Interesting find.

[Choinski, Burton]

In recent days I've found me and my friends less inclined to use the P&P
system, because of all the rough edges and special-case rules.  We are all
older then we were in 83 (gods, have I been with this system that long?) and
binging in modern gamers to such a complex system is hard.

However, in many times we have used the Perilous Lands with other systems
(granted, the magic is not always fit very well, but the cultures and map is
used extensively).

A synopsis of the combat/magic resolution and skill useage would be good.
      -- Burton


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|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Kurgan [mailto:Kurgan at FASTMAIL.FM]
|| Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:07 AM
|| To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CITG.TUDELFT.NL
|| Subject: Interesting find.
||
||
|| Hey guys,
||
||
||     Has there been any recent traffic on the [@geo] P&P list? I
||     haven't gotten anything in ages. Just to play it safe I just went
||     and re-did my subscription, so I know that's working now. It'd
||     kinda suck if all this time I'd been unsubbed and didn't know it!
||
||     Anyway, I just ran across something interesting that I
|| figured was
||     worth mentioning. The thing that causes P&P to really trip our
||     triggers is the lack of level/classes and other typical D&D-ish
||     crap that people like us generally loathe. So, tonight I was
||     goofing off on eBay and spotted something. It's a new game called
||     "Undiscovered", and it has no classes or levels, uses lots of
||     skills, and a percentile-based system! I'll never ditch P&P, of
||     course, but this was definitely worth checking out, especially
||     with everyone and his brother jumping on the sickening D20
||     bandwagon these days.
||        So, to make a long story short, I bought the darned
|| thing. I'll
||     letcha all know if it's worth a darn when it gets here. If anyone
||     here has already played it, please let me know. God help us, it
||     looks like someone may have actually published something worth a
||     damn again, something that we all know far too well only seems to
||     happen once or twice a decade in the RPG world.
||
||
||
|| Best regards,
||
||     Kurgan
||
||     Mailto:Kurgan at Fastmail.fm
||
||
||  Today's Zen Wisdom:
||
||     1860: I'm not illiterate!  My parents were married...
||
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