For those not in the know, the Grievous Injury Table was probably the most iconic feature of the game. It was a table used to determine the effects of exceptional attacks on you and your opponents--a "critical hit" if you must. The unpleasant effects of the grievous assault on your being were delivered with text that often sounded as though it was swiped from a deck of Community Chest cards written for a truly morbid Monopoly game:
"Tsk Tsk. A wound of the solid viscera. Usually fatal."
"Your aorta is severed and you are quite dead. Rest assured your companions will do their best to console your widow(er)"
"A chest wound... your opponent's weapon is caught in your ribcage and has been wrenched from his grasp."
Anyway, if you never played, these were a few of the injuries you missed out on.
No blogs yet, but I did manage to scan bookmarks and came up with a fan page...hope it helps:
ReplyDeleteDragonQuest Fan Page by Snafaru
http://www.zimlab.com/dq/
Snafaru! Yes, thanks for reminding me. I think if you sniff around enough you can find the aforementioned Grievous Injury Table even.
ReplyDeleteBetter question... are there blogs that just talk about ANY game other than D&D? Not many, I am guessing. D&D draws that out of people, especially now with all the very different editions.
ReplyDelete@Captain Anonymous: I'm gonna' start up a Gangbusters Blog just to prove you wrong.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention. I have thought about writing how Dragonquest Frontiers came to be the site that it is, mainly by robbing D & D 3.X of a ton of ideas as well as any other system that offered some good ideas. I have set up shop with a new site atpadres.blogspot.com
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