Nothing - Weapons/Armor are simple Bonuses to your ability, *not* AP.
> MAGIC
> >This actually sounds retrograde to me - as Nick Brooke said in
> >the seminar'Battle Magic and Rune Magic - I like this system
> >more and more!'
>
> This, to me, has the most potential to change the flavour of a
> campaign.
Most campaigns shouldn't be affected - if you want to get advances in magic at the "normal" cost (3 for Affinities, etc.), then you have to get rid of your common magic anyway. Campaigns set in the West will probably be the most affected, since western non-magicians don't (or at least, *didn't*) have any magic. Heortlings should stay pretty unaffected.
> CHARACTER GENERATION
> >The three character gen systems will stay - the main difference
> >being that culture keywords will start at 14 rather than 13.
> >Professional keywordsstay at 17.
>
> >Generally you will raise whole keywords rather than the separate
> >skills (no HP cost was given for this) and where you do have a
> >higher skill within the keyword it will probably be written in the
> >format Warrior 19: close combat +8, Running +2 or something
> >similar but Greg has no particular hang-up about how you
> >represent this.
>
> Huh ? Is this something to do with followers.
You can't raise Keywords using HP (there is a way to do it, but it requires the narrator to instigate it, or at least approve). You *do* raise individual abilities within a keyword using HP. What Roger is describing is one way to represent "bought-up skills".
How you represent your character is really up to you, but you can do something like:
Keyword: Warrior 17
Close Combat +4
Ride +2
...
Or you can list
Keyword: Warior 17
Close Combat 1w
Ride 19
...
Or you can list all your "Warrior" ablities like we did in the old way.
> From what I have seen most major delays seem to occur once the
> book has left Issaries's hands. It is almost as if the product falls
> into a black hole and left to fend for itself.
The problem with Black Holes is that you don't get any information from them. Orlanth is Dead was 6 weeks with the professional layout guy, who only after that time said: "I don't have time to work on it". If he had said that up-front, Greg would have been able to find another layout guy and so shave 6 weeks off of the delay. We would have it in our hot little hands right now.
RR
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