tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post4129156265021248668..comments2024-03-18T02:49:18.084-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: Cinder: land of no horsesJeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-10513623991141436252008-02-25T11:46:00.000-06:002008-02-25T11:46:00.000-06:00Hey Jeff...If you want to borrow the Vik'rit form ...Hey Jeff...<BR/><BR/>If you want to borrow the Vik'rit form my <I>Savage Worlds</I> Avatars game, go right ahead.<BR/><BR/>For the many unknowing out there, Vik'rit were effectively giant ants. With a rider, they could only bite folks. Sans rider, they could rear up the front segent of their bodies and attack three times (one bite, two mantis-like front legs with mighty scything action (and kung-fu grip)). Nasty critters<BR/><BR/>peace... Davethe Red-Haired Maniachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824933276649607370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-50814865579726041222008-02-25T11:11:00.000-06:002008-02-25T11:11:00.000-06:00Anon guy, you and I wouldn't play together for ver...Anon guy, you and I wouldn't play together for very long after an exchange like that. I can't quite figure out what I would do. Part of me would want to simply show you the door. Another part of me would want to say "Okay, no chocobos" but then engineer a situation where your PC would simply have to ride a pretty pink pony to survive an encounter. And then a third part of me would want to show up to the next session in a dress, just to freak your ass out.Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-58979954756275612612008-02-25T10:35:00.000-06:002008-02-25T10:35:00.000-06:00many years ago my brother told me he was going to ...many years ago my brother told me he was going to drop hoses and use chocobos exclusively for his D&D campaign....I told him that chocobos are gayer than aids on Tuesday and I would never game with him again if he did. the horses stayed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-22176158490090805052008-02-25T10:14:00.000-06:002008-02-25T10:14:00.000-06:00Would that be a bulette train, Mark?Would that be a bulette train, Mark?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-34570658225903582762008-02-25T09:28:00.000-06:002008-02-25T09:28:00.000-06:00It occurs to me now that it'd be tough to ride som...It occurs to me now that it'd be tough to ride something that tunnels. Maybe the dwarves have coaches they harness behind trained bulettes. Kinda like a subway car that the bulette digs the tube for as it goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-89720172274115955472008-02-24T00:45:00.000-06:002008-02-24T00:45:00.000-06:00Dwarves on ankhegs just seems so wrong and so righ...Dwarves on ankhegs just seems so wrong and so right all at the same time. I just picture this dwarf, patting the slimy carapace of his trusty cockroach mount, and wiping the goo onto the elf's pants, which burst into flames. Its a dwarf thing.Infamous Jumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17325095907854089585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-80477372324292904032008-02-23T09:24:00.000-06:002008-02-23T09:24:00.000-06:00All I did was do a google image search for "chocob...All I did was do a google image search for "chocobo knight". That pic was on page one.Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-85873122154307244752008-02-23T08:11:00.000-06:002008-02-23T08:11:00.000-06:00That 4th chocobo picture is awesome. Where did yo...That 4th chocobo picture is awesome. Where did you find it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-21475254108259174542008-02-23T04:27:00.000-06:002008-02-23T04:27:00.000-06:00orcish knights on giant war butterflies"Taste the ...<I>orcish knights on giant war butterflies</I><BR/><BR/>"Taste the sting of the Monarch!"<BR/>--The MonarchRobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15830826332699427926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-79580530808197841722008-02-22T21:51:00.000-06:002008-02-22T21:51:00.000-06:00mark - any excuse for more mastiffs in fantasy gam...mark - any excuse for more mastiffs in fantasy gaming is a good excuse. I think I might just be unable to play in a world without mastiffs :)<BR/><BR/>jeff - if I find it I'll scan it and post it somewhere. Actually I should scan that entire notebook; it's full of teen-gamer oddness which suspiciously resembles stuff I'm still doing years later (or vice-versa) ...S. John Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12284417121877141161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-45120308935592376602008-02-22T20:32:00.000-06:002008-02-22T20:32:00.000-06:00I seem to recall in Runequest that trolls had dome...I seem to recall in Runequest that trolls had domesticated giant insects. Or I may just have imagined that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-59392735001832496272008-02-22T19:49:00.000-06:002008-02-22T19:49:00.000-06:00Dwarves = ankhegsElves = giant orb weavers (spooky...Dwarves = ankhegs<BR/>Elves = giant orb weavers (spooky looking but only interested in eating giant insects)<BR/>Humans = Rottweilers to pull carts, maybe mastiffs as pack animalsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-89187893039547886242008-02-22T18:49:00.000-06:002008-02-22T18:49:00.000-06:00Shoggoth-sized amoebasFlumphsLightning boltsTame t...Shoggoth-sized amoebas<BR/><BR/>Flumphs<BR/><BR/>Lightning bolts<BR/><BR/>Tame tornados a la the samurai guy in Challenge of the Superfriends<BR/><BR/>Sharks with legs<BR/><BR/>Golems -- you ride on their backs in adult-sized papooses.<BR/><BR/>Giant millipedes<BR/><BR/>Flying carpets<BR/><BR/>Vines that grow in whatever direction you guide them<BR/><BR/>Hamster balls<BR/><BR/>Giant flying squirrels<BR/><BR/>Angels<BR/><BR/>Thrones carried by zombies<BR/><BR/>None -- everyone travels via a system of catapaults and nets<BR/><BR/>Giant, magical boots you ride in as they stomp from place to place<BR/><BR/>Carriages with monster feet<BR/><BR/>Human slaves bred as mountsMike Kuciakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13345342370898964077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-56778424131987320322008-02-22T18:41:00.000-06:002008-02-22T18:41:00.000-06:00Goodly Knights = AxebeaksEvil Knights = RaptorsMer...Goodly Knights = Axebeaks<BR/>Evil Knights = Raptors<BR/>Merchants = Baluchitherums (pack beasts)<BR/>Peasant Draft Beast = Mini Elephant<BR/>Savannah Barbarians = Ostriches<BR/>Plains Barbarians = Smilodons<BR/>Dwarves = Brown Bears<BR/>Gray Elves = Giant Eagles (fly)<BR/>High Elves = Giant Swans (can fly)<BR/>Drow Elves = Giant Black Millipedes<BR/>Gnomes = Giant Hamsters<BR/>Halflings = Giant Mice<BR/>Wasteland Orcs = Komodo Dragons<BR/>Mountain Orcs = Wyverns (can fly)<BR/>Forest Goblins = Giant Squirrels<BR/>Swamp Goblins = Giant Hellbenders<BR/>Hobgoblins = Giant Roaches<BR/>Tundra Bugbears = Polar Bears<BR/>Gnolls = Hyenadons<BR/>Kobolds = Giant FleasJames Mishlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10588233931813111541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-81593859336398456422008-02-22T16:36:00.000-06:002008-02-22T16:36:00.000-06:00Bears, Jeff, Bears.Bears, Jeff, Bears.Zachary Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01166638173640517627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-77681268023667388862008-02-22T16:16:00.000-06:002008-02-22T16:16:00.000-06:00Back in 2nd edition D&D days I ran a campaign wher...Back in 2nd edition D&D days I ran a campaign where everyone rode axebeaks, and most of the party's mounts had the quirk of stopping suddenly to stare at random things that caught their attention. Whatever you mount 'em on, make 'em intensely stupid and the fun will flow. <BR/><BR/>P.S. In this campaign, the badass knights got to ride velociraptors.<BR/><BR/>BigFella<BR/>bigfellamachine@comcast.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-46909680955791887252008-02-22T15:55:00.000-06:002008-02-22T15:55:00.000-06:00I may add dinosaurs as a ridding animal in my camp...I may add dinosaurs as a ridding animal in my campaign, thanks for the idea.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07817185957393926983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-47311662205827598962008-02-22T14:45:00.000-06:002008-02-22T14:45:00.000-06:00erin: Thanks! I'll take any excuse to flip throug...erin: Thanks! I'll take any excuse to flip through a decade's worth of old Dragon issues!<BR/><BR/>S. John: That is one of the coolest die charts I've ever heard of, at least in the category of die charts that don't involve buttock amputation.Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-70050039372399915542008-02-22T14:08:00.000-06:002008-02-22T14:08:00.000-06:00I remember well the novelty-mount craze of the 80s...I remember well the novelty-mount craze of the 80s, but for whatever reason I was swept into a related fad: the novelty centaur. I loved Wemics back in the day (and a jillion other variants ... I think I still have my Random Centaur table in a spiral notebook somewhere around here, where you'd roll on one table for the humanoid half and another for the beastie half and set the scale primarily according to the humanoid half, so if you rolled Frost Giant/Mouse you'd have a Frost-Giant scaled front on an almost elephant-sized mouse body) ...S. John Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12284417121877141161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-10358804013862357792008-02-22T14:04:00.000-06:002008-02-22T14:04:00.000-06:00One is reminded of old school Glorantha, where var...One is reminded of old school Glorantha, where various non-horse animals were ridden by the different plains tribes (Antelope, Gazelles, etc.)<BR/><BR/>Shouldn't Halflings ride some sort of , dunno, Giant Rabbit or something?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-39765714456340307552008-02-22T12:30:00.000-06:002008-02-22T12:30:00.000-06:00Sabretooth Grizzlies!Sabretooth Grizzlies!S. John Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12284417121877141161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-89154916882173750682008-02-22T12:08:00.000-06:002008-02-22T12:08:00.000-06:00Use both lizards and warks. Warks for your traditi...Use both lizards and warks. Warks for your traditional "goodguy" races, and lizards for the Orkz and other bad dudez.<BR/><BR/>Actually, look over the animals and dire animals and see what's available. A patrol of halfling scouts on their dire badgers are likely to inspire all sorts of commentary.<BR/><BR/>"Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!"donm61873https://www.blogger.com/profile/07855277967868713114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-83128547499247027542008-02-22T11:59:00.000-06:002008-02-22T11:59:00.000-06:00I recall an old Dragon Magazine article back in th...I recall an old Dragon Magazine article back in the 80s that suggested replacing horses with more fantastic equivalents. Don't remember the issue number, but it should be fairly easy to Google.Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-32360302624755648002008-02-22T11:56:00.000-06:002008-02-22T11:56:00.000-06:00Really FAST giant tortoises with palanquins!Really FAST giant tortoises with palanquins!Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06319443832578685630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-6112010072677598962008-02-22T11:35:00.000-06:002008-02-22T11:35:00.000-06:00giant snails \o/giant snails \o/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com