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Thread : The witches of Discworld
Started at 01-30-05 10:28 PM by Muir
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[Post 1]
Author : Muir
Date : 01-30-05 10:28 PM
Thread Title : The witches of Discworld

I hope this is the right forum to post this in.

I recently purchased GURPS Discworld. I am a long time fan of Discworld, and love the presentation of the setting, but I don't want to use GURPS rules for it, as I don't know them too well and didn't like overmuch what I saw.

Anyway, although all my games these days are 3rd Ed, I think that Discworld is a good place to run a 2nd ed game.

I am going through my books, and can't figure out a good way to set up the witches featured in the Discworld books. Wizard doesn't work, nor does priest. I don't think psionics work either. 

If there is anyone who has tackled this already, or has any ideas, I could use the help.

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[Post 2]
Author : Torack
Date : 01-31-05 02:50 AM

There's the Witch kit from the Complete Wizard's Handbook that might do the trick...

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[Post 3]
Author : Muir
Date : 01-31-05 10:16 AM

Unfortunately, the only 2nd ed material I have is he 3 core books and the Speljammer boxed set.

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[Post 4]
Author : kengar
Date : 01-31-05 03:56 PM

I'm not very familiar with 2e (only edition of D&D I never played) but the witches of discworld (i.e. Granny Weatherwax, etc.) would be hard to put into D&D terms. Their abilities aren't really that simple to put into specific spells and so forth. Remember, Granny Weatherwax is the most powerful magic-using person on the Disc, it's hard to put that on paper and stay true to the "feel" of a fictional setting. It's like Gandalf from Middle Earth is a 5th level wizard (according to a Dragon article from a long long time ago).

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[Post 5]
Author : Muir
Date : 01-31-05 06:15 PM
Thread Title : I am not interested in statting NPCs...

...but, say, if a player wanted to play one, then what would I do?

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[Post 6]
Author : Torack
Date : 02-01-05 08:09 AM

It sorta depends. From my experience(albeit limited), most people try to emulate  a person's character rather then powers.

Assuming this isn't the case for you, maybe telling us(meaning me) a little about the Disc World witch and its powers could be considered a decent idea.

You may not have anything other then the core books, but there's usually quite alot of tinkering you could do with a character class without any rewriting(Such as weapon proficiencies, Non-weapon proficiencies, Wizard's spell allowance, Priest domain-access etc.)

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