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(...) ... sounds good. Will you "fancy him up" before I put him on the page, or should I just use this one? I liked your commentary (first person view is always fun) as well as your photography). I see that you used the gungan creatures well (I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) "where" ... We have yet to figure out the perfect method of keeping up with time, so I guess this will give us something to think about ... -- pn (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) This one will be fine. Use the second picture and just clip out Sain - I don't think there's much I'd be doing to that anyway. Most of the 'fancying' will be in making the page look nicer - maybe a few minor things on the pics themselves. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) But what is 'historical' for Castle World? It's not our own world. Historically, there's no real magic, either....but we use it in CW. CW, as I understand it, is not tied to a particular time of history but rather to a 'feel' - and that feel (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) <snip> (...) Make that *three* ballads. I forgot to consider that the person would need also need to get the design of the gun from somewhere - either from seeing it in use, or somehow finding a 'blueprint', or getting the design from the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In a message in another thread, someone made a comment that we should not have too many mages/wizards in our armies. Unfortunately, in the "army" (actually, population) that I'm building, I've already got a dozen or so wizards, most of them "bad (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I guess personally I don't have a problem with this. In my view Castle World is a place to consolidate all our creations into one place and create stories which cross one or more kingdom's. I personally will probably only have one maybe 2 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Jeff, This looks cool as did the Cornelius stuff. Sorry I have not said so before I have been under the weather and havn't been checking up on LUGNET much for the last 4 or 5 days. Anyway it is great stuff. Storytelling ain't my bag baby but with (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Franklin W. Cain writes: The title of this thread reminds me of the excellent novel, _Too Many Magicians_ by Randall Garrett (I think). It's a classic 'locked-room' murder mystery with a twist - it happens in a world where magic (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I see nothing wrong with having lots of wizards. I've got a pretty good number myself, around 12. I think it is just a matter of personal preference. (...) As do I. I think I am up to about a dozen of them, also. I'm considering having an (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, my turn to take a crack at this subject... I have been working and reworking a Ninja theme project for about a year, ever anticipating CW to appear. Luckily for me, my Fortress design allows me to switch from standard medieval implements (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Which is why people can turn down Battle requests and can come up with a mutually beneficial outcome. :) (...) I'd say the more wizards you have, the less powerful the average wizards are. I would not bar powerful leader mages, though. Jeff (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) FTR, I have a squad of Musketeers. While I don't plan on having any more than that, I do plan on having a couple cannons, but these will be the inventions of the "wizards" who call themselves Engineers. ;) I plan to equip one Airship with (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Here is the preliminary version of the mapping guide/key for Castle World (or any other world for that matter). Castle World Maps: Key and Standards (beta version): by Tim Coats (meant for actually building the map in Lego, or in POVRay) Scales: (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I use cannons too. Admittedly, I use cannons as anti-personnel rather than anti-structure, as with most seige equipment I build. Of course, that's because of the rules(1) I use - anything anti-structure has to be able to damage buildings (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Neat! Now all we need to do is convince TLC that this is neat also, and sell a map making kit with a decent variety of plates in all the colors... "Wow, you must be planning a really big map." "No, it's just the best way to get a bunch of plates in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Looks great! I can't wait to see their history, how Sain got his 'majickal weapon', and what is the debt that Batu has to Sain... Like Pawel, I like the first-person story. I plan to do at least one or two "chapters" like that (the chapters in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yep.. I think this is probably the best thing about castle world... If I post an army of 550,000 mephisto-equivalents all with dragon steeds and each with his own magical mech and pistol, I'm still no more powerful than anyone else, because (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Jeff, I totally agree. I see Jonathan's point but I think that CW is not a chronological world like ours. "History" in it is not neccessarily like ours. (This is sort of like people thinking that no life as we know it is possible on, say, Jupiter. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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