General Do you use Ancients sites and other ruins like D&D Dungeons?

[Timerover51]

Here is a portion of the chart.

Basically, you use a 10-sided die roll to determine success or failure. If you reach F you understand how to use the artifact.

 

[spank]

It wasn't clear to me. So, I pulled my copy of GW off the shelf and reviewed,
To clarify:

1. Start at "S"
2. Roll a die and proceed as indicated
3. Reaching skull and cross bones mean death.
4. Every 5 attempts takes 1 hour
5. Reaching "F" mean the player understands how the item works.

Which is different than what I had guessed, I was going with start at "A" if you get to S=success and F= Fail.

Also, after some digging the first set of charts is from "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" which was written to cross over with Metamorphosis Alpha.
It used a slightly different set of rules for evaluating artifacts.

 

[Dulinor]

An interesting D&D-related tangent: The flowcharts in the one old module (I forget the name, but someone here will know)

S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.

 

[Timerover51]

You can get Expedition to the Barrier Peaks at DriveThruRPG. You can also get Gamma World (1e) at DriveThru. Both would have the charts mentioned.

 

[whartung]

So, about 50% will succeed in that chart in 10 or less trips, another 25% in 20 or less. My test showed as high as 121 trips, but that's an outlier. Average is 12-13 tries. 6-7% of folks will just die.

 

[King Midas]

If you really wanted to cross the streams you could have a Traveller party go through Tegel Manor...

Problem here is that Tegel is an extremely goofy* adventure. I can't see any way the Tegel Manor situation could exist outside a holosuite or Shoreleave setting.
Hmnn - discover the Shore Leave planet by wandering around Tegel Manor...

Yes, you were saying the same thing I am, I'm just adding to your post.

*IMO this is a feature, not a bug.

 

[Diveguy]

Problem here is that Tegel is an extremely goofy* adventure. I can't see any way the Tegel Manor situation could exist outside a holosuite or Shoreleave setting.
Hmnn - discover the Shore Leave planet by wandering around Tegel Manor...

Yes, you were saying the same thing I am, I'm just adding to your post.

*IMO this is a feature, not a bug.

That could almost be your setup - someone playing a joke on the characters with an over-the-top carnival haunted house, as it were. The players, of course, not being in on the joke that none of it is "real".

 

[spank]

So is Barrier Peaks, and City of the Gods, a little goof was often built into the early adventures.

Problem here is that Tegel is an extremely goofy* adventure. I can't see any way the Tegel Manor situation could exist outside a holosuite or Shoreleave setting.
Hmnn - discover the Shore Leave planet by wandering around Tegel Manor...

Yes, you were saying the same thing I am, I'm just adding to your post.

*IMO this is a feature, not a bug.