Let me say up front that I don’t play third edition, and have no intention of doing so. Instead, I am working on a document with all the 250 careers of second edition, with some extra attributes, and I ran into problems when trying to streamline the entries and exits for those careers (see thread ht...

I did indeed miss that the careers have entry requirements next to the tags. Perhaps a mix is possible. Keep career entries, but instead of specific careers, give entry requirements in the form of tags. So to enter the Sea Captain career, tou need to have ‘waterline’ and ‘intermediate’ somewhere in ...

Oh, but I do appreciate your explaining how the system works. And going through that list of careers I found the PDF for, it looks like there are some subtleties n the system that are not explicitly laid out in the rules. Like the ‘iron breaker’ or ‘slayer’ tags to indicate a very specific and restr...

Second edition had these different levels of advanced careers as well, there it just wasn't named explicitly. There were basic careers, advanced careers which you could reach from those basic careers, and then what I named 'very advanced careers', which could not be reached directly from a basic car...

I quite like the 'interconnected mess', by which someone from a rural background could end up in a city-based or seafaring career. I just don't like that so many careers have exits to the same few other ones. The concept of career tags sounds interesting (although I have no idea how it works in 3rd)...

As I've told in another thread (Putting Dex back in 2nd ed), I put all the careers, official ones and fan careers, in one document - and added Dexterity and Perception as attributes. That brought a problem with it. You probably know that the career entries and exits in the Career Compendium (which h...

With levels of success, if you simply take the first digit of the roll (or first digit +1), you have the same probability distribution as with the official method. It may have a small psychological disadvantage - with the official rule, the lower you roll, the better, with this adaptation you have t...

Hi, I have a bit of trouble with this adventure. First with the setting and the names. Stirsflal, Knott Smaart - they don't sound very Warhammery or Stirlandery to me. Also, Stirsflal is a tiny village of no importance, but still there live halflings and dwarfs there (or at least their children). Gi...

A year later, but I now have a booklet with more than 250 careers (all careers from the Compendium, plus twenty-four fan-made ones), with Dexterity and Perception as added attributes. Careers are a bit less balanced now. I changed the attribute for a few skills, deleted Perception as a skill, since ...

I don't know if you already knew them, but I just found an artist who created several city maps for places in the Empire. All under Creative Commons. See https://www.deviantart.com/planjanusza/gallery

Secondly, you're going to need to re-categorize what skills fall under which attribute. For example, does the RangedCombat skill now require Dex instead of Ag? Or 50% of each? I would say that ranged combat is covered by Ballistic Skill :-) But I agree with your main point, that it will need some w...

Generally, levitation is not flying. You just rise above the ground, but cannot swoop or move otherwise. This would give the much more mobile carrion an advantage in combat. But it depends on whether the elf levitated before, and what you allowed then. Does the elf have a bow? That would give him lo...

Anyway, back to piracy: Or should I assume pirates just intercept barges in rowing boats, when possible, grab as much as they can, get back to the bank, and carry their boat somewhere safe and/or hidden? I think that that would be the most likely form of river piracy. A bit like modern day piracy on...

You would have locks to overcome a difference in height. If that difference is too large, you would have a series of locks. These don’t have to be close to each other, but they are part of the same system. For instance, the Julianakanaal in the Netherlands runs parallel to the river Meuse (‘Maas’ in...

The Long Way Home GM: Wim After a disastrous attempt to recapture Karak Ghard from the goblin occupiers, your unit has been separated from the withdrawing dwarven army. To get back to civilisation, you’ll have to travel through enemy territory deep under the mountain. An adventure for up to six dwa...

Yeah. I could start a thread "Why combat is less exciting - period" :-) Generally, in most RPGs it's where the storytelling ends and where the players start thinking in terms of tactical positioning, action economy, and so on, instead of in terms of the story. I like what Feng Shui does in...

Hyarion wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 7:55 am Wow, all of you did fine and amazing work. Someday, I'll have to see if I can get you guys to sign my book for me.

If you can make it to TobCon, that might be easier than you think.

(looks at prospective release date) Well, in any case we could sign your loose stack of printed PDFs

And if anyone finds fault with the background stuff for the Lore of Light (including Ashamira Dib), the Lore of Shadows (not including Grey Guardian Immanuel-Ferrand) or for the four new careers, your can blame me. Biggest regret: that someone adapted the Winston Churchill quote that I had snuck in....

Really? Am I the only one?

Does the Oldenhaller family have a coat of arms anyway? That would be something for nobility, and the Oldenhallers are mere merchants.