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The witches of Discworld

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#1
zombiegleemax
Jan 30, 2005 21:28:23 I hope this is the right forum to post this in.

I recently purchased GURPS Discworld. I am a long time fan of Discworld, and love the presentation of the setting, but I don't want to use GURPS rules for it, as I don't know them too well and didn't like overmuch what I saw.

Anyway, although all my games these days are 3rd Ed, I think that Discworld is a good place to run a 2nd ed game.

I am going through my books, and can't figure out a good way to set up the witches featured in the Discworld books. Wizard doesn't work, nor does priest. I don't think psionics work either.

If there is anyone who has tackled this already, or has any ideas, I could use the help.
#2
Torack
Jan 31, 2005 1:50:20 There's the Witch kit from the Complete Wizard's Handbook that might do the trick...
#3
zombiegleemax
Jan 31, 2005 9:16:15 Unfortunately, the only 2nd ed material I have is he 3 core books and the Speljammer boxed set.
#4
kengar
Jan 31, 2005 14:56:50 I'm not very familiar with 2e (only edition of D&D I never played) but the witches of discworld (i.e. Granny Weatherwax, etc.) would be hard to put into D&D terms. Their abilities aren't really that simple to put into specific spells and so forth. Remember, Granny Weatherwax is the most powerful magic-using person on the Disc, it's hard to put that on paper and stay true to the "feel" of a fictional setting. It's like Gandalf from Middle Earth is a 5th level wizard (according to a Dragon article from a long long time ago).
#5
zombiegleemax
Jan 31, 2005 17:15:02 ...but, say, if a player wanted to play one, then what would I do?
#6
Torack
Feb 01, 2005 7:09:58 It sorta depends. From my experience(albeit limited), most people try to emulate a person's character rather then powers.

Assuming this isn't the case for you, maybe telling us(meaning me) a little about the Disc World witch and its powers could be considered a decent idea.

You may not have anything other then the core books, but there's usually quite alot of tinkering you could do with a character class without any rewriting(Such as weapon proficiencies, Non-weapon proficiencies, Wizard's spell allowance, Priest domain-access etc.)

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#1 zombiegleemax Jan 30, 2005 21:28:23	I hope this is the right forum to post this in. I recently purchased GURPS Discworld. I am a long time fan of Discworld, and love the presentation of the setting, but I don't want to use GURPS rules for it, as I don't know them too well and didn't like overmuch what I saw. Anyway, although all my games these days are 3rd Ed, I think that Discworld is a good place to run a 2nd ed game. I am going through my books, and can't figure out a good way to set up the witches featured in the Discworld books. Wizard doesn't work, nor does priest. I don't think psionics work either. If there is anyone who has tackled this already, or has any ideas, I could use the help.
#2 Torack Jan 31, 2005 1:50:20	There's the Witch kit from the Complete Wizard's Handbook that might do the trick...
#3 zombiegleemax Jan 31, 2005 9:16:15	Unfortunately, the only 2nd ed material I have is he 3 core books and the Speljammer boxed set.
#4 kengar Jan 31, 2005 14:56:50	I'm not very familiar with 2e (only edition of D&D I never played) but the witches of discworld (i.e. Granny Weatherwax, etc.) would be hard to put into D&D terms. Their abilities aren't really that simple to put into specific spells and so forth. Remember, Granny Weatherwax is the most powerful magic-using person on the Disc, it's hard to put that on paper and stay true to the "feel" of a fictional setting. It's like Gandalf from Middle Earth is a 5th level wizard (according to a Dragon article from a long long time ago).
#5 zombiegleemax Jan 31, 2005 17:15:02	...but, say, if a player wanted to play one, then what would I do?
#6 Torack Feb 01, 2005 7:09:58	It sorta depends. From my experience(albeit limited), most people try to emulate a person's character rather then powers. Assuming this isn't the case for you, maybe telling us(meaning me) a little about the Disc World witch and its powers could be considered a decent idea. You may not have anything other then the core books, but there's usually quite alot of tinkering you could do with a character class without any rewriting(Such as weapon proficiencies, Non-weapon proficiencies, Wizard's spell allowance, Priest domain-access etc.)