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I am very interested in your ideas and am looking forward to reading more

about them.

BRP Central have finally taken top position, and is now ranked as #1

Congratulations ! :thumb:

And: Well deserved, BRP Central is by far the best BRP address around.

Thank you for the information.

With only Speed, Cargo Capacity, Armor and Weapons this is a very "slim"

approach to vehicle rules, but it would be sufficient for my current setting,

where vehicle combat is comparatively rare.

I just ordered the 0 edition so I thought that in accordance with my luck everyone lost intrest.

Not at all - but my copy of the Zero Edition meanwhile has arrived, and I am

somewhat busy with "reengineering" my Pharos IV setting.

However, I am still looking forward to reading more about The Green !

A very good map, and also a good center region for the Shared World. I only

have to get used to the "upside down"-Green.

Well, I am one of the bad guys, I can do without virtues ...>:->

(235/420)

No. 235 has arrived today !

Added "Sloths" to the Bestiary and "rivermen" to the Green.

They really look fine. I will add them to the list after the weekend.

Do the Nifara and the Rivermen produce the same goods (boat resin, cloth

resin, etc.), or do you plan to move them from the Nifara to the Rivermen ?

Soltakss, I really like your Minotaurs, especially the story about their creation.

Thank you very much for your comment on my English. Well, over here in Eu-

rope English has become something like a "common tongue", and after so ma-

ny years of playing untranslated RPGs ...

The Zero Edition should arrive today or tomorrow (), and then I will begin

to complete the "system" part of my world, and I hope I will be in the mood

to start the translation soon after this.

I do not see any serious problems with the Guild's firearms. At least the early

firearms were not much more efficient than bow and crossbow, only easier

to learn and to handle, and the members of the Guild probably would be the

only ones who know how to use them, and who have access to the "gunpow-

der". Therefore a comparatively small number of firearms should not be able

to unbalance the game, I think.

The Guild's knowledge about the Gates could be more of a problem. However,

the Gates could still be extremely difficult to use, dangerous and unreliable.

I think it really depend on how much the Guild knows, and how much it can

achieve with this knowledge.

Besides, the Guild's attempts to learn more about the Gates, and to become

more able to control them / some of them, could make a fine campaign.

What about the lizard-riding Sauroids mentioned elsewhere ?

I am not sure whether they would be Beast People in the usual sense (I have

almost no knowledge of RQ), but I think they could be quite interesting, per-

haps as steppe nomads herding antelopes or other suitable animals ?

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Thank you very much - it is really nice, as I never dreamed of getting a copy

of Zero Edition, because it really is an adventure to order something from

the USA, and I usually avoid it whenever possible.

To hear of such a treasure trove here in Germany ...

Believe it or not, my favourite RPG shop has just announced that it has se-

veral copies of the Zero Edition in stock !

I hope I reacted quick enough to make my E-mail secure me one of those

copies - in which case I will have the pleasure to post in this thread again

in only a couple of days ...

Thank you for asking, my Pharos IV is doing well. Currently I have about 60

pages of "canonical" material, including the colony's almost 70 years of histo-

ry, a couple of (not very detailed) maps, and a small hill of notes.

The problems will start when I will have to translate at least the core stuff,

which I can only begin after the final BRP version has been published.

I have already reserved a spot for the Shared World in Pharos IV's universe.

In my preliminary notes the planet is named Green, and is the third planet of

the Edura System, approximately 19 lightyears from Pharos IV, in an as yet

unexplored region.

Of course, this can be changed, it is just a "placeholder".

Your Guild should work fine in the Shared World, I think. However, it should

probably not be a truly planet-wide organization (they will need some elbow

room to expand further ...). I could well imagine the Guild as an organization

which covers a number of renaissance-type city states and their "hinterland"

on the coast of one of the continents of the Shared World, for example.

Since we have an entire world to "fill", the area where the Guild is already an

important organization could easily be as big as Europe, and it would still not

ruin the bronze age feel of the rest of the world. In fact, different cultural or

technological levels on different continents seem a good idea to me, as this

could add some more "colour" and "depth" to the world.

Yep, I like both Soltakss' centaurs and your wyverns.

If the "moon connection" would fit in with all the beast people cultures, I

would certainly like it, because it would create a special time / deadline

for adventures ("You have to cross the steppe before the moon drives

the centaurs mad ..."), and such give the world some additional "colour"

that also influences the game.

Some more good news from FFG for the Warhammer fans:

Fantasy Flight Games

Our "House Rules" include a Perception skill, otherwise I use either an Idea

roll or (Listen + Spot):2, depending on the situation.

A beautiful map !

It is perhaps less desert and more water than I had expected, but it really

looks fine.

I do not know what Puck and Rurik will think about the idea to put The Green

and Portal on different continents, but at the moment I do not see a real

problem, provided both are still close enough to enable Puck's corsairs from

the coast of The Green to prey on the sea trade to and from Portal.

Are there other game worlds where that was done? And to what extent did the mounts have control?

As far as I can remember, the mounts (dragons) often were far more power-

ful and at least as intelligent as their riders, but they did never have the con-

trol (although they could have taken it whenever they liked, I think).

So, no, I think it has not been done before, and I totally agree with Trifletra-

xor: I like that idea !

At least I would not use my copies.

I think it s a very good and interesting idea, and it looks like something which

could make the Shared World more fascinating.

Well, why not ?

With a really good description this could make a very interesting combination

of races, somewhat like dragons and dragonriders in other game worlds.

I would not consider it off kilter, only rather difficult to describe in a way

that makes it plausible and convincing.

However, if you have the necessary ideas: Please do it !

Note to myself: Stay away from Conrad when he has just bought a new book

- or at least wear that helmet. :cool:

Well, as mentioned above: I do only know hearsay, I never did see the book.

But when I started looking for informations on it, I usually found comments

like this one from the Pen & Paper website:

Wanderer (Feb 8, 2007 - 4:51 AM CST):

Not a bad system, but poorly edited. Typos aside, an entire section of the character history generation system was omitted from the book! Since the company vanished from view immediately after, there's not even a method for contacting the authors.

What you write about it looks much different, and I will think again about

buying it.