Old Man Henerson

Thanks for the advice, I think I could use the fate points system to off set some of these critical hits at least until the PCs are powerful enough to take it.

Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about the setting the campaign's power level like Normal, Heroic, Epic, and Superhuman, that the Big Golden Book talks about, and how people can start with more powers and more mastery over their powers. I was wondering if people with higher power levels would have the benefits given by the higher campaign levels.

I actually found BRP Mecha on the internet just now so I will have to give it a good look through over the next few weeks to see how everything works. I will probably end up using your character scale system too since the first class of Mecha is just a few feet too high for what I was thinking.

Thanks for the support! If I am still on this forum by then, I will be sure to post a link to the book around here. The book in general is probably going to be Lovecraft Lite though just to forewarn you.

Yeah. I was looking for something more like Jedi powers, plus the power of a raw chi attack, and the usual psychic powers of cryokineses and pyrokineses. I actualy like the organic growth approtch of BRP, much more realistic than D&D, I will just have to figure out if I need to have the higher experience rolls like the others were talking about or not.

Would power levels like this be like changing the campaign level for a character and letting them start out with more powers or just making their current powers more potent?

No, I have not published anything yet. I will probably publish my first book sometime in the next year or two from now. It was stuff like this that inspired the book I am working on. It is about superheroes in the near future fighting against cultists and the growing powers of darkness as their alien god awakens on the Earth. I would basicaly describe the setting as Overwatch vs Cthulhu. The other thing that really inspired my book was the game Earthbound, which gets pretty lovecraftian by the end of the game. It is also a big inspiration in the campaign I am currently working on now.

To tell you the truth, what I trying to do with the game was use the psychic powers as a base and expand it into Easter Chi powers than anything else. Though those kind of powers sound more like they belong to the super power range don't they? I never played a very long game of AD&D, but the concept of leveling up does appeal to me a bit since that is what I am more familiar with. Still, it would take a long time to reach those brackets with BRP skill roles, how would you get around that?

Well, I first learned about Cthulhu from the video game Super Scribblenaughts of all places. It was a while later that I learned about who H.P. Lovecraft and his other works. I have never read any of the books, but even just looking up and reading about the strange and alien monsters of the mythos left such a great impression on me at the time that they inspired me to try and make my own monsters like them in the books I am working on. For something that goes back before Lovecraft's work and even inspired him, I recommend you check out William Hope Hodgson's book The Night Land. Despite its premise, It is a lot more positive than H.P.'s work from what I gather, which is more my style anyway.

That would be a cool idea to use the great wall like that. I I think it would be a cool idea to use the wall in one of the great battles of the story, though I do not know if it would be better to use it for the battle of Helm's Deep or Minas Tirith. The wall runs through some of the capital cities of China so it could be used for either. the plateau of Tibet would be a good arid location for mordor especially with Everest as a Mt. Doom, it would also fit better than my original idea to use Mongolia. I did not know the Mongols used to call themselves the Uruk-hai, maybe that is where Tolkien got the name from? They would probably be a good substitute for them anyway, though I am not sure how to make Saruman fit in with them. Those are some good ideas for putting in monsters though. Another thing that should help me is the Pathways Through Mountains and Seas book I got a while ago for my own writing purposes. As the literal Chinese Bestiary, it has some really weird monsters that can give me some Ideas for the creatures of the world. I will defiantly have to look up the Lin Kueie, they sound cool. Yeah, a Knight errant like a Ronin would work well for Aragorn. Perhaps we could even have a special guest appearance of Mulan in place of Eowyn, that would certanly throw off the PCs. Yeah, giving the hobbits all of Japan might be too much. Korea on the other hand might be more suitable for them. I am not sure about the katana, it might be too easy for the PCs to use its power and would defenatly be hard to hide from prying the eye(s) 😉 of the enemy. Speaking of which, for this kind of game would you give the players characters of the books for their PCs or would you allow them to make up their own and just let them fall into the story?

Now that would be a cool game to play.

I will have to look in to it. Thanks for the tip. Perhaps the character's power level could be related to how high their POW score is?

Not to mention a very easy attack bonus

Okay. Looking forward to getting them. Thanks again.👍

That sounds like a cool twist on the story. How did it work out? Did they take the hobbits to Leningrad? 😉

I did actually think that the setting might be better by putting it in China, 1, because I know a little more about Chinese myths and legends than Japanese ones, and 2, because I thought it would be a much bigger land to work with, potentially using the mongols as a replacement for the men of the East. I have no idea who to replace orcs, goblins, hobbits, elves and dwarves with. I will have to look up those creatures you suggested. Maybe Japan could be the Shire? The other problem I would have with moving the setting to china is that I could not make Aragorn's into a ninja, which would be the only suitable replacement for being a ranger. Perhaps mount doom could be Mt. Everest itself. To my knowledge China does not have any volcanoes and only Japan does since it is on the ring of fire, I guess we could make up our own though. I liked your suggestions though, they are all very good ideas. That is a cool Idea with the Celtic myths and Antony and Cleopatra. I have not gamed enough to start doing stuff like that but I have always imagined it would be fun. I am a little hesitant to try it though since I usually like to be more creative and think up my own stories rather than copy books and movies, but with The Night Land, and this Japanese Lord of The Rings, I have been more than interested in the Idea, so one day I may have to try it out for real. You are very right about having to change up some of the story elements, to make things more interesting for the players and give them more choices. I was wondering weather I should keep the plot and NPCs the same while having the players bring their own creativity and choices to the story or to just keep the general plot outline and have the players go wild on their quests, minus the obvious fly the Eagles to Mordor bit.

I was thinking of using some stats that the big golden book gave on the mecha that was on the back of the book, but I did not know if I should just take them or get creative and make my own. The mecha for my game would be 10-15 feet like in my other post to you. Thanks for the offer on the formulas, I would very much appreciate it.

Glad you like it. I suppose that the gold coloring on it would make it an easier target in the snow, though seeing that much yellow snow charging towards you would be enough to make anyone run in terror LOL. Sill, you have to live with the paint job, otherwise, you have to get used to the dull black and red of these jokers. Speaking of adapting clue into a scenario though, the big golden book had similar suggestions of how you could try to adapt your favorite books and movies into a campaign setting. The one in the book that caught my attention the most was a suggestion to take the setting of The Lord of The Rings, and set it in feudal Japan, renaming it The Shogun of the Rings. How would you go about doing something like that? And have you ever adapted a popular story like Lord of The Rings into a campaign and run your players through the story?

Anything is good, though I am now very sorry that it is out of print.

But mecha make everything better! Don't tell me you haven't ever wanted to ride around in one of these babies. Hope you get better from your surgery.

The Cool Sheet.

I see, thanks for the Ideas, I am not sure I am ready to leave hit points behind yet, I am was a AD&D after all, but they are a very interesting set of rules to work with.

Wow, I have not been back here for a while, a lot of good replies. Thanks for the rules set, it has a lot more things that I think the Psychic powers should have included like the ignore pain power. I wanted to include a power like that in the campaign I was working on too. You should check out the video game Earthbound, they have a lot of cool psychic powers you could use as inspiration. Thanks for the link, I will defenately be watching this thread now. It looks interesting, I might have to check it out some time.

Have any of you ever played Earthbound? It is a pretty good game based around psychic powers. Lot more powers that could fit either in the super powers list or the psychic list. One of the more powerful abilities would defenately be the psychic power shields that could deflect both physical and psychic damage back onto the enemies.

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