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KDLadage 02-21-2008 06:45 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Let me think...
  • GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 1 = 29.5 pages *
  • GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 2 = 30.0 pages *
  • GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 = 42.5 pages *

Add this up and you have 102 pages. Now... take GURPS Lite, modify it so that all elements of the templates listed in the series (every skill, advantage, etc. listed in the three volumes) is covered at a minimum level... let'a call this 48 pages.

This makes 150 pages... which is a respectable sized book... and could be made as a POD volume. Heck, it could be made as a limited edition, small-hard-cover volume -- DUNGEON FANTASY (Powered by GURPS).

I know I'd buy it.




* This does not include the cover page, and the "e23 ad" at the end.

demonsbane 02-21-2008 06:48 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by dravenloft
It's Tiny Tools not small parts. (...)

Indeed. Not for use by children under 3 ;P

dravenloft 02-21-2008 07:45 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by demonsbane
Indeed. Not for use by children under 3 ;P

My pardon. I wasn't watching that thread. Didn't catch the joke.
Anyone noticed the thing about the trolls' hair?

Xenophile 02-21-2008 07:45 PM

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I'll grab this tomorrow, but one thing caught my eye in the sample PDF: the "Coleopteran" nonhuman race. If I'm not mistaken, that's the scientific term for the beetle family. Do I detect just a hint of Mieville?

ziresta 02-21-2008 07:47 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
I loved it, personally. There might not have been anything in there I couldn't have figured out on my own, but heck, that's true for most GURPS genre books. I figure that the whole point of products like this is for those of who, for whatever reason -- in my case laziness -- don't want to do all the work ourselves.

And Dravenloft likes it because Kromm's racial templates are cheaper than mine were.

Captain-Captain 02-21-2008 07:59 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Need to get a new pack of paper...


Grumble. Neat trick. The Scout-Swashbuckler and the Swashbuckler-Scout are quite different. ;)

Captain-Captain 02-21-2008 08:01 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by KDLadage
Let me think...
  • GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 1 = 29.5 pages *
  • GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 2 = 30.0 pages *
  • GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 = 42.5 pages *

Add this up and you have 102 pages. Now... take GURPS Lite, modify it so that all elements of the templates listed in the series (every skill, advantage, etc. listed in the three volumes) is covered at a minimum level... let'a call this 48 pages.

This makes 150 pages... which is a respectable sized book... and could be made as a POD volume. Heck, it could be made as a limited edition, small-hard-cover volume -- DUNGEON FANTASY (Powered by GURPS).

I know I'd buy it.




* This does not include the cover page, and the "e23 ad" at the end.

If you can cut out some of Lite and get it to 144 pages, printers will be happier. And if you drop Lite and add a few other goodies, more equipment a few other templates and lenses and make it 128 pages, printers are happy and the price shouldn't exceed that of GURPS Mysteries POD.

Harald387 02-21-2008 08:02 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
All I'm gonna say is that my Leprechaun Charms are Mass Zombie, Volcano, and Burning Death.

I -ing dare you to come after my lucky charms.

Captain-Captain 02-21-2008 08:05 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Icelander
Before you lot start banging flints and looking for good fa--ots for the fire, let me say that I'm sure the book is useful to someone. Someone entirely new to GURPS might get use from it, for example, and my room-mate, who is trying to learn the rules, might try to use it to run a simple Dungeon Crawl.

But I didn't see anything in DF:3 I could use, unlike the first two installments. Hence my disappointment.

How many racial templates did you yourself design? Me? I kind of can see some uses for those races.

demonsbane 02-21-2008 08:16 PM

Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3 now available!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain-Captain
How many racial templates did you yourself design? Me? I kind of can see some uses for those races.

And some of them can be used too (besides as monsters) as a sort of baseline & starting point for developing races or creatures with more detail if I want to add some dimension for a Fantasy campaign with some Dungeon Fantasy elements.


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