Belgath

Excited but i must admit I been excited for all of TDM Products. Each has something great to add to my games. And there so well written, I have  thoroughly enjoyed reading through each of TDMs products. Hopefully I’ll have more chance to play this year. I  with my new job I’ve had very little opportunity do to excessive to travel and work hours.

Picked 2 up, thanks for getting it out before Christmas. 

Yes it has much more of an old school feel.

On 9/13/2017 at 4:07 PM, Joerg said:

The trick with freeforms is to keep every player engaged and inside the game. If your players are mostly new to this kind of gaming, that's quite a big bid, so maybe the event could be more of a fair, with numerous short games or encounters sort of in-character. This could combine the old scavenger hunt with some life action and roleplaying challenges, with rewards and other, inclusive activities in between. Things like crossing an (imaginary, wool-blanket) chasm or river on two ropes (or a rope and a slackline) or similar physical activity might be included. Requiring rhymes for semi-silly poetry about the event could be another, creative challenge to the players. Audience participation in the challenges would be great. (And for a birthday party, small rewards...)

On 9/15/2017 at 9:39 AM, Sensei Tanner said:

I did a party similar to what you're talking about last year. What I came up with was that the kids were divided into teams and sent on a scavenger hunt. We did it outside so there was digging involved. So you set it up as a hero quest that the clan is going on to find magic and weapons to help them against a feuding clan. Keep it pretty simple but here's where you can put in the flavor in the way you create the clues and frame the contest. Mainly they're just looking for visible patterns that you've depicted on rune sheets or solving riddles (be careful with the riddles and teens. It's hard to challenge them and then you cross a line suddenly into unsolvable) but you can assign perks for flavor like -- the kids on their fourth clue find themselves at a station with a kolating and snacks, the kolating asks them which one among them is most insightful in solving clues and when they decide, that person is declared Lhankor or some other knowing or observing hero. You can also have them choose who is the best at keeping the group on task and together and give them an appropriate title and then they can have a special power that makes them better at helping the group. The one that keeps them together may get a pouch of drinks or snacks to distribute as needed or the ability to heal injured clansmen by feeding them. The one that's good at solving riddles could have a divining stick that will give them a clue if they break a piece off and give it to the Kolating. The bigger the piece, the bigger the clue. 

Then the last few stations of the quest are harder clues that involve more teamwork and creative thinking but hopefully the teams feel more coordinated and led now. At the last station we had boxes underground that each had a few padded swords, a few nerf blowguns, and a few cans of silly string (enough for each kid to have one), and a flag. The next section of the party was a big game of capture the flag with swords, darts, and magic, group tactics, etc. They really don't need much direction on this bit, just make the swords safe to get whacked by and limit the area and ways they can hide the flag. It helps if they had a clan starting area and need to keep it on the tula. We let them play two rounds and saw that while a few kids would keep going all day, others were worn out so then cake and food. At that point, having food that by ingredients or decoration matches the game really stands out to the kids even if they didn't know anything about it before.

 So in implementing the forementioned ideas I was thinking A teem  based scavenger hunt Would start with Dwarfen letter Describing  how to find the parts and assemble the key to the world machine vault.  Each part or clue for the key will be some fun activity,  requiring multiple specialized skills to accomplish. So each of the kids would have a  simplified Hero Quest like PC sheet describing your 4 or 5 special abilities. The activity set up so that each of  kids abliitys  become required at some point. I already have a zip line, Rope bridge, rope swing and three Fort on my property so I think will utilize those.  Given each a neat Glorathan description or situation. Would probably set up balance beam. A Nerf crossbow station where some of the kids are undead  with paper cups balanced on their heads. (if the cup Falls off or is shot off you lose) Moving towards the crossbow group all they have to do is touch the kids with the crossbow to win. The kids are the crossbows Are not allowed to move but win By shooting The cups off The undead heads. Once one of teams wins they switch sides.

I really do appreciate all the help and suggestions it has been vary helpful. And I'm sure will continue to be so i've gone from being a bit nervous about pulling this off to pretty excited. And as long as it's OK with the the peps at  Chaosium any of you that helped out i'll be more than happy to 3D  print out a coin or small prop you or I designed all you would I have to do send me a sketch of what you wanted. It Can't be anything that is  copyrighted I.e. the coins in the books. 

I was thinking of printing  out A bunch of coins on the 3D printer. Giving them out to the kids as prizes for the different games, scavenger hunts. Which they can then use to buy, foam swords armor,  etc. For the scavenger hunt have them find pieces to a large RunicKey that they can put together Open something haven't decided yet. Added some pictures  I drew up of the key and coins below that I would make. 

It was a fun session my girls where more interested in saving the cows then any of the fighting.

10 minutes ago, Joerg said:

When you say her entire grade is going to attend the freeform, how many kids are you talking about, and how old?

How much Gloranthan cultism can you offer before being branded as the antichrist?

How serious do you want things to be, or rather, how serious will your daughter want things to be?

I would say 8 to 12 kids, 10 to 12 years old.

Gloranthan cultism I would probably keep lite Khan of Khans lvl maybe a bit deeper keep it fun and light.

My daughter wants to role play in the world larp style, I just want make sure everything is kept fun and light enough that the other kids enjoy it and she doesn't get teased about it later on. 

Have have 3D printers and boxes of scrap leather so making leather armor and printed prop pieces should be fairly easy. Maybe have the kids add runes to leather armor and make foam swords and Shields.

I really like a lot of your ideas the troll food sounds great.

OK I know this is a bit of an unusual request.   After having gone to Gen Con with my children and having  a wonderful time there, two of my girls wanted to dress up during the convention as the Gloranthan PCs.  They got to play the quick star rules at Gen Con as Vasana and Yanionth.   It went over really well for them and the People at Chaosium were great and made it a neat experience for them.  It was a fun experience for me as well!  Greg Stafford was a old family friend that had given me a copy of RuneQuest back in the 1978 - 79 timeframe.   It's was fun for me to explain how role-playing got started in our family.   I can honestly say my kids had more fun at Gen Con than Disney World!   I asked my daughter why and  she said: "Because I get to be myself and imagine fun things, and nobody mocks me or bullies me for having an imagination!"  So, naturally, Gen Con will become a tradition for us.   Now, on to my main question...my youngest daughter really wants a Gloranthan themed birthday party.   I'm talking she said she wanted Glorathan food, coins, swords (foam of course) a dungeon adventure like the larp dungeons at Gen Con and more.  The coins I can 3-D print for her.  The rest of the stuff I'm not quite sure if I'm thinking of getting some Renaissance actors or groups you can hire for parties and giving them enough information to make it more Glorathan.   I have until May to pull this off, but any ideas would be very helpful as I've never done anything like this before.   She is eager to have her entire grade attend, and I'd love to make her birthday party a huge success for all to remember forever. The more ideas the better. 

6 hours ago, heathd666 said:

yes there were sacrifices that needed to be done to appease the role playing gods ........

and i went out and purchased the Luther Arkwright rpg enjoyed it from Belgath's game so thought i would read up on it. and @lawrence.whitaker i could not find any of your companies products at gen con. i thought for sure studio 2 would have some but if they did it was sold out.

 

 

(note no players were actually harmed in the making of this post)

Thanks for joining the game, and am glad you enjoyed it.  I think that makes two years In a row now. I hope to see you again at a game next year. On a sad note the airport still has not found my luggage they lost going to GenCon so I will Most likely be buying Luther Arkwright as well.

There was a couple left on Saturday , I don't know if any made it to the end. 

Sorry somehow Duplicated the post. 

The new RuneQuest rules are heavily tied to Glorantha melding and changing the rule system and information to become Gloranthan. Now you still may get complaints about rules people like or dislike but this new version absolutely does Glorantha in all it glory. But it's done in a way that won't leave new players overwhelmed. I just took three of my kids through the character creation process. And they're already more attached to There PC then I've seen him with any other system. Character generation ties you into your community, Family history, enemies and allies In a personal way. The only thing my kids complained about during character creation was with some of the battles. Your parent or grandparent went through the result was simply survived. They wanted more, wanting to know how they servived did they hide, did some one save him exc exc. We ended up roll playing out  story on how there ansester survived the particular battle. But I think in the future I'll probably come up with a 1d20 table of Battle survival possibilities. To add a bit more depth to any of the  survived results.  In the future I'll post some more about are experiences adventures with the new rules. 

Also at Gen Con I had a chance to see some the art that is going to be in the rule book. And I have to say is absolutely amazing. It is so uniquely Gloranthan I felt like I was looking at one of those ancient cultural documents with all the detail drawings of the people things they used there weapons lifestyle. Far surpassing even what you see in the guide of Glorantha. I have to say I'm a bit starstruck with the quality of work and effort that is being put into this. 

Nice setup.

Well I had the pleasure of running two of the 4 GenCon sessions of Luthier Arkwright Silver Pictures Move So Slow. From the parallel lines book. The other players at the table seem to really have enjoyed themselves.  I was a bit nervous as I don't run investigation type games very often. I don't think I  built enough tension in the first  session For the players, over the explosives they need find. The second one I did much better. The players there sweating bullets a couple times during critical dice rolls, the added  tension was a lot of fun. I think by my 4th session of the Silver Pictures Move So Slow. I will be doing it justice.

9 hours ago, Matt_E said:

They're not parallels if they meet in the center.   Sorry, couldn't resist...

Now on parallel 10-41-10 A parallel is  defined as a bunch of lines that meet at the center with  blobby circle things if Belgath Drew it.?

Just a map and notes for some of my  Parallels 

The Luther Arkwright is very versatile I use it for all my CoC, space and post apocalyptic games now. 

My bases I added to the stories,  is that the use of the fire frost is what created the parallels the first place. But this had The devastating effect on the greater  entities in the universe. What we would consider Gods had trouble surviving in the multi-verse as they draw power from the very fabric of existence. With  reality splintered into millions the multiple power parallels. There is less energy to draw from so that the more powerful beings started dying out, or had to flee to unoccupied paralleled to survive. More evil entities sought to destroy  others due to the limited resources. The only way The One can ultimately survive. Is collapse enough of the parallels to ensure he has enough power to draw from. In his insanity Hopes to destroy all but one gaining ultimate power for himself.

Got a bit distracted with other projects so I didn't get very far with this one though it's something I do plan to come back to.

Double posted

I ran 4 sessions of Classic Fantasy last year at GenCon. And will be running 1 this year on Wednesday.  Had one sessions where all the players where new to Mythras  but where all previously D&D pathfinder  players they seemed to really enjoy it. I was similar enough that they were able to settle right in. But quickly came to the realization that it was much more dangerous. If they did not think things through. I only took them about 30 min to get the hang of it, having a great dungeon crawl. My son played in two of Sessions one with mostly player new to the game and the last game that had all old Runequest players he was rely supersize how much fun the last group had even though they made it through almost unscathed using good tactics. What I noted is the game works well with both types of players. Also after ruining a 6 mouth long campaign. The player love the freedom to put there exp rolls anyplace they wanted, the gradual realistic progression in power. Coupled with looking forward  to and receiving the new ranks, which entailed a big burst power and skills was a big deal for the players. Classic Fantasy has done an amazing job of tying two game types into one fluid system that has a broader appeal to more players. On my roll 20 campaign I had two old D&D players that stated they would have never tried Mythras before playing Classic Fantasy and 3 others that don't like D&D but love CF. So in My experience Classic Fantasy has made it easier for me to find players by appealing to the broader group. 

At GenCon  Starting On Friday 10AM 4hr and Continuing on Saturday 6:00Pm 4hr Will be ruining a extended Luther Arkwright With toned down PG version for My Own Children 10 - 15 years old and there Friends there is two spots open. So if there any Parent kid combos that would like to join thees Games let me know.