The Forge Forums Read-only Archives
The live Forge Forums
|
Articles
|
Reviews
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
August 09, 2022, 02:44:27 AM
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Forum changes:
Editing of posts has been turned off until further notice.
Search:
Advanced search
275647
Posts in
27717
Topics by
4285
Members Latest Member:
-
Jason DAngelo
Most online today:
61
- most online ever:
565
(October 17, 2020, 02:08:06 PM)
The Forge Archives
Inactive Forums
Burning Wheel
(Moderator:
Luke
)
The Web of Great Spiders
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Author
Topic: The Web of Great Spiders (Read 4438 times)
Luke
Moderator
Member
Posts: 1359
Conventions Forum Moderator, First Thoughts Pest
The Web of Great Spiders
«
on:
June 27, 2003, 08:02:35 AM »
Hello!
Great Spiders,
Chapter 2 of the Burning Wheel Monster Burning, has been released. The chapter is available for free for download
here
The chapter describes how to play a Great Spider character. It includes over two dozen new lifepaths, over 65 new traits, 36 new skills and a dozen new spells. Also included are rules and mechanics for web spinning, trap setting, prey wrapping, and, of course, poison.
Stop by and check it out.
If you thought Wolves were cool and Trolls were fun, I think you will very much like Spiders.
-L
Logged
The Burning Wheel Fantasy Roleplaying System
Burning Empires
Mouse Guard
Claymore
Member
Posts: 128
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #1 on:
June 27, 2003, 01:06:57 PM »
I just downloaded the rules. They look very good! I personally won't use them as a playable race in my campaign as it would not fit within the scope of my game. I run a fairly low magic/realistic world, the only non human playable race currently are dwarves, as the party just met up with them for the first time in the last campaign I ran (before then it ws a human only campaign). There are no true elves (as represented in BW), they have left for the land beyond the sea long ago. There is a degenerate stunted offshoot race of Elf like creatures who are isolationists that will attack any who tread too close to their lands (these creatures once took out an entire village who had felled trees from their forest, they are shoot on site in my campaign ;-)
What I do intend to use them as are adversaries for tonight's game. So excuse me, I need to go burn up some spiders!
Claymore
Logged
George
Driftwood Publishing
claymore@theriddleofsteel.net
www.theriddleofsteel.net
www.trosforums.com
Luke
Moderator
Member
Posts: 1359
Conventions Forum Moderator, First Thoughts Pest
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #2 on:
June 27, 2003, 02:56:10 PM »
we have been using them in our games for about three months now. They have come a long long way from just being "generic bug. squish it", to being singular and dangerous creatures.
Most folks are going to use these guys as baddies, and that's fine. What I am trying do is just provide the option for them to be player characters. And when I do that, it forces me to take a nice long detailed look at the creatures I am creating. In the end this results in something more than just a bag of hit points and stats.
If you can use them right,(and I have no doubt you will), Great Spiders are sooo formidable. Can you say: Avoid, Get Inside, Wrap/Lock, Bite, Avoid. Bye, bye...
Um. Even if you don't script, I think you get the idea. Use that webbing to your advantage!
-L
Logged
The Burning Wheel Fantasy Roleplaying System
Burning Empires
Mouse Guard
taepoong
Member
Posts: 120
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #3 on:
July 09, 2003, 01:01:57 PM »
Welcome to Spider Island!
I first tried a solo Orb Weaver to terrify my party. it worked out quite well!
So now I've shipwrecked them on an island which is infested with Sea Lords! Yikes! I even threw in a couple with the ability to make burrows. I pulled one of my hapless PCs into the earth and the party freaked! It was especially disturbing to the wizard with the Sense up... he didn't detect anything until it was far too late!
I even tried triplines, nooses, and pit traps! Muahahah!
And the whole time, the party can hear the buzzing and chirping of the spiders as they talk to each other and coordinate their attacks.
I love these things!
Logged
Abzu yelled at me and called my old sig "silly."
Lxndr
Acts of Evil Playtesters
Member
Posts: 1113
Master of the Inkstained Robes
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #4 on:
July 09, 2003, 01:11:20 PM »
I will play in any Burning Wheel game out there where I'm actually allowed to play a spider. Yum.
Logged
Alexander Cherry,
Twisted Confessions Game Design
Maker of many fine story-games!
Moderator of
Indie Netgaming
Luke
Moderator
Member
Posts: 1359
Conventions Forum Moderator, First Thoughts Pest
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #5 on:
July 10, 2003, 04:31:12 PM »
Quote from: Lxndr
I will play in any Burning Wheel game out there where I'm actually allowed to play a spider. Yum.
so what is it about spiders?
Logged
The Burning Wheel Fantasy Roleplaying System
Burning Empires
Mouse Guard
Lxndr
Acts of Evil Playtesters
Member
Posts: 1113
Master of the Inkstained Robes
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #6 on:
July 14, 2003, 06:23:31 AM »
I just like them. They're sort of a "totem animal" for me. I'm often saddened they're so often used as villains...
Logged
Alexander Cherry,
Twisted Confessions Game Design
Maker of many fine story-games!
Moderator of
Indie Netgaming
taepoong
Member
Posts: 120
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #7 on:
July 14, 2003, 09:10:37 AM »
Quote from: Lxndr
I'm often saddened they're so often used as villains...
I blame this on Tolkien and tons of horror movies!
Logged
Abzu yelled at me and called my old sig "silly."
Lxndr
Acts of Evil Playtesters
Member
Posts: 1113
Master of the Inkstained Robes
The Web of Great Spiders
«
Reply #8 on:
July 16, 2003, 10:33:29 AM »
It probably has something to do with genetics, too. Racial memory - THOSE ARE BAD. The people who avoided them probably lived longer...
Logged
Alexander Cherry,
Twisted Confessions Game Design
Maker of many fine story-games!
Moderator of
Indie Netgaming
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Jump to:
Please select a destination:
-----------------------------
Welcome to the Archives
-----------------------------
=> Welcome to the Archives
-----------------------------
General Forge Forums
-----------------------------
=> First Thoughts
=> Playtesting
=> Endeavor
=> Actual Play
=> Publishing
=> Connections
=> Conventions
=> Site Discussion
-----------------------------
Archive
-----------------------------
=> RPG Theory
=> GNS Model Discussion
=> Indie Game Design
-----------------------------
Independent Game Forums
-----------------------------
=> Adept Press
=> Arkenstone Publishing
=> Beyond the Wire Productions
=> Black and Green Games
=> Bully Pulpit Games
=> Dark Omen Games
=> Dog Eared Designs
=> Eric J. Boyd Designs
=> Errant Knight Games
=> Galileo Games
=> glyphpress
=> Green Fairy Games
=> Half Meme Press
=> Incarnadine Press
=> lumpley games
=> Muse of Fire Games
=> ndp design
=> Night Sky Games
=> one.seven design
=> Robert Bohl Games
=> Stone Baby Games
=> These Are Our Games
=> Twisted Confessions
=> Universalis
=> Wild Hunt Studios
-----------------------------
Inactive Forums
-----------------------------
=> My Life With Master Playtest
=> Adamant Entertainment
=> Bob Goat Press
=> Burning Wheel
=> Cartoon Action Hour
=> Chimera Creative
=> CRN Games
=> Destroy All Games
=> Evilhat Productions
=> HeroQuest
=> Key 20 Publishing
=> Memento-Mori Theatricks
=> Mystic Ages Online
=> Orbit
=> Scattershot
=> Seraphim Guard
=> Wicked Press
=> Review Discussion
=> XIG Games
=> SimplePhrase Press
=> The Riddle of Steel
=> Random Order Creations
=> Forge Birthday Forum