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Firstly I'll just echo Nigel's comments about house rules Secondly I just thought I'd take a bit of time explain how I worked out the balance of these races. Taking (beta) humans as the base point, transgenic races get balanced ability score bonuses/penalties and one extra bonus (gammas' disease res...

There's not a gunslinger-type class in the Great Metropolis, but you won't have to wait long, shall we say...

Ben

There's certainly "demons", but of a Cthulu mythos variety. As for anything else, there certainly somethings out there, but you have to remember that Etherscope has a pseudoscience behind it. Anything that does exist will have to work within our pseudoscientific rules. I'm pretty sure ther...

There's all of that! Look out for The Great Metropolis for organised crime and street gangs. These are constructed on a more british model than a classic Capone/Scicilian or The Warrios, but they are very much there. There's also gunslingers in the Savage South (Latin America) which has become the n...

No, just their wealth bonus set by their social template. the equivalent of the 2d4 is the use of influences on acquisition checks.

Ben

tadk wrote:I plan to own everything for this line

Thats the kind of fan we like .

I hope we can keep your interest, and that the line remains popular enough to warrant all the books that we want to write for it

Cheerio,

Ben

When you make an Acquisition check you add your wealth, and one influence bonus if appropriate, to a D20 roll. This represents not only your spending power, but your ability, say, to go out and blackmailor bully people into giving you what you want for free.

Ben

Kris, what's an SnE'er?

softback.

Well I up for the challenge... I'll have a think for sunday.... I think the new Story Telling system may have a means to enable many of the fighting styles and feats and talents to be accounted for in the new Merit system........ It should be quite a blast to try out in either set..... Yep, I had a...

Just in case anyone's not spotted it, I've started a new thread on this topic: http://www.goodmangames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=664. If you'd like to discuss any game system conversions I'd be happy to add any thoughts I can offer, just start up a thread and I'll chip in with what I can

Ben

Here's a few of my ideas for a quick and easy conversion. Firtsly, I'd start with the Trinityverse base (I think Exalted uses something similar), whih works better for normal humans. Adventure has the skills list that is the closest match to the type of society we're talking about, so I'd use that a...

Following Estelle (Lady Highgate)'s interest in a conversion to the old WoD Storyteller system (as opposed to the new Storytell ING system), I thought I'd kick off a discussion on this on a new thread. I'll post my ideas below and you can see what you think. Feel free to post you own conversion idea...

Lady of Highgate wrote:Using Secret Societies within your Victorian world is a must - they can be at the centre of a million plot ideas - the possibilities are endless. Ever had a go at making your own?

Just wait for The Great Metropolis!! And the rest, too for that matter

Ben

Hello Ben I have just bought Etherscope. I run and play Victorian themed games, and i must say that I LOVE the idea of this one. The only thing I don't like is the system used. I remember you saying earlier on in this thread that you may think of other systems to use. Have you had a think yet? I am...

How about Norway, Sweden and Denmark? They're all coloured the same way, so I assume there's some sort of kingdom going on here! (off teh top of my head, so don't shout if I make a minor mistake) Madagascar is portuguese, Indeonesia (Dutch East Indies) is dutch, the others mentioned are all the sam...

Ooh, what sort of prices are tickets to Gencon now? They were in the region of £550 for the flights (via Toronto) with FlyZoom (a budget canadian airline), including all taxes and a connection to Indy. The big advantage being that they fly from Manchester, saving the need for expensive hotel/train/...

goodmangames wrote:Man, I wish I lived in the UK so I could make it myself. Sounds like fun.

Ah well, just wait until GenCon this august - we've just found some cheap flights so it's looking very likely we'll be over . Nigel's got an idea for a live-action Etherscope murder mystery...

Cheerio,

Ben

New Etherscope Event for Sunday the 29th January From noon at Fanboy3, Manchester, England. Demo games start at 1pm The “Wot-No-Etherscope-Demo” Apology On Saturday 17th,December hordes of eager fans arrived here at Fanboy3 for the world premiere of Etherscope, only to find no one there to sate the...

Modern Heroes: Martial Avengers is a D20 Modern product which has a number of modern-style FTs in it, which are in exactly the same format as Etherscope. If you're into fantasy-based D20 Modern, check out DarkLore, whih is preciesely that, with a load of extra flavour thrown in. That two has FTs in ...

Well, we've been playing with them in our games for a good while now. Not just for Etherscope, either. You can find otehr PDFs with fighting techniques in them in earlier Malladin's Gate Products. I think we didn't get the balance right in earlier versions of the rule (when first introduced in Unear...

Damage does indeed work differently in Etherscope. The DC of Massive Damage saves is affected by the amount of damage taken. Also (and more importantly) there are no negative hit points in Etherscope. When you drop to 0 hp you have to start making Deathand Dying saving throws. The type of damage dea...

Well, The Great Metropolis is due for February, and I've not heard anything to suggest that has slipped. Joseph will have the most up-to-date info.

I'm about 95% certain it will be paperback, but again, Joseph's the man with all the answers...

Joseph?...

Cheerio,

Ben

What about ownership? Can parts of the Ether be sectioned off and claimed by certain people,companies, countries? Or would certain areas fall more into the concept of intellectual property? i.e. "I thought of it...so it's mine?" The concept of intellectual property isn't one we've much co...

Well, we've tried to stay away from actual historical societies, but certainly similar things to pretty much all of what you suggest exist. However, the Reich government is Bismarkian rather than Nazi, so I would say the Thule society is probably less powerful and more secretive club of Reich Aristo...