
Reduce its Dex by 7 (Minimum 10)

If the Outsider has higher NA than its Hit Dice x2 (ie. Lantern Archon) then the remainder is added as a Dex bonus.

eg.#2 Lantern Archon NA +4 (1HD)
Supernatural Armour +1
Natural Armour +1
Dexterity +4 (+2 bonus)

Any comments!?

 

[poilbrun]

Re: SUPERnatural armour?

somehow managed to contract the flu (or at least a bad cold) over the weekend - fortunately it hasn't impeded my progress.

Sorry to hear that. I hope you're well...


Now, on to the subject at hand :
I can see why you would do this : it's true that a succubus' skin is not particularly tough, and I agree that it may be considered supernatural. I differ, however, about the magical aspect of it. I can't see why an antimagic field would reduce an outsider AC. Furthermore, you'd need to lower the CR accordingly. An outsider already looses its magical abilities if it is subjected to an Antimagical Field. If it AC also drops by 13, he's only dead meat even before the beginning of combat...

But there is something missing in your post : why would you do this? If there is a really good reason behind this, I could understand it. However, if it is only for flavor, I think it would be easier to keep on using the Natural Armor as it is now, knowing that it implies both a toughness of the skin and some supernatural protection.

It would also raise some other questions : what if the Balor from the example has more hit dices? Does his AC also become higher? Do spells like Mage Armor stack with this supernatural protection or not?

I don't think this change is necessary, but if you could expand a bit over it, maybe the reasons why I'm not sure about this change would become meaningless.

 

[RingXero]

Hrmmm

hey there UK,

Been following your posts for some time, and do like the changes your are planning, I'm going to have to question this change abit. While it does seem nice, and I kinda like it, I dont' see the necessity of adding this one, it seems like too much work for too little pay-off. Lets say I purchase your book, already I have to change a bunch of CRs, modify some golems, incorporate your feats/skills/etc... Now adding three more changes to the monster manual? hrmmm....

Again, I could see me doing this, but I don't think the gaming populous at large would be too happy. The simpler to implement the better. At most I could see it as an "optional" sidebar rules addendum.


RX