NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/games/board/12854

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Subject: Dragon Pass/Chaosium
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Now that my son is ten, I have "rediscovered" all my old Chaosium board games
(three editions of White Bear/Red Moon!). First a couple of questions about
Dragon Pass:
1) concerning melee casualties - CF losses are taken from a stack top-down.
Does this mean that if I lose 12 CF in a battle and my stack has a super-
hero (20CF) as the topmost unit with three 4CF units stacked beneath it, then
this stack suffers no losses?
2) The Dragon Pass unit The Twins is a spirit that is not bound to a magician.
Do The Twins act in all respects as other disembodied spirits?
3) Can skirmishers fight twice in a given combat phase: i.e. on the attack,
make a missle attack in the missle fire phase and than use their CF in the
melee phase; and on the defense use defensive missle fire and then apply
their CF to the defensive counterattack?

And now some general questions about Chaosium:
1) I have Nomad Gods, first edition: was there ever a second edition? an
errata sheet? (lots of errata needed, but the game is wonderfully imagina-
tive).
2) For years Chaosium talked about Shadows Dance as the link between
WB/RM and NG: did it ever appear as a standalone or as an expansion? [Dragon
Pass has several rules covering NG areas such as support and chattel property;
perhaps the DP rules are sufficient?]
3) Then there was the third game of the trilogy, Masters of Luck of Fate;
anyone know its fate?
4) Is Greg Stafford still in the game business? How about Krank, Edhara,
Church, Oliff, Willis, Turney, Johnson and the other Chaosium people?
5) I have numerous odd counters from Greg Stafford: lunar boats, dhows,
wooly mammoths, walktapi, etc. Any rules for these units?

I've always thought that Stafford et al brought more imagination into the
world of gaming than any other group I'm familiar with.And though I don't
think Avalon Hill's production values are necessarily an improvement, it is
good to see DP and Elric in print. Perhap AH could be persuaded to reissue NG?

-- Larry Margolese-Malin   [e-mail]   [phone]