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Duke of Indiana, Knight Commander
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Post by GT on Jun 18, 2008 22:12:57 GMT -5
...well, there's the Mountebank, Jester, Savant, and Mystic for starters. Dragonsfoot posted some good versions for these, but you can just tell that they're not quite what Gary had in mind. Again, one can go to Mythus and see where Gary was going, but try as I might I have been unable to cobble together something that quite satisfies me... Then, there are new monsters--especially of the outer planes. Many of those can be derived from the Gord books, and Gene and I have both come up with creations of our own. Still, it would've been nice to have seen a Monster Manual III come out before Gary left in '86. A finished statting out of the Greyhawk deities in one book would have been nice too... and to have seen how Gary would have eventually tied in Frank's Aquaria and the "Far East" continents of Oerth...
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Post by GT on Jun 18, 2008 22:19:23 GMT -5
I've been working on an ambitious project--"GT's version of what Greyhawk 1E might have been". But at this juncture, that's all it can be--everybody will have to come up with their personal visions. Maybe one can run them past Ernie for commentary, but that's as far as it can get now...
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 19, 2008 9:04:25 GMT -5
Those versions of the lost PC classes I think I commented that there wasn't enough level variance in the crossover spells taken from other class lists.
Honestly, they would have to be totally uniquely imagined and you'd end up with something different at each attempt. Its easy to just look at DJ or LA for reference but I honestly believe, despite what they said in the DJ lawsuit, that he was trying to be different in all his new game ventures.
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Post by GT on Jun 19, 2008 10:14:12 GMT -5
Oh, the game was certainly as different in mechanics as it could be and still be a Fantasy RPG; but the K/S areas of Mysticism and Divination are derived from ideas Gary had as to what a Mystic or Savant would have had...
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 19, 2008 10:26:13 GMT -5
Well, you couldn't go too wrong if it was converted.
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