pauln1964 ([personal profile] pauln1964) wrote2004-12-02 12:59 pm

ARMV

Just picked it up (along with the Calabais scenario) from Travelling Man.

Looks Purrrty. Will have a skim over (the rest of) lunch.

Sorry [livejournal.com profile] robcee, they only had one of each on the shelves.

[identity profile] curlwomble.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Now, it's only £15, for a full sized harbacked rulebook, but... The printing could be a bit sharper, for my liking, and I wish they'd used two rather than 3 columns; there's just a smidge too much hyphenation for comfort, with all the long words.

Artwork? Ambivalency reigns.

Then again, I *can* read it, and it's the content I primarily care about, so £15 well spent. Don't like the concept they give behind botch dice, though. they've got it mixed up with ease factor.

Juggling bean bags: low target, no botch dice
Juggling bean bags of different weights: higher target, no botch dice.
Juggling clubs: higher target, low botch dice
Juggling knives: higher target, some botch dice
Juggling chainsaws: even higher target, strength roll, lots of botch dice
Juggling two chainsaws, a cannonball, an egg full of fulminate of mercury and a feather: really high target, strength roll, all the botch dice.

their cliff-climbing example just doesn't work for me.

[identity profile] oldnick.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Serf's Parma I'm afraid, and not an area I've really drilled into.

On your list above, I'd change clubs to 'low target, low botch dice' - I'm not a juggler, but I always get the idea that clubs are not particularly difficult to juggle with due to regularity of size and weight.