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Does anyone have any idea what Kresh tokens would look like?

Some of the bolded ones I think I still saw at Fantasiapelit store in Helsinki couple of weeks ago. Fantasiapelit.fi 

Barging in on the money thread.

Silver coins in and around Fonrit might be called dirhams and deniers (to have some variety)? Wheels would still be wheels or would Pamaltela have some other gold coins. What would Kresh tokens look like? 

Glorantha being flat - how would Moon and its phases be visible in Pamaltela (especially in general region of Fonrit)... Similarly to Dragon Pass or different? 

Would like to see Full Moon from Loral for a reason....

1 hour ago, Grievous said:

That translation gets the point of the text, but definitely not the art of it - so I'd say it's a bit better in the original language. Not exactly easy to translate!

Yep. Many poems are very difficult to get right in another language - the tone, the rhythm, the nuances, the implied culture

Classic Fantasy Monsters for Mythras With Some Blood Tide Welling In

Classic Fantasy is a Mythras supplement for dungeoneering in the percentile world. Here are some of the monsters (some of them classics we grew to love in the early days of RPGs) in the Mythras Encounter Generator format.

• Doppelgänger
• Giant Killer Frog
• Poisonous Giant Frog
• Ghast
• Gorgon Lesser
• Hell Hound
• Nightmare Horse Demon

• Chupacabra
• Demon Fish

• Undead Horror Crocodile

You will likely find more useful encounters with the Encounter Generator. There are users guides to finding encounters and creating encounters and monsters

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/classic-fantasy-monsters-for-mythras-with-some-blood-tide-welling-in/

it is lovely to see non Finns debating our folklore. Not being a scholar and having read the book long long time ago - Kalevala can be a narrow lens to the folklore that it reflects. Some sources say that for example the more down to earth (racy) bits were not accepted (and so not written down in) for Kalevala by the main gatherer. The time it was gathered we were occupied and that might reflect also a bit. If I recall it was written so it conformed to the gathererer's vision how it should be - edited, collated etc. So I would perhaps consider it a fiction book instead of 'fully' reflecting on the traditions and folklore of the Finn and Sami people etc. It contains good stories... Who would not be moved by Joukahainen's mother or the story of Kullervo, hero questing and tragic flawed hero story. 

It seems that I have missed some of the WD articles. Have to go to the garage to find the articles. Vrak, Nachak, Crypt Stalker, Kirin, sharp toothed Hydra, Night Shrieker, Fossergrim seem to be ones that do not exist in the encounter generator. Not sure whether they appear in any Gloranthan lore. Eventually might add them or if someone from the crowd wants to add them that is of course fine. Thanks for pointing to these resources for the articles. 

Here is the article - http://rpgarcanearchive.blogspot.fi/2014/11/down-among-dead-men-undead-in-runequest.html

all of the things mentioned there are available in Encounter generator from a source or another. Redcap I think was in one of the Chaosium bestiaries...

:-)

..and if @Trifletraxorwants to move this to the other forum here, it is fine by me... Not trying to raise any waves.

No, you can have larger numbers. 

This might help

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/rq-encounter-tool-101-generating-encounters-guide/

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/rq-encounter-tool-101-part-2-creating-npcs-and-parties/

21 minutes ago, Jasper said:

Do you remember the edition of the Dragon magazine dating back to the late eighties that had RQ stats for lots of new undead creatures?

The only one I can remember was called Goldfinger.

Annoyingly I throw it away during a period when I was into historical wargaming over RPg - I really regret it n

Have not seen that, did not realise that Dragon had any RQ stats ever. Does any of the tribe know the issue...

27 minutes ago, Jasper said:

Pretty comprehensive then.

So, I can generate a group of monsters for the encounter but I wonder if it is possible to print as a PDF the stats and description of the basic scorpion man for example?

 

the generated ones can be printed as pdf or png from the generated page. 

You can print the template as a pdf if that is what you would like. It is just a template then and might not be as useful. Whatever is on the template gets printed but it depends of course what the creator of template has written there.... Statistics page shows now 2770 templates - most of us who have created these might not have had the intent of creating full detailed descriptions in the notes part....

• Flint cat
• Raptor, Giant
• Walktapi
• Nandi Bear
• Harpy, Elder
• Hag of Darkness
• Lesser Hydra, 5 headed

• Elder Ghoul
• Broukolak, Man Form
• Broukolak, Undead

• Gigantic Jellyfish
• Fast Initiate of Jaguar Goddess
• Initiate of Jaguar Goddess
• Initiate of Jaguar Goddess, Jaguar Form
• Servant of Jaguar Goddess
• Servants of Jaguar Goddess

The statement is: if a creature has ever had RQ stats on any magazine or publication it is in the Encounter Generator (except for the mechanicals). If it has had Hero Wars/Heroquest stats - 90-95% of those are there as well. So if you find something is missing do a few searches you will probably find it there - if not, raise it for example here and it will likely get added.  

You will find many of the encounters by using tags as well but that depends on whether the person has added the tag to the creature.

Here are the dragonewts and sorpionmen currently in the encounter generator

This is crowdsourced - I have created many for my. campaign or amusement but others have and can....

Well scorpion men are there, dragonewts as well.., broos are certainly in the encounter generator

All the creatures in AIG are there. All the spells are mentioned with the cults using them in the Glorantha one pagers and as far as I can recall spell names also added to the various cult members and cult descriptions within the Encounter Generator. If I recall correctly all the spells were from the original sources - just given AiG treatment.

It contains almost all that I have found. There are some sea mammals from Anaxial’s Annex (an online resource) that are missing and may miss some of the rare outer plane thingies from Anaxial’s Roster but should have everything else. if you find something missing, please indicate to me... The rate of adding has slowed due to the above mentioned being quite rare and due one other hobby project I am working on In addition to real life intervening...)

You will find one pager based on those here https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/gloranthan-cult-one-pagers-renewed-main-page/

I am using Finnish translations... Many of them are unofficial made in the early days of my campaign

5 hours ago, g33k said:

Arguably, issues of "real world" warfare in the future are eminently suitable to a thread like this one!  If only to consider why a given "likely" tech is NOT in-play on the battlefield.

I recall one gaming-oriented discussion of a "likely" transhuman-tech battle, considering tech, tactics, & strategy.  One commentator replied, "if that's what it's liable to look like, the transhuman genre has zero gaming appeal."

 

Yep. It starts to look like many sf books and movies and some games as well are getting out of date with their view what is likely or possible.

In this case was mentioning this for ranged weapon scenario for scifi games in near future. 

Leaving the real world implications discussion to non gaming forum

This combined with a startup from Finland which has created replenishing stations for drones.... Charge it there and then go back to patrolling... combine this with 3d printing creating these small things in local factories and small builder bots building those factories all of which solar powered you have quite a nightmare scenario...

Take a look at this and extrapolat4. This is near future possible