[Rq-rules] Harn and Harnmaster

[Allan Hird]

And here I thought I was the only one who every played or tried playing
Darth Vader inspired guys in heavy armor! ;-)  Must have been a major
influence on every multiclassed fighter/spellcaster I ever tried out.  At
least the bad-tempered ones. ;-)

On 5/14/07, Peter Maranci <pmaranci at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, in fairness I must admit that the GM was being kind of a prick
> that day; he was my roommate (in college) and his girlfriend had been giving
> him hell. Plus I think he was hung over. He had a pretty bad drinking
> problem at the time.
>
> I remember at around that time he gave every other PC 200 experience
> points, and then in the snottiest tones possible offered me seven experience
> points "if you want them". It was that moment that I turned against XP
> systems forever. :D
>
> ->Peter
>
> On 5/14/07, Paul Cardwell <carpgachair at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > --- Peter Maranci <pmaranci at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > No offense meant to anyone but I have to say that
> > > Harn bored the fertilizer
> > > out of me. It's a setting with an insane amount of
> > > detail, but more isn't
> > > always better (I'd say the same thing about Tekumel,
> > > and post-RQ Glorantha
> > > too come to think of it).
> > >
> > > Can't remember what system we were using with Harn
> > > (this was around 1987, as
> > > I recall), but I do remember that the deadliness
> > > really put me off. I was
> > > playing a heavily armored death knight of some sort,
> > > modelled after Darth
> > > Vader, and I ended up being killed single-handed by
> > > a farmer with a
> > > pitchfork. And I hadn't even been injured before I
> > > met that damned farmer;
> > > he was my first encounter.
> > >
> > > ->Peter
> >
> > Yeah, you have to watch out for those farmers.  Back
> > in the 1940s, we called that the "Rudolf Hess
> > treatment"!  (Hess was captured by a
> > pitchfork-wielding farmer.)
> >
> > Paul Cardwell
> >
> >
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