Points Of View: Dwarven Basing, Witches & Weird Warlocks
August 30, 2019 by warzan
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I’m pretty sure It’s Smith’s who did the old salt and shake.
Packets used to tell the story of how he put it in to stop his salt larder from getting too low.
What you mean off topic? I’m here for the crisp talk.
It was The song on the advert was…. ‘We love Smith’s crisps..They are the greatest’
I remember the singing spuds in one of their adverts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtkfE_OWSzo
Flame War Friday, FTW!!!! I vote for that, bring it on
“cog-leagues” XD
@avernos know’s his stuff and I agree with him yet again. Balloons were actually an invention of the British Press the French had disbanded their Balloon Corps a few years earlier but it was definitely a period idea that would be very cool to see done in some kind of movie. I think I have a way to do it without your opponent seeing your dice. Get rid of the dice, use Cards. Two Decks of Cards without 4 Cards gives you 100 Cards (Remove 1 of each King or something). Then You have 4 or 5 different “casting Sheets”… Read more »
As far as the spells themselves you’ve have to actually put the minis on the table rather than use blind tokens.
People won’t really go after the Number 7 they way they will a Dragon.
As for differentiating between Real and Fake well that could just be a token placed face down next to the creature.
I was going to suggest using playing cards.
War and economics – WW2 is often cited as being a major factor in dragging the world out of the grips of the Great Depression in the 30s, but it isn’t something I have studied or even read much about (though still could probably talk about it for hours, so worth avoiding bringing it up in my company). @warzan does have a point on rationing as it was also used to help control inflation and you could argue this was as vital to the war effort as it was to ensure that everyone had the basic essentials to survive. Not… Read more »
I remember there being an article in Wargames Illustrated about how to make Napoleonic war balloons… pretty sure I have seen others make them from paper mache and a normal balloon! There may also be a company that sells them, or at least sell the basket and crew… but I don’t remember who, or if I am confusing it with the above articles!
Dropping in quickly (have to go from work) I’m with @elessar2590 drop the dice and use cards. But I think it can be done more simple and not take so much space up on the table: There’s a few things to take into mind, before I start explaining what I have in mind: Each spell is either Chaos, Neutral or Lawful. And you are either geared during Chaos, Neutral or Lawful during the game. And this can shift. Let’s say our wizard is currently Lvl 2 Chaos and wants to cast Unicorn (which is lawful). On that unicorns card is… Read more »
I should point out that the above is purely for casting spells and working in the illusion system. For fighting I would opt for dice (just because I like using them). That goes for Gooey Blob and Fire spreading etc (which on a hexgrid should be dead simpel)
Glad you read and enjoyed my post but a table top version of Chaos literally exists as the Steve Jackson game The Fantasy Trip. Which was originally published in the 70s and republished this year. Wizard, the magical combat system of The Fantasy Trip, did require a bit of record keeping and it was just pen and paper. You would record the type of spell cast and if you wanted to, you could fake casting a spell if it didn’t have a visible effect. Like say casting a black shadow then creating something inside the shadow. Or pretending to. Or… Read more »
You should immediately go and play chaos and then report back if fantasy trip would be close enough to steal the mechanics for a tabletop version of chaos. I linked the emulator in the weekender last week. But spectrum emulator chaos will find it
@warzan “we barely keep the lights on”
Also @warzan “WE NEED COG FEZES!”
XD I know this feeling so well… excuse while I sort my 9 new old Battletech fiction books XD
LOL
Yeah the choice between FEZ and Lights is a very hard one to make lol
Of course it’s hard… you need light to see and appreciate the fez! 😉
Ataturk banned the wearing of the Fez in Turkey and only allowed the wearing of Western style hats in public. Any found wearing the Fez could have faced the death penalty
For the illusion casting problem the simplest choice would be to split the random roll from the result. The random roll is still for everyone visible but the finishing result will be chosen by the casting player. It is similar to the concept of throwing a coin. Here the contender chooses the result before the throw and if it fits wins. In my system you choose the result also before the throw but you don’t disclose it but write it down on a token. So the system works like this: 1. Pick the monster and place it on the table.… Read more »
Actually one could reduce the tokens into one by having the caster write something like
‘i4’ (illusion, choosen value is 4) on the face and on the back one would write the dice throw result example: ‘3s’ (the dice threw a 3 and requires the result to be the same).
Next time you do one of these, can you do everyone a favour and make Lloyd go to the toilet first? He just could not keep still.
You know, a Fez could also be a wearable dice cup….
As for show titles, I like “Pointless Views”. How about “The Pre-kender”?
This is obviously, Philosophy Friday
do you guys remember bloodryne game for the PSII when you kill things you pull mana from the victims.
Adding Witches and horror to WW2 on the table top:
first thing @warzan are you excluding Necromancy as that would be great to see your dead forces coming back.
Second great example for not the best film is Lincan vampire hunter where vampires are weaponised in the battle field as bullets won’t kill them. This is as part of there American rival war setting but could be put in to WWW2 easily.
Third witches can have weather effects like mist to erect line of sight and also healing.
Hope this gives food for thought
Make a box with a spot for two D 10s to go in. Make two spots where the will land in after you shake the box(so they don’t shift and move). The shaker looks at his roll. Closes the lid. Casts his spell and then he can reveal it at the appropriate time. BAM! The illusion box. Or whatever you would want to call it. The box of power! I’ve been captivated by that most of my life. ?
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I have an idea for the illusions, have tokens that represent a full spell, tokens for illusions and tokens for a failure, put the tokens in a bag and draw them, if you draw a failure you show it, if you draw a succes or an illusion keep it hidden until the relevant time to reveal it. As an example if you have a 50% chance of an illusion, and 20% chance of complete success, you put 5 illusion tokens, 2 success tokens and 3 failure tokens in the bag and then draw one.
Has anyone read the “Rivers of London” series? It’s abuot a modern cop in the Met who is part of their wizard department. All very low fantasy. in one of the books, the Chief Super who is the head of the department talks about a WW2 raid he took park in which involved him fireballing a Tiger tank. That’s all I could think of during the witch converstation.
I don’t even recall this show to be honest… but I do remember TURN 8!
I’ll see your British World War Two witches and raise you Russian World War Two “Night Witches”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches . Hard. Core.
There’s an RPG based on them here: https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/ . I found out about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cfJYUpD5bY .
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Or Gaming/Community insights?