Subject: Re: [7th Sea RPG] Kevin - 7th Sea, Query Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:13:55 -0700 From: "Kevin Wilson" > Question 1: > > Are the following acceptable interpretations for these shapes? > > a) Osprey - Attack (0k2), clasws, flight, keen sight, speed, Brawn -2, > no fine > manipulation, TN15. This one seems be about right, though you might make it TN 20. (Flight and speed are more heavily weighted than most Boons) > b) Draft Horse - Attack (0k2 bite, kick, trample) Long distance > running, > sprinting, brawn +3, No fine manipulation, no grasping limbs, poor > sight, > keen smell, (TN20) Brawn +3 seems excessive, to me at least. I only used +3 for the Kodiak Bear. As listed, the horse should be TN 25 or even 30, depending on how you're going to allow the various attacks to work. > Is there a methodology to generalize stats for animal shapes? Yes. It will be printed in the Ussuran book along with more samples. > The rules on creatures given in the bestiary are not the same as the > stats for the Usurran animal-forms. In any bestiary section or book you > create it would be very very useful to have for each kind of creature > the stats for Usurran animal-forms as well as the stats for the creatures > themselves. Unfortunately, the animal-forms work so differently from normal animals (being a modification of a human Hero rather than a set of creature stats) that it isn't feasible to make them the same. It is my hope that once we put out the guidelines for generating animal forms in the Ussuran book there won't be a need to release an endless stream of animal forms. > I would love to have the opportunity to discuss the philosophy of > statistics and interpretations of animal forms, as well as the fauna of > Theah, with someone, and to have the chance to perhaps assist in > some small way with the development of same. Well, feel free to email me privately if you want. -Kevin Wilson -- Contents Copyright (C) 1997,98,99 by ALDERAC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC.