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Forum: Game Mastery February 21st, 2012, 04:03 AM
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Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

Background is how "thick" the magical environment is. A tree covered valley has a background of 5 or 6. A desert with little or no life may have a background as high as 9. If the adventurers where...
Forum: Game Mastery February 20th, 2012, 06:42 PM
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Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

There is no universal language, although trade, a pidgin with limited syntax, is very common. It is probably good for any group to either have access to a nice range of languages, but also make sure...
Forum: Game Mastery February 20th, 2012, 06:40 PM
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Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

A +1 skill is permanently attached to the skill and is limited by the adventurer's level and attribute score. A +1 advantage operates at a given time and place but is not affected by skill level...
Forum: Game Mastery February 20th, 2012, 06:38 PM
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Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

You are correct. Downing a glass of drano is contraindicated - it is a poison with no food value. But berries with food value that are also mild poisons, rotten mean that would sicken a normal...
Forum: Game Mastery February 18th, 2012, 05:57 PM
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Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

One of the goals of Total Eclipse is to both create a game master's game, where the game master is king, and a players game, where a player's adventurer is more than a wooden cutout. The average...
Forum: Game Mastery February 18th, 2012, 05:48 PM
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Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

The history of Virdea was developed like a board game. I was trying in 1983 to make sense of a group of notes from some short stories I had written, and to develop some sort of back story for the...
Forum: Game Mastery February 18th, 2012, 05:05 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 11,165
Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

They can. Table 2.1 is the birth language table for adventurers whose race does not have an automatic racial tongue. When a language is mentioned with some sort of parenthetical note, it means that...
Forum: Game Mastery September 27th, 2011, 11:38 PM
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Views: 11,165
Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

There are some examples, but a lot of it rests with the game master.
Forum: Game Mastery September 24th, 2011, 05:19 PM
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Posted By Darkfather
Re: Welcome to Game Mastery

The key to game mastering Total Eclipse is to remember the rules are guides for the story. Most rpgs in the past ten years have moved to rules that explain all and define all. Total Eclipse has a...
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