Grappling only mentions applying Damage Modifier and incurring penalties. However, I believe there was a mention of strangulation in Asphyxiation section, there is a garrotte weapon, and mummies are described as grappling and asphyxiating their victims. Are there any rules for manually asphyxiating an opponent?
Suppose a person was banished from a Greek city-state. In absense of identifying documents and photography, what would stop him from returning in about a decade (aside from him himself having no reason to return)? Surely everyone would already forget what he looked like, and he could take a new name.
I want to run a game in a non-heroic relatively magic-rich fantasy setting (think 15-16 century western and central Europe), centered on a single city (population about 20k), with a relatively small belt of inhabited lands around it, with wilderness further out. I am looking for setting books to steal from. Any suggestions? The system does not matter.
I am fiddling with Sorcery system, thinking of how to make it like Elder Scrolls magic system (I have read the unofficial conversion, but Sorcery is too cool to pass). Any suggestions on how to implement it? What I want is:
- programmable Intensity (my solution: allow to pour shaping points into Intensity, with magicka costs associated)
- programmable form and area of effect: single target, area of effect (ball)
- shorter time (my solution: reduce duration scale to minutes for non-damaging/rounds for damaging under normal circumstances)
My biggest gripe is the area of effect. Damaging spells become extremely dangerous if made AoE because they start targeting all hit locations at once, which is fair, so they should cost a lot; but non-damaging spells only benefit from increased range, so they should cost less than damaging. Any suggestions on how to calculate costs?