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- Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:44 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #6
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24363
Re: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #6
252 days? So do you count ages in their years or ours? I mean, that's just under 70% the length of our Earth year. It would make logical sense to count them in theirs (simulationism, for you GNS Theory fans). That's what I default to. You might find some references that use Earth years, especially ...
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:25 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #6
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24363
Re: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #6
(although I'd have to check the number of weeks in a Dragonmech year to be sure) The DragonMech year is 252 days, and the weeks are each 6 days long, which gives you 42 weeks. The things you learn as a line developer... But, hey, the DragonMech design crew has never disappointed me before with the ...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:34 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #6
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24363
DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #6
WORKING LANGUAGE We're swearing at the game. I'm swearing. Dieter's swearing. Based on some of the feedback, I'm pretty sure playtesters were swearing. Playtesters usually are. At about this point in any project, designer fatigue sets in. You look at your baby, and all you see is warts and blemishes...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:34 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: What are you interested in seeing?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 37483
Re: What are you interested in seeing?
I'm highbrow - I don't want fluff, I want flavor. Anyone can make or adjust rules. Flavor is something unique to the creator, and it's the thing I most enjoy reading and adapting and outright stealing for my home game.
- Tue May 27, 2008 5:32 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Questions
- Replies: 320
- Views: 595842
Re: DragonMech Questions
Another question: A mech's fuel bins store 9 days worth of coal. Is that 9 days of 24 hour activity? Or 9 days of 8 hour activity? I assume it is the first so a mech could operator for 27 days assume it was only on for 8 hours a day. It depends - how realistic are you trying to be? For most groups,...
- Thu May 22, 2008 5:10 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Questions
- Replies: 320
- Views: 595842
Re: DragonMech Questions
The Lunar Skinstealer's host domination acts as the dominate person spell. Dominate person only works on humanoids. Obviously the Skinstealer can do more than humanoid given the Dronog example. Should it work on all creature types like dominate monster, humanoids plus aberrations, humanoids plus lu...
- Tue May 20, 2008 5:14 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles Designer Diary #4
- Replies: 19
- Views: 32326
Re: DragonMech Battles Designer Diary #4
And the Bastion has a lot of intrinsic character - older, rugged, the castle motif. People who want "traditional" dungeon-crawl adventures in DragonMech could do worse than explore an abandoned Bastion.
- Tue May 13, 2008 4:30 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: What weapons need a power source?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9149
Re: What weapons need a power source?
We chose to err on the side of inclusiveness, rather than putting together tables of weapon/power source compatibility. As you point out, a lot of them are pretty obvious if you read the weapon descriptions. However, we've also decided that DragonMech Battles is going to err in the other direction. ...
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:56 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Dragonmech; Firefly?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 73559
Re: Dragonmech; Firefly?
Just watched Ariel and War Stories again. Ariel got me wondering, what would be the equivalent of the Core Planets? Are Stenian City-Mechs the best bet? The Stenian Confederacy has more city-mechs than any other, and they're the closest analogue to a typical fantasy "good guy" nation. The...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:53 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Dragonmech economy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10942
Re: Dragonmech economy
1) Who mines the metals used for coins, especially among cultures like the L'Arile Nation or the Elves and how do these materials end up spread among the mechdoms and cities? 2) Who the heck carts around hundreds of pounds of gold--or even platinum, in same cases--to pay for mech construction? Hypo...
- Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:54 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: dragonmech, and e6
- Replies: 33
- Views: 109755
Re: dragonmech, and e6
Alternately, you could try allowing items that give higher bonuses but have some drawback to go along with it, like it gives you +4 STR but also gives -4 INT. This would be a good way to get more impressive-looking items into an e6 game (if that were your intent) without messing up play balance too...
- Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:51 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #5
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10414
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I'll have to wait and see on phase order and the Tactics Phase. That may end up making it difficult for me, since I'm not tactically inclined. We've found that it's usually a pretty simple calculation - you'll see if you're better off fighting, running, or doing something else in most situations. A...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:59 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Necrotic (and organic) steel
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13365
Re: Necrotic (and organic) steel
Perhaps the neatest underused weapon type in the SRD is vicious. It offers a very interesting tactical choice...mythfish wrote:Ooh, that's cool. I vote for that. :)walrusjester wrote:Perhaps you could even feed your own HP into the weapon to raise the crit damage.
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:47 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles Designer Diary #4
- Replies: 19
- Views: 32326
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:44 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 29344
Depends on the status of DragonMech in the 4e landscape. I think the combat system will integrate pretty well with the core rules, whatever they turn out to be. It'll be a hybrid solution, since we don't have access to any 4e stuff ourselves, but we're deliberately making the game simple and flexibl...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:41 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Necrotic (and organic) steel
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13365
Necrotic (and organic) steel
I thought I'd migrate this into a new thread, in case there was any discussion to be had on it. Now, necrotic steel might be onto something if you could make a mech of it and then cover the mech in magical darkness so you can have the Str bonus even during the day. But as it stands, it's got more pe...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:16 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Deathwalker/ Death Knight: Necrotic Mechs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13435
Re: Deathwalker/ Death Knight: Necrotic Mechs
Okay, I have to talk about this one... For the record, what is considered natural darkness? Because the nights tend to be pretty bright, what with the giant moon hanging in the air and all. Natural darkness would be whenever the sun is below the horizon. The moon is closer, so it has a larger refle...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:05 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Deathwalker/ Death Knight: Necrotic Mechs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13435
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:03 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech planar cosmology
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11026
We've deliberately left the planes alone within the official setting materials. For one thing, people's tastes differ, and we haven't seen any consensus form around one model or another of planar activity. No point annoying people by closing a door to their preferred campaign style. Second, emphasiz...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:57 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Errata?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18102
I'm pretty sure Colossal frost launchers shouldn't be 1 PU either. However, 16 PU makes sense. I'm embarrassed to admit this, as lead DragonMech developer, but I don't remember which book the frost launchers come from. Where did you find them? And if you want elven deity alignments, you get elven de...
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: DragonMech Battles: Designer Diary #2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 29344
I'd wondered if we'd get to see the famous psionics-in-DragonMech person here. Welcome aboard! Ironically enough, just a few minutes ago I finished a (hopefully final) revision to the rules for putting special characters like sorcerers into boarding parties. It's kinda tricky to integrate individual...
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:22 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Hunter series Mechs: Elven Huge-Colossal Animated (full stat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14490
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:40 pm
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Aid Another?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13122
Will the Gearwrights ever find out those spells are in existence? I can't quite decide if they'd be interested, ecstatic, or horrified. If we do 4E DragonMech, you may well find an answer to this question. The other new question, which arrived upon running over Tannanliel's characteristics in my mi...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:19 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Aid Another?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13122
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:00 am
- Forum: DragonMech
- Topic: Dragonmech Battles Proxies
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10772
Re: Dragonmech Battles Proxies
One of the more interesting things I noticed is that while a single normal ork is completely powerless over a mech, you take a pack of 20 of them, all with ropes and grapples, have 19 of them 'aide another', and the leader of the pack has a pretty good bonus to his roll to take the mech down. I int...