Post originally by Tim Gray at 2004-10-19 00:19:56
Converted from Phorums BB System

No connection. In fact, a friend gave me Prince Valiant recently and I still haven't got round to reading it (sorry IC!).

However, there was a connection to Gareth-Michael Skarka's 'Underworld', in the sense that it was one of the games fresh in my mind when I designed LODE for Legends Walk. 50/50 seemed like a simple and predictable thing to work with. The bonus of using d6 rather than coins, apart from not rolling off the table so much, is that you can do funky things with specific results, like exploding 6s which will appear in some incarnations of the system (notably Albion).