MrJealousy

10 + 10 = 20 / 5 = 4m every second which is about 8 mph. Which sounds about right for an average person..

Actually, thats pretty close. In the BRP Movement Rates Table a sprinting man moves at 50 meters a Combat Round. 4 m per second equates to 48m a Combat Round getting you almost exactly the 'average' sprint.

I'd probably want to mix in CON as well as STR and SIZ but that does look like it works.

Or you could always ask Dustin...

all humans having 4m is a bit ludicrous

Thats very true and one of the minor weirdnesses in the BRP system. Move should be a stat like Str or Con (or at least based on something) rather than a fixed number for every type of critter. But I guess it saves on the math...

Or look at it all slightly differently. Anyone read Neil Gaiman's American Gods? Its been a while since I read it but the basic premise goes that the more worshippers a god has the more powerful they are.

So if you want to stat up a god, first you figure out the number of worshippers . Those gods with massive amounts of worshippers get all the truly god like abilities, chucking lightning around, coming back from the dead etc and have stats based on the number or worshipers. The stats of those gods with only a few worshippers look more human on a character sheet. Maybe they only have Epic stats in a game where the players have Heroic level stats. And if a god only has one worshiper then it has the same level of stats as the worshiper.

I always saw the wealth stat in BRP as a guide to the characters wage/starting cash. In Aces High I gave characters a Wealth level and then a randomly rolled cash value based on that wealth. For me it gave me a set of guidelines which meant that if your character was of a particular wealth level I would know approximately how much cash they would have.

I agree that wealth levels work great for generic settings and systems, but what the players really want to know when they roll up their character is 'how much cash have I got in my pocket!'

I don't really attribute much weight to Status in (most) of my games because that tends to lead towards a set of concepts aimed at countries and governments and politics and I (generally) prefer to keep my concepts small and focused on the characters...

Its tricky to kill yourself, even harder if you want to do it slowly.

Can't you do a seppuku thing? If one of the characters has said they will assist, they can be the one to chop your head off

I like bait and switch tactics too, as a GM it allows me to catch the players off balance occasionally. I think it depends on how extreme you are planning on making the switch.

If I was being particularly nasty to the players I'd make them movie stars or well known people on an 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here' kind of thing. The celebs are cut off in a remote location (with some skills that would allow them to survive by themselves) they assume they are being filmed and have to feed and shelter themselves, then your apocalypse thing happens and all bets are off.

Or, we had an excellent mini series here called Dead Set by a guy called Charlie Brooker which had a group of people stuck in a Big Brother house when a ZA kicks off. The house people thought all of the noises outside were part of the show until the zombies broke in. Brilliant TV, not sure how it would play though...

Excellent News!

I received an email from Dustin at the weekend and he said AH:NM was in layout which means that it could be available in 60 days!

So, this is a little bit later than a christmas release, but it does look like Chaosium have been busy, so I'm smiling. Its been ages since I even looked at the New Mexico book and now I'm really looking forward to seeing the hard copy.

Hurrah, glad to have you back Triff

Thats awesome!

...they would have helped me destroy the Dark Brotherhood, but they were sick that day.

Hey! I joined the Dark Brotherhood... You'll be getting a 'friendly visit' later.

A life outside of creating best-selling BRP products? For shame!

Ah, if only I'd done something with Aces High when I first thought of it 20 years ago:o

The real West had boulders that crawled across the salt flats

I've heard about this! Think it happens in death valley. I thought it was something to do with the temperature changes but wikipedia haas something to say about 'Sailing Stones'...

Anasazi get a big mention in New Mexico, quite an interesting bunch they were too...

Aces High was aimed at the classic western period, pre-civil war to 1900. But it was written with the assumption that, with a little work, a game could be run at anytime there were people on the continent. That's why there's a sabertooth tiger amongst the critters, thats why the weapon list includes muskets from the 1600's, that's why the indians get so much detail and mythology included. Ideally, with an unlimited page count and endless free time, I would have expanded this idea. Sadly, I have a life too:o

Balls!

Can't find any references to a .65 Nock Gun but I have found .52 and .45 'sporting version'. I must have imagined the .64... I'll update the list.

I included it in the revised weapons list because it is a firearm created after America was settled and I forsaw it as a fantastic weapon to scare the willies out of anyone it was pointed at!

The Nock Gun is a particularly interesting weapon which definately needs some kind of clarification. I especially liked the wikipedia entry which states that the reload rate, muzzle velocity and effective range are all variable...

I really like the idea that it takes 1/7CR to fully load it, 1/CR per barrel. That makes perfect sense. And the ability to only load some of the barrels when time is an issue also works really well.

Having just re-read the burst rules I guess that does seem to fit too, although I had only thought of the nock gun as either an area effect weapon, or probably more like a shotgun effect with scatter shot. Over distance the damage is reduced, up close you get the full 21d8+7

You may have noticed that shotguns aren't covered in the revised firearms list and that's because they're going to get their own little section, clarifications, steroids.

I do like the way you think. It makes me question the rationale behind some of my more spontaneous thoughts. But what you're saying slots in pretty closely to my own thoughts, which makes me happy. Kind of offsets the wait for New Mexico...

Or have I just not yet found the traditional RQ 'Increase POW by overcoming someone else's POW' rule?

Its on page 112 in the Psionics section "... whenever your character succeeds in POW-base resistance roll... versus higher POW... you should put an experience check next to POW... See Increasing Characteristics on page 186..."

Page 186 has a section on 'POW Gain Rolls'. Which does go into more detail.

Oops, just spotted this is the Legend Thread... please feel free to ignore me

Maybe this long wait just means that it is going to be fantastic...

Lasso appears three times as having a 10% base and only once, on the weapons table as 5%... Must have been some kind of brain stutter there. Like you say more common skills have a higher base %, that should have been true of Lasso. Many Thanks for spotting that. I'll add that to the list of revisions

I like the changes you've done to the character sheet, especially the categorising of the skills. Putting all of the skills on the character sheet was something I deliberately avoided, but having seen what you've done with it I may be revising my opinion...

Looks to me like this is an expansion onthe random armour points used in stormbringer.

While i can see what you're trying to do I think I have to agree with SDLeary its an extra roll I could do without.

Also, this seems to be a rule for melee weapons only and I would find it more difficult to apply the same concept to firearms. Leaving you with two seperate damage systems for all weapons...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Ye Hars!

There is nothing that even looks like a fairy in CoC V.

There are nymphs and dryads in RQ and Preservers in ElfQuest but thats as close as I get .

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I think the problem comes from the fact that hit locations are an optional rule. Not all of the rules in the book take into consideration all of the rules in the book!

That said, I think you have come up with a very good spot rule.

Sorry I meant Contents page, the index is way to long...

Aces High: New Mexico

_ContentS_

INTRODUCTION

ANCIENT HISTORY

THE PEOPLE

Anasazi

Puebloan

Apache And Navajo

RECENT HISTORY

The Spanish Campaign

The American Influence

Civil War

Indian Wars

Cattle Wars

Albuquerque

Extraordinary People

DWELLINGS

Hogan

Kiva

Pueblo

Wickiup

Forts

THE LAND

Rio Grande Rift

Colorado Plateau

Southern Rocky Mountains

Mesa And Plains

Great Plains

Mogollon Rim

Chihuahuan Desert

Weather Patterns

Inhospitable Environments

Exploitation

ANIMALS

Gila Monster

Pronghorn

Rabbits And Hares

Sheep

Snakes

Spiders

MYTHICAL CREATURES

Chupacabra

Mogollon Monster

RELIGION

Kachina Cult

Kachina Societies

OTHERWORLD ENTITIES

The Kachina

OCCUPATIONS

Comanchero

Seer

Society Priests

OTHERWORLD POWERS

Animal Companion

Animate

Blessing

Corruption

Fertility

Flint Wings

Goading

Manifest

Mongko

Refraction

Rejuvenation

Swallowing

Withering

SPOT RULES

Small Critters

Spirit Possession

Venoms

SKILLS

Craft, Flintknapping

Knowledge, Animals

Knowledge, Plants

Prophecy

WEAPONS

Ancient Weapons

Modern Weapons

SCENARIO

Incident At Alice

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

The Albuquerque Bank Raid

CHAPTER 2

Death In The Desert

CHAPTER 3

Incident At Alice

CHAPTER 4

Epilogue

Extended Play

Motivations

Human Encounters

Antagonists And Victims

Props

MAPS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Aces High: New Mexico has been uploaded to Chaosiums servers.

Dustin said that it was possible that it would be available for Christmas.

But they have that whole thanks giving thing to get through, whatever that is

Still its a good feeling to finally make the submission.

Who wants to see an index page?