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Monday,
15 February 2010
HMA Character
Profile
- Linear Armour layering
I know a lot of people like to use the HMA system
but prefer to use the original linear armour layering rules from HM3 /
HMg. So, I have updated the Character Profile accordingly.
Linear... what?
Here's a short refresher on the subject of layering rules for armour in
HM:
I think that wearing multiple layers of armour should not result in a
simple linear increase in protective values in HārnMaster. If doubling
a weapon’s size (e.g. Broadsword to Greatsword, or Club to Maul)
does not double its base Impact, then doubling the thickness of a
material (by overlapping) should not double its protective value either.
Particularly for Cloth, Quilt, Leather,Scale and Plate, APVs are
generally proportionate to the square root of the material’s base
weight. Therefore, instead of making the protective values of layered
armour cumulative, HMA handles overlapping armour by taking the square
root of the sum of the squares of the APVs of the layers (rounding up).
Note that I don't take credit for this idea – this was first
published on the web by Klaus Mogensen.
HMA
Armour Profiles
- Men at Arms
There are times when you as a HârnMaster GM might find the need
to quickly generate a lot of opponents for a skirmish with the PCs.
While it is easy enough to use a resource such as BattleLust, the characters are too
generic: there is no distinction between one combatant and the
next for a particular unit type. Likewise, there are some excellent
fan-created resources on the web for NPCs, but they tend to be unique
and not so helpful in a mass battle situation.
So, enter the Men at Arms profiles for HârnMaster
Advanced. Here are 16 NPCs of varying abilities that could
all be part of the same unit or randomly drawn from to pit before the
PCs. Each warrior has been generated using a few rules to
'normalise' them to a degree, so that the NPCs can be re-used in other
situations. Each NPC has stats and traits that help to give the
GM an idea of the kind of personality and motivations that character
might have, if required - this may be handy, for instance, if the NPCs
have been captured and are being held prisoner.
The profile (in print-friendly PDF format and also as an Excel
spreadsheet) is available from the House Rules page.
Sunday,
31 January 2010
General
Updates
After four wonderful years living in London, England, it was time to
leave and I have started a new chapter in my life in Singapore, the
Island of Eternal Summer. I will dearly miss the
Hârniac
pub gatherings and the infrequent HMA campaign I was running with Timo
and Nick. As far as I can tell, there are
no Hârn
players in Singapore, which is very sad (but not difficult to believe).
Anyway, in the meantime I know that if anyone had been trying to
download the most recent files from the House Rules page, they would
have met with errors, no doubt leading to some degree of panic that the
HârnMaster
Advanced rules had vanished
into the void of the Internet.
This problem was due to the files being hosted at a different
domain, which died due to rising costs. Anyway, I arranged
for
increased webspace on warflail.com so now everything is hosted in the
one domain. The upshot: all file links have been restored.
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