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View first unread post Free forum for your club?

Last post by 01i « Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:22 pm
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by 01i » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:22 pm » in Gaming Club Forum Requests

In order to maximise the play testing that takes place, we would like to offer a free sub-forum to any gaming club that wants one.

By default we will create you a public forum that you can use to chat with members, and recruit new members. But we will also create you a private club forum if you want one.

We will also create an entry on the Table Warfare gaming club directory if your club is not already listed. Please note that the directory is currently only listing UK and Ireland, however...

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View first unread post Headbutt vs Shield Rush

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:36 pm
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by Longshanx » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:39 pm

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Headbutt costs 4pts and works more often than Shield Rush (more restrictions and costs 5pts), rendering that trait rather obsolete.

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Good catch, I will increase Headbutt to 6 pts.

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View first unread post what is Norindaal?

Last post by Jcrozier « Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:16 pm
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by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:27 pm

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Norindaal is the "official" (but optional) Song of Blades game world. It's a large fantasy world where 36+ gods, some of which asleep or presumed dead, compete to create the perfect servitor species, thus creating a world where lots of fantasy races, such as humans, goblins, kobolds, dwarves, elves etc must coexist.
For more info on Norindaal, check the Norindaal wiki site

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I entirely agree! I think the "kitchen sink" approach is vital - unless you plan to put in decades of work and hope that you end up with a Glorantha or a Middle Earth! And I think an important point is that a fantasy gaming world should have many more species than a literary one: tabletop variety trumps convincing ecosystems and the like!

My point is really that while the "meta-game" background for the hobgoblins is very clear, it would be nice to have a (brief)...

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View first unread post ASOBAH going out soon

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:06 am

by Andrea Sfiligoi » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:06 am

We are holding on sending out ASOBH because we'd like people to send in their backerkit, so we know who should get one or not and can do the whole thing in one go. But if in a couple of days we don't have the kits yet, I will send the ASOBH pdf nonetheless so you can start commenting and testing.

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View first unread post Where is my ASOBH pdf?

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:02 am
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by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:37 pm

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We have sent the HaF pdf sooner because most people needed to know the figures' point values to complete their pledge managers (when we send them) and get an overall idea of what the book is like.

the ASOBH pdf will be sent in about a week.

Both books are UNEDITED and still incomplete for various reasons - some missing illustrations will be pics of painted figures, that obviously cannot exist until we cast the figures and paint them :-); also, I am leaving a few pages "open" so...

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generally yes, if it cannot be disarmed, it will have the Tight Grip rule (which prevents being disarmed).

However, I will add different rules for body weaponry and special attacks types for monsters in supplements. Things such as swallowing an opponent, holding onto him and raking him with rear claws, etc.

Basically, once you let complexity of weapons creep in, you have to use the same level of details for body weaponry. Hopefully it will just add variety to the game and make monsters more...

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View first unread post Battle Reports

Last post by Jcrozier « Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:23 pm

by Jcrozier » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:23 pm

I noticed that there wasn't a thread for these.

We (the kids and I) played a three-way ASOBH game yesterday afternoon - a "steal the treasure from the guardians" affair, with Medusa and skeletal followers guarding a treasure chest in a ruined temple that bands of ratmen, lizardmen and goblins wanted to steal. So there were no dwarves, but we tested out a few Hammer and Forge rules, including Ball and Chain (goblins) and Arquebus (ratmen), as well as ASOBH novelties like Discipline...

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View first unread post Typos and other blunders

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Wed Nov 11, 2015 4:08 pm
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by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:43 pm

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If you spot a typo, a truncated or missing sentence, a miscalculated point cost or a contradicting rule, please post it in this thread. I will edit the book as we go, so that we give in the best document possible to the editor.

The book will be professionally edited. , meaning that we are paying someone to go over the text when it's final. As you may know, English is a second language to me and some sentences may sound a bit strange: they will be corrected, but feel free to mention them here.

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Thank you, all corrected
Andrea

Added in 1 minute 8 seconds:
I also removed the Sharpshooter reference in Arquebus-- the rule should reference Good shot, not Sharpshooter (which is an old rule from SBH)

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I also removed the Sharpshooter reference in Arquebus-- the rule should reference Good shot, not Sharpshooter (which is an old rule from SBH)
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View first unread post Suggested/Missing Profiles

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:37 pm
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by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:49 pm

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If you need more profiles for HaF, especially in the generic dwarves rosters (i.e., dwarves that are not represented by the figures produced by Ganesha Games), please request them here.

You too can use the ASOBH Beta builder on:

Please mention if you see anything wrong with the builder. Ray (the guy who does our builder) is working on collapsible sub-categories of traits, so the builder becomes smaller and traits within a category (e.g. spells) can be collapsed if you don't need them.

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Yes to troll whelps.

I think we have a Protect ability in SAM that works something like that, but it's been years since I used it.

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View first unread post Playtesters Names: add yours here

Last post by Marc Gacy « Wed Nov 04, 2015 5:30 pm
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by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:39 pm

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Please post in this thread the name/names (please include friends or family who helped you test the game) how you want them to appear in the book. Thanks.

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Marc "Lord Inar" Gacy and Tynan Gacy

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View first unread post Correction: Hobgoblin battle brothers

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:23 pm

by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:23 pm

The battle brothers are C3 so they cannot have Gang. They have Gregarious.

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View first unread post HaF/Song of Blades acronyms

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:22 pm

by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:22 pm

When referring to our books, we use the following acronyms for brevity:

ASOBH= Advanced Song of Blades and Heroes
FiFu= Fightin' Fungi
SOBH= basic Song of Blades and Heroes

Acronyms of books in development that may be mentioned:
LaA= Leaf and Arrow (Elves)
AaB= Axe and Brimstone (campaign pitting demon-worshipping dwarves versus a village of halflings)

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View first unread post General Posting Rules for HaF

Last post by Andrea Sfiligoi « Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:16 pm

by Andrea Sfiligoi » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:16 pm

Thank you for helping playtest Hammer and Forge . Please:

1) keep all questions about a topic in a separate thread, so it's easier to locate
2) read the existing threads and especially the FAQs thread before asking
3)BATREPS: if you have a blog, post your batrep on the blog and post the link in the BATREP LINKS thread

Suggestion: we will issue new versions of the PDF on the go, as we correct mistakes or add materials. I suggest to view the file in a tablet, if possible, and not printing it...

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