the gorgon`s alliance by sierra

[Joao Medeiros]

>> Actually, the Planescape stuff is wrong on this point. The powers of
>blooded characters is inherent to them, and they keep whatever blood
>abilities whereever they go.
>
>Bryan

I agree. After all what are scions but really minor deities themselves? Does
Haelyn lose his power if he shifts a plane?

-Joao Medeiros
lcgm@elogica.com.br

[john gonzalez]

greetings,

i was wondering if anyone has played the the birthright pc game The
Gorgon's Alliance, and how it compares to the actual game. I know that
some of the rules have been changed to make the game more computer
ready, but are the changes that drastic? I've read the novels and now
after playing the computer game am seriously considering buying the
boxed set. Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the
planes?
thanks
JMG

ps is Birthright going to be continued now that TSR is owed by the
wizards? Havent heard any definites.

[Sepsis]

At 12:22 AM 8/21/97 -0400, john gonzalez(wyntergryn@geocities.com)wrote:
>
>I've read the novels and now after playing the computer game
>am seriously considering buying the boxed set.
>

Seriously considering?? Waste no more time in thought...go get it! If you
liked the books, and you liked the computer game, then you will love the
setting.

>
>Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the planes?
>

Nope.

Sepsis, richt@metrolink.net

"War is a matter of vital importance to the State;
the province of life or death;
the road to survival or ruin.
It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied."
-Sun Tzu,(The Art of War)-

BR Netbook: http://webpages.metrolink.net/~veleda/birth.html

[Paul Lefebvre]

Sepsis wrote:

> At 12:22 AM 8/21/97 -0400, john
> gonzalez(wyntergryn@geocities.com)wrote:
> >
> >I've read the novels and now after playing the computer game
> >am seriously considering buying the boxed set.
> >
>
> Seriously considering?? Waste no more time in thought...go get it! If
> you
> liked the books, and you liked the computer game, then you will love
> the
> setting.
>
> >
> >Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the planes?
> >
>
> Nope.
>
> Sepsis, richt@metrolink.net

For anyone who's played the game...what's it like? I wasn't too
impressed by the appearance of the graphics on sierra's website, nor
some of the music clips I listened to. But the idea of playing
birthright on the computer is intriguing. Is it vey close to the real
thing? Are the characters sufficiently detailed? Enough that it works
as a decent CRPG? Or is it all stategy and the characters are simply
minor elements? Are there adequate adventures? Is it buggy? I know
these are a lot of questions, but I'm considering purchasing and I
figured this was the place to ask.

**anyone who responds, could you please send response to MY e-mail
address, since I'll be off the list for a couple days??**

Thanks,

Paul L.

[Paul Lefebvre]

Sepsis wrote: >

> >Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the planes?
> >]

The Planewalkers handbook states that a blooded Cerilian severs his
tie to the land and gradually loses his blood abilities upon leaving
Cerilia....of course, his blood abilities would return upon his return
to Cerilia, but the severed ties....maybe not.

Paul L.

[breye@earthlink.ne]

Sepsis wrote:
>
> At 12:22 AM 8/21/97 -0400, john gonzalez(wyntergryn@geocities.com)wrote:
> >
> >I've read the novels and now after playing the computer game
> >am seriously considering buying the boxed set.
> >
>
> Seriously considering?? Waste no more time in thought...go get it! If you
> liked the books, and you liked the computer game, then you will love the
> setting.
>
> >
> >Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the planes?
> >
>
> Nope.
> Actually, the Planescape stuff is wrong on this point. The powers of
blooded characters is inherent to them, and they keep whatever blood
abilities whereever they go.

Bryan

[Paul Lefebvre]

breye@earthlink.net wrote:

> Sepsis wrote:
> >
> > At 12:22 AM 8/21/97 -0400, john
> gonzalez(wyntergryn@geocities.com)wrote:
> > >
> > >I've read the novels and now after playing the computer game
> > >am seriously considering buying the boxed set.
> > >
> >
> > Seriously considering?? Waste no more time in thought...go get it!
> If you
> > liked the books, and you liked the computer game, then you will love
> the
> > setting.
> >
> > >
> > >Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the planes?
> > >
> >
> > Nope.
> > Actually, the Planescape stuff is wrong on this point. The powers
> of
> blooded characters is inherent to them, and they keep whatever blood
> abilities whereever they go.
>
> Bryan

Actually, this is just TSRs way of balancing characters with special
abilities coming from Prime worlds. I believe that Planescape would be
correct in determining what happens when a character travels to the
planes, however, it seems kind of similar to some rules I saw somewhere
about reducing Dark Sun charactes abilities to 3-18 range...

Paul L.

[breye@earthlink.ne]

Paul Lefebvre wrote:
>
> breye@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Sepsis wrote:
> > >
> > > At 12:22 AM 8/21/97 -0400, john
> > gonzalez(wyntergryn@geocities.com)wrote:
> > > >
> > > >I've read the novels and now after playing the computer game
> > > >am seriously considering buying the boxed set.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Seriously considering?? Waste no more time in thought...go get it!
> > If you
> > > liked the books, and you liked the computer game, then you will love
> > the
> > > setting.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Plus would a blooded Cerilian keep his/her powers on the planes?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Nope.
> > > Actually, the Planescape stuff is wrong on this point. The powers
> > of
> > blooded characters is inherent to them, and they keep whatever blood
> > abilities whereever they go.
> >
> > Bryan
>
> Actually, this is just TSRs way of balancing characters with special
> abilities coming from Prime worlds. I believe that Planescape would be
> correct in determining what happens when a character travels to the
> planes, however, it seems kind of similar to some rules I saw somewhere
> about reducing Dark Sun charactes abilities to 3-18 range...
>
> Paul L.
> According to Ed Stark, The powers of blooded characters is inherent to
them, and they keep whatever blood abilities whereever they go. At
least thats what he said at the unrecorded half of the Shadow World
seminar....

Bryan

[Paul Lefebvre]

breye@earthlink.net wrote:

> >
> > Actually, this is just TSRs way of balancing characters with special
>
> > abilities coming from Prime worlds. I believe that Planescape would
> be
> > correct in determining what happens when a character travels to the
> > planes, however, it seems kind of similar to some rules I saw
> somewhere
> > about reducing Dark Sun charactes abilities to 3-18 range...
> >
> > Paul L.
> > According to Ed Stark, The powers of blooded characters is inherent
> to
> them, and they keep whatever blood abilities whereever they go. At
> least thats what he said at the unrecorded half of the Shadow World
> seminar....
>
> Bryan
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> Cool...well, guess that's what happens when you've got so many
different people workig on so many different
products...inconsistencies. Actually, it doesn't bother me that much.
Since it appears you went to the conference, did they mention whether or
not BR is going to be continued into '98?? In my opinion, Dark Sun,
Birthright, and Planescape are the best campaign settings TSR has EVER
made...unfortunately, one of them has gone belly up, I'd rather not lose
BR too....

Paul L.

[breye@earthlink.ne]

Paul Lefebvre wrote:

> Cool...well, guess that's what happens when you've got so many
> different people workig on so many different
> products...inconsistencies. Actually, it doesn't bother me that much.
> Since it appears you went to the conference, did they mention whether or
> not BR is going to be continued into '98?? In my opinion, Dark Sun,
> Birthright, and Planescape are the best campaign settings TSR has EVER
> made...unfortunately, one of them has gone belly up, I'd rather not lose
> BR too....
> According to what I heard, plans continue to produce BR products thru '98
at least....