Re: Legends II - anything happening?

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 04:08:20 +0000

pmf@belatrix.sun:
>The Legends II playtest is running (the UK Legends GM at Rhann is playing
>in it), positions were by invitation only.

The US playtest is going to start Real Soon Now.  The delay has been
caused by a fairly steady stream of substantive changes to the rules.
Carl hopes to do the setups in a few weeks, and actually begin commercial
games by June.  I have doubts about this schedule, as I don't believe
a useful playtest can be conducted that quickly.  It's probably enough
time to shake many bugs out of the software, which may be what they
think playtesting is mainly about, but it's surely not enough time to
identify and fix design flaws.

>The other question is: What changes to the rules would you like to see?

Here are some, off the top of my head:
Make seers less powerful.  It's gotten to the point where 75% of
all player character arcanists are seers.

Monsters and summoned characters are easy to rob, so don't give them
items you don't want players to get too easily.  If you want them
to have extra abilities, give them special titles or familiars, instead.
(This is more of a module design issue.)

Implement Runecraft and Communions as orders instead of as special
actions if there's only a fixed number of options.  It's a waste
of GM's time and players' money to have to do them manually.

Enter all character orders, whether they work or not, and have the
computer print out error messages.  This leaves a better documentation
trail for fixing problems, and does away with "insurance" orders.

Make the spells (eg scry) match the spell descriptions in the rules.

That's a few, off the top of my head.

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

The surface of the strange, forbidden planet was roughly textured and green,
  much like cottage cheese gets way after the date on the lid says it is all
  right to buy it.--Scott Jones

References

Legends II - anything happening?
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Thu, 24 Feb 1994 03:02:59 +0000
Re: Legends II - anything happening?
pmf@belatrix.sun (Phillip Fayers)
Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:59:13 +0000