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Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: Jack Aidley on March 09, 2004, 12:09:01 PM
Yes, it's another thread about Great Ork Gods. Those of you who haven't been following the earlier threads may wish to look in here (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9289).

I've put a second playtest release up at www.greatorkgods.co.uk (//www.greatorkgods.co.uk), with a few new rules tweaks and polishs and a slew of corrections and clarifications. I'm hoping this will be the last release before the final version - time will tell.

There's been a few rules tweaks since the first release:
Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: Ron Edwards on March 09, 2004, 02:27:32 PM
Hi Jack,

Lettin' you know that I'm planning a Great Ork Gods session or two in the very near future.

Get this: Tunnels & Trolls, Elfs, Fairy Meat, and The Great Ork Gods. That's what one of the groups I play in has been up to. We're all getting a little punchy ...

Best,
Ron
Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: Valamir on March 09, 2004, 02:47:34 PM
Jack, I'll be going through this version as soon as I have some time, I'm really excited to see this game hit the streets.

Initial query, however. I note you're using spite as the number of Goblins rather than Oog.  Since Spite changes in the game, how does this effect the Goblins?  Do new Gobs show up whenever your spite increases?  Does the GM narrate nasty demises for your Gobs whenever spite decreases?  Or is it based on total Spite ever earned without regards to whether it was spent or not (Total Spite ever earned - Total Goblins lost = size of goblin band).

The answer may be in the text, but I don't have time to get to it this morning.
Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: Jack Aidley on March 09, 2004, 02:56:31 PM
Hi Ralph,

That was a typo - Doh! Should have been Oog.

Um, I think I'll edit the first post so it doesn't confuse others, just so no-one wonders what Ralph was talking about here's what I incorrectly wrote in the first post:

Quote from: IGoblins have been changed. You now have a small band of dedicated followers, equal to your Spite less any you've 'lost' (should've listened to Ralph the first time round) - the rules have been re-ordered to emphasise the sacrifical role of Goblins over the role of giving them orders.

I'm really pleased how many people love this game! (You can tell by the excessive number of exclamation marks in my posts)

Hi Ron,

Really pleased your playing it.

Quote from: RonGet this: Tunnels & Trolls, Elfs, Fairy Meat, and The Great Ork Gods. That's what one of the groups I play in has been up to. We're all getting a little punchy ...

Man! I don't think I could cope with that much craziness in a row - a couple of sessions of any of the more light-hearted games leaves me craving something a bit more serious. One of my usual players is going to GM GoG tommorow night, I'm really looking forward to sitting on the other side of the game.

Regards,

Jack.
Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: Valamir on March 09, 2004, 03:09:38 PM
QuoteHi Ralph,

That was a typo - Doh! Should have been Oog.

Heh, I almost added "unless that was a typo" in my post.

I look forward to hearing some playtest reports on how the new Goblin system works.  In my group with Seth and Crystal we just played Inspectres, as sort of a brush-the-dust-off game to get us back into the roleplaying swing.  Perhaps we can do a session of GoG too.
Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: GreatWolf on March 09, 2004, 04:33:00 PM
Quote from: Valamir
I look forward to hearing some playtest reports on how the new Goblin system works.  In my group with Seth and Crystal we just played Inspectres, as sort of a brush-the-dust-off game to get us back into the roleplaying swing.  Perhaps we can do a session of GoG too.

I'm open to that.  I've been intrigued by what I've been reading about GoG.  Plus, I've been around my brother (who is an ork fanatic), and it's rubbed off a bit.

Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf
Title: [Great Ork Gods] Final (?) Polishing
Post by: Jack Aidley on March 15, 2004, 11:15:00 AM
I recently got a chance to play in, rather than run GOG and, in the process give the new rules a fairly sound test.

Mostly pleased - but I found the random Ork generation (which looked good on paper) seemed to produce fairly bland Orks in practice. I'm thinking therfore of making it so you just roll a d5 for each hate - this will allow 1's again but I think since they will be randomly placed, it won't have the min/max problem they had before.

I'm also a little concerned that the new Spite rules for using your own god might produce an over-abundance of Spite in games with more players (we only had three) - has anyone played with the new rules with four or five players?