Lords of Creation game

Makofan · February 26, 2008, 02:56:33 PM

Question

Now I have read the rules, how do you get Powers? Just like skills, except you can't buy them to start the game?

wulfgar · February 26, 2008, 03:54:02 PM

I don't have my copy of the rules handy, but basically yes. However, my recollection is that you can improve skills immediately any time you get experience points. You can only gain a power when you level up (and you level up by increasing your personal force). The experience chart shows you how many powers you can have at each level. There's some discussion in there somewhere about the power gained being appropriate for the world you're currently adventuring in (if level up while running around Middle Earth, the GM may not feel it's appropriate for you to take another level in the Cyborg power for example).

Makofan · February 27, 2008, 04:16:41 PM

Roll up some stats for Brumbar and I will explain the game to him and get him to design a character

wulfgar · February 29, 2008, 07:40:22 AM

Here's the rolls for Brumbar's character:

Muscle 11
Speed 8
Stamina 13
Mental 13
Luck 2
$100 (but like your character I'm happy to give him additional stuff if it fits the background he comes up with)

Life Points 22

Lawbag · February 29, 2008, 09:19:29 AM

has this anything to do with the Phillip Jose Farmer books?

wulfgar · February 29, 2008, 09:45:19 AM

Hmmm, I've never heard of Philip Jose Farmer before, so I can't really answer that question.

Lords of Creation is one of the handful of games that Avalon Hill put out in the mid 80's. The basic premise is that PC's that start out as fairly ordinary people can grow in power and have all kinds of adventures across time and space. It could also be used to run a game within one genre- fantasy or futuristic sci-fi for example, but the author's intent is to mix and match any and all genres.

Who is Farmer and what are his books like?

And are you up for a game?

Makofan · February 29, 2008, 09:58:22 AM

Philip Jose Farmer's most famous book is probably "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", which launched the Riverworld series. In it, all the people from history are resurrected on a giant planet that has a huge river that runs through it. When people get killed, they just reappear somewhere else on the world. The great explorer Richard Francis Burton decides he is going to figure out what it all means. It eventually explores the destiny of mankind and the afterlife.

I myself do not think the game is based on Farmer

Lawbag · February 29, 2008, 12:27:36 PM

I was specifically referring to his Gates of Creation series, which mirrors very closely the Amber books.

Brumbar · February 29, 2008, 01:30:56 PM

QuoteHere's the rolls for Brumbar's character:

Muscle 11
Speed 8
Stamina 13
Mental 13
Luck 2
$100 (but like your character I'm happy to give him additional stuff if it fits the background he comes up with)

Life Points 22

Nicholas Graf is a graduate student in engineering who arrived here on a football and wrestling scholarship. Unlike other atheletes he is very interested in actaually getting an education and has spent his academic life studying electrical engineering. Being an orphan with no relatives he spends time working on campus as instructor for various clubs like fencing and the computer club. His major has been electrical engineering but his electives have been mythology and ancient languages.

Would you like more?

wulfgar · February 29, 2008, 01:43:02 PM

Sounds good. I can whip up the rest of the stats later today.

wulfgar · February 29, 2008, 03:49:08 PM

Nicholas Graf

Muscle 11 Damage +2
Speed 8 Initiative +1
Stamina 13 Healing 2/day
Mental 13 Power Mod +2
Luck 2 Roll 6
Total 47 Personal Force 5

Physical 11
Life Points 22

Skillls
Unarmed Combat 1
Rapier 1
Social 1 (Historical)
Engineer 1 (Electrical)*
Computer 1 (Computer Operation)

Weapons
Rapier attack 12 Damage 1D6+3

Equipment
Modest off-campus apartment
fencing attire
high end laptop computer (provided by University)
Beatup pickup truck

* because Nicholas is an electrical engineer but didn't have a lot of points for skills, I swapped around mechanical and electrical in the Engineering ranking, so if/when Nicholas gains level 2 in the Engineering skill he'll pick up mechanical engineering then.

wulfgar · February 29, 2008, 03:50:43 PM

So Lawbag, would you care to join the game? If so, I'll roll up some stats. Otherwise, we can get started tomorrow with the intrepid duo of Nicholas and Sabrina!

Coffee · March 01, 2008, 05:45:23 PM

Quote from: wulfgarCoffee:
Muscle: 9
Speed: 9
Stamina: 8
Mental: 11
Luck: 12
$480
Life Points:17

John Henry Harrison couldn't make the football team to get a scholarship, so he occasionally tends bar at night to supplement his meager financial aid. He also plays poker when he can (he's reasonably lucky).

21 year old Junior (he'll take more than four years to graduate...) studying pre-Med.

(Very loosly based on Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, from the book MASH (not the movie or the tv series, but the original book.)

wulfgar · March 03, 2008, 07:54:42 AM

Welcome aboard, I'll have a writeup for your pc posted shortly.

wulfgar · March 03, 2008, 09:20:32 AM

John Henry Harrison

Muscle 9 Damage +1
Speed 9 Initiative +1
Stamina 8 Healing 1/day
Mental 11 Power Mod +2
Luck 12 Roll 7
Total 49 Personal Force 5

Physical 9
Life Points 17

Skillls
Unarmed Combat 1
Street Criminal 1 (Street Connections)
Science 2 (Chemistry, Biology)
Stage Magician 1 (Slight of Hand)

Weapons
Baseball Bat attack 9 Damage 1D6+1
Shotgun attack 9 Damage 3D6 Range 100ft Ammo Capacity 2, takes 1 action to reload each round.
Both the bat and the shotgun belong to the bar John works at and are kept behind the bar in case someone gets out of hand. John's quite thankful he's never had to use either one.

Equipment
reasonably furnished dorm room
Card table, cards, set of poker chips
student loans