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Old 04-21-2011, 06:04 AM   #1
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On the topic of economics, one thing I did like from D&D 3e was the quick-and-dirty economic system -- how much loot you could sell at a village before you'd mess up the economy and have to sell it elsewhere, and what you could buy.
I've always just eyeballed this as ~10% of the goods of that type in that village. you can buy one of the 15 horses at 'regular' price, but if you want two... it's going to impact them and cost a lot more.
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Old 04-22-2011, 01:17 PM   #2
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I think it'd be interesting to work up a few alternative explanations that give the same dungeon fantasy setting paradigm.

However, the only one I can think of to start would be some kind of crusades analog.
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Old 04-23-2011, 06:58 AM   #3
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Nice idea Jürgen. You have my money if you end up publishing it. Also, scooped for discussion on a local forum.



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Personally, I don't think this will fly as either a GURPS supplement or a Pyramid article, based on my reading of Kromm's posts on settings for DF.
Could you perhaps point me to some of those? Would be interesting to read.
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Old 04-23-2011, 11:29 AM   #4
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Could you perhaps point me to some of those? Would be interesting to read.
I'm afraid they're not "posts about [some] settings for Dungeon Fantasy", but meta-level posts about why SJG is not interested in producing a setting or multiple settings for Dungeon Fantasy. The short version being "DF-style gaming is often played without a strict coherent setting, but if one is needed and the GM doesn't want to make it up, many excellent settings are already available."

Or to put it another way, the RP market is already saturated with everyones campaign settings, plus you can find various GMs notes on their own settings up for free on the internet, if you're on a tight budget.
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Old 04-20-2011, 04:47 PM   #5
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Years ago, I found a link to an FTP site with some RPG articles, almost all about AD&D although they tended not to admit that they weren't generic

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I lost the URL long ago, but it's possible someone else remembers it.
While I'm not familiar with that specific article, I think I do remember that FTP archive from back in the 1990s. Iowa State, IIRC. It tended to go up and down -- up before TSR discovered the Internet in late 1994, down when TSR discovered the Internet and became T$R, up again when Wizards bought out TSR and immediately decreed that the TSR Internet policy was asinine.

I'm pretty sure it's toast nowadays. The other possible site was one in Finland, owned by a guy who was a big Ars Magica fan and looked like a young Beethoven on a pogo ball (which was the picture on his web site), and it's gone nowadays too.
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Old 04-26-2011, 10:26 PM   #6
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While I'm not familiar with that specific article, I think I do remember that FTP archive from back in the 1990s. Iowa State, IIRC. It tended to go up and down -- up before TSR discovered the Internet in late 1994, down when TSR discovered the Internet and became T$R, up again when Wizards bought out TSR and immediately decreed that the TSR Internet policy was asinine.

I'm pretty sure it's toast nowadays. The other possible site was one in Finland, owned by a guy who was a big Ars Magica fan and looked like a young Beethoven on a pogo ball (which was the picture on his web site), and it's gone nowadays too.
I started using the Internet and Usenet in 1997, if that helps people who want to date the site. I also don't remember much Ars Magica material on the FTP site; if there had been some, I'd have been interested in it.
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Old 04-20-2011, 04:10 PM   #7
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I have to admit, I am very tempted to write this up as a 20 page mini-setting and selling it as an ebook...
Do it! Count mine as a voice supporting you in this. I'd buy it.
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Old 05-31-2011, 02:15 PM   #8
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I've recently started two threads over at RPGNet which might be of interest to Dungeon Fantasy players. This thread lists all sorts of archetypal Dungeon Fantasy adventure locations.
Now you just need to incorporate the idea of the mythic Dungeon and you will be set.

The basic gist is that the Dungeon (capitals and all) is an actual entity capable of expansion and regrowth. This explains why it can support repeated forays into it's depth as well as some of more oddball funhouse encounters.
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Old 05-31-2011, 02:22 PM   #9
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Now you just need to incorporate the idea of the mythic Dungeon and you will be set.

The basic gist is that the Dungeon (capitals and all) is an actual entity capable of expansion and regrowth. This explains why it can support repeated forays into it's depth as well as some of more oddball funhouse encounters.
You know, this is a good point... and I already have an entity in the manuscript ("The Forsaken Labyrinth") which is fairly to this concept. All I need to do is to enter a reference ton Dungeons into it, and it should fit perfectly...
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