Troll Lord Games

<t>I'm a bit behind on my reading, so forgive me the fact that this refers to a fall 2007 issue.<br/> <br/> Steve, you nailed it in your article on "Brevity".<br/> <br/> So many times we've sat through module intros that are so painfully long and flowery, falling asleep as the GM's voice drones on a...

Sounds awesome!

I'm looking forward to seeing this at the LGGC!

Will the author be there?

This is great news!

Congradulations to both sides.

Jim, I have a short poem for you, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

<r>I just had a chance to listen to "The Dio Years" Black Sabbath compilation album (the reason for the current tour).<br/> <br/> In addition to the predictable stuff, there are three new tracks on the CD - The Devil Cried, Shadow of the Wind and Ear in the Wall.<br/> <br/> They played the first two...

Mike Frank wrote: That show sold out so fast, I had no chance to get tickets. The heaven & hell website suggests a second round of touring. Maybe then... Yep, they're already booked for Sept/Oct. Tickets are already on sale as far as I can tell. See here: http://heavenandhell.frontgatetickets.c...

<t>Ronnie is great - I've followed him all the way from Rainbow.<br/> <br/> I went to see the "Heaven & Hell" tour when it came to Toronto a couple of months ago. Great show. The guys from Sabbath are all getting up there in age, but Ronnie was clearly at the top of his game. Lottsa fun!<br/> <b...

Sorry dude, you lost me at "hiding is associated with wisdom".

I can see how it might be associated with cowardice, or stealth, or treachery, but wisdom? How so?

Just kidding. Mostly.

daddystabz wrote: I was lucky enough to pick up Lejendary Adventure Essentials at Origins for only $5!!!! What is missing from the essentials boxed set vs. the full version? I didn't know when I bought this boxed set that it was a condensed version of the game. I don't think there's anything "...

moriarty777 wrote: Hey... wait a sec... I did say 'skill level' not just level! Since there are not 'skills' in C&C as such... a class skill goes up by 1 per level. Of course, that still doesn't take in consideration Primes and Attribute Mods. Yeah, sorry. I didn't notice that on my second or t...

serleran wrote: And, there is a way to determine the "what level does a PC need to be to cast spell X" but it would require adding in a few elements to both game systems. Ah... but that's not the question I asked. It was "What level of magic user do you need to be to successfully cas...

gideon_thorne wrote: Actually Greg, not to contradict, but Gary has noted to me a few times that 5% does equate pretty readily to a +1 in a levels based game. Beginning level characters in LA, I was further informed, are about the equivalent of 5th level characters. ^_^ Well obviously 5% is equal t...

moriarty777 wrote: I've think I read somewhere (in a previous thread) that a beginning avatar character in LA was about the rough equivalent to a level 4-5 character. Sure, as a rough approximation, I guess. Quote: Taking that one step further would it be fair to say that for every 5% in a given sk...

<t>LA defines characters (called Avatars, or Avatar Characters, or just "Characters" if you prefer) using broad and general areas of competence called Abilities.<br/> <br/> An Avatar's score in an ability represents a basic percentage chance for success in some endeavor related to that ability. Thos...

serleran wrote: Yeah, the differences between LA and other D&D-like games are mostly in the terminologies I think it's a mistake to think of it that way, actually. LA is very different from the D&D-like games. It's basic mode of operation is different. Characters are defined in a completely...

Great find!

$15 is a steal for that box.

I hope you enjoy the game.

Treebore wrote:
I play L5R.

Yeah, I know. I was talking to daddystabz.

daddystabz wrote: Lejendary Adventure kind of loses me right at the beginning with the huge amount of defininitions it wants you to learn. Most of it is renaming concepts we are all familiar with already but trying to get us to stop thinking in the old rpg mode. No doubt it will take you a bit of t...

serleran wrote:
Canada still exists?

These are not the droids you're looking for...

This "subscription for Canadians" idea sounds interesting...

Will I receive a new Canadian each month? Can I specify that I would prefer females?

<t>Spend some time looking over Lejendary Adventure, since you bought it and all.<br/> <br/> Most of this multi-classing, complicated-skill-system nonsense just melts away...<br/> <br/> No offense, but I see people struggle with this stuff in all the class-based systems. If you're so into skills, wh...

So will you also be increasing your price by $5?
Have a great day.

gideon_thorne wrote: But they charge $30 + a book. ^_~` $30? No, that's only for the core books from 2003. Sticker price for anything recent from WOTC seems to be 34.95 to 39.95. Unless it's just a book full of recycled giberish like "Heroes of Quicksand" or "The Complete Idiot"...

Anybody else had this problem?

The board won't log me in if I'm using the Firefox browser.

It takes my username and password, but I'm still not logged in, can't post, etc.

Switching to IE fixes it.

Bizarre...

Hi Jerry, Fancy meeting you over here. Actually, I had already written the collector/plunderer/pillager stuff here before I'd read anything about adventure modules over at Lejendary. Quote: To make use of it I have no choice but to change things, place names at the very least. ... It's a helluva lot...

Troll Lord wrote: This book should ship this week. We had some advance copies for LGGC III, but they had a few small mistakes (wrong ad on back cover and no ISBN). But the regular issue 6 will hit next week. Thanks, Steve 06-27-07 I was quite frankly appalled to discover that the ISBN was missing. ...

<t>Yeah, I still think there's definitely something to the "could" vs. "would" distinction.<br/> <br/> I think most DM's could produce a publishable module, if they set their minds to it. And I wish that more of them would.<br/> <br/> It's one of those 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration scenarios. Wr...

3rd Eye wrote: But more importantly, commercially-published adventures are (usually, anyway) playtested and based on the results of that playtesting, they go through some editing and refinement processes that simply never even happen to an adventure written by Joe Ordinary, DungeonMaster-at-Home. S...

3rd Eye wrote: Greg, if I may offer my own 2 here ... All he's really saying is that if you want your adventure to be published, you need to work hard on it, don't be lazy, be better than the average Joe Shmoe, and be original. Leaving out the nitpicking over "could not" vs. "would n...

Thanks for responding, Joseph. Not everyone in the industry is quite so willing to come out and chat with the fans. Good on you! goodmangames wrote: How much of the market do you think is collectors vs. plunderes vs. users? The answer to that question influences who a publisher decides to publish fo...