Torn Asunder: Critical Hits Pathfinder Edition Open Call

[Ghostwind]

DragonWing Games is currently adapting the original Torn Asunder: Critical Hits for the new Pathfinder edition. This latest version will contain new material that supplements the Pathfinder RPG rules and expands on them. For this reason, we are initiating an open call for new material.

If you have any nifty ideas that you would like to submit for consideration, write them up and email them to us at creech@dragonwing.net with the subject header, "Torn Asunder Open Call". Specifically, we are looking for new healing items, herbs, prestige classes, and creatures that would fit the Torn Asunder theme but be written for Pathfinder. Additional rules to cover bleeding and shock are also possibilities as long as they do not override the basic critical hits rules developed in Torn Asunder. In that regard, we encourage folks who plan to submit to be familiar with the existing Torn Asunder book and cater your ideas so they mesh as easily as possible with the rules contained in the book.

Already, we have completely reworked the Called Shots system mechanic so it is not open to abuse. In addition Mike Kogan, a certified expert in prostethics, has written new material for the chapter on prosthetic limbs.

Submissions that are accepted will be paid at a rate of .02/word (after editing) no later than 90 days after publication of the electronic version. A print version of Torn Asunder: Critical Hits Pathfinder Edition will be released sometime before Gen Con. All submissions should be completed no later than Monday, January 11th for consideration.

If you do not own a copy of the original Torn Asunder: Critical Hits, you may purchase an electronic copy for $9.99 at: http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=27822&it=1 or a print copy for $22.95 at http://www.studio2publishing.com/shop/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=12&products_id=107

[coffeedragon]

Hi
Any updates on this project? Also do you an idea of the actual release date and will it be available for download?

[Ghostwind]

I'm still working on it. I had some health issues crop up which caused me to back burner the project for awhile but it is still being worked on. I'm hoping for a June/July print release date. It will be available for download through the various electronic stores before then.

[coffeedragon]

Sorry to hear it man - hope you feel better soon.
My entire group is just ITCHING to get their hands on this release!

[Ghostwind]

Just to let everyone know, I've reopened up the Open Call until Monday, April 26th. If you have ideas you want to submit please do so by then.

[cure]

Hola Steve,

I had occasion recently to ponder the stats for, and the making of, peg-leg captains and their like in d20 3.5 and Torn Asunder was suggested to me as the answer.

There was some truth in that suggestion, but also a lot of frustration, for Torn Asunder as written addresses the matter incompletely, in bits and pieces, here and there. So given that you are doing a rewrite of sorts in respect to Pathfinder, please consider the below as constructive criticism.

Proceeding then by example, the effects of a Moderate Critical, to the leg, for balance and the like, are given on p6 and repeated subsequently for the different profiles. Well and good. The effects of a Serious Critical, to the leg, for balance and the like, are not given in this section. Indeed, strictly speaking, they are not given at all. Now on page 50 effects are given once a peg leg has been fitted or, equivalently, once a hook has been fitted, but nothing in the absence of these substitutions. Organisation aside, this hole can probably be filled by deduction. More obscure is the matter of Wounds and Healing beginning on p32. Healing times are given for Mild and Moderate Critical wounds. But nothing is said of Severe Critical wounds. The implication, which is perfectly acceptable, that a severed foot is not going to grow back is fine, but how much time before the injured individual is at least returned to a semblance of health and can be fitted for a peg-leg or a hook? Equally, is there any permanent hit point loss from losing a member? There is arguably also the matter of bleeding to death in the intermin. Finally, and far less consequentially, the stats on page 50 consider only loss below the knee and, equivalently, loss below the elbow. The other cases are of some interest too.

Thanks for listening.

Best regards,

cure

[Ghostwind]

Hi Cure-

I will see what I can do to close the loopholes you are talking about in the next edition. I agree, more examples are needed.

-Steve