Re: Dead Worlds & D&D 3e

Sebastian Lucier meandered fecklessly...

> >[1] My homebrew game system was heavility inspired by the core
> >rules for Ars Magica, which was co-authored by Jonathon Tweet,
> >who authored the new PHB.  His design for Ars heavily influenced
> >the core rules for 3e.
>
> Oooh!  I'd love to hear more about that, could you send me some details.
I
> was bored last night and came close to busting out my Ars Magica books to
do
> a d20 conversion of them.

Don't get too excited.  : )  My system, The Engine, is a generic
system.  It was highly inspired by the AM core rules, but it is
not necessarily a version of that game, and I don't have any rules
for using the specifics of AM in my game, especially magic, which
is what I assume you were excited about.  It would be easier to
convert AM to my game than many others, but it would still be
a conversion.

To keep this relatively on-topic: because AM and 3e have very
similar core rules, I don't think it would be that hard to convert
the Ars system of magic to 3e.  I have some ideas in mind for
free-form magic for 3e, and not suprisingly they will likely be
heavily inspired by AM's system.  Not sure if I will ever write them
up or not, though.  If you get around to doing it, you'll share,
right?  : )


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