Ian A. Thomson

Black Friday sale on the Vol. 03 pdf - and the combo pdf & POD.

Just a few $ off, but if anyone was considering buying either, there's a very time-limited window open right now

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/448641/pavis-county-beyond-secrets-of-the-borderlands-runequest

On 11/23/2023 at 8:00 AM, Nick Brooke said:

It’s a hefty tome… and it’s in good company.

Awesome bookshelf!

On 11/10/2023 at 5:10 AM, French Desperate WindChild said:

In my "backoffice", the possibilities to "visit the past" are  :

- when you enter any mundane place showing a past event, you think you go to this past event and act during this past event, but in fact you may :

a) visit an echo of this past, so what you do has no impact in your timeline. But you may gain knowledge, or magical heirloom, or you may see where the piece you are looking for in mundane world was hidden... maybe you -in the echo bubble- hide yourself the piece. 

Do you have any impact on the "now" (aka do you create a new timeline in addition of yours by acting in this echo ) ? maybe, maybe not, from a specific angle.

Vol. 03: "Pavis County & Beyond: Secrets of the Borderlands" Now Available in POD

Huge gratitude to the many collaborators and supporters for their critical help, without which this book would never have been completed! And to Nick Brooke again for creating the POD version from the original pdf.

There will be a set of images again as soon as Fabian receives his copy and makes his unboxing video. (It's been delayed reaching him for some reason.)

The price is slightly cheaper per page count, due to the Borderlands adaptation notes appendix not being included in the calculations. (Since some purchasers won't own Borderlands.)

Also, Vol. 04 is in its final stages. It's impossible to say exactly when it will be fully done and in the Compendium, but it should be within a month at the very latest.

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/448641/pavis-county-beyond-secrets-of-the-borderlands-runequest

On 9/30/2023 at 6:53 PM, StephenMcG said:

All this is coming a bit too slowly for me!  I am running my group through the original material.  Last night they got to the Tomb of Yurmonis.  I mean, it is a mean, killer of a dungeon and I like player deaths to be epic, so I had to work hard to keep them alive last night.

All sounds awesome. I look forward to continuing to edit in (and adapt) the classic core Rubble material from the series as we go. This process starts in Vol. 04 with the first of the original major Rubble scenarios (Kakstan's Art Museum)

Vol. 03: "Pavis County & Beyond: Secrets of the Borderlands" Now Available in POD

Huge gratitude to the many collaborators and supporters for their critical help, without which this book would never have been completed! And to Nick Brooke again for creating the POD version from the original pdf.

There will be a set of images again as soon as Fabian receives his copy and makes his unboxing video. (It's been delayed reaching him for some reason.)

The price is slightly cheaper per page count, due to the Borderlands adaptation notes appendix not being included in the calculations. (Since some purchasers won't own Borderlands.)

Also, Vol. 04 is in its final stages. It's impossible to say exactly when it will be fully done and in the Compendium, but it should be within a month at the very latest.

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/448641/pavis-county-beyond-secrets-of-the-borderlands-runequest

Awesome! :)

Look at that image of magnificent monsters!!

Why do I want to repeat 'Botany Bay' with a pirate accent?? Aaaaar!

I went on a great walk with my partner on the hills near Botany Bay earlier this year

Hi Folks. Anyone got an idea what years Garrath Sharpsword and Sor-Eel were born in? I'm calculating their ages

UPDATE: Am chewing through creating the scenarios for Vol. 04 at a rate of knots. Probably  70% complete. This is the last section remaining to be finished apart from a few small bits and pieces by collaborators/volunteers. Still hoping for an end of Nov release

2 minutes ago, Baron said:

I hear a Sergio Leone soundtrack, is there something wrong with me?

That is probably the exact soundtrack to Vol. 04!

On 8/28/2023 at 1:50 AM, Malin said:

This has always been an enormously useful post for me, and now when I am finally posting on the forum I'm going to say thank you and ask: There were some mentions in here of a Prax book. Is that still on the table? Or one about the Wastes?

Since I was a contributor to the Greatlands Book(s) Project many moons ago, I recently requested and received those files. Haven't had a chance to look at them yet though

Vol. 02: "Old Pavis: The City that Time Forgot" Now Available in POD

Another big Thank You to Nick Brooke for converting the pdf to a printable hardcopy version!

And as always, massive gratitude to the wonderful collaborators/assistants without whom this series would simply not be possible to continue with!

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/430121/old-pavis-the-city-that-time-forgot-runequest

Vol. 02: "Old Pavis: The City that Time Forgot" Now Available in POD

Another big Thank You to Nick Brooke for converting the pdf to a printable hardcopy version!

And as always, massive gratitude to the wonderful collaborators/assistants without whom this series would simply not be possible to continue with!

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/430121/old-pavis-the-city-that-time-forgot-runequest

2 hours ago, Darius West said:

I am eager to hear what you plan to do with the Blind King's Palace, Ian.  I am pretty sure that the worst monster in the place is a vampiric centaur with a colossal strength that would scare a Great Troll.

I am working with several of the rumors and ideas from the original material,

I really want to say more, because the more I consider it, the more it makes sense in terms of being a place where some of the core goals of Pavis were explored (but Spoilers!)

It will be quite a large piece

33 minutes ago, EricW said:

A powerful sorcerer researching concentrations of magical energy

Yup. My background sense is that he is one of few people who has the luxury to go on research expeditions for lengths of time. I will revert to canon though by having him depart Pavis when the Windstop hits. He just needs to be around long enough to fill the places in a few scenarios where Arlaten was a friend and sponsor

5 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

 There are 1000's of possibilities here.  

Totally! :)

Tradetalk 12, and also a version in the next book in the Pavis & Big Rubble Companion Director's Cut series.

Totally uncanon, but definitely MGF!

Basically when I wrote my campaign, two of my favourite scenarios by other authors were woven fully in to the plot, and certain story elements hinge on them

These were 'One High Priest Too Many' (the Lunar Coders) and 'Arlaten the Magus' (Arlaten)

However, I am of course writing the new version of the campaign to be useable without requiring any out of print sources. So while I will include all my original ideas, I also have to add in alternatives that require no outside source 

I already have some great extra Lunar antagonists I created in the campaign, and I am finding I can easily expand on them to fill the Coders' roles.

However, I was totally unsure what to do to replace a bizarre foreign sorcerer until I remembered only a few weeks ago (now the writing/editing is approaching that stage in the campaign) that I wrote a chunky article on Leonardo many years back

So yep, he is being written in to Vol. 04 as the alternative character to use if GMs don't own Strangers in Prax (or as an option to be added if they do) :)

The original article will stay much the same, except of course expanded with some bizarre explanation of how he has turned up for an extended stay in Old Pavis! (I'm not even sure of the timeline fits properly, but that's not a factor in the creative choice.)

And his new role will be written into the scenarios themselves (alongside options for using Arlaten instead, or using them both)

On 12/31/2018 at 4:24 AM, soltakss said:

My map of the Big Rubble has the Blind King' Castle detailed, from one of Ian Thomson's P&BR Companions. Some of the buildings are named on the map, but no descriptions are given.

This is currently being rectified, but will not be in Vol. 04

On 9/26/2023 at 10:50 PM, Malin said:

Enostar Maniskisson, also called Bad Dream Enostar 

Is this surname from an official source?

UPDATED PDFS NOW ON THE JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM:

VOL. 01: PDF has been updated for the final time. It wasn't going to be replaced again, since it already had an update after the POD was produced. (Due to some errors being noticed literally a day or two after the POD was finalized.) However, since Dario created a new map of the Big Rubble for Vol. 02, we thought we'd put this in the Vol. 01 pdf as well! (So it has replaced the original Players' & GM's versions, one nice and empty, and one with named primary locations.) Likewise the printable handout has been replaced with a blank version of the new map. (Big thanks to Simon Phipp for letting us use his version of the Big Rubble map prior to this point.)

VOL. 02: The aforementioned new map of the Big Rubble replaces the GM's Master Map in this book - the one with both named locations and a gazetteer of numbered locations too. We also added a new page at the end, with the cults of Buserian & Lokarnos. These would ideally have gone into Vol. 01 as they are a couple of standard cults for Suntown (as well as Sun County), but I only thought of doing them a week or so ago. There have also been a number of small alterations to information about places in the Big Rubble, made to match the Rubble section of Vol. 04 as it evolves. (AND, 'oh happy joy', all of this was done _before_ it went to POD layout!) :)

VOL. 03: The first round of minor error and formatting corrections.

UPDATED PDFS NOW ON THE JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM:

VOL. 01: PDF has been updated for the final time. It wasn't going to be replaced again, since it already had an update after the POD was produced. (Due to some errors being noticed literally a day or two after the POD was finalized.) However, since Dario created a new map of the Big Rubble for Vol. 02, we thought we'd put this in the Vol. 01 pdf as well! (So it has replaced the original Players' & GM's versions, one nice and empty, and one with named primary locations.) Likewise the printable handout has been replaced with a blank version of the new map. (Big thanks to Simon Phipp for letting us use his version of the Big Rubble map prior to this point.)

VOL. 02: The aforementioned new map of the Big Rubble replaces the GM's Master Map in this book - the one with both named locations and a gazetteer of numbered locations too. We also added a new page at the end, with the cults of Buserian & Lokarnos. These would ideally have gone into Vol. 01 as they are a couple of standard cults for Suntown (as well as Sun County), but I only thought of doing them a week or so ago. There have also been a number of small alterations to information about places in the Big Rubble, made to match the Rubble section of Vol. 04 as it evolves. (AND, 'oh happy joy', all of this was done _before_ it went to POD layout!) :)

VOL. 03: The first round of minor error and formatting corrections.

UPDATED PDFS NOW ON THE JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM:

VOL. 01: PDF has been updated for the final time. It wasn't going to be replaced again, since it already had an update after the POD was produced. (Due to some errors being noticed literally a day or two after the POD was finalized.) However, since Dario created a new map of the Big Rubble for Vol. 02, we thought we'd put this in the Vol. 01 pdf as well! (So it has replaced the original Players' & GM's versions, one nice and empty, and one with named primary locations.) Likewise the printable handout has been replaced with a blank version of the new map. (Big thanks to Simon Phipp for letting us use his version of the Big Rubble map prior to this point.)

VOL. 02: The aforementioned new map of the Big Rubble replaces the GM's Master Map in this book - the one with both named locations and a gazetteer of numbered locations too. We also added a new page at the end, with the cults of Buserian & Lokarnos. These would ideally have gone into Vol. 01 as they are a couple of standard cults for Suntown (as well as Sun County), but I only thought of doing them a week or so ago. There have also been a number of small alterations to information about places in the Big Rubble, made to match the Rubble section of Vol. 04 as it evolves. (AND, 'oh happy joy', all of this was done _before_ it went to POD layout!) :)

VOL. 03: The first round of minor error and formatting corrections.

UPDATED PDFS NOW ON THE JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM:

VOL. 01: PDF has been updated for the final time. It wasn't going to be replaced again, since it already had an update after the POD was produced. (Due to some errors being noticed literally a day or two after the POD was finalized.) However, since Dario created a new map of the Big Rubble for Vol. 02, we thought we'd put this in the Vol. 01 pdf as well! (So it has replaced the original Players' & GM's versions, one nice and empty, and one with named primary locations.) Likewise the printable handout has been replaced with a blank version of the new map. (Big thanks to Simon Phipp for letting us use his version of the Big Rubble map prior to this point.)

VOL. 02: The aforementioned new map of the Big Rubble replaces the GM's Master Map in this book - the one with both named locations and a gazetteer of numbered locations too. We also added a new page at the end, with the cults of Buserian & Lokarnos. These would ideally have gone into Vol. 01 as they are a couple of standard cults for Suntown (as well as Sun County), but I only thought of doing them a week or so ago. There have also been a number of small alterations to information about places in the Big Rubble, made to match the Rubble section of Vol. 04 as it evolves. (AND, 'oh happy joy', all of this was done _before_ it went to POD layout!) :)

VOL. 03: The first round of minor error and formatting corrections.

Thanks people. This is all fantastic. Really helping flesh out the article.

Now that the three main background books are done, we're starting on the campaign arc proper in Vol. 04 and it just feels necessary to provide a more detailed 'future history' backdrop

Just now, Malin said:

Anything else you want? King of Sartar is on sale in the store now cheap...

No, that's all great thanks. Just what I needed! :)