[ArM5] Question

[Yannick Loitière]

I've worked out a Python script to gather combat results based on the
4th edition bestiary and the 5th edition grog & companion templates.
If people are interested, I can make the raw results available (and
the code, though I don't know if I'd need permission to post that),
and am also open to suggestions concerning an experimental conversion
protocol.

I can run one-on-one combat for both 4th and 5th edition (or even
mixed 4th vs 5th), though, of course, the code may still have a few
bugs (in both versions, the standard cat seems to incapacitate the
standard dog 80% of the time).

Current assumptions are: 1 botch die, initiative rolled at beginning
of combat, fight until incapacited.

> Darren repeated essentially my first post about ArM 5 and my
> inspiration for joining this list.  David Chart said that he did not
> want to just invent stats on the spot, but if everything in ArM5 was
> indeed playtested, someone certainly rode a horse or had some kind of
> Bjornaer mage.  What stats were used and did they work?

> Are the ArM 5 playtesters on this list?  They might be able to explain
> some of the things we are finding and take the load off of Mr. Chart.

> Even though I did not mention this in my RPG.net review, I am
> concerned that ArM without a basic bestiary for our Bjornaer magi and
> familiars and such is a bit incomplete.  (Let alone the lack of
> crossbows) This can be quickly remedied with some web resource.

> --Gint.