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J-M, Just to let you know people at the RPG Pub have also been asking about Jackals. You can find the discussion here -> https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/jackals-bronze-age-fantasy-roleplaying.4535/

Are you kidding? We want to know everything? For starts how integrated is OpenQuest into the setting? And did you expand OpenQuest at all? I read the blurb you put up on Amazon (I have ordered the book) anything you can expand on here?

Absolutely beautiful. One of the nicest maps I have ever seen!

In @Nick J.'s Magic World game last week we lost one of our two fighter type characters. And it wasn't just any character but a hulking killing machine often referred to as an Iron Golem. Not only did Diedtrich have a powerful damage bonus and a magic sword but also a sword profiency in the 90% percentile range. My character, Dietrich's man servant and the other fighter type is at best a mediocre fighter and will probably have a short life time now that Dietrich is gone. That said I thought it would be good to write an obituary for the fair Sir Dietrich. It goes something like this... --------------------- “Wilhelm Dietrich “Sir Dietrich” von Buddenbrock made his last wildly inappropriate and sarcastic comment on July 28th. Dietrich was born and immediately dubbed “our favorite child” to Wilhelm and Joan Buddenbrock (deceased) in March of 1993. Their constant love, support, caring far exceeded anything Dietrich deserved. He is survived by his five wives, sixteen girlfriends, forty three children and overly dedicated warhorse named Sica. He will miss Sica. He had three basic philosophies“work is for the unimaginative”, “never use your real name” and “failure to consume a proferred glass of ale is a terrible waste.” Dietrich died knowing that the Black Labrador Pub in High Hankle is the best place to get a buzz and that a visit to the Daisy Club in Lankshorn will give you a rash that just won’t go away. Dietrich’s demise will now allow all his children to emerge from his shadow. A variety of boys and girls with no upbringing whatsoever complete the list of those left to embellish his memory. Dietrich’s service included five years serving as the Commander of his Lord’s guard and seven years as a professional ale taster and womanizer. His time and position afforded hundreds of people exposure to Dietrich’s unique personality. Half a dozen or so of these might speak of him fondly if pressed. His regrets were few but include eating a falafel from a street merchant in Dreg, opening a door in Dun Cru covered with runes and that no evidence exists of his prowess on the jousting field or in the bedroom. There will be no viewing since his comrades refuses to honor his request to have him standing in the corner of the room with a glass of ale in his hand so that he would appear natural to visitors. Cremation will take place at the earliest convenience and his ashes will be kept in an urn until the party gets tired of having it around. Everyone who remembers him is asked to celebrate Dietrich’s life in their own way. Raising a glass of their favorite drink in his memory would be quite appropriate.

Nice blog post Fabio! I will follow with interest!

Oh I don't know Nick, I think you play a non-human very convincingly! It's human you seem to have some problems with 🙂 Note please don't kill my character!

Oh wow! This is an instabuy! And unexpected... By the way I love the cover!

Will do! Thanks!

Yeah TDM is getting an unfailry large portion of my monthly discretionary spend at this point. Can't wait for Mythic Greece!

I have done at best a deep skim of this book but it looks awesome. Not unexpected when Oscar RIos, Jeff Moeller and Lisa Padol are involved.

I Just reviewed Murder in the Footlights. It's very short and not very detailed. Might take two hours to run max. Anyone know of any other pulp adventures? I have Pulp Egypt and Rura Tonga.

Oh and by the way, your English is WAY better than my French!

This is awesome! It's on sale for $9.99 right now and I just ordered it! Thank you!

@Loïc what is your opinion of Astounding Adventures overall? How are the adventures? I have been tempted to pick that up...

I mostly agree with you here but just as an aside many sales people train in neuro lingustics programming (NLP) and it greatly enhances your ability to understand how the other person thinks. Maybe it wouldn't be useful in discovering deception but it certainly gives you the ability to analyze and categorize people by the way they think and makes you much more effective when you are trying to persuade them of something.

Well if using Discord you could ask for a dice roll and then wait for it to be displayed on the Discord dashboard. I don't remember if it is time stamped or not but you can tell when something has been rolled.

@Nick J. what’s your opinion of the rune/tattoo magic in the book? I like the idea but I think it would require a lot of development.

It's really sad GMs have to worry about this stuff but the only solution I can think of is to use online dice rolling. There are a lot of solutions for that but if you want something that intergrates dice rolling with audio and video I would recommend Discord. It supports audio and video as well as chat and dice rolling and there is a free version of it.

A game @Nick J. is currently running uses Deep Magic and in a previous game I ran we used Deep Magic with The Second Way revisions.

Cthulu Rising and all it’s supporting material is a masterpiece. Maybe Chaosium could release a second edition someday?

I encourage you to go for it because Cthulhu Rising is worth every penny. However I am going to hang on to my copy - its just to wonderful to give up. However if you do get CR and are looking for some scenarios and additional rules PM me. I have a lot of the free stuff that Ossaway put on his now defunct website.

Moon Design took over Chaosium from the previous management when Chaosium went into big debt and started to fail. The guys at Moon Design paid all the Chaosium debts and among other things improved Chaosium’s quality. They also brought RuneQuest and Pendragon back into the fold. They saved Chaosium.

I disagree that it’s worthless. It’s true the GM needs to roll it but I love roll playing certainty if the GM says my character feels one way or the other. Lots of great roll playing when you get in an NPC’s face because their lying and they aren’t!

Golden Goblin is producing stuff to this day. Pagan, I think, was till last year. There stuff is easy to get on Amazon and EBay. And by the way I would put Pagan in Stygian’s class. Very, very good material

Stygian is great (awesome in fact) but also check out stuff originally printed by Pagan Publishing and Golden Goblin Press,