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2008-08-05, 09:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
This has to be the best book ever.
http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=XRPLAVA
It is actually surprisingly accurate and insightful."It's not like chess, where choosing to play black or white dictates your entire strategy. Also, chess doesn't have steam cannons."
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2008-08-05, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Is there some sort of excerpt or preview that we could take a look at? Otherwise I don't see the point of this thread other than to advertise, which is a no-no according to the GitP forum rules.
Water, Earth, Fire, and Air: Benders of the Avatar worldAvatar By the amazing Mephibosheth
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2008-08-05, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
It's a "gag" book, free download.
It was plastered all over Enworld a while back.
I dunno, I didn't find the joke especially funny...My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
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2008-08-05, 10:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Yeah, it's a free "purchase". Just look at the thing.
"It's not like chess, where choosing to play black or white dictates your entire strategy. Also, chess doesn't have steam cannons."
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2008-08-05, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
It claims to be usable with any system, which leads me to suspect that the "rules" in it are:
If you fall into molten lava, you die.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
—As You Like It, III:ii:328
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2008-08-05, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
There's a sidebar there on fire immunity, though.
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2008-08-06, 05:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Yeah, it has been around for some months, but the rules remain as relevant as ever. Expeditious Retreat Press produce some great stuff.
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2008-08-06, 05:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-08-06, 05:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Pure genius.
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2008-08-06, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
It's odd, one of the books cited at the end is immortals handbook, which is a third-party book about characters strong enough to actually take damage from lava and still survive. The joke seems even less funny once I noticed that.
Not surprisingly, not informative. No rules on lava cooling rates, the appropriate size of object needed to form a stepping stone across lava, convection, swimming in lava for the fire-immune individual, bathing in lava, diving into lava rather than falling, lava falling on you, etc.Avatar by Serpentine
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2008-08-06, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
I have to say that it is very accurate.
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2008-08-06, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
It was a little funny, but you know, I would honestly appreciate detailed rules on using lava in d20.
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2008-08-06, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Man, I need to use this in a CoC game.
I'll carry a drop of lava around and then put it in the way of Cthulhu. He dies, no save.
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2008-08-06, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
I have to say, I laughed.
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2008-08-06, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-08-06, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Well, his foot falls into the lava.
Last edited by The Rose Dragon; 2008-08-06 at 10:47 AM.
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2008-08-06, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Then his foot dies, and your head explodes.
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2008-08-06, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Well, we could carry three drops, two to kill both feet and the last so he could fall into it properly after his feet die.
I use black for sarcasm.
Call me Rose, or The Rose Dragon. Rose Dragon is someone else entirely.
If you need me for something, please PM me about it. I am having difficulty keeping track of all my obligations.
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2008-08-06, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
And how exactly do you carry around a drop of lava?
"It's not like chess, where choosing to play black or white dictates your entire strategy. Also, chess doesn't have steam cannons."
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2008-08-06, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
In a ceramic vial?
We can hold other sorts of molten rock in certain containers, I'm sure we can hold lava.
Of course, to hold it in non-frozen form, that is the big challenge.I use black for sarcasm.
Call me Rose, or The Rose Dragon. Rose Dragon is someone else entirely.
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2008-08-06, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-08-06, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
I liked it.
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2008-08-06, 06:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Huh, how about that, my guess was correct, almost verbatim.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
—As You Like It, III:ii:328
Chronos's Unalliterative Skillmonkey Guide
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2008-08-06, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Wait, you were guessing? I would've sworn you had read it and were being sarcastic.
"It's not like chess, where choosing to play black or white dictates your entire strategy. Also, chess doesn't have steam cannons."
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2008-08-07, 01:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
Wait, you were guessing? I would've sworn you had read it and were being sarcastic.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
—As You Like It, III:ii:328
Chronos's Unalliterative Skillmonkey Guide
Current Homebrew: 5th edition psionics
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2008-08-07, 01:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
It was amusing, and in 90+% of the cased, that rule works.
If should be noted that fire immunity usually isn't enough, you'll suffocate and/or be crushed to death."Sometimes, we’re heroes. Sometimes, we shoot other people right in the face for money."
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2008-10-22, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
As one of the authors and editors of Fire and Brimstone!, thanks to those who enjoyed it. :)
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2008-10-22, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
The title is misleading - the addition of 'Brimstone' implied to me that it would include rules for the usage of lava-related material, such as the speed of magma flows in various terrain, and the cooling rate of exposed lava before it is no longer possible to fall into it. Plus, the possibility of bits of molten rock falling from an exploding volcano.
I want my money back!
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2008-10-22, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
I use black for sarcasm.
Call me Rose, or The Rose Dragon. Rose Dragon is someone else entirely.
If you need me for something, please PM me about it. I am having difficulty keeping track of all my obligations.
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2008-10-22, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fire and Brimstone: Guide to Lava, Magma, and Superheated Rock
This is awesome. I particularly like how they detailed the different way it applies in D&D as opposed to World of Darkness.