Feng Shui a question
From: ALLSTAR Posted on: 2/5/2003 9:58 pm
To: ALL
Message: 154.1
Are you guys ever planning on making a setup for armies? I think it would be cool. Armies with schticks, like an army of fighters with unyielding tiger stance, loyal steel, claws X2 and signature weapon- spear.
Are you guys ever going to make something like that eventually?
I'm sure other players and GMs would like that, anybody agree?
From: Jedi GoodKnight Posted on: 2/24/2003 9:06 pm
To: ALLSTAR
Message: 154.2
in reply to: 154.1
Not a bad idea, Allstar, but I'd be wondering how you'd use one in Feng Shui. I mean, how does a group of PCs fight an entire army? The whole of Feng Shui is geared toward action movie-style small group vs. small group battles. Okay, in, say, The Two Towers, you have a group of heroes (not counting the Rohirrim and the Elves) up against a metric buttload of uruk-hai, but when you watch how it works, they're not treated as an "army" - just a whole load of mooks who basicaly rush the characters two or four at a time to get killed.

The only reason I can think of why you'd need stats for an "army" as a discrete unit was if you were thinking of running "Feng Shui Tactical Battles" - which is rather missing the point, isn't it?

From: ALLSTAR Posted on: 2/24/2003 10:44 pm
To: Jedi GoodKnight
Message: 154.3
in reply to: 154.2
Army versus army.
From: Queex Posted on: 2/25/2003 5:21 am
To: ALLSTAR
Message: 154.4
in reply to: 154.3
I'd suggest 'roll out the gun barrels' which is available for free on... um a competitor's website.

Can I mention them here? After all, there's a Ting Ting deck for one of their games. You're all buddies, right? Right?

www.cheapass.com

'Roll out the gun barrels' is an easy way of modelling a full-scale army on army battle. For integration with Feng, you could write a dice size/AV conversion table.

From: Hindmarch Posted on: 2/25/2003 1:39 pm
To: Queex
Message: 154.5
in reply to: 154.4
You can mention another company's website so long as that other company is awesome and you promise to keep buying our books even while you're buying theirs.

Cheapass Games is an awesome company, and they leave you enough money to buy "Thorns of the Lotus," so we're all good. :-)

"Thorns," by the way, came in yesterday.

word,
Will Hindmarch
Feng Shui Line Developer

Edited 2/25/2003 5:39:43 PM ET by Hindmarch
From: Queex Posted on: 2/27/2003 6:45 am
To: Hindmarch
Message: 154.6
in reply to: 154.5
Now I just have to wait for some to cross the Atlantic...