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Whoever was the leader of the witch hunt is actually a powerful magic-user himself. When he learned that another magic-user might be living in the town, he saw a threat to his power and orchestrated the witch hunt to eliminate this individual under the cover of many deaths.

However, he was unsuccessful. The other magic-user must have survived, and she is now planting that black paste secretly around town. If a 0-level character spreads it on his or her skin, then the person becomes a 1-level magic-user with random spells.

Underneath the town hall is a dungeon, either the lair of the first, powerful magic-user or the secret lair of the second magic-user, where she creates that black paste in an effort to challenge the power of the first.

There would be early investigation leading up to a dungeon crawl under the town hall.

This sounds like an amazing idea... I might just steal it.

Do they actually have technology, or do they use advanced magic?

Definitely needs a good random encounters table for wandering around the pyramid.

How would mummies be represented? Human, alien, or both?

Maybe there are other human captives/slaves that the players can free... unleashing a chaotic series of events (which could lead to crashing the pyramid back to earth).

Wikipedia probably has useful information...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_coat

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harquebusier

... reading about harquebusier equipment is especially helpful. After browsing some of this quickly, I would allow buff coats to be worn with other types of armor, especially pikeman's armor (breastplate, essentially a cuirass).

In the Rules & Magic Book pages 57 and 58 there are rules for casting spells in combat.

Quote: Spells with an instantaneous or permanent duration take effect right away. All other spells take effect at the beginning of the next Round before Initiative rolls are made. If a character has taken any damage earlier in a Round, the character cannot cast a spell that Round.

Reading this makes it clear that if a spellcaster takes damage during a Round before they have taken their actions, then they cannot cast a spell. However, what about if: 1) they take damage because an enemy acts after then during a round (do they not get to cast on the next combat round) or 2) how does this apply to spells that take affect at the beginning of the next Round exactly?

For example: We use group initiative, the party goes first, the spellcaster casts a spell that will trigger at the beginning of next round. When the enemies go, they attack, hit, and damage the spellcaster. Does the spell still take affect at the beginning of next round?

Wait... I am not sure that really answers the question of why armor starts at 12 instead of 10. It does answer the question of why non-fighter classes have an attack bonus of +1 that does not increase (which I think is pretty cool by the way).

It's nice that the plate armor that characters purchase at first level doesn't ever need to be upgraded/improved for the entire game.