From dasandersx at comcast.net  Mon Jun  6 03:43:25 2022
From: dasandersx at comcast.net (David Sanders)
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 18:43:25 -0700
Subject: [PnP] Curses
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So?one thing I have never really figured out is, how do curses work?

How does MEL and EL affect the effect, so to speak?

There?s just so little content about it.  I mean, at what MEL and EL is needed to curse someone with blindness, clumsiness, vampirism, were-creature, etc?

Dave

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From longshotgm at comcast.net  Mon Jun  6 04:42:00 2022
From: longshotgm at comcast.net (Scott Adams)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:42:00 -0400
Subject: [PnP] Introducing New Players
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You got it organized well.  Can use the v2 rules 
combat wise it hasn't really changed much.
Magic tho with a nod from Richard I did add over 
200+ new spells to magic system. :)
Also alot more monsters.
Its good to have pre gen.  But I'd let them record experience/expertise.
Its fun to see how things change.  But since 
Mordara is smell it may not be worth it? been decades since ran it.
After 20+ years in pbem I needed a break.  So I'm 
running a one shot Runequest game.
on the pbem.  its 'short' and one shot.  I hope 
to be done by end of year.  So we can go back to 
pnp adventure #9 which will be huge.
I'll post here and in the pnp discord server when I do.
Feel free to post in discord or email/dm me if need help.





At 08:09 AM 5/30/2022, you wrote:
>I haven???t had a chance to run it yet. We???ve 
>been playing Descent Legends of the Dark. I was 
>hoping to squeeze it in after we finished that 
>and before we started our new Pathfinder 
>campaign. It looks like I???ll have to wait to 
>run it after the Pathfinder campaign. I read 
>through the combat rules and found all the info. 
>I have the characters already generated. I also 
>rolled the random encounters ahead of time and I 
>created a spreadsheet which will track each 
>creature???s HPV as well as the Experience and 
>Expertise gained for each character during 
>combat. I definitely don???t want new players 
>feeling bogged down by a bunch of paperwork! I 
>think my group is really going to love the 
>combat and magic system. Hopefully, they???ll 
>like the entire system enough to want to go 
>through Tower of the Dead. As for the PBEM game, 
>yeah, I had joined that but, at the time, was 
>really busy with other things. How can I join 
>again? And, since I???m going to be running a 
>game a some point, it would help if I actually 
>had some play time in! Thanks! Floyd > On May 
>28, 2022, at 11:57 PM, Scott Adams 
><longshotgm at comcast.net> wrote: > > Mordara was fun I ran it



>1983 at a con once. > Its smaller than Towerof 
>Doom. > Since a short 1 shot did you do pre 
>gens? since most are turned off by the pc 
>creation process.  Once get to know na dlike 
>system they'll do pcs. > Look in book 2 > 2.4..1 
>in this pdf > Movement Order > Basically its 
>PMR, CEL, etc... > armor..dex...there is a order 
>of this. > > I just charge it all out > Do PMRs 
>and cells and have it already ahead of time. > 
>Hope game went well? > Glad to see it run 
>there. > I think you actually joined my pbem rpg 
>(I'd hav eto find the application) but gues 
>snever replied back > So hope all went 
>well! > > > > At 08:33 AM 5/19/2022, you 
>wrote: >> So, today I started preparing for the 
>adventure I??????ll be running. I printed up 
>County Mordara and opened up my P&P box to pull 
>out other books so I could get the random 
>encounters set up ahead of time. Guess what was 
>in the box - County Mordara! I have no idea how 
>I missed it when I looked in the box for it! I 
>must be getting old! Question: For combat, is 
>there an initiative order? I haven??????t 
>thoroughly re-read the combat rules but a quick 
>look didn??????t yield any information. Thanks! 
>Floyd > On May 11, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Wout Broere 
><broere at powersandperils.org> wrote: > > Always 
>good to see new players being introduced to 
>P&P. > > The pdf for County Mordara (that came 
>int he box) is here: > 
>http://www.powersandperils.org/lands/CountyMordara.htm 
>  > > On 11-05-2022 15:24, Floyd Resler 
>wrote: >> I??????m going to introduce Powers & 
>Perils to my gaming group. I asked if 
>they??????d be interested in trying out the 
>system for one adventure before we delve into 
>our new Pathfinder campaign and they said they 
>would. So, does anyone have a suggestion for a 
>simple, single evening adventure? I thought 
>about just doing some random encounters but that 
>could either get boring or it could actually 
>develop into a story. I also thought about 
>looking at the adventure that came in the box 
>set but I can??????t find it. Does anyone have a 
>PDF of it? >> Thanks! >> Floyd >> 
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From longshotgm at comcast.net  Mon Jun  6 05:40:07 2022
From: longshotgm at comcast.net (Scott Adams)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 23:40:07 -0400
Subject: [PnP] Curses
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Curses are a rare thing in pnp. Mainly cause 
curses are a long time thing.  Most gms/players hit and run.
If they stay more than a week in town might be rare.
But if your gonna be settling down then curses are fine.
In the curse file I posed on discord basically 
from the pnp site it had the lycanthropy curse 
and kinda gave hints with some info from Mathis.

Look at Negate Curse
Mana Shield/Curse - I wrote this with some EL in mind.
The Black Curse.

I believe Richard talked about this in a heros 
article and also here in list in '90s.
Maybe go find the maililng list search link maybe 
it has a time frame ot search mid '90s?
Then see all posts from that?

As spell says its so vague and vast it is up to 
gm/player.  So a cookie cutter spell can't fit here.
To  me MEL will always affect only magic success.
EL will depend on spell/curse.

So lets say a Blindness Curse.  the spell has a Duration with EL in effect.
That is basic.  So how about I do curse for blindness depending EL?
Effect: EL+1x10% or something so EL4 is 50% so 
player ocudl be blinded but only half or half the distance?
So distance ocld be part of curse EL+1 feet? so a 
EL5 he'd be blind 100% up to 6 feet or it oculd be reversed?
Maybe a night blindness only so player forced to 
live in caves only.  In sun he can't see anything?

So lets say I curse Tom with a limp curse.
Still some heair and MEL cast it.
So I'll say character limps only if he has things 
in hands. :) So if he has no weapons in hand hes 
fine. :) For duratin I'd say (E:L+1)x2 hours?
So for effect of limp STR rolls must be made to 
drag leg.  Maybe use a mod of EL+1x3 as a rikk nid>  or something.
So as el gets higher harder to walk.

Curse 2: I curse Karen for asking to speaking ot 
my manager!   So i say she is cursed each time 
she enters a store.  Duration could be EL+1 months
So when curse goes she can't speak a word.  EL 
could be affected.  say its gibberish up to a certain EL then its stuttering?

Just some quick examples. ;)
I think there may be a errata entry and I believe 
alex/richard had an exchange on curses.  I'd 
check my files but almost bed time.







At 09:43 PM 6/5/2022, you wrote:
>So
one thing I have never really figured out is, 
>how doo curses work? How does MEL and EL affect 
>the effect, so to speak? There???s just so 
>little content about it.  I mean, at what MEL 
>and EL is needed to curse someone with 
>blindness, clumsiness, vampirism, were-creature, etc? Dave




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