Comments on: Our Next Campaign: Alternity http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/ Table Top Pen and Paper RPGs Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:29:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Iain M Norman http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Iain M Norman Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:49:20 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=327#comment-151 I'd highly recommend running it if you get the chance. The way that rolls can have one of five results really helps encourage a bit more description for peoples actions. Critical failures and Excellent successes can have lots of colourful description applied to them. Even Good successes can be a little more special than just a normal Success or Failure. Especially in combat where the degree of success has a direct effect on what damage dice are rolled and what type of damage is done. I’d highly recommend running it if you get the chance.

The way that rolls can have one of five results really helps encourage a bit more description for peoples actions.

Critical failures and Excellent successes can have lots of colourful description applied to them. Even Good successes can be a little more special than just a normal Success or Failure.

Especially in combat where the degree of success has a direct effect on what damage dice are rolled and what type of damage is done.

]]> By: Sean Holland http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Sean Holland Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:10:50 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=327#comment-149 I really liked Alternity and almost ran a campaign using it . . . I cannot remember what came up that derailed that plan now. Good to know that it is still being played somewhere. I really liked Alternity and almost ran a campaign using it . . . I cannot remember what came up that derailed that plan now. Good to know that it is still being played somewhere.

]]> By: Iain M Norman http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Iain M Norman Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:08:20 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=327#comment-148 Return of the Alternity name would be cool. The first sci-fi outing for 4e of course will be the new Gamma World game. Return of the Alternity name would be cool.

The first sci-fi outing for 4e of course will be the new Gamma World game.

]]> By: David http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/comment-page-1/#comment-147 David Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:34:03 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=327#comment-147 I was thinking the name "Alternity" for the 4e mechanics, and the Star*Drive setting as the default "points of starlight" :-) I was thinking the name “Alternity” for the 4e mechanics, and the Star*Drive setting as the default “points of starlight” :-)

]]> By: Iain M Norman http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Iain M Norman Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:32 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=327#comment-146 Back to Star*Drive or back to Alternity? I can't see any kind of return to Alternity rules at all, they wouldn't fit with the current 4e direction. There's no reason why WotC couldn't do 4e Modern and 4e Future though. D20 Future borrowed lots various Alternity sourcebooks and settings. Back to Star*Drive or back to Alternity? I can’t see any kind of return to Alternity rules at all, they wouldn’t fit with the current 4e direction.

There’s no reason why WotC couldn’t do 4e Modern and 4e Future though. D20 Future borrowed lots various Alternity sourcebooks and settings.

]]> By: David http://buccaneersguild.com/my-next-campaign-alternity/comment-page-1/#comment-145 David Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:09:55 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=327#comment-145 I loved Alternity, and the Star*Drive campaign as well. There was a lot of really good material produced for it, and I hope with the end of Star Wars that WotC goes back to it. I loved Alternity, and the Star*Drive campaign as well. There was a lot of really good material produced for it, and I hope with the end of Star Wars that WotC goes back to it.

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