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I quite like the Future section for some of the listings and how it mentions scenarios associated with locations, it saves having to flip through to the Arkham Unveiled book to find out what will change in 6 years. But I still feel like opening my copy to compare with who has moved or changed between 1922 and 1928.
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Have you looked at Savage RIFTS for ideas about building out RIFTS powers from a few small blocks of text and mechanics? Though it does stay pretty strictly to the idea that the RCC/OCCs do not fully intermix except for a select few. No MDC either, though it has to twist the Savage Worlds rules a bit to make it work.
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Converting BECMI - B/X D&D to BRP, suggestions?
Kettlehelm replied to essere74's topic in Basic Roleplaying
I don't know if this has already been posted but this thread could help. -
A passion to SAN conversion would open a whole new set of scenarios to reuse. But otherwise you could just go POW x 5 or copy from Stormbringer 1E when they assigned SAN scores to the monsters, elementals and demons there and use that as a guide.
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Maybe Glorantha is the Thurian Age/Hyborian Age's Dreamlands. If you time-travel back and then Dream travel, your Call of Cthulhu characters can get there. Or they take the wrong turn into the caverns of the Dreamlands and come up to the other side of the flat world, Glorantha.
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Number of Knights and Hides per Lord
Kettlehelm replied to Kettlehelm's topic in Pendragon & Prince Valiant
OK that makes sense. But, rereading the pages and the only problem is the example on p.44, where Sir Lanceor the banneret has a fief rolled, then has 3d6 (14) hydes added to his fief which was already suitable for his knightly vassals at 55 pounds of income, enough for his 25 knights and his rich status. -
Was the common demi-humans ever included? Reading through it again, it doesn't seem to have them, only their evil counterparts. Nevermind, found them in the Magic World book itself.
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Flotsam & Jetsam - Keeper's questions *SPOILERS*
Kettlehelm replied to Daimond's topic in Call of Cthulhu
2 years later I finally find this thread again. My mistake was confusing Inheritance - the Floatasm and Jetsam scenario with The Crawlfod Inheritance (which is also a Innsmouth scenario with a similar twist) and the name of the third scenario, The Saltwater Inheritance. -
Number of Knights and Hides per Lord
Kettlehelm replied to Kettlehelm's topic in Pendragon & Prince Valiant
On page 43 of the Nobles book, when it discusses generating random fiefs, it lists the rolls form the personal demesne on top of the roll for the different numbers of hydes and other income sources. For a Banneret it's 3d6. Which is reflected in the random lists of Banneret holings which the average is around 13L in size over the minium of 10 and where it lists 10 Knight holdings, it lists demesne amoung them with Barons adding another 1d6+10 hides, but not mentioning if they are demesne. -
Looking at the old Pendragon rules for 1E, it starts by saying a Bachelor knight has 2 hides. A Banneret has a minimum of 10 hides (plus 3d6 personal) and 4 knights (himself included) and a Baron has a minimum of 44 hides (excluding personal) 10 knights (including himself). But by the end they say a King has around 416 hides (excluding personal) and 100 knights. So somewhere the ratios begin to change and I can't seem to find any guidance in the rules. Does anyone have any advice?
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I mean Barntar has two mythological brothers in the Prosperdia who also could be sapping his mythological status. Varnaval and Voriof are both labled as full brothers. Though we know the theogeny isn't 100% accurete to other lore. That's a dead older brother who Barntar can never match the expectations of and a brother who represent the coming youth. Squeezing out Barntar as the father of the next generation.
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Very useful since I couldn't quite understand how Orlanth's ring "spiralled" across the sky.
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I'd imagine all the magic in the rocks begins to die, creating iron deposits as the myths pull away to an even more allagorical past. But also iron loses it's effectiveness without magic to show it's power.
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The Stafford House Campaign - out now in print & PDF
Kettlehelm replied to Nick Brooke's topic in RuneQuest
Bought, so interesting to see what older rules were thought of but never made it in until a changed form. -
Wht's this about the Kitori to the east of Whitwall? Are they dead or not?
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Cult write ups for Hippoi, Redaylda or King Griffin
Kettlehelm replied to Godlearner's topic in RuneQuest
I'm biased becuase I loved the finale for Ride like the Wind, but do like the idea that Redalda and Bereneth were normal if prophesied people who bridged a cultural and mythic Fire/Air gap and by doing it during Godtime, allowed them to be elevanted to mythic proprtions. Pssibly assisted by Ulain doing the same. Gaining the aspects of their ancestor gods and in turn creating mythical stories which can be used for all the god associated with the story of the pair or on their own if the original story is known. -
Chaosium Classics: Volume I - The Stafford House Campaign
Kettlehelm replied to Erol of Backford's topic in RuneQuest
Well Gen Con opens today, so nice fresh copies avaliable to those who have the time and convenience to live and attend. -
So I had a proposed character who was a female Odayla-worshipper because her family were hunters on the edge of Apple Lane. Does that mean she needs to initiate into 3 cults to get access to a standard array of Runespells for Odayla (Ernalda, Odayla and Orlanth) or only two (Ernalda and Odayla)/(Vingan[Orlanth] and Odalya)?
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Chaosium Classics: Volume I - The Stafford House Campaign
Kettlehelm replied to Erol of Backford's topic in RuneQuest
I've ben looking for any copy of Sons of Sartar for a while. The Wild Hunt pretty much has completely disappeared as physical documents due to being an APA from the 70s & 80s. This can't come as a PoD/PDF soon enough. -
Flotsam & Jetsam - Keeper's questions *SPOILERS*
Kettlehelm replied to Daimond's topic in Call of Cthulhu
Why did the year change from the original Saltwater Inheritance scenario? -
It's called Runequest Classic/2e/3e and the conversion guide at the back of the RQRG book helps you play through all the adventures released from 1612/1613-1620. Now these are consistent with RQRG canon just as much as Orlanth is Dead is, but that's part of the fun of being a GM.
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Temple of the Wooden Sword and Tarndisi the Dryad
Kettlehelm replied to Ryan Kent's topic in RuneQuest
I wish we got a compendium of Greg's The Wyld/Wild Hunt stuff, some really interesting stuff in there. -
alternate history and 'call of cthulhu.'
Kettlehelm replied to littlewitchmaus's topic in Call of Cthulhu
The number one scenario sin besides being bad, is taking a historical event or tragedy and saying "The Mythos Did it", or its was part of a greater Mythos event. That just cheapens it. -
Saw this on the Discord Wyrm's Footnotes 15 - An article on the Far Place reveals that Lunar magicians prove to tribal priests that the Golden Spearman is the son of Yelm and enemy of Orlanth, thus starting the whole Elmali uprising. So if it turns out that the Lunars who did this, then there is no guarantee anything Monrogh Lantern was shown or told could be trusted. Even with if it was coming from his god, he was dealing with Chaotic warpers of reality and myth.