Hi Brock,

I've dabbled in Roll20 and ditzie for generating maps (mostly for d&d games) for use in play by post games. I even ran a short-lived DQ game on the Myth-Weavers message board, but it proved too difficult to teach new players the system to keep it going on such a slow medium.

I'm in your general area though (we met at a con about five years ago) and wouldn't mind trying to kluge together a face to face DQ game some time. You aren't the only DQ player hereabouts!

John Barnes

From DQ 1st Edition Rules:

[13.7] A character may Jump onto or over an object by paying 1 Action Point to enter the hex occupied by the object (if he does not already occupy the hex) and 1 Action Point for each foot the character must Jump to land on or clear the object.

A character can jump onto such items as chairs (2 feet high), tables (3 to 4 feet high) or chests (variable height). The character could also attempt to jump over these objects, but when a character is jumping over an object, the effective height of the jump is doubled (to account for such factors as horizontal distance). Thus, a character jumping over a 2 foot high chair would treat the jump as one of 4 feet. A character could also conceivably jump to grab an overhanging branch so as to pull himself up into a tree. In such cases, the GM must determine the height to which the character must jump to get a solid hand hold.

Whenever a character employs a Jump Action for any reason, there is a chance that the character will fail to land properly and injure himself. To determine if such is the case, the character's player rolls D100. If the resulting number is less than or equal to 5 times the character's modified Agility, the character lands safely. In addition to other factors affecting the character's chance of falling, the height to which the character is attempting to jump (or double that height if the character is jumping over rather than onto an object) is used to modify the character's Agility. After multiplying the character's Agility by 5, 5 is subtracted from that rating for each foot jumped. Thus, a character with an Agility of 15 (15 x 5 = 75) would have a 75% chance of making a successful jump minus 5 points for each foot jumped. The first foot jumped does not count for purposes of modification. If a character with an Agility of 15 attempted a 3-foot jump, his chance of landing safely would be 65% (75 - 10).

When a character fails to land safely, he immediately falls Prone and suffers a number of Damage Points equal to D10-5 (add one to the result for each foot jumped). A character may never jump into the air a number of feet equal to more than one third of his modified Agility (round down) and may never jump over an object if the effective height of such a jump would be equal to more than two thirds of his modified Agility (round down).

Thanks for fixing that!

I look at Wards and Investments kind of like a "pause" button on a spell as it is being cast. I see all the power of the spell being invested at the time of the ritual, and the later use of the investment as just someone pressing "unpause" on an attack that is already underway. So a fire mage squatting in the middle of a medium sized campfire while investing a wand with hellfire puts all the bonus power of that campfire into the spell at that time. Sitting in a fire again later and using the wand is just him looking like a bad ass, but would have no additional effect, in my games at least. Now I miss my fire mage.