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HierophantX

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  1. Orbis Mundi books are fine, but the Codex books are a bit better for an early modern setting.
  2. argh! My bad, I meant Aaron Kavli for the 1520 supplement...
  3. Pardon me while I raise up this thread using essential saltes... Is there a comprehensive list of Mythos/Occult Tomes for use in BRP games someplace? I'm working out my own list of late-medieval books on various natural philosophy sort of subjects and I'm looking to build a bigger database...
  4. I have some questions about how education and skills are handled within this particular Renaissance setting. The education and titles section and that table aren't really helpful at all. Does anyone have a direct line to the author? I could swear he used to frequent a forum or discord I was on in the past but ...
  5. I'm thinking of Call of Cthulhu where and other BRP games where you can increase skills by studying books. Has anyone developed a useful resource for books in the late-medieval/early-modern period that would work here? I know some conversations have gone on and off in various BRP fora over the years, I'm just circling back around.
  6. I acquired the PDF and I'm pleased. I'm a fan of the Codex books and I've dallied with Zweihander and trying to get a Mythras-y solution to the problem of a good HRE/Early-Modern setting. Switching back and forth between the main book and this one for chargen and what-not is a bit annoying but so it goes. I would have liked something like a better list of Lore skills. I've been trying to convert, or rather generate, Codex characters using these rules and I'm missing some elements of Codex, but happy to handwave other aspects. Also I'm always happy to see good maps in a book. I'm very happy that our friend went to the trouble.
  7. Hey Guys, I am terribly fond of this set of house rules for Mythras in a Medieval/Renaissance setting and someone on the Discord said it came from someone with the handle Mjolnir. Does anyone know what I’m talking about or who they are? I’d like to get in touch with them if it’s possible because I really liked what they did.
  8. My daughter got covid from her teacher last week. I guess wearing a mask to protect the twins she's pregnant with as well as all of our kids made her freedom hurt too much. And now my wife is upstairs in bed with the shakes, test results pending (and we're both double-shotted). So far the other daughter and I are symptom-free and the first daughter's symptoms seem to have faded (mashallah ayni ma'drha). But at least my wife was able to see a doctor today, as opposed to the last 2 years in the UK where we couldn't Fack.
  9. OK so at least two other guys share my interest... but no further information?
  10. I wish he would write more. It's an amazing setting. I think he was toying with using Zweihander as a home, but meh?
  11. So now that word is out that Mythic Venice has some sort of proto-existence, I thought this might be a good place to ask some questions. Can we expect that this book will follow a pattern similar to Mythic Constantinople? By that I mean: - Is it mostly about the city itself? - Whither the Venetian Empire? What about the Cyprus War? Ragusa? Crete? How much beyond Venice can we expect to see or have described in the book? - What's the core timeframe for the book? Which Venice are we talking about? The leader of the 4th Crusade? The Venice that was part of the Holy League? or the Venice that backed the Mamluks in war against the Portuguese to preserve their spice monopoly? - What of Venice's rivals? Genoa and the Ottomans? The Empire? Other Italian states? Just want to know what I'll be buying 😄
  12. Renaissance doesn’t have to always be ECW Butters! We can do it with Hussites!
  13. Wow, that was a long time ago. But anything pre-covid seems really long ago. I never saw more from that conversation. When Loz asked Belgath for a pm I inferred there might be either a wave off or something because of projects overlapping *shrug* so, sorry to say, nothing ever came of it.
  14. My girls just started Avatar: the Last Airbender and it’s love at first watch. So I grabbed a fan made d20 AtLA rpg off the interwebz and we shall see what follows...
  15. I started running My Little Pony: Tails of Equestria for my daughters when covid began. My 8yr old is probably ready for anything, but the other one is 6 and not quite there. Though I did acquire the PDFs for a game loosely based on Redwall that I’m going to throw at them. Just pre-covid we started playing 5e with another family. Bog-standard Forgotten Realms. My 8 yr old (then7) came up with a character and backstory instantly about her half-elf sorceress who fronts like she’s a bard. I have an older son who became a regular with my old crew playing D20 Star Wars. My wife would play CoC with me and the current group I play with, but since that’s a social thing she doesn’t have to organize she’s happy to leave me to it.
  16. Not so strange based on some conversations I have had with old contributors. There is such a thing as unsustainable growth.
  17. SpaceMaster!? Iron Crown did some good things but is that really something they did? Ishtar preserve us from more charts!
  18. I've seen some chatter on the Discord. I'm interested in pulsing the group-mind about what people are using as their base-settings for M-space. I have heard Traveller, AD2300, and some others. Including elements of Stars Without Number if not that setting as well. Anyway, indulge me!
  19. And in any event, all of you owe me 5$ for using the word "slack" Thou Art Bob.
  20. So I liked this element of Joe Haldman's "Forever War" in that ship-to-ship combat in space was just done by computer because the math is just too hard. Meanwhile, I kinda think of the range problem with railguns to be more that after a certain distance your hit probability drops to nil because of the amount of time it takes to reach the target vs everyone's relative speed.
  21. Marienkäfer fliegedein Vater ist im Kriegedeine Mutter ist in EngellandEngelland ist abgebrannt Marienkäfer fliege
  22. Tales of the Gold Monkey!?!?! I LOVED that show! ... when I was 8? Jeez... Funny I always thought that Duck Tales owed a great debt to that show..
  23. I think it more depends on what having a "multiverse" will narratively accomplish in your setting. Do you want to have have a multiverse so that Veritech Hovertanks can slug it out with Coalition bots in the swampy, gator-y ruins of Gulf Coast Rifts America? or because one of your players wants to be something from one setting in another setting? What do YOU as GM want to be able to do with this as a setting. Once that's clear there are several paths to follow: - Have an "in-verse" explanation that the players are all a part of and that they know about cosmologically - Don't explain shit. This thing happened, so now they have to adapt and overcome - It's not a PhD dissertation you have to defend, or a peer-reviewed journal. Unless you are writing a multiverse situation for publication and you need it to stand actual scrutiny beyond your crew, who cares? It only needs to work for your story and if it needs to contradict itself see below - Secret History of the World - maybe there's an underlying cosmology and lots of people think they know what it is and maybe some of them are partly right or maybe not. Sure that guy's magic works but as far as why his magic works? Maybe he thinks it's due to his mastery of Pvaric disciplines and how he thinks the universe works. Maybe there are sources of power, maybe there are extra-dimensional beings that you can contact and gain power from? But what those things are and how they really work could be completely subjective, contradictory and incompatible across perspectives, and that's totally fine. And in any case those weird sites and stone structures that turn out to be portals to other worlds are the coaxial connections to some interdimensional beings' virtual entertainment (porn) system powered by the souls of the dead of those worlds and all the planar travel is just a byproduct. - And Glorantha is just a simulation anyway, whether the beings who run it are Mi-Go or whatever Dragonnewts actually are... meh.
  24. So you can do all of this with passions and brotherhoods as you suggested. You don’t need anything else except to figure out the parameters of the “brotherhood” in question. Is there an enforcement mechanism to ensure proper behavior? And this goes into the well trodden topic in various places of the game-within-a-game aspect that cults and brotherhoods bring to RQ/Mythras settings if properly harnessed.
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