Topic: Ecthelion's HARP House Rules

[Ecthelion]

...can be found at http://www.joergjahnke.de/roleplaying_en.html#HouseRules

The current contents are:
1. Character creation
 General
 Talents
 Clerics
2. Spells
 'Sleep' spell
3. Combat
 Alternative Combat System from HARPer's Bazaar 11
 Missile weapons and superior ammunition
 Clarifications for Stun, Stun/No parry and Must Parry
4. Skills
 Stopping bleeding using the Healing skill
 Determining the bonus of an item
 Battle Runes
5. Miscellaneous
 Fate Points
 Difficulty levels for Goal-based XPs
 Prices for bonus armor and -weapons
 Trading
6. Middle Earth-specific rules
 HARP-Languages in Middle Earth
 Assignment of the Valar+Maiar of Middle Earth to the Clerical Orders
 Allowed Races

[Ecthelion]

A new rule on slower bleeding when a character is resting was added to the document in section 5.

[jolt]

Heh.  Our filter at work blocks your website under the category of "Malicious Web Reputation."  What have you been doing?   

jolt

[Ecthelion]

Wow, didn't know that my page is that evil  . Honestly I guess it's rather the web-hoster bplaced.net that somehow got this "Malicious Web Reputation". Probably there is not much I could do except for using another web-hoster.

[Ecthelion]

The section on Battle Runes now contains a few more clarifications collected from the forums plus a house rule on how long it takes to inscribe a rune.

The document can still be found at http://www.joergjahnke.de/roleplaying_en.html#HouseRules.

[Ecthelion]

I added a section on the Magestaff spell, with the correction that it is also usable for Mages. Also, in the chapter on bonus item prices, I added some sample item prices to illustrate how we calculate the price for items with magical bonuses.

[Arioch]

Cool 

[Ecthelion]

I added a section on Minor Healing and its use with Hack & Slash. Additionally I did some reorganization of the document and placed those entries which are not really my groups own house rules, but rather errate/clarifications from the forums, in a separate chapter.

[Ecthelion]

With the latest update I added Rasyr's ruling on using missile weapons for parrying melee attacks and I also added a house rule we created for using two identical weapons or two weapons of the same weapon category in a Two Weapon Combo. As always the document can be found in the RPG house rules section on my homepage.

[Thom @ ICE]

As always the document can be found in the RPG house rules section on my homepage.

You might want to put a link to your homepage in your sig...

[Ecthelion]

Hm, never thought this would be necessary because the icons below the portrait contain such a link.

[Rasyr-Mjolnir]

For those who are not sure what Ecthelion means, see the attached image.

[Ecthelion]

Hi,

another update to the house rules. This time I added a rule on rolling the maneuver rolls for painting a Battle Rune when it gets activated instead of, how the rules suggest, when creating the rune. Furthermore I also added Rasyr's yesterdays errata on the Force Bands spell to the document.

As always, the document can still be found at http://www.joergjahnke.de/roleplaying_en.html#HouseRules.

[Ecthelion]

Hi,

another small update, this time with Rasyr's latest ruling on the Magic Darts spell plus a ruling that we won't use the rule from the HARP FAQ that a character can draw a weapon and parry in the same round. Instead we require a completely separate action for drawing a weapon.

As always the document can be found in the RPG house rules section on my homepage.

[Ecthelion]

After our last HARP session we decided to introduce some major changes to the HARP rules we will be using for our group:
- No more Multiple Professions options
- Correspondingly we always use the Skill Flexibility Talent instead of the Profession Adaptability Talent for Humans
- For exchanging Talents when creating a racial hybrid you now have to invest additional DPs if the Talent you take in from the new race is more expensive than the Talent you kick out.
- We don't like many of the PP costs changes made in HARP 3rd edition and will therefore use the PP costs from HARP 2nd edition.
- We think Battle Runes form ML are unbalanced and don't use these any longer.
- We use the newly created rules for HARP Weapon Styles decribed in the recent two postings instead of the styles from ML.

The full document with the changes can be found on my homepage.

[Kullervo]

Thank you! Very interesting.