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Climbing, diving, small boat handling are skills not in the DragonQuest 3rd ed book. What other skills have the Dragon Isles team added?

Any weapons added that are not in the book? I thought I saw a reference to Katan and wakasashi at Vernecon.

Us there Suegecraft as either a skill or as a weapon?. I could see ballistas mounted as a broadside on larger ships. Catapults and trebuchets would be need to reduce a strong point manned by the enemy.

Will

<<Katana, Wakasashi, Sai and Vara Sticks, each has their own experience chart and vital statistics. >>

is this info posted anywhere. I am working on computerizing all the tables for easy look-up.

Is the Mechanician skill a discounted skill at the War College? My reading of that skill in "Da BOOK" indicates that it is useful for setting mechanical traps. However, a Mechanician is not given any ability at de-traping the devicesof others. You need to be a Spy or Theif to do that. How have you expanded the abilities of the Mechanician? Do you have Mechanicians serving as "gunners" on board ships? It would seem to me that siege weapons need to bedefined in ways similar to regular weapons, i.e. IV, SC and Damage.

Will

Is that posted somewhere I could download?  If not could you e-mail me a copy?

Yes, but I did not think that any of the boats that sail within the kingdom water boundary's are that big. Another question for a different source...

If you'd like to collaborate on a project, please let me know.  I was thinking along the same lines, only not in filemaker, I don't have access to (or  have even seen) fileMaker Pro. 

We could break it into chunks.  I was thinking of making a character generator, to speed things up for DI01, and make it easier for the GM to help the rookies.   If I make that piece to fit with what you're doing there is a obvious benefit to both of us.

Maybe I could get a copy of your work on the 21st, and help take some steps forward.

re. boats
During the Civil War, the Union used iron and timber clad warship on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Ol' Muddy is/was notorious for its shallow waters, shifting sand bars and other navigable hazards. The big advantage that the Union had over the Dragon Isles is STEAM. When you are dependent on wind or muscle power, you are limited in size and weight for your ships, when in constricted waters. On the open ocean with room to manuever, it is a different story.

re. Programming
I started this project of mine by working on one of the Excel spreadsheet that Mark sent me. I quickly ran into the limitations of that product especially in the area of table lookup functions. I suppose that I could have solved the problem using Visual Basic, but my Vb is very rusty. Since I was going to have to relearn a language, I decided to opt for a cross platform system so that whatever I wrote could be used by Mac owners as well as PC owners. Since I have several of each, I have machines on which I could test the finnished product. I decided on Filemaker since it has programming interface that is similar to Access and has both Mac and Windows runtime environments. While I've done some DB developemnt it has been a while since I've actively programmed. I am using this to get the ol creative juices flowing again.

While I'd like to see what you two have done, since it seems that you are focussed on a PC only solution, I'm ggoing to continue with Filemaker. Not everyone who has a PC can afford MS Office and most Mac owners would never deign to touch a Microsoft product.

I am retired and have been at loose ends for a while. I am having a lot of fun learning Filemaker and it, along with these chats, has given my life a little more focus. Send me what you've got. Maybe between the three of us ( or more if anyone else chimes in) we can come up with the Great DragonQuest App.

Scott,
email me the forms with the EP costs along with the stats on the additional weapons. Any other forms would be helpful as well. Any format is OK, I can convert most of them.

Will

has anyone here visited the web site
http://www.dragonquestfrontiers.com/  ?

they have a couple of interesting additions to the set of professional skills. For example, Diplomat. To qualify, you need to have rank 8 in to additional languages other than your native tongue

Will

It was pretty neat, if not a bit...powerful in the equipment section. The one thing that I found lacking was the xp cost for the different skills. Did any1 else who looked at it have any luck?

What did you guys think of all the added magic colleges and added spells to current colleges?  Maybe we can take some of that as Esoteric spells or even allow someone that wants to pick up a 2nd college to pick up one of these.

what did you think about the diplomacy and Rafter skills? Since in order to start in either, a person need to rank up to 8 in more than Khalish. So while either may be powerful skills, it would be quite a while before anyone could avail themselves of those skills.

We had generally decided that there is one common language in the Kingdom of the Dragon Isles. And I agree that we do not really have a need for either the Diplomat or the Rafter skills from the website and his 'house rules'. They are all good ideas, but not ones that I see as we really need to include.