Legends From: simon.nicholson@almac.co.uk (Simon Nicholson) Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 17:15:00 +0000 This a bulk posting of some of the features I've noticed in Legends recently plus a few questions/answers. All of these apply to the UK games Crown 8 ( New Crown of Avalon ) and NIC 1. - 1. Magic users can research priest spells. I picked up "Cure Black Death" on a wizard ( lvl.33 in a lvl.27 guild spending 4xcost ) on a v-good chance ( which is less than I'd expect for lvl.3 spell ). Don't know if I can cast it yet ... but I've seen items which give priests spells to magic users, so why not ? - 2. I took a city in a recent battle and one of my characters had a poison II weapon. All of the opposing characters that took wounds were poisoned. The battle report showed that he actually fought three out of eight of the enemy characters. Seven were poisoned. - 3. Black Death ... doesn't appear to spread into forces with no population, or perhaps it just has a much reduced chance. Characters in guilds which are in cities with the plague never seem to catch it. Parties in ruins which have the plague do not spread it to other parties in the ruins. I've talked to several players who've noticed the same thing. Anyone else know different ? - 4. Characters can become lost in the gamesystem. The most common way I've found occurs when transfering into guilds. The character report states that the character is in the guild, but the character list in the guild doesn't. The upshot of this is that production does not occur for that character ... no mana recovery, wounds do not get worse ( or better ) and of course no chance of morphing. This is extremely common in COA 8, not noticed it yet in NIC. - 5. Transfering directly into guilds from outside the city doesn't always work. In one case, transfering one of my characters into a guild I owned in a city I owned failed. He wasn't masked and the entry condition in both cases were that only members of the Dragonlord faction may enter. After trying it twice, I gave up and transfered into the city and then into the guild. This worked. Some people I've talked to, say that this works so perhaps its been fixed now. - 6. How many of you out there have are getting the new turn sheet format ? The one that only lists items in use once even if you have two of them. Well, a friend of mine has two druid's orbs in COA-8 and he was getting rather a lot of mana recovery from them. After the change to the new turn sheet format he only got the mana recovery from one of them ... coincidence or have Midnight been playing with the item attributes again ? - 7. Did you know you can attempt to steal items which don't exist ? I tried to steal #1236 from a force ... I wrote it down as #1276, my character failed to steal "unused" but got a thief increase anyway ! The chance of stealing this non-existant item was seven-hells by the way. - And some questions ... - 1. In New Crown of Avalon, religion #6 is "Jamoora". Level 9 priests of this religion get no spells. Anybody know anything about it ? Are there any other religions in this game ? ( Apart from Marren and the one Xeremes must create - or is this the one Xeremes will create?? ). Do the dark elves or saurians have their own religion ? What about the goblins and ogres ? - 2. I know of two titles in NCOA - King/Queen of Avalon and Troll King. I suspect there is a Dwarven King too ( with the Hammer of Holdan as a requirement ). Can anybody confirm this, or add any other possible titles to the list. - 3. There are several cities not shown on the NCOA map, Elidcar Drow - the Dark Elf city, the Saurian city, the Spiderhome and Varion. Is anybody out there interested in swapping info on these & other "important" locations in NCOA. In fact, I'd be happy to hear from anyone still playing in Crown 8 in the UK as I think there's only about 10 players left. - 4. In the Crown status lists printed in Strategic Reserve , they show the "Tyrannos" tree which is presumably to do with the Saurian religion. Has anybody seen or got any details on this tree. Our gamesmaster hadn't heard of it ( or pretended he hadn't ) ... but then judging from his last newsletter, he's forgotten that Crown 8 actually exists! - 5. The spells runesong and runepower ... do they serve any purpose other than being necessary to become a runemaster ? Can they be cast on items, and if so what do they reveal/do ? Can you manufacture items with these spells ? - 6. In NCOA, there appears to be an entrance to a dungeon just north of Shawnhurst, at least there is a province which mentions a doorway carved into the hillside with requires two keys to open. Does anybody know anything about this ? I thought dungeons had been removed from Legends. - 7. Someone asked about Alvereth's daughter (#1193) - didn't know she had one but I'll do a locate/scry on her to see where she is in our game. Did you know Gorgoroth had a son ? Stallech #1258, he's in the Spiderhome ( #3029 ). That's NCOA only, in the original crown Stallech was the minor divinity. - 8. And finally, does anybody know if the Legends II module ( Sword of Pelarn ) has gone into playtest yet ? Back in march it hadn't ( according to our GM ). Will Legends II ever appear ... - - Simon Nicholson ( sorry about the excess dashes, the mailer takes the first blank line as end of message ). Referenced By Up