RE: [HOE] DL periphernalia

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Watson
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:16 AM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: RE: [HOE] DL periphernalia
> 
> 
> At 01:08 AM 17/05/02, Jeff Yates wrote:
> >But if your paladin has 80 hit points, your goblin's d4 
> takes 30 or 40 
> >hits to bring the paladin down.  Hit the templar 30 or 40 
> times with a 
> >knife and you've been stabbing a corpse for 25 to 35 of the 
> hits.  SO 
> >maybe the rounds take abit longer, but you often have much fewer of 
> >them.
> 
> Is that still happening? That was one of the things I thought 
> they may have 
> fixed.

Still that way.  'Course the 80hp paladin should've killed the goblin
before such a bit o' silliness could happen, but the theoretical
possibility is still there.

> 
> >Our group plays both systems -- each is very fun for it's genre, but 
> >seems out of place being used for the other setting: d20 for DND, DL 
> >for Western.
> 
> Have you ever tried Warhammer for a DND type game? It is our 
> gaming system 
> of choice for a sword and sorcery story.

Actually yes we did.  I've got all the WHFRP books published before
Hogshead picked up the publishing duties -- main rules, couple chaos
sourcebooks, Doomstones, Enemy Within, Death on the Reik...  We had
issues with the "naked dwarf syndrome" -- you had to hit certain
creatures (dwarves are an example) very very hard to cause damage, even
if they are unarmored.  We quit because I think the players thought my
fascination with Skaven was unhealthy (for me or for them I was never
sure...)  I never did get the addiction to miniatures tho - whew!

> 
> and to borrow from Jeff:
> >But that's us!
> ;-)
> 
> - michael
> 

Jeff Y.