Raleel

I think I might say if I want to play D&D, I pick CF because it's just more interesting to play for me. It gives the tropes that are comfortable, but gives a system that is far more exciting.

hrm... does this mean Monster Island is getting a Mythrasization?

I have not yet. No time. But will try to get to it! I have a couple of ideas on that

As a person who has recently approached a certain age, I empathize greatly. The ruenquest 6 Gamemasters pack has a nice set of tables. Probably could carve that up for a big 5 panels screen with a spot in the middle where you can leer our evilly at your players

i know folks love the physical books, and I can respect that. But this is a real advantage for PDFs - Large Font Red letter versions are just a click or two away. Unfortunately, I've yet to find a PDF reader that offers an Add Ligatures Like Mithras Intended button

Can we expect a True Ligature version and Non-Ligature version for heathens?

as matt says, training != what you carry with you all the time. However, roman soldiers appear to have carried (in addition to armor) shield, sword, darts, pilum, and vericulum, and perhaps even a dagger. I could very easily see carrying a sword, shield, spear, dagger, and bow if you were equipped for war. vikings did shield, sword or axe, spear, dagger. often they had multiple spears.

Oh, this option is in Mythras as well. It just offers more restrictive ones too

Pretty sure this is even in the rules under Daredevil and Acrobatics actually, and a good use of it

Actually, it’s not quite nothing, though I understand your meaning. Parry a big sword with a dagger, you may not stop the blade, but you prevent a special effect. Granted, it may not make much of a difference (remove limb is a very strong “special effect”) but it can deny him an Impale or a Bleed or some other definite fight ender. That and he may just roll bad on damage. I tend to view it as a diverting the weapon AND a side step. Other thing is, with missiles and shields, it’s almost certainly a hard block with smaller ones. Consider this option - you aren’t all that good with your combat style (say, 50%) using a dagger and a shield. He swings. A possible smart move is to passive Block with your shield, covering many locations, and then parry with your dagger. Sure, it won’t block damage, but it could prevent him from choosing location around your shield. Big old shield blocks a lot of damage. Big 4 location shield can block 60% of the numbers possible to hit. Do it the other way around, you are only blocking it 50% of the time, and if you fail, he’s picking whatever location he likes, preferably the ones without armor. Fail with the dagger, he’s picking a location that is not warded, but you may have some armor on there. Ill be honest, the passive ward with the shield and parry with the weapon didn’t even occur to me until earlier this year and someone else mentioned it. But it’s a fair advantage.

Correct. All the damage is avoided, assuming same or better level of success. Weapons are the same size. Even if it is augmented in some fashion. Weapon size (as a proxy for mass) is the big factor here. It's because it's a parry, not exclusively block. It's not stepping in and attempting to be a wall in front of the damage. Instead, it's intended to represent redirecting the weapon off it's line of attack. Thus, the weapon size represents it's ability to move the mass of the weapon away. Under the Parry action bolding mine. This is how you overcome the Conan vs Grey mouser issue you mention. Make sense?

Nod, had it at the first rest stop I was able to get WiFi at. Then read later that night. Very nice framework for supers.

watched it in the mean time. One of the Sardaukar shot Duncan through a shield using some kind of projectile. it did not appear to be slow until it hit the shield, then it kind of stuck on it and bored through. I'm assuming this is not in the book

https://sites.google.com/site/raleel/campaign-ideas/sci-fi/Holtzman-Shield for a start. Not sure when I’m going to get to test or run so might be slow!

wasn't there one ranged weapon that went through the shield in the movie?

this would be a good solution for mythras, but I think you still have to stay you can't bypass it with ranged weapons.

No, but it’s on my mind lately. I’d be using Mythras myself, but anything I come up with I’ll post on here and you can use as you wish. Ill probably start with energy shields, as dune is also on my mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit has a bit “One of the 'powers' of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother is her Other Memory: the combined ego and memories of all her female ancestors, passed on through genetic memory, and thus, up to the point where each following ancestor was born and the physical contact with the mother broken. The ego/memory combination remains a distinct identity within the Reverend Mother's mind, and is able to inject itself into her awareness at appropriate or emotional moments, though the Reverend Mother's ego is always dominant.” they can also transfer their memories, as seen in the movie with the Freman reverend mother dying and transferring her memories to Lady Jessica. I don’t think this can be just raw skills - seems a little odd that you would suddenly gain Combat Style (ancestor’s combat style). Maybe one could treat it as a sort of spirit - while you aren’t exactly summoning it, you could access what it knows. *reads* oh look, there is a whole ancestor spirit, even one that can possess the shaman/Bene Gesserit if you are an abomination like Alia. Also seems like it might have elements of a fetch, in that it can’t wander away. wandering around with a pile of these would be pretty intense.

I always wonder how much the licenses are. Like how much money for a deal?

So, how would you go about representing genetic memory? There are lots of examples - Bene Gesserit, Goa’uld, Assassin’s Creed’s Animus, etc. is it just a lore skill? Is it skill points for particular broader skills?

Fading suns deals with shields by having a minimum damage activation. So if you do under the minimum, it turns on and blocks it. There is also a maximum threshold overwhich it burns out - falls and such could trigger this because hits were distributed over the body. If I was doing this with Mythras, I’d probably start with this minimum threshold, and have a Minimize Damage special effect on a Crit. I’d probably also treat the shield as a held shield for the purpose of knockback attacks and bashes, so you could attack with the shield itself and push them back more. This would also explain why they use daggers - lower damage. There is also a certain benefit to edged weapons - if you get it through, your low damage could cause a Bleed effect. Blunt weapons would be interesting because they wouldn’t penetrate but could cause a lot of knockback and burn it out. Guns generally have high damage but not high enough to burn out, so would be neutered. Speaking of properties that could use a BRP version - fading suns, the warhammer 40k + Dune crossover

I also think there is d100 cyberpunk room. I think if I ever decided to take my time to write RPGs a little more seriously, that’s probably my first. There is a real thirst for cyberpunk, and especially after the cyberpunk 2077 trailer. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve fielded the “I want an alternative to Shadowrun” question with Mythras i started working on one, but it’s extremly slow going. Not a pro writer, and dedicate limited time.

might help you feel free to hit me up, as I've been tinkering with this a bit.

Since this thread has come up, it is out, and is quite high level play. World changing sorcerers and elder vampires and what not. I highly recommend it.