[PnP] Creature Terrain

[Burton Choinski]

Have not done diddly with the random encounters.  In Our current game, using my custom system, the PCs are powerfull enough that random encounters was more a time waster than having any use, so no time was allocated.

I'm interested in the ship stuff, since they do some of that, but we need a decent "hits and armor" for ships, along with weapons, so that we can do ship-to-ship battles.  I'm probably going to simplify the shipwright sheet and re-design ships.

 On a side note, my players are trying to develop a cultural area of their own (in unclaimed lands), and this is the sheet I am using to deal with the cultural needs.  It has a bunch of numbers already entered, so use that as an example, but any comments on it would be good.  It's a real gross macro-system, and they are aware that their culture it out of whack (they concentrated on a lot of military and non-food resources, so they pay a bunch for food.)

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On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Scott Adams wrote:

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> 
> Hope everyone had a good holiday season....
> 
> Trying to get back to more creative things.  Working on moving fles from old computer to new computer.  Working on the pnp dir now.  It is about 135 megs at this pint.  
> Cleaning files and organizing it.
> 
> I may een get to my ship project agan and finally finish it this year course the world will end this year so just my luck.  But I  came across a good site that could help me in teh hurdle I'm facing.
> 
> Burton! Back in 2007 we talked about v2 monsters and lack of terrain.  Did you ever finish this project to flesh out terrain info for encounters?  Here is the email part..from you
> 
> From the list itself...
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> Subject: RE: [PnP] Lions, tigers and bears oh my!
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:04:15 -0500
> 
> Well, very few of the creatures/monsters listed in the v2
> books have any sort of terrain indication, so as I go through
> the entries and mark down notes in my excel sheet I'm having
> to make my best guess.  For the animals it's pretty clear
> since I can draw upon Earth equivalents.  Monsters and contact-
> level entities are trickier.
> 
> I'm using a relatively simple formula to determine "shares" --
> 3/(SIZE+1), multiplied by a factor based on type: Carnivore x1,
> herbivore x10, NA x1/2, all others x2, all fractions rounded to
> the nearest, and a minimum of 1.
> 
> Once all the shares are found, the program will choose a random
> number from 1 to (total shares) in order to choose the creature.
> 
> For CL creatures, their shares go into a block that has it's own
> picker where the number of shares is inversely related to the CL
> (i.e. lower CL is more common).
> 
> I have done animals and balance, working on chaos now.  When all
> entries are in I'll go back over the book 3 tables and correct the
> encounter terrains for existing creatures. Once complete I have
> to update the postscript program and I'll release it.
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