Filling in the gaps in DF

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

only 3 template were introduced, mystic knight, demolisher, and musketeer (saints are clerics and use that stuff).

and again for DF 15, if you use your thought processing super power, page 5 has those answers.

look at that, I am going to go have a cookie now :)

There were and are now more templates than that.

Also expanded loudouts for those templates to have be a good enough article for Pyramid #50 as are Assassin power ups. So I don't see why the other missing gaps wouldn't be either.

[zoncxs]

Originally Posted by lachimba

There were and are now more templates than that.

Also expanded loudouts for those templates to have be a good enough article for Pyramid #50 as are Assassin power ups. So I don't see why the other missing gaps wouldn't be either.

that first line is like responding to a post from 2000 that was about handheld 3d devices never happening.

when I posted that comment (about the templates not 3d handheld devices) only 3 templates were made that was used for DF, I know, as well as anyone else that follows Pyramid, that more was made.

and again, I also explained in that post that the Mystic knight uses the knight loadouts, and the other two has all the gear you can pick from with it.


Another way to put it, why don't you make these loadouts? write an article and submit it to pyramid, I would buy it at least.

[Jerander]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

Another way to put it, why don't you make these loadouts? write an article and submit it to pyramid, I would buy it at least.

Pyramid #50 has an article with loadouts for other templates including:

Demolisher
Justiciar
Mentalist
Monster Slaver
Musketeer

And a note on Mystic Knights about using the Knight loadouts.

[Stripe]

Originally Posted by fschiff

Where are Pirates/Mariners?

Who would want to play as a DF pirate when there are already DF ninjas around that would slaughter them?

[Anders]

Originally Posted by fschiff

Where are Pirates/Mariners?

DF is largely confined to dungeons, logically enough. This means that some adventurer types are not needed - Pirates is one of them (rarely do dungeons include seas). Equestrians are another.

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

DF is largely confined to dungeons, logically enough. This means that some adventurer types are not needed - Pirates is one of them (rarely do dungeons include seas). Equestrians are another.

"Wilderness" adventures and difficult travel are part of the genre. However, the character types in question strike me as at best modest tweaks to existing templates. For example, a pirate is simply a swashbuckler who picked Seamanship and Climbing from the existing list of background skills, while an equestrian is probably a knight with good horse skills and a really good horse (say, from DF5). Barbarians are already outdoor specialists.

To put it another way, a number of these character types are already there, or at worst near misses.

[PseudoFenton]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

To put it another way, a number of these character types are already there, or at worst near misses.

... or at worst are near misses that only require a mild variant lens or additional lens to work. Say, that almost sounds like a pyramid article right there.

[zoncxs]

Originally Posted by Jerander

Pyramid #50 has an article with loadouts for other templates including:

Demolisher
Justiciar
Mentalist
Monster Slaver
Musketeer

And a note on Mystic Knights about using the Knight loadouts.

I had forgotten which article it was that had these in it or else I would have pointed them out too :) so thank you for backing up my point even more.

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

that first line is like responding to a post from 2000 that was about handheld 3d devices never happening.

when I posted that comment (about the templates not 3d handheld devices) only 3 templates were made that was used for DF, I know, as well as anyone else that follows Pyramid, that more was made.

and again, I also explained in that post that the Mystic knight uses the knight loadouts, and the other two has all the gear you can pick from with it.


Another way to put it, why don't you make these loadouts? write an article and submit it to pyramid, I would buy it at least.

The Justiciar was out then too.

Articles that I want to buy versus write are not the same thing. Also generally the potential authors can playtest them through their own game. I am on the road ATM so can't do that for last 6 months and probably the next few months as well.

The whole DF series is basically /just/ a time saver. There is nothing in the books that any GURPS GM can't do. I think more time saving articles are a good thing. They also seem to sell well enough.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by PseudoFenton

... or at worst are near misses that only require a mild variant lens or additional lens to work. Say, that almost sounds like a pyramid article right there.

Rather than a new, specialized class, a Pyramid article with suggestions on transplanting the whole of DF out of the dungeon would be nice. A pirate/mariner isn't going to be much use in a dungeon, and in a game at sea is going to make it look like Pirate and Friends.

Rather than introducing a Mariner template, introduce a lens (or multiple lenses) to turn the existing templates into Mariner Swashbucklers (pirate), Mariner Knights (captain), Mariner Innkeepers (ship's cook!). Couple with some rules for shipboard action, and I think you would have a Pyramid article, or maybe even DF 25: High Seas.