tooley1chris

I like to think demons in MW are spirits of shadow, perhaps even Fey, that are given material form through the summoning spell and fashioned to the will of the sorcerer by the amount of magic spent in their manifestation. 

I do, however, really like the cosmology of old school D&D devils and demons. The hierarchy and ladder of ascension. Even among the chaotic fey there is a lord. 

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 12:53 PM, Sean_RDP said:

The Fisher Wives

 

OK Ive got the open air shrine to Brithyllbren done. His culthood is almost done as well. Having fun with this

I've made the members who are Shadgwrag  through Troutgwrag required to shave their bodies of all hair because the Fish god likes his subjects smooth like fish

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 12:53 PM, Sean_RDP said:

The Fisher Wives

Started on this neat idea. I may cut their numbers down a bit tho. Not sure yet...🤔

I MAY use my conversion of Net Book of Witches & Warlocks for this cult

EDIT: OK I've decided against using witches for this cult. Keeping it simple

On 1/30/2019 at 10:41 PM, Sean_RDP said:

The Sunchasers

• Yustinian Fairhart - human warrior (m)
• Haerindeel Blade - elven assassin (f)
• Gossymer Ghan - human archer (f) 
• Shorter Rex - dwarven warrior (m)
• Tok - human sorcerer (indeterminate)

 

Working on these outstanding citizens now 😎

On a related note, I'm working on an NPC who runs a transport boat from Tindale to Shillingshead to Lashingport. I THINK the average sailing speed in good conditions is about 48 miles per day (?)

What do you good people think transport from Tindale to Shillingshead (about 45 miles) might cost?

I'm SURE this has come up. I can't find it in the searches but...

I JUST noticed the MW map of the Southern Reaches Scale in Miles reads   0   5   10   15   25   30   35   40

Maybe my cartography skills are lacking but...                                                     

LOL. I also note that a lot of the prices, at least around the 1250 years, are quite similar to the MW Bronze to silver ratio and the prices in the MW book, with some exceptions (some extreme)

*sigh*

I think because I'm making this city for Magic World I'll go ahead and stick with MW pricing and just wing it on some of the items/services/ect...

17 hours ago, Nick J. said:

It lists more than just silver coinage, but it's written from a medieval/renaissance perspective, hence the silver standard.

The price is kind of steep, but you can tell a lot of research went into it and it covers everything.

Ok I went ahead and bought the PDF. QUITE RIGHT! A LOT of work went into this. It's really quite impressive.

17 hours ago, rsanford said:

I use renaissance pricing from the book “And a ten foot pole’.

I think I even have this laying around somewhere. Thanks.

20 hours ago, Nick J. said:

This is about the most comprehensive resource specifically written for gaming that I've ever stumbled across for historical prices of goods and services.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/241058

If that doesn't do it, then godspeed and good luck.

$30 for a Pdf tho and with no sample pages...ugh...also not sure about one of the writers replies about all coinage being silver. Anyone who has seen a good deal of ancient coins will see a LOT of bronze. 

So, on the above topic, I started researching bronze coin and bead usage in ancient middle east, like Mesopotamia. It's a pretty messy puzzle from what I've seen so far. Seems early economics weren't as straight forward as our beloved RPG creators made it in the systems 😀.

  As I stated in my previous comment, MW has a pretty big variety of pricing, so I gotta think the writers found a decent list of comparisons some where...

Hey guys let's talk "price in Bronze" for a second. While the MW book has prices for a wide range of goods and services (ranging from  the cost of eggs to a castle) some things seem a little wonky to me. Working on a city with so many shops of goods and services has gotten me wondering if I wanna use the MW price lists at all or if there's an alternative list you good people use?

Ok so back on topic 😀

With my current workload I'm completing 1-2 Buildings/NPCs/hooks per day, populating Tindale. The job just doesnt let me slack like it use to 😀

Chugging along

OK so yesterday I totally flipped out from not being able to figure out this little problem and decided to roll my device back to win7.

Accidentally did a clean install of win10 instead (dont work on software issues while drinking!😀)

After the long wait I decided to try and install Neverwinter Nights 2 on win10 again, just to see what happens...and it works flawlessly 😀

I'll never understand the magic of 0010110011

Half tempted to roll this one back to win8 if I dont figure it out soon

@SDLeary I'm kinda holding out partitioning my harddrive for a copy of winXP...might look into emulator but I got it to work on my surface 1 with win 10 a few years ago. 

@Nick J. I gotta tell ya buddy, that kinda pisses me off! 😁

I did a straight transfer from both my old surfaces running win8 and win10 neither would work. Then I downloaded the GoG version and still no luck. It's a windows problem for sure or a driver conflict. I got it working on a win10 device b4 but this one is kicking my butt

So I got a new Microsoft Surface yesterday and am having a heck of a time getting neverwinter nights 2 (which I use for 3d mapping) to work on windows 10. UGH.

  I've done it before on win10 but am not having much luck this time. Might slow down my progress on Tindale somewhat but I'm chugging along on my old surface until then...

On 1/30/2019 at 10:41 PM, Sean_RDP said:

The Sunchasers

Neat idea! Using this as well! 😀

7 hours ago, Nick J. said:

@tooley1chris How much influence do you see Drumhold or Belehold having on the place? What's the town's main industry?

Being upriver and near the mountains I'm imagining lumber, herding, mining, or somesuch.

Haven't worked on the exterior politics just yet. Grains, lumber, fish, and tin will be the major exports. There will be pretty expansive wheat fields and farmsteads outside of town. I've been working on mapping and NPCs more than anything so far.

Great stuff! Here's a very zoomed out pic of how I'm probably segregating the districts. The districts names aren't set in stone.

So as you may or may not know, I'm attempting to map & populate the Southern Reaches town of Tindale. 

  Thought it might be fun if I gave others the opportunity to help populate it.

  Got a colorful, loveable, spiteful, evil, religious, corky, grim NPC you'd like to share?

  Maybe a neat idea for a craft shop, inn, tavern, smith, vendor, shrine, temple,  or merchant?

Also wouldn't mind seeing ideas for urban adventures

  Post it here and I'll find a place for it! 😎

My first question would be when did the apocalypse occur? After more modern times? Will there be machines?

Cant wait to see the end product! Post apocalypse