Grognardia has a nice review of All the Treasures of the World: Gems here. Depending on the campaign you run, it might be a handy reference piece, but that is often hard to know without taking a peek for oneself. It is not the usual RPG supplement.
Faster Monkey Games has a free sample from the product available here. Check it out and see if it works for you.
(back to the Paladin grindstone)
Looking at the Paladin class, the conversion to Weird Fantasy shouldn't be too hard. Drop saving throw bonuses, detect evil, protection from evil 10' radius becomes self only, no undead turning and no spell gain at higher levels.
Lay Hands, Cure Disease and an Undead Power Attack (poor choice of attack name - consider it in progress) get increases based upon the "Die Pip" system used by the Specialist Class. I have an idea for this, probably won't get written up until tomorrow.
Only one pip awarded per level gain, and no power can have 3 pips or more then any other, which should keep them fairly balanced while allowing specialization.
Expo chart needs to be worked out.
Anyhow, that's a snapshot of my notes.
Hopefully this gets fleshed out better over the weekend. Then I'll attempt the Ranger ;)
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Garanton is a village like any other, except for five days out of the year when it hosts the Feast of St. Garan. During this time, fighters from abroad come to join in the revelry, mingle with other adventurers, and win fame and fortune fighting in the daily games. But all is not well in Garanton this year. Cruel orcs prowl the forest, dark wizards cast webs of treachery and deceit, and bat-winged demons fill the moonlit sky. Does your party have what it takes to ward off this evil before it consumes the entire town?
Blood Moon Rising is a Labyrinth LordTM adventure that is easily converted to other editions of the world's most popular fantasy roleplaying game. Designed for 3-6 characters of 1st through 3rd level, the adventure is set in and around the village of Garanton and involves a mixture of wilderness, dungeon, and urban encounters. Use your archetypical frontier village for more than just a rest stop between forays into the wild. Come enjoy the Feast of St. Garan today!Hopefully Small Niche Games isn't penalized for actually following the rules as spelled out in the legal document they are apparently abiding by.
After the cracking of the moon and before the rise of Atlantis the world was a place strange to the thoughts of honest men. The death throes of science amid the birth of magic sculpted new generations of conquerors who strode the lands forging civilizations of steel, sinew, and sorcery from the decrepit hulks of the ones that fell before.
Tyrannical wizards, amoral super-scientists, charismatic catalysts, and multifarious mutants battled for wealth, power, and honor. It was ten thousand years of barbarity; ten thousand years spent in the shadowy shells of past glories, hiding from horrible creatures that scratched and skittered for blood; ten thousand years of tyranny and injustice, ten thousand years of Sorcery & Super Science!
The Tavern currently has 48 Google Connect Friends / Followers. Let's hit 50 so I can randomly reward one of the 50 with a free PDF product from RPGNow.com.
I enjoy giving stuff away, so if you regularly pull up a seat at the Tavern, why don't you sign the book and possibly get some free swag.
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I think Goblinoid Games the first with the art free version of the Labyrinth Lord PDF given away for free and a version with art sold an a nominal price.
LotFP Weird Fantasy is the second OSR publisher that I know of that went art free for free, pay for version with art. (although Weird Fantasy's art enhanced set includes 2 books not in the free version).
Has anyone else gone this route? Did I miss a game or two?
Is this effective marketing? I suspect it is, but I have no way to know for sure.
Some people put little value on free. Does the fact that there is a pay for version that is essentially the same make the free version more valuable?
Please leave your thoughts after the beep. BEEEEP!
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Cartographer is a mapping program for the iPad that allows for downloading of maps to your computer for printing or Virtual Table Top use.
At 12 bucks it's 18 dollars cheaper then it's only competitor I know of (whose name escapes me at the moment).
The mapping is fairly intuitive... It took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to do a small 4 room dungeon complete with doors, stairs, pools and assorted trappings.
You can also use the map as a battle map directly on the iPad, and can move counters around on the virtual screen. A bit small for my use, but with a video out to a HD TV or computer monitor it might make a decent option
I only stumbled across this little gem late last night, so I haven't put it thru all of it's paces. My one peeve is that the zoom is not set to work with the ipad's pinching feature... Instead it uses preset zoom out /in settings.
Interesting so far, this might become a mapping program I can actually use ;)
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James put the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Deluxe Edition - Rules Book, The Magic Book, The Referee Book and the Tutorial Book up on RPGNow - $12.50 for the lot of it. The Referee Book might be worth that on its own, its just that good.
485 pages of gaming fun, including character sheet, an info sheet and Raggi's Recommended Readings
(short review of the Referee Book here.)
Some might prefer a free peek, and James is doing you one better... he's offering the Rules Book and Magic Book as a free download on his website. They are art free but the real deal.
I think it's awesome that you can get everything that was offered in the collectors box for less then $23 total in PDF (if you add in Tower of the Stargazer and Weird New World, reviews here and here).
Give Weird Fantasy a free grab if nothing else. It's good, well written, and making me think of house rules and adding classes - that's amazing unto itself ;)
The joys of returning to work after nine days away... this morning was painful just to deal with the alarm. I'd like to know where all the time went on my vacation, as I have little of productive completed projects around the house to show for it.
At least i've found time to think of the ways to stat out the Paladin and Ranger classes for Weird Fantasy. It may be a few days before I have anything ready to post. Damn work and it's ability to destroy free time ;)
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Driving has become a very relaxing way for me to think about life, love... and gaming. If I could write and drive, I'm sure the products would be awesome, at least until the point the car I was driving went off a bridge or into a wall due to my attention being diverted.
Anyhow, I'm really digging the Specialist class in Weird Fantasy. It is a great solution to a class with multiple abilities that increase with level gain. It allows for the individualization of each character, specialized or jack of all trades. It is very well thought out.
It's also a fine example as a baseline to design other classes with abilities, some that increase with level, some that are gained at later levels, or a combination of the two. I'm thinking of writing up a Ranger, Paladin and possibly Bard class for LotFP's Weird Fantasy.
If nothing else, it gives me a reason to reread the rules again, and the referee advice. Oh, and run the damn tutorial. Sigh. Where the F' did my vacation go?
