Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!psuvax1!burdvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!mccolm From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: High tech in dungeons--anybody there? Message-ID: <8914@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 17:43:42 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.8914 Posted: Wed Feb 12 17:43:42 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 03:24:43 EST References: <520@drutx.UUCP> Reply-To: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eric McColm) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 43 I, too, have mixed technology and middle-ages swords and sorcery in campaigns, but I didn't really intend to. Like a fool, I included the word Technologist in a list of character classes. (I have since abandoned the idea of character classes, but that's another story.) Well, someone decided to give the ref a hard time and run a techno. So, I made up charts of conceivable progress and devotions, and he tried it. A qualified success. He made little progress of his own, because he didn't settle down and form his own version of Bell Labs, but he did figure out a few 'magic' items. These were: a cigarette lighter (that caused a major fight in the party when the thief stole it), a modern backpack frame, a blunderbuss (3D6 damage, range as light crossbow, 1 shot per minute, noise stuns all within 5' of front of gun and scares all within 30' in any direction, and they didn't surprise anyone any more), and similar items. The techno was famous for trying to figure out magic items. On one occasion, the Drow mage found an intelligent sword with the purpose of slaying Drow and anyone who uses magic. Wups! So he gave it to the techno. It fit his personality, but they never did figure out what it was doing. Alas, the techno met an untimely end, not long after running out of the funny black stuff that made the firestick work. And before he got his pneumatic lockpicks to work. He read a Tome of Death (not the wimpy one in the DMG) and got booted to another plane. Last I heard, the ref in that campaign had equipped him with a suit of armor that repairs itself by scavenging from local sources of metal (say bye-bye to the pneumatic lockpicks), and an M16 with ammunition of the wrong caliber. But the flash grenades came in really handy. --fini-- Eric McColm UCLA (oo' - kluh) Funny Farm for the Criminally Harmless UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,trwspp,cepu,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!mccolm ARPA: mccolm@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU Reason is Peace; Fanaticism is Slavery; Tolerance is Strength.