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First always left, now always loot... wonder what would complete the 3 core teachings of Lone Wolf?
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Kanthulhu posted:There might be anakha posted:First always left, now always loot... wonder what would complete the 3 core teachings of Lone Wolf? You always wish to use the bow.
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Sep 26, 2017 16:33
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Search them bones!
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Sep 26, 2017 16:41
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ulmont posted:You always wish to use the bow.
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Sep 26, 2017 16:59
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Search 9 out of 10, someting useful appears.
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Sep 26, 2017 19:05
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Always be looting.
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Sep 26, 2017 20:46
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loot Teachings of Kai #4- dirtiness is good. Always be covering yourself in blood, road dust, Baknar oil, etc. I can't recall Lone Wolf ever taking a bath.
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Sep 26, 2017 21:52
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achtungnight posted:I can't recall Lone Wolf ever taking a bath. It happens several times in the series.
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Sep 26, 2017 22:10
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Well, then, he's probably cleaning himself just so he can get dirtier again later. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Sep 26, 2017 22:13
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achtungnight posted:Well, then, he's probably cleaning himself just so he can get dirtier again later. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Possibly true. I did a quick check and it's called out twice in the Kai series, but admittedly Lone Wolf spends most of the books running for his life.
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Sep 26, 2017 22:16
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achtungnight posted:loot Well if we hadn't lost that soap maybe we would have 
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Sep 27, 2017 03:05
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The Caverns of Kalte posted:You discover that many of the bones scattered among the stalagmites are of human origin. Shattered skulls, skeletal hands, and rib cages lie half buried in the ice. You are about to abandon your search when a small box made of carved bone catches your eye. The Caverns of Kalte posted:The bone box contains a beautiful Diamond. Its many facets gleam and sparkle, even in the dim half-light of the ice hall. In Sommerlund, a jewel of this size and quality would be worth thousands of crowns. If you wish to keep the Diamond, slip it into your pocket and mark it on your Action Chart as a Special Item. Second question: Stand and fight or run for the door?
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Sep 27, 2017 03:06
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Tiggum posted:First question: Do we keep the diamond or leave it? The limits on Special Items don't kick in until the Magnakai series, right? Keep it. Also run like hell because we're trapped in a nightmare ice fortress.
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Sep 27, 2017 03:16
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ulmont posted:The limits on Special Items don't kick in until the Magnakai series, right?
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Sep 27, 2017 05:47
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Keep it and Fight that snake!
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Sep 27, 2017 06:03
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Loot and fight.
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Sep 27, 2017 07:06
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Keep & Fight!
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Sep 27, 2017 08:16
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Keep & Fight! I think Conan did that in one of his movies.
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Sep 27, 2017 11:32
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Tiggum posted:Grand Master, actually. So right through book 12 we can carry as many Special Items as we like I just went and looked it up. In Book 8, Jungle of Horrors, and all following books, we will be limited to 12 Special Items. From Book 12 to Book 13 we will be limited to carrying forward only certain Special Items in addition.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:47
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ulmont posted:From Book 12 to Book 13 we will be limited to carrying forward only certain Special Items in addition. Interested to see if Project Aon updated that transition. Some of those items had absolutely no use after their introduction so it was a bit of a head scratcher about what made them special and worth keeping around. Though to be fair, plenty had stat bonuses that justified their continuation.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:59
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ulmont posted:I just went and looked it up. In Book 8, Jungle of Horrors, and all following books, we will be limited to 12 Special Items. Avalerion posted:Loot and fight. The Caverns of Kalte posted:This strange creature is a Crystal Frostwyrm, a scavenging beast now living on the remains of the unfortunate creatures that have entered the cavern. Its hard skin is almost transparent, and its internal organs can be seen pulsating inside. A large mouth opens in the crystalline head to reveal row upon row of jagged crystal teeth. Your back is pressed to the stone door and there is no way to evade the monster. You must fight the creature to the death. It is immune to Mindblast. Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 27 ENDURANCE 30 Crystal Frostwyrm: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 30 Combat Ratio: 11+ We roll: 6 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 27 ENDURANCE 29 Crystal Frostwyrm: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 14 We roll: 4 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 27 ENDURANCE 27 Crystal Frostwyrm: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 2 We roll: 6 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 27 ENDURANCE 26 Crystal Frostwyrm: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 0 The Caverns of Kalte posted:You watch with a mixture of fascination and revulsion as each segment of the creature shatters and then slowly dissolves into the ice. Soon, all that remains of the Crystal Frostwyrm are the undigested contents of its stomach. To your surprise, in the centre of this mess of fetid flesh and bone, you can see the shank of an Ornate Silver Key.
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Sep 27, 2017 15:00
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Take the key and consume it so that when we are eventually defeated, our vanquisher gets to experience what we just did.
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Sep 27, 2017 15:03
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Tiggum posted:we take the key Tiggum posted:Huh. You are correct. I don't know that I've ever noticed that limitation before, because who reads the game rules that thoroughly by the third book of the (Magnakai) series? Oh well, we'll have to bear that in mind when the time comes. The first Lone Wolf book I ever had was Book 7 (Castle Death), so I found the new rule a bit jarring. Ratatozsk posted:Interested to see if Project Aon updated that transition. They didn't. https://www.projectaon.org/en/ReadersHandbook/GrandMaster
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Sep 27, 2017 15:30
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Ratatozsk posted:Some of those items had absolutely no use after their introduction so it was a bit of a head scratcher about what made them special and worth keeping around. Though to be fair, plenty had stat bonuses that justified their continuation.  ulmont posted:The first Lone Wolf book I ever had was Book 7 (Castle Death). 
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Sep 27, 2017 16:13
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Tiggum posted:looking at the Project Aon pages on Magnakai and Grand Master rules I'm just now learning for the first time that you're supposed to be able to keep using your existing Kai Disciplines instead of starting from scratch at the beginning of each series. This is bullshit Dever tossed out as a sop to his loyal newsletter readers; I never liked it.
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Sep 27, 2017 16:55
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If a monster dies and drops something that we can pick up, we are picking it up. It matters not that it's a key, what matters is that it's loot. LOOT
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Sep 27, 2017 17:30
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Loot.
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Sep 27, 2017 18:28
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Take the key. Not a good idea to make 'always loot' rules. I had one for a D&D character once. Next thing I knew he was grabbing poison, cursed items, and even live grenades before I could protest. This series features similar items.
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Sep 27, 2017 18:37
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The Caverns of Kalte posted:The Key is coated with a corrosive digestive acid that burns through your mittens and attacks your fingers. Lose 1 ENDURANCE point. You drop the Key and plunge your hand into the snow to ease the pain. If you still wish to keep the key, you can wipe it in the snow before placing it in your pocket, but remember to mark it on your Action Chart as a Special Item. You must now search for a way of opening the fortress door. Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 29 ENDURANCE 27 Kalkoth: COMBAT SKILL 10 ENDURANCE 28 Combat Ratio: 11+ We roll: 3 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 29 ENDURANCE 25 Kalkoth: COMBAT SKILL 10 ENDURANCE 17 The Caverns of Kalte posted:The barb of a Kalkoth’s tongue holds a powerful venom, with which it paralyses its victims before devouring them. The venom takes only a few seconds to act. Stung by the barb, you quickly fade into unconsciousness. It is a sleep from which there will be no awakening. Death Count: 2 Tiggum fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Dec 19, 2017 |
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Sep 28, 2017 02:54
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I mean, that's what would have happened had we been foolish enough not to take that Blue Stone Triangle we found earlier, right?The Caverns of Kalte posted:The Key is coated with a corrosive digestive acid that burns through your mittens and attacks your fingers. Lose 1 ENDURANCE point. You drop the Key and plunge your hand into the snow to ease the pain. If you still wish to keep the key, you can wipe it in the snow before placing it in your pocket, but remember to mark it on your Action Chart as a Special Item. You must now search for a way of opening the fortress door.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:57
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In deference to the teachings of Kai, always be looting.
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Sep 28, 2017 03:02
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Loot the room, then if possible pull the lever! Hopefully it's not the Walker Texas Ranger lever, and pulling it means we have to fight Chuck Norris. Next poster- Not sure if you're referring to me, but no, Castle Death is not my favorite LW book. You'll see why when we get there. My favorite LW book's #12- you'll see why when we get there too. achtungnight fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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Sep 28, 2017 03:26
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You like Castle Death the most? I'm kinda the opposite, that's probalby the first book where Dever was like "okay, enough of this Sommerswerd bullshit, all combat is going to be hard and there will be a ton of instant death traps" i do like the setting at least though, a classic dungeon crawling adventure.
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Sep 28, 2017 03:28
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If I had to pick a single favorite, it would probably be #5, though #16 will always hold a special place (american version misnumbering be damned).
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Sep 28, 2017 05:26
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Tiggum posted:I mean, that's what would have happened had we been foolish enough not to take that Blue Stone Triangle we found earlier, right? Note to self: ignore my instincts, always be looting.
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Sep 28, 2017 05:31
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:You like Castle Death the most? I'm kinda the opposite, that's probalby the first book where Dever was like "okay, enough of this Sommerswerd bullshit, all combat is going to be hard and there will be a ton of instant death traps" i do like the setting at least though, a classic dungeon crawling adventure. Ratatozsk posted:(american version misnumbering be damned). PZ Smeltzenseltzer posted:Note to self: ignore my instincts, always be looting.
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Sep 28, 2017 06:27
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Tiggum posted:I knew about some of the books being shortened to save money, but I didn't know they changed the order of any of them. What happened and what was the reason for it? Pages were cut, and as a result page numbers were changed. There was a puzzle whose answer directed you to a page number to continue the plot, and that was not changed to account for the repagination (if that is a word.)
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Sep 28, 2017 06:40
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Loot first, pull second (if we can).
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Sep 28, 2017 07:05
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Ratatozsk posted:Pages were cut, and as a result page numbers were changed. There was a puzzle whose answer directed you to a page number to continue the plot, and that was not changed to account for the repagination (if that is a word.)
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Sep 28, 2017 07:32
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anakha posted:In deference to the teachings of Kai, always be looting. Not emptyquoting. Ratatozsk posted:If I had to pick a single favorite, it would probably be #5, though #16 will always hold a special place (american version misnumbering be damned). I barely remember the Grand Master series, due to the American version edits mostly. Shadow on the Sand is great though, you're right.
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