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    Is a personal plane and a trunk full of guns too much?

    in Call of Cthulhu

    Posted · Edited by svensson

    Responding to the OP:

    YOU keep him from having a Lockheed Elektra and a crate-full of Lewis guns. If that much gear is simply too much for your campaign, tell him he can't have it. Tell him that his cash is tied up in investments or real estate. If he has that much money, give him a house with a trustworthy staff in New York, Paris and Istanbul [or wherever] and he has a good car in each location.

    The MoN campaign is not Pulp Cthulhu. Your players are not former Flying Tigers winging their way around the South Pacific in a Grumman Goose flying boat. If they want to swing from chandeliers with their whips, fedoras, and bomber jackets, build a campaign for that.

    But player possessions are a negotiation process. One of the loopholes of a Cthulhu campaign is dilettantes trying to buy their way through the campaign using their Credit Rating like a club. Money is just one tool in the investigator's bag, and should never replace skill and good roleplay.

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    Yelmalio/Elmal again

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    I look at the Yelmalio /Elmal dichotomy as two cultures differing interpretations of the same ideal: that of Duty Before Glory.

    Whether Elmal and Yelmalio are the same or separate gods is almost unimportant, except for certain doctrinaire pedants [it must be said that these are FAR more prevalent in cult of Yelmalio than that of Elmal].

    Now, there will always be conflict between Storm and Sky, which means you're not going to get Yelmalions and Elmalists to kiss and make up any time soon. But the fact remains that Elmal DOES have a place in the Storm pantheon and some Sartarite clans use Elmal as their divine road to Orlanth.

    The major difference between Elmal and Yelmalio IMG is that Yelmalio goes marching around looking for glory and has abandoned their horse aspect and Elmal is more focused on horsemanship and protecting the clan tula.

    And one wonders what a Shield Push game between the two cult groups might turn out like. Probably a brawl with some rules thrown in it.... 😁

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    Any civil war RPG?

    in Alastor's Skull Inn

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Lloyd Dupont said:

    Wow.. lots of material for inspirations here! Thank you very much! 😄

    Some key points about civil wars from a Terran historical prospective:

    - The unrest usually starts when there is a large economic disparity. 'The haves and the have-nots' so to speak. There is a very small class of wealth and privilege but the large majority are struggling just to stay fed, warm, and dry. This builds up the resentments that lead to the next point.

    - A huge gap in political opinion, for example in the Spanish Civil War on one side you had the Royalists /Carlist faction that supported the old Imperial regime and on the other you had radical anarchists who wanted to burn the whole structure of society down and start over.

    - Issues that include rights and privileges of a minority people [as in US slavery] are also one of the fuses that will spark a war.

    - But it should be said that only under the most egregious circumstances is one party totally 'right' and the other totally 'wrong'. Even the Confederacy had legitimate complaints about the Federal government... an most of those points are still be argued about today 160 years later. Remember that one side's justice is often the other side's atrocity.

    - And speaking of atrocities, EVERY civil war features them. The situation that sparks a civil war has gone way past compromise or moderate opinion. Hatreds have formed and anybody on the other side, or for that matter anyone who doesn't support your side with sufficient zeal, is 'the enemy' and they will be disposed of in all sorts of nasty ways.

    Anyway, I hope that adds some grist for your mill. Good luck with your project!

    Any civil war RPG?

    in Alastor's Skull Inn

    Posted · Edited by svensson

    So, I'm a Civil War reenactor, historian, and lifetime gamer.

    There's a whole genre of US Civil War wargames out there, but that's not what you're really looking for.

    Traveller did an entire edition where the Emperor and his family were assassinated and the Third Imperium fragmented into regional factions, each fighting each other and vying for the Iridium Throne at the same time. Meanwhile, several external enemies took the opportunity to attack for various reasons. That edition was called MegaTraveller and you can find all of the materials on drivethru.

    A sci-fi TV series that does a good job of portraying issues that could lead up to a civil war was 'Space: Above and Beyond'. It only ran for one season of 23 episodes, though like Babylon 5 there was a plot arc that was supposed to run for 5. If you're a veteran, there will be some truly cringeworthy moments [trained fighter pilots who get sent off to play grunt games on a regular basis, for example], but it's got plot elements that I think might inspire you.

    From a historian's standpoint there are several real-world civil wars that bear looking at, not just the American Civil War.

    - First is the granddaddy of all 'modern' civil wars, the English Civil War of 1640-1651. 'Cavaliers and Roundheads' etc.

    - The second I'd suggest looking at is the Bolshevik Civil War of 1917-1925.

    - The third one is the Spanish Civil War 1935-1939.

    - And the last one is the Breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

    All of these have succinct wikipedia articles that can give you a good grasp and overview.

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    HEADS UP!!!! Here it is!!

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Jeff said:

    I am literally giving you meaning of "grognard" ("grumblers"). Bonaparte put up with their grumbling, even made it a special privilege, because of their veteran status. That's not pouring scorn on the criticism - that's literally the meaning of the term and why "grognards" call themselves that.

     

    Otherwise known as 'Team Geezer' 😁

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    HEADS UP!!!! Here it is!!

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, Jason Farrell said:

    I can't imagine what you possibly mean by "the log jam is clearing" when these 10 books are currently scheduled to come out from 2023-2025.

    Not 3 months ago, people were complaining about no new RQG content while Gods of Glorantha was being worked on. That's what I mean. I think we can consider 'the logjam' to be cleared in August if the GenCon volumes are released on time.

    Meanwhile Jonstown Compendium will continue to offer us excellent content.

    So I honestly don't see why some folks are griping.

    HEADS UP!!!! Here it is!!

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    Jesus... What's with the griping, folks?

    The log jam is clearing, we're getting official content this year.

    Proserpaedia in July

    Storm and Earth Pantheons at GenCon [AUG]

    Mythology by Q4, so Christmas or so.

    The Lunars in Q1 and as many as 5 more books in 2024.

    We said we LIKED Chaosium because it wasn't Wizards of Hasbro or Paizo, with a new hardback released every other month. We said we appreciated the quality and consistency of the info and the artwork. We said we like the amount of actual usable content for the price point, instead of filling the book with art and less than half of it game related text. AND WE'RE GETTING WHAT WE WANTED. So exactly WT actual F are some of you complaining about?

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    Always bring a friend!

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    Hey folks, do we know if the artist did this specifically as a piece of RQ art?

    If so, he got a couple of details wrong. The overall look and spirit of the piece is just fine however.

    If not, then we're all probably nit picking too much.

    Either way it's still a great piece of art and one that I've saved for future use. With attribution to Mr. Fetisov, of course.

    Always bring a friend!

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Qizilbashwoman said:

    I really do think it's a dragonewt. also, slarges are only found in remote Pameltela.

    You might be right. It's just my opinion. Slarges are not in RQG Bestiary, but IIRC there are some in odd corners of Seshnela as well, though very rare.

    But there's a range of skin tones in Pamaltela, though admittedly the general run of Humans are of darker tones. I don't see it completely out of the question that two pale skinned warriors are in or from the Southern continent.

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