50th Spaceship Sunday! Matari ships (I)

Wow. 50th Spaceship Sunday. And some ships from MY NATION - Minmatar. Too bad that I don't play EVE anymore - too crappy Internet connection :-(

[Repost] Perilous Path - thoughts about magic

This post was initially posted on now-defunct Perilous Path blog. As I mentioned it here, I decided to nuke it to keep all my posts and ideas in one place. 

As I mentioned before, there will be no strictly "magical" character classes and anyone may be able to learn magic. Contrary to D&D , I don't want to make magic as simple, common and accessible aspect of the game. Here are some basic thoughts about magic in Perilous Path. Note that some of them may be incompatible with each other, mostly because I'm not sure which version should I pick.

• Different levels of the same spell / enchantment, similar to ones used in MERP (which was one of my main inspiration in late 90s).
• Lots of "natural" magic, such as gems, herbs and body parts of magical beings.
• Lots of enchanting, magic requiring components (see above).
• Magical Talent stat will be essential for spell effectiveness but Willpower checks will be required to succesfully cast a spell.
• Many spells will require appropriate preparations and rituals, so there will be little "instant effect" spells.

Here is an excerpt of the rulebook, covering the Arcane Training for the new characters:

If someone wants his / her character to be trained in using Magic, 3D8+1 years must be added to character’s age. This increases character’s WIL and MAG by d4 points. Also, for each five years of training character gains access to one chosen spell at the ‘Initiate’ level. If character’s training was too short to learn any spells, he / she is still able to use magic (but must acquire some spells during the game).

Spaceship Sunday - Gallente (III)

Last part of EVE Online Gallente ships. Images borrowed from EVE Wiki webpage.

[IMPORTANT repost] Even if you're not really into non-D&D clones...

Do it! I prolly won't want to play it, but I'd read it (and nick any bits that interest me)and even if nobody's interested you should still do it. Because I may and because I can. is a great reason, but I also think all these different simulacra, clones, and rules add to the DIY DNA. Even the most obscure and uplayed of DIY games will leave some sort of impact, or inspiration that spins off into another project and adds to the community's Rules gene pool.

- Lee Reynoldson

[Repost] Things I want to incorporate in the game world

Title of this post may be somewhat confusing - I don't want to list here all aspects of the game. I want to list all things which will be the important part of the game. I'll try to explain it below.

• Ancient Magic - more powerful than "modern" magic, based on elements and / or cosmic powers. Not necessarily still accessible as a playable feature of the game, more like a background theme.
• Demons and demon world - maybe as a paralell plane of existence, maybe as a part of the material world (or maybe both). I'm not sure if they should be viewed as a "great enemy" or maybe as a yet another part of the background, with their own plots, history and problems, linked with "normal" world but not entirely evil or negative / destructive part of the game.
• Ancient Underworld - enormous rift, leading to some enormous cave complex, filled with Old Knowledge and lethal danger...
• Young human civilizations - world itself is quite ancient but human kingdoms are rather young.
• Unexplored world - there are still many places still unknown, unnamed and unmapped. They may be inhabited by some barbaric or even civilized ethnic groups but in the "main part of the world: they are still a mystery.

This post was initially posted on now-defunct Perilous Path blog. As I mentioned it here, I decided to nuke it to keep all my posts and ideas in one place.

Spaceship Sunday - Gallente (II)

Second set of Gallente ships. Enjoy! Pic stolen from EVE Wiki.

[Repost] Perilous Path Northern Continent Map Preview

Sorry for the crappy picture quality and "yet another blank map" post but I felt an urge to show you this map. This is the northern continent of the Perilous Path game, called the Ran-Gor. Soon I'll try to re-create this on the better paper and with better pencils (I'm rather good at creating digital maps but I find it extremely tedious and time-consuming so I prefer to do it in traditional way).

This post was initially posted on now-defunct Perilous Path blog. As I mentioned it here, I decided to nuke it to keep all my posts and ideas in one place.

Spaceship Sunday - Gallente (I)

First part of EVE Online starships, first part of the best of Gallente ships. Click to enlarge.

Pics stolen from EVE Wiki.

Spaceship Sunday

This time for serious - I'm running out of pics. Maybe I'll search on another sources, not only DA.

Raumschiff Sonntag!

Random duration of spells, poisons, elixirs and stuff

If you want to randomly determine duration time of magical spells, potions, poisons, narcotics or other (not necessarily) magical substances or effects, you may use the tables presented below.

Step One: roll 1d100 to determine the units. Probably you should skip this part if you don't know what are you doing. No one likes murderous rage lasting for seven months or two-round infravision:

01-50: rounds
51-75: minutes
76-90: hours
91-95: days
96-97: weeks
98-99: months
00: years

Step Two: generate the strange dice. Roll 2d20:

2. 1d4+2
3. 2d6
4. 3d8
5. 1d12
6. 6d10
7. 1d6+3
8. 4d4
9. 1d20
10. 1d12+1
11. 2d8
12. 1d3+4
13. 1d10x2
14. 7d4
15. 3d6-2
16. 1d10+1
17. 3d6
18. 3d10-2
19. 1d8+3
20.1d12+1d6
21. 2d20
22. 1d8+1d6+1d4
23. 3d12+1
24. 2d8-1
25. 4d6+6
26. 4d20
27. 7d3
28. 1d4x2
29. 1d6+2
30. 5d6
31. 1d6x3
32. 1d4+5
33. d6-1 (min. 1)
34. 3d12-2
35. 3d8+6
36. 8d8-7
37. 1d12+5
38. 1d20+2
39. 1d4
40. 1d4x10

List of resources updated

The good news is: I've finally updated the big-ass list of the Underworld Kingdom Blog Resources! If you somehow missed it (link is available in the Library of Knowledge menu in the right column of this blog), you can find there all blog posts containing creative content.

The bad news is that the list contains link to only 115 posts. This means that only 20% of my posts contains some creative stuff. Over 120 posts contains images (Cavern Days, Spaceship Sundays and so on) so the rest must contain um, bullshit :D

Conclusion: I'll try to post more creative stuff, less bullshit :D