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Tarl Gaidin |
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Still reading through it for the first time but alot
of neat material. I am guessing most of the people that were involved still read this messageboard. Thanks for your efforts. |
The Great Gray Skwid |
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![]() Age of Illusions, the netbook for the Wheel of Time d20 Roleplaying Game, is now available for your viewing pleasure. The full netbook is downloadable as a Zip file, containing a bonus of 4 PDF "Appendices" to the main book itself. You can also view the netbook in either an art-laden or a "Light" printer-and-bandwidth-friendly form, directly from the PDF, or (for the broadband-impaired) download a zipped version of the "Light" netbook. The files are downloadable now, from the following websites: The Dragon Scepter Call of The Horn [Mirror] On behalf of all the netbook staff, we hope you enjoy it. -------------------- Evan "Skwid" Langlinais The Humblest Mollusk on the Net http://www.thehumblest.net/ Ask me for information about the Texas Darkfriends! |
Two Rivers Wolfbrother |
Posted: May 9 2004, 06:46
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Yay! -------------------- This is an old thing, boy. Older than Aes Sedai.
Older than anybody using the One Power. Old as humankind. Old as
wolves. Current Projects: Encounters Handbook Wheel of Time 3.5 Homepage: www.towncenterproductions.com It's Funny! |
Eosin the Red |
Posted: May 9 2004, 07:32
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Looks nice. Someone want to pimp this at ENworld? I know lots of folks there play. Just submit a scoop on th efront page and brace yourselves for the impact (the weekend is much slower). -------------------- I am
working on it! Eosin the Red Pencil Pushers Publishing |
The Great Gray Skwid |
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Yeah, I'm on it. I had to do some Mother's Day stuff last night or I would have done it then. -------------------- Evan "Skwid" Langlinais The Humblest Mollusk on the Net http://www.thehumblest.net/ Ask me for information about the Texas Darkfriends! | ||
Primal Paladin22 |
Posted: May 9 2004, 04:11
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Guys, Age rocks, you all did the deed. Thanks for carrying the torch. Peace J -------------------- "Me... I'm doom on two legs, and you... you're a fish
among sharks." - said the submission fighter "Lancelot" to an arrogant and
unnamed scrub. |
Talan |
Posted: May 11 2004, 08:58
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This is AWESOME. Thanks to everyone involved - you
did a really great job ! |
Axel |
Posted: May 11 2004, 08:34
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Ah, there's something for everybody. Impressive, most
impressive. -------------------- Honorary Paladin of the Lawful Naughty If I seem to hate the d20 system, its only because I hate the system. Actually I just hate 3e, its biased me against the system. I rather like WoT. |
LuciusT |
Posted: May 12 2004, 12:35
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Bravo! Well done all. |
Sa_sara |
Posted: May 12 2004, 10:14
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Such good stuff...my GM lets us use some of it
straight ou of the box... I gave my current character Latent Echoes of Yesterday after confronting Fain...very nice for the game --------------------
-- Courtesy of Your Unofficial Gaming Geek Princess | ||
MagusRogue |
Posted: May 13 2004, 12:14
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how come you got both Asha'man Soldier and Soldier of
the Black Tower? isn't that the same thing? ![]() Edit: Wow! there's a picture called Ice Princess.... which is a character i used in one of my older WoT games, an AoL aes sedai who froze herself in ice to avoid the war of power.... wow... This post has been edited by MagusRogue on May 13 2004, 12:28 AM -------------------- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this rant's
done. Magus the Extreme. Your wonderfully-ghoulish partner GM of Patterns of the Weave. Be fearful, indeed. |
Sa_sara |
Posted: May 13 2004, 12:43
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I wondered about that picture...thank you for
explaining it! --------------------
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MagusRogue |
Posted: May 13 2004, 01:00
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actually, i seriously doubt that pic was based on my
character... since this is the first time i mentioned her on these boards
at all. ![]() -------------------- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this rant's
done. Magus the Extreme. Your wonderfully-ghoulish partner GM of Patterns of the Weave. Be fearful, indeed. |
The Great Gray Skwid |
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We kept both Asha'man Soldier and Soldier of the Black Tower because they were two very different approaches to the same character type. Each has their own appeal. Lotta's art (she's the one who did Ice Princess) is great...check out her web site (NOT entirely work safe!): http://www.flights-of-fancy.nu/ This post has been edited by The Great Gray Skwid on May 13 2004, 03:27 PM -------------------- Evan "Skwid" Langlinais The Humblest Mollusk on the Net http://www.thehumblest.net/ Ask me for information about the Texas Darkfriends! | ||
delveg |
Posted: May 14 2004, 03:30
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Agreed, AOI looks great. A minor suggestion (though I did fine without it)-- perhaps the appendicies could be zipped separately, so AOI light and the appendicies can be downloaded without having to grab the full AOI? Thanks for your relentless hard work! -- Scott |
TwangCat |
Posted: May 14 2004, 03:48
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I'm so wowed by this my players are already begging
for some of this stuff. Thanks for all the hard work. |
Terraism |
Posted: May 14 2004, 10:01
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Good work, folks. I replied from ENWorld, where the
Great Gray Skwid brought it to my attention, so I just "carried over" my
reply from there. Hope no one minds. I've been doing a lot of Wheel of
Time work on my own but didn't know of any decent sites working on it.
Now that I do...
![]() (Original thread: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=88034) Post #1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've read through it - not exhaustively, but relatively well - and my initial reaction is "decent." I did prefer the first netbook, but I think that's probably because it was more grounded in the WoT setting, if that makes sense. The first netbook covered a lot of things that the published book left out. Rather large things. Not surprisingly, my favorite part of this netbook is the rules for breaking a shield - another big book bit, worked out mechanically. That said, I do like this one, quite a bit. I'm not much of a fan of the first chapter, unfortunately - for a number of reasons. Neither of the backgrounds seemed particularly useful, though there's nothing wrong with them. The hero templates were fine, but I've thought them all unneccessary from the get go. I understand why they were included in the core book (as they expected many first time gamers to pick it up) but here? Meh. The Seaman is my biggest gripe - I don't see any need for the class, as is. The average (hero classed) Atha'an Miere can be more than adequately represented, I think, by wanderers. As a class, I don't see much point to having the seaman be a seaman - at it's core, it's a lightly-armored combatant, with a large number of skills. Similar to the 3.0 ranger, actually - with some ship-based abilities instead of favored enemies. Nothing spectacular. The number of prestige classes, I'm not going to touch - I'm known for frowning on prestige classes, because I'm not a fan of how prevalent they've become (I prefer to represent many things through multiclassing.) Of those I looked at, most seem well done, though. As for the templates - I liked the corrupted template, but not the damane. I consider it more of a RP issue than a mechanical one, but if the latter route is chosen, it works well. (One issue - I'd make the +2 bonus to the primary stat a named - morale, specifically - bonus.) Of the rest of it, there's a lot of really good stuff. I like most of the new feats - though I haven't read them thoroughly enough to comment on balance. The same goes for the new weaves and wondrous items, though I like the flavour of all of them. The NPCs were interesting, but nothing particularly special, to me anyway. That's more due to a combination of the geek inside saying "no, no, give them these classes" and the fact that I'm not running a "modern" game with it - ours is set quite a ways back in WoT history. As for the netbook itself, it's put together nicely - I didn't notice many spelling or grammar errors, which is nice. The formatting could use a little work, I'd note, but then, I'm a graphic design major, and notoriously picky. Overall, nice work! Post #2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Good. 'Cause I'll have more for you,
just as soon as I have time to do more reading. But first I need to work
my way through The Seige of Ebonring Keep.
You know what's funny - it's been
years since I last read the Wheel of Time books - Winter's Heart had just
been released. It fairly well disillusioned me with Jordan - much as I
love the world, I'm sick and tired of book after book with no end in
sight.
I bought the d20 book when it came out, though, because, as I said, I loved the setting. Loved the book, never got to use it. This year, it finally came up. I didn't have time during the year, but I'm planning on rereading the books this summer. Plus the two that've came out since then. Anyway - the point of this is that I'd forgotten all about the breaking of a shield. So I was doubly happy to see rules for it - reminded me of another keystone.
Yeah, unnamed bonuses can be sketchy.
And it's a hefty sized book, so it's easy to miss a few. It's got less
errors than most WotC products, anyway. As far as the template being in
there, I understand. I've worked on netbooks before, and I'm well aware of
the amount of differing opinions you get from having dozens of people work
on it.
The first thing that jumps out on me
is the column layout - while columns are certainly good things, you've got
a problem because, with a number of prestige classes, the abilities table
bisects the page. A reader expects to read to the bottom of the page in a
column before moving on to the next - breaking over halfway, so that the
order is upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right, as opposed to
left-right, is distracting. Even after one realizes it, it's the kind of
thing that'll subconsciously interfere with reading and material
absorbtion. As a sidenote - if you'd like to contact me, I'm on AIM as Terraism, as well. -------------------- - Terra Chocolate: God's way of saying "no hard feelings" to those of us who aren't getting any. | ||||||||
MagusRogue |
Posted: May 14 2004, 10:23
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i agree with the damane thing. rp notes, and the
asha'man prestige class (with some of the requirements changed) work
perfectly with damane. also, if you wanted a good mariner class, look in
the Dragonlance 3e supplement, Age of Mortals. but yeah, with some faults,
it's a good one. -------------------- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this rant's
done. Magus the Extreme. Your wonderfully-ghoulish partner GM of Patterns of the Weave. Be fearful, indeed. |
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Posted: May 14 2004, 11:14
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hehehe, it's taken a while, but it indeed is looking
good........hereby I want to thank Squid in particular for dragging us
(staff) throught the whole project, and Freya for the never relenting
energy that was put in.........think it turned out nicely
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Timetwister |
Posted: May 14 2004, 11:15
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crap...forgot to log in, relpy above was mine ![]() -------------------- Timetwister, formerly known as Chel'adar
Tamero "To wield power is to balance on the tip of a sword, To fail in this majestical dance is to be corrupted by it, to succesfully wield it requires responsibility, diplomacy and strength of heart" |
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