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No doubt connected to the imminent premium colour print price rise DTRPG are holding a 25% discount sale on premium colour printed products - so if you're thinking about splashing the cash for some RQ or Gloranthan goodness now might be the time to do so......

Detect Potential Mate ?

It keeps us off the streets and out of trouble 😃

Is life a concept ? clearly there is something, an elecrical current, a set of criteria ( from a biological POV ) that makes life. It may not be life as we know it but I do think life is a state of being rather than just an idea. Please note I'm not talking about sentience here, that's a whole other argument 😁

I must admit i don't generally allow Detect Traps. if I lean an object against a door so that it deliberately falls on someone...thats a trap. if i work at something and lean the object against the door whilst I'm working and forget about it..that's an accident. the difference is intent, and if I'm no longer around my intent can no longer be discerned or detected

Sneaky.......I like it 😁

In one game where I was feeling particularly strict * I didn't allow Detect Poison, I figured poison was a concept rather than a substance, after all different animals can eat things that would be poisonous to other animals....so I insisted on people learning Detect Hemlock, Detect Aconite, Detect depleted uranium and so on. * My players may have used the word pedantic, i really can't remember.

Can't stand parsnips, they're the dangleberries from Satans own hairy bottom as far as I'm concerned. But roasted root veggies as a concept is fine, and swede and carrot mash with a dollop of butter and some ground black pepper is lovely.

I guess it depends on what you're enchanting it for In RQ3 you could increase the armour and hit points of something - but that didn't make them more dangerous, just tougher. equally you could make up an enchantment that makes the weapon more deadly think of the " of slaying " style swords from D'n'd, but does that make it tougher ? Perhaps a truly great magical weapon needs multiple enchantments for different things..... Which is going to be tough on the person doing the enchantment in terms of POW costs. So maybe you have groups of people coming together to forge a magical weapon, each contributing one layer of enchantment. say, the priests of a war god or fire god, maybe a group of sorcerers from a particular school of sorcery. Or if you don't like this perhaps one person does it but it takes long periods of time with plentiful pauses for recovery between enchantment sessions - this would make enchanted weapons truly rare, but then equally truly a great treasure. Or just make up some ritual enchantment spells of your own 👍

First homebrew, now brawling and wrestling , what a wild lifestyle you have. 😄 it'll all end up in a late night trip to the kebab house.......

When you look on the forums list all you can see is the words " feedback on my homebrew......" 😁 I was hoping for a players review of your beer making.

I think The Green was my favourite one with Swords of Cydoria or Val - du - loup in second place depending on my mood.

Hi Zenith, On the corruption mechanic there used to be a MRQ product by Otherworld Creations called Taint and Sanity - having just checked on DTRPG and Lulu it looks athough it's no longer available/out of print. But if you get a chance to look at a copy it might cover the ground.

Indeed, there was a fair bit of cool stuff in there. I quite enjoyed the first and second series, yes the main characters were unrelentingly morose but at least you were given context for that. But the last series I just couldn't hack, endless grey whiny misery for page after page. In the end I gave up and read a book about historical plagues for a bit of light relief.....

Ah, I knew I'd seen it in White Dwarf somewhere !

Tolkien, tolkien........wasn't he the bloke that wrote all those Narnia stories ?

I've read the first and second chronicles but gave up midway through the last series. Basically it felt as though the last 4 books could be summed up in one line: "Linden Avery whines a lot " That's your review right there 😄

I don't think as a whole it would lend itself particularly well as a RPG setting, some of the ideas would make good adaptations. I've already mentioned the group magic of the Ur Viles who also seem to have a fair bit of skill at alchemy etc. The Forestals are interesting druid/genius loci sort of figures and there's all sorts of other other bits and pieces that are cool. But overall like you I wonder how good a fit it'd be. And lets face it if the players were really to get into character they'd end up so angst ridden and emotionally overwrought they'd need months of counselling between each game session 😁

If you have the magic world books you don't really need The Bronze Grimoire.....I think pretty much all the content was ported over, though there might be the odd spell that wasn't.

I'd be tempted to buy on the strength of that alone 😆 I've decided to re arrange my buying order because of the price hike. Secrets of Dorastor has now moved down a bit and Sandheart 2 and 3 have moved up - this takes me over my gaming budget so next month will be zero purchases - but hey, I'll have the Sandheart books to relax with and read.......

had a quick look in the search engine without finding this, so..... Like most people ( I suspect ) I have a tendency when reading SF or fantasy to mentally start statting up the creatures and monsters therein and i've often wondered if anybody did so for the Thomas Covenant books. I'm pretty sure White Dwarf did a D'n'D conversion in one issue, but did anybody ever do an RQ version ? . l always wondered how to do the Ur Vile wedge formation with the focused magic. I figured there'd be some mileage in looking at the CoC group casting rules and adapting them in some way. But wondered what other people thought. No particular reason ,just idle curiousity.

I'd like the above, but I want a working game supplement....if I can have both then happy days 👍 But see below..... I suspect I fall into this category . I'm more of a function over form kind of a guy.

Well it wasn't advice, it was simply a suggestion as a possible alternative way of making products and ideas available if the price hike means that people can't go the full hardcover, premium colour route. I 'm not saying people should do it another way, I'm asking could it be done another way if the numbers could be made to add up and the creators were happy to do so.

I'm sure it will be, as long as it's not ghastly to look at I reckon it'll be ok, more than ok . I'll be buying it for the information about places, the horrible diseases, the ghastly chaos monsters. As long as when i show a picture of a creature to the players they go " arghh ! , the tentacles, the teeth...run AWAY " then the artwork is good 😆 if they want to hang around long enough and get close enough to the tentacles to go " hang on , those aren't in premium colour....." that's their own lookout and i take no responsibility for their welfare........😉

I'm tempted to quote the old adage " the customer is always right" Now I don't actually believe that to be totally true, but there's an element of truth there, I don't think it's unreasonable to give people the choice if the top end version is outside peoples price range. I'm sure creators would like me to buy an attractively printed nicely bound copy, but that doesn't have to be the most expensive option going does it ? Something can be attractive without being stunning, nice without being luxurious. I've bought standard colour or black and white , softback copies of supplements from DTRPG and been perfectly happy with them. Good robust working copies - nothing wrong with that Or you could ensure that each copy sold allowed for a profit on each individual book taking initial outlay expenses into account , or set the proof copies against tax as a business expense ( if you're allowed to ), take the long view and hope you got that initial outlay back in long term sales....... I'm not trying to be awkward here just pointing out that there are other print formats available, after all you yourself said you were looking at the possibility of other print options and Soltakss has gone down the standard colour route with Secrets of Dorastor - and that's not going to stop me buying that for a second as it sounds like a great book. All I'm saying is this: suppose i have a Standard Colour softback book on DTRPG for $35 or a premium colour hardback for $60. I sell no copies of the $60 book but the $35 sells steadily - which is better, some sales or no sales ?