Author Archives: Mike Page
Where Do They Learn It All?
Just involved in an interesting conversation with <urbanfrog2002> on the dragwars message board, where he makes the following interesting point on learning new skills: “I love it that to gain a particular ability etc often a character will need to … Continue reading
Elowyn, a DW Mystic
So here’s the other half of the duo, Elowyn, a human Mystic, run by my daughter. Being a character with Arcane Background, I found it necessary to first work out what SW Mystics might look like. For the character background … Continue reading
Elathan, a Knight Gone Slightly Wrong
Elathan and Elowyn, twin brother and sister are my kids’ PCs (also twin boy and girl – I thought that I’d give them something half-way familiar for their first RPG experience). Their mother died at childbirth (PCs, not kids!) and … Continue reading
Nab’han, the Grateful Assassin
What on earth is a Saracen assassin doing in northern Albion then? Well it’s like this: Nab’han is a native of the Caliphate of Zhenir. When Elathan and Elowyn first met him he was being protected from a lynch mob … Continue reading
Isembard, the Dwarven Scholar with Two Left Hands
Isembard Ironfist was one of those characters that were dictated by the dice. I usually let my players choose how to allocate the rolls for their primary statistics (for a dwarven warrior strength and reflexes) and roll the rest directly … Continue reading
Too good not to share…
Roll a d6: Fantastic RPG / LARP parody of The Far East Movement’s “Like a G6”
On Porting Characters from DW to SW
So, not only are we planning to swap rule systems for the same setting, we’re going to try to port our old characters over too. The burning question is where to put the characters on the experience/rank line? As far … Continue reading
Mystics; One Man’s Mystic is Another Man’s Psionicist
…isn’t he? According to the Dragon Warriors Rulebook “A Mystic can be a formidable foe using only the power of his mind, setting little store by the wands and other occult fripperies of Elementalists or Sorcerers.” So much of the … Continue reading
Moving DW Magic to SW
On the one hand magic is the one thing that is probably most cumbersome to port from DW to SW, on the other hand only one member of my group uses magic at all, a Mystic, and so the only … Continue reading
Savage Legend 