The Fantasy Trip

[Steve Jackson]

Oh, yes, search-and-replace is my friend. But one has to be careful. Everybody knows the story about TSR and dawizard, right?

Here's a section that got REALLY scrambled. Looks as though perhaps it was translated to Aramaic and back . . .

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[Steve Jackson]

And later we find the evocative fragment:

Who snakes?

[JLV]

I have to laugh -- I've been down that same road with official pubs that were scanned for conversion to ePubs. They almost always come out sounding like Japanese Stereo Owners' Manuals translated into English by a native speaker of Tagalog.

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

And later we find the evocative fragment:

Who snakes?

😂😂😂😂

I do. It's my nickname. 🐍🐍

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by Chris Rice

😂😂😂😂

I do. It's my nickname. 🐍🐍

In this midst of all this clamour for change I would like to say that one big advantage of having attributes exist in a vacuum (i.e. not modified by comparison) is that you know exactly how tough your monsters are and balanced scenario design is consequently a lot easier. That's probably more important when playing as a game like Melee than as an RPG but it's worth pointing out.

[Rick_Smith]

Hi all,
I bought a Chessex Vinyl hex map, and manually drew mega hexes on it with permanent markers.

Actually, I put in dotted lines black lines for mega hexes, solid red lines for Mega-Mega hexes (a collection of 7 mega hexes), and made mega-mega-mega hexes in solid black.

A regular hex I call a 'level 1' hex, a mega hex is a 'lv 2' hex, etc. Note that a level 4 hex (a mega-mega-mega hex) is exactly equal to a Lords of the Underearth hex.

This map is sweet. I can draw terrain on it with dry erase markers. It is big enough for the largest battles.

Finally, a lot of my area spells have radius of (for example) 5 mega hexes (like the Dazzle spell). Where the mega hex the wizard is standing in when he casts it counting as radius zero. A nice big map is a good fit for such spells.

Signing a contract with Chessex to make such maps would be a useful addition to the new TFT. (Or you could hire someone to make them for you and sell them yourself.)

Warm regards, Rick.

[wolf90]

Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

And later we find the evocative fragment:

Who snakes?

Not me!

I'm with Indiana on this one.

D.

[JLV]

Originally Posted by Rick_Smith

Hi all,
I bought a Chessex Vinyl hex map, and manually drew mega hexes on it with permanent markers.

Actually, I put in dotted lines black lines for mega hexes, solid red lines for Mega-Mega hexes (a collection of 7 mega hexes), and made mega-mega-mega hexes in solid black.

A regular hex I call a 'level 1' hex, a mega hex is a 'lv 2' hex, etc. Note that a level 4 hex (a mega-mega-mega hex) is exactly equal to a Lords of the Underearth hex.

This map is sweet. I can draw terrain on it with dry erase markers. It is big enough for the largest battles.

Finally, a lot of my area spells have radius of (for example) 5 mega hexes (like the Dazzle spell). Where the mega hex the wizard is standing in when he casts it counting as radius zero. A nice big map is a good fit for such spells.

Signing a contract with Chessex to make such maps would be a useful addition to the new TFT. (Or you could hire someone to make them for you and sell them yourself.)

Warm regards, Rick.

I'm with Rick on this one too -- such a "battlemap" would be an ENORMOUS plus to a boxed version of any of the games. Especially if you were to include dry erase markers, or even terrain features that could be placed on the map (megahex size trees, pits, or rocks, for example, as well as the more common hex-sized obstacles such as pillars...).

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by JLV

I'm with Rick on this one too -- such a "battlemap" would be an ENORMOUS plus to a boxed version of any of the games. Especially if you were to include dry erase markers, or even terrain features that could be placed on the map (megahex size trees, pits, or rocks, for example, as well as the more common hex-sized obstacles such as pillars...).

All that stuff already exists; it's called Heroscape.

[JLV]

Originally Posted by Chris Rice

All that stuff already exists; it's called Heroscape.

Have you priced it lately? If YOU have that kind of money, that's great, but I don't. Besides, as we've already noted, I prefer maps and counters to miniatures.