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- From: drcheng@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU (David R Cheng)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.board
- Subject: Re: Dragon Pass/Chaosium
- Message-ID: <34741@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:56:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.174307.12234@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Dec31.174307.12234@samba.oit.unc.edu> nwave@phoenix.radonc.unc.edu (Ninth Wave) writes:
- >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?
-
- Yes.
-
- >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?
-
- Yes.
-
- >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?
-
- Yes.
-
- >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).
-
- There might have been more than one printing, but it never went through
- any major revision like WBRM=>Dragon Pass. I would have to check some
- old _Wyrms Footnotes_ to see if errata ever appeared.
-
- >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?]
-
- Shadows Dance never saw print. However, if you have Trollpack, you will
- notice the section on military & mercenary units is described in terms
- that indicate the info was being prepared _for_ Shadows Dance. When
- it talks about the Torch, a and the Shadowsance, note the distances cited:
- they strangely correspond to the hex scale of the WBRM & NG maps...
- Hmmmm...
-
- >3) Then there was the third game of the trilogy, Masters of Luck of Fate;
- >anyone know its fate?
-
- Masters of Luck and Death was being developed, but never saw print.
- A friend of mine, Charles Morehouse, developed his own version. I brought
- it with me to Convulsion, and Stafford was in on one of the games. He
- said he thought it had promise. Charles is currently (as we speak) working
- on developing it further, for possible publication.
-
- >4) Is Greg Stafford still in the game business? How about Krank, Edhara,
- >Church, Oliff, Willis, Turney, Johnson and the other Chaosium people?
-
- Stafford and Willis are still owners of Chaosium. Charlie Krank still
- works there, as far as I know. Tadashi Ehara took Different Worlds with
- him to Sleuth Publications, many years ago. From what I read on GEnie,
- Sleuth has many angry people trying to find them.
-
- >-- Larry Margolese-Malin nwave@radonc.unc.edu (919) 929-8894
-
- -David Cheng
- drcheng@sales.stern.nyu.edu
-