Scott Mayne

Slowly but surely things are progressing.

Thanks for the information Simon! 

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Have you seen the counters in Wyrms footnotes and the Books of Drastic Resolutions? They have figures that might not be on your sheets.

Yes, I have some Walktapi, etc. in there. And in the Sartar section I pasted above you can see the EWF Banner added from Drastic Resolutions; the others are going in as well. I even have a rare set of counters that were made for that German convention.

Plus the unpublished Nomad Gods sheet from 1980 done in Dragon Pass style. That's the motivation for my project, doing the boardgames (counters, maps, etc.) in a unified style. Dragon Pass is obviously easy, Nomad Gods is going to be tough with all the new art needed. If anyone talks to William Church, please ask if he's available to do some art 😊

And from Raider's Digest one of my favorites, the Vampire Legion!

The background here is I'm working on a personal print & play version of DP and NG, and want to add whatever variants I can find to the countersheets.

Some progress so far.

In this White Bear & Red Moon pre-publication sheet, there are some (highlighted) units that never made it into the game as far as I'm aware.

Does anyone have any more info on them, or suggestions as to what abilities they could have? (One's obviously the Walking Fort.)

Here's some info I found in my notes: 

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Greymane, 
The Lion King

Greymane is descended from the ancient Basmoli and could roar 
like a lion in battle. But he inherited his mother's gray locks, 
for she was a daughter of the Prince of the Solanthi Vale. His 
name was inevitable after that. When the Opening brought an end to
the fortunes of the Trader Princes, Greymane was a loyal warrior 
in the service of his princely cousin. He was trusted with the
command of the Prince's troops and he did not fail his cousin. 

When the coastal Maldros revolted against the Solanthi, Greymane 
attempted to subdue them many times. He failed for the Maldros
had Caladran volcano magics and used the Pelushi Volcano to
defend their lands. The Pharaoh had given the Maldros these 
magics for he wanted to control the coast now that the seas were
open. Greymane was angered at the perfidy of one who had been a
friend. The caravans ceased to visit the Solanthi and the Prince
soon retired to Nochet where he had a villa. The Solanthi now followed 
Greymane for he was the closest heir and their best leader. He did not 
crown himself Prince however for he would not abjure Orlanth. But 
Greymane was greatly troubled that the once wealthy Solanthi had now 
become an impoverished backwater. He nursed bitter thoughts against 
the Pharaoh but was unable to take vengeance for the Maldros were 
impregnable and the hostile Ditali prevented him from raiding the 
Holy Country. 

But Greymane soon heard the Ditali were at war with the Holy 
Country. A prophet had appeared among them and demanded the
Caladrans allow the Ditali to worship at the volcanic shrines.
The Caladrans refused and the Ditali attempted to worship there 
by force. But the Pharaoh had sent his army to punish the Ditali.
They were defeated in battle, forced to cede much territory and
were left gravely weakened. Greymane saw his chance for revenge. 

Eight years ago, he mustered the Solanthi for battle. He raided
the still-broken Ditali with such severity that the chiefs there
were forced to swear oaths of friendship to the Solanthi and to
pay tribute to Greymane. In the next year, Greymane mustered the 
Solanthi and then marched to Ditalil and and gathered more 
warriors there. He stunned the Holy Country by raiding down the
Gorphing River and sacked Porthomeka. The plunder greatly
enriched the Solanthi and Greymane had had his revenge.

The Pharaoh was so shocked by Greymane's audacity that he did not 
send an army to punish the Solanthi but used them to watch the
borders of the Holy Country. But Greymane did not raid the Holy 
Country that year for he had turned his attention to the 
Nimistori and began raiding them too. Thus emboldened, the 
Pharaoh sent his army to punish the Solanthi as the Ditali
already had been.

The Army marched deep through the Ditali lands relying on their 
weakness to give the army safe passage. But Greymane was warned 
by the Ditali and rushed to meet the Pharaonic army. He prepared
an ambush which destroyed the might of the Holy County in one
single blow. This battle was known afterwards as the Lion King's
feast. As a result of the defeat, the Pharaoh disappeared never 
to be seen again.

Greymane decided to lead one last raid against the Holy Country. 
He again mustered the Solanthi and the Ditali and raided deep
into Esrolia. He even saw Nochet City. Greymane took great
plunder by avoiding decisive battle.

Lord Greymane is an old man now who rules from his favourite
wife's farm. His sons Hardral and Varstarl are both capable
leaders and magicians.

Page 203, right-hand column:

If the adventurer fumbles the withdrawal, the weapon breaks, no matter what it’s hit points were at the time.

If the adventurer fumbles the withdrawal, the weapon breaks, no matter what its hit points were at the time.

58 minutes ago, jajagappa said:

I don't remember it either.  Dragonewts - definitely left-handed.  Humans - supposed to be predominantly right-handed.  Chaos - whatever suits its purpose.

From HISTORY OF THE HEORTLING PEOPLES, pg. 42:

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c 615. OBDURAN BORN
When Obduran was bom the midwife said, "He is left
handed, we must kill him." Of course the mother protested,
but she had no say in this. But the Grandmother intervened,
and took the child and said, ''This is one in a million. I will
be the mother of a god." She raised him in the forests.

1 hour ago, Darius West said:

Seriously, does anyone know what the Mostali attitude to tapping is?  I can't find a reference to it anywhere.

I didn't find anything either. However, tapping damages matter by extracting energy, which would seem to be anathema to them - I doubt orthodox Mostali even have the knowledge of how to tap. Just because the Mostali and Malkioni both use sorcery, doesn't mean they have the same repertoire of spells.

Then again, they didn't balk when their Vadeli allies attacked the Tadeniti people, separated them into matter and energy (i.e., tapped the heck out of them), and gave the matter to the Mostali. 

On 3/1/2017 at 3:45 PM, Patrick said:

About the dreariness of land: well, don't forget that Brithini Zzaburi practice tapping. Maybe infrequently, but they live forever. And typically stay in the same lands.

There is something rotten in Brithos...

Brithos isn't the wasteland that some might think it is (far from it, actually). A while back (on an old mailing list) Greg commented about the natural energies of the island not being tapped:

"You speak of Arolanit, of course, where even the air is gray from being tapped. This never happened to Brithos..."

For one reason why, the mother of the Brithini was the land goddess Britha herself:

"The Brithini were a powerful human race from before the darkness. Their Founder was named MALKION and they are sometimes called the Malkioni. Malkion had four sons and one daughter by the goddess Britha, an earth deity."

Brithini/Zzaburi exploitation of nature took a variety of forms, not just tapping; for example:

"Zzabur, the Sorcerer Supreme, who was capable of making nature work for him, such as when he made the windmills to help heat his cities. He did this by proving to his people that Malkion had created the world for them to exploit."

I've marked up corrections in the attached PDF. I'm just noting errors not in the original Chaosium version, plus obvious mistakes. Let me know if this is useful and I'll keep going.

SPH Proofing pgs 1-18.pdf