07-31-2012, 09:47 AM | #1 |
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[Basic Set {3 to 4}] CONAN
Idle {Idol?} Curiosity - as I'm putting converting Conan on a backburner - has anyone already converted Conan from 3rd to 4th?
Did/Would you keep the stats as written and recalculate cp or alter the stats to match cp* or alter the stats to get 4th equivalence and not worry about cp... *eg ST19 3rd = 150cp = ST25 4th... Or ST19 3rd = ST14 4th for BL...
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That said, that would only be a first pass. I'd also want to look at traits introduced after GURPS Conan was published. Weapon Master, for example.
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07-31-2012, 09:58 AM | #3 | |
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I do average HT with 10 when converting from 3e because I felt many things got more extreme HT stats in 3e than was really any fun to play out, but that's a personal quirk.
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I must see if I can find a handy list of 4e traits that 3e didn't have... Quote:
"Quirk" Added: Average 3e HT with 10 on conversion, buy up/down HP to match 3e. Thank you both - feel like I rolled a natural 4.
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08-01-2012, 07:34 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Basic Set {3 to 4}] CONAN
Yeah, it really only took one encounter with the "immortal" HT 14 mind-controlled wolves to convince me that things needed a little bit of toning down.
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08-01-2012, 10:31 AM | #6 |
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Re: [Basic Set {3 to 4}] CONAN
It took me years of running GURPS before I figured out that high HTs on foes tend to make fights a long, boring slog. I try to keep HT checks at 11 or below for all but the most significant foes nowadays.
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08-01-2012, 10:43 AM | #7 |
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Re: [Basic Set {3 to 4}] CONAN
It was 20 wolves in our case; my group of particularly game-design-savvy players put their collective finger on why the fight was going on so long pretty quickly (well, once it had dragged on long enough folks were getting annoyed). The last adventure involved fighting quite a lot of dark elves, who aren't really high HT folks, so the contrast was really dramatic.
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08-03-2012, 07:34 PM | #8 |
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Re: [Basic Set {3 to 4}] CONAN
CONAN used the regular magic system with some special setting appropriate spells. Its been bandied about on this forum that something like the Path/Book system might be more appropriate for the Sword & Sorcery genre.
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08-04-2012, 06:38 AM | #9 | |
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One thing I house ruled in 3e was multiple Vs. death rolls got trunked into one roll with each death roll over one being a -1 penalty which sped things up a bit and with high damage {relative to the targets' hit points} attacks made high HT a bit less potent .
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08-06-2012, 03:05 AM | #10 | |
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PS just read The Hyborian Age for the first time. OMG Conan was proto-English; I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Howard must have rolled in his grave at Arnie playing Conan - he would have been happier with John Wayne:) Imagine Burt Lancaster or Kirk Douglas as Conan. And the Nordlanders weren't even human - descended from yeti's...
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