nclarke

FAE

No large numbers of hit points, static Health number usually in the 10-15 range. Weapon damage averages about 5 per hit. Combat is deadly and healing almost non-existent. It's nothing like D&D or Pathfinder and requires a very different style of play.

Having a few years of D&D and Pathfinder may not prepare you for what will be a completely different game that is far more gritty and unforgiving. Still come back if you have issues.

OK let's see if we can make it clearer. Most games have a set of core rules and books with various settings. These settings books contain setting specific rules and sometimes at least a basic or introductory adventure. The core rules are Basic Role Playing by Chaosium and the term basic may have confused you as the BRP book (BGB) is some hundreds of pages long. The quickstart rules either from Chaosium or DriveThru RPG will get you going but don't necessarily contain things like comprehensive character generation or many of the rules in the full book although they may contain some pre-generated characters for the introductory adventure within the Quickstart rules (sometimes there is one and sometimes not). According to this review of Mythic Icelend it suggest that you need the Basic Roleplying book for complete character generation so obviously Mythic Iceland has some special rules but relies on the core book for many details. The review does say that getting the quickstart rules will be good enough to use for the setting. The review suggest to me that this isn't necessarily a book for a newbie so you may find some things difficult to deal with unless you have a good amount of tabletop RPG experience (and the fact that you mention school seems to me to possible indicate you may be fairly new to this type of game). Come back and ask questions if you need help.

Asking a group to 'halt the terrorist attacks' is surely Service - you want them to perform a Service for you.

You are correct in that there are two parts /sides to a social conflict. Your two groups trying to persuade each other I'd run as two separate conflicts to increase the range of possible outcomes (both succeed, neither succeed or one side does). Each side 'attacks' with their own argument and 'defends against the other's argument (Monte Python jokes aside). I'm missing your example or it isn't clearly delineated in the thread. If those four Objectives, and they fit most of the situations I thought of, don't fit then add some more. I mean to say what other Objectives do you think need adding that cannot be subsumed into one of those four?

Here's what I did based mostly on Green Ronin's ASoIaF system. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwzePBsqT0NFfk5vVDVYN1J5d0pRYnpZY09hS0RUMWVHM0M1Sk9iR25QXzB1Y2JMQi0xaFE&usp=sharing

There are also some in the Korantia books as well, probably a cross between S&S and Classic Greek. Mostly CS are grouped (in terms of their description) in the character gen section or under the descriptions of the arae of city in the geography areas of a particular book. They may be under particular NPC's if they are the sole user of a CS.

Not that I know of. Apart from the ones in the core rules they tend to be setting specific i.e. the ones in Monster Island are designed to give a Swords & Sorcery feel, the ones in Mythic Britain are designed for warfare in the early medieval period and so on.

Haven't got around to the testing of these options as I've been running a FAE game for teh past 3 months.

Sounds like tremendous fun and very well researched for a setting.

Lulu would be your friend for producing a hard copy (soft or hard bound) from a pdf. If the author submits it to Lulu and it's structured right then they can offer it at a specific price to purchasers and supply a voucher so they'd get a hard copy from whichever Lulu print plat is closest to them avoiding high shipping costs.

There's a bit in Arms and Equipment of Legend for MGP Legend that has various sorts of arrow heads with mods to teh basic arrow stats.

I've used 'This Very Ground' from Iron Ivan Games for F&I War skirmish gaming with miniatures, but not the Ganesha set. A friend used their 'Song of Blades' set for fantasy skirmish gaming and heavily modified them to suit his games.

It's nice to see a publisher using innovative methods to avoid high shipping costs. The Lulu thing is great. I got a copy of Essentials via that route and had it in my hands in the UK three or four days after i placed the order. The quality of the hard copy is perfectly fine, although I haven't used it at the table (it's a player backup for my HC RQ6). Bundling the PDF is definitely the way forward as it is so easy to produce player handouts using copy and paste or printing a couple of pages. Kudos to DM for being there for the fans.

Yep, I see it.

You are probably going to find that hard. Everyone clamours to have their own special snowflake game added. You'd have better luck trying to get BRP added as a published game system rather than something generic. The issue seems to be that you need a certain volume of games being played before they'll consider a separate entry and getting games in play without a category is hard.

I think you mean ubiquitous rather than iniquitous although Spirit magic can be that as well. :-)

You could check over at MGP but IIRC the conversion was done by someone unfamiliar with the Legend system and it was his first conversion to Legend to boot. I suspect that it will not get an update as MGP are a little slapdash in correcting the numerous errata found in their products.

I didn't use APPS as a search term. Try initiative tracker or terms like that, combat tracker or RPG tools.

I just did a quick search and came up with a crap tonne of options, mostly for ipad with some for Android. What is it that doesn't allow you to use any of these, some are so straightforward they can easily be used for any game.

No it's a printable sheet for the GM to keep track of things and it's a free download IIRC. The Encounter thingie is a fan project mostly for Glorantha type games with extra stuff for the released material like Meeros.

RQ6 has one that could be adjusted to suit.

Not BRP and not 18th century but Duty and Honour about being a soldier in Welington's Army might be hackable into French and Indian Wars or other Seven Years War spheres. http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14198.phtml

There's a set of rules covering 18th century investigations by the same team (Cakebread and Walton) with some adventures that your interests may find fall into your field.