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David Howard

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    I've been playing Chaosium games since 1st edition Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer and I haven't stopped yet.
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    RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, OpenQuest
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    Milwaukee, WI
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    Writer of fiction, dreamer of dreams.

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  1. So it looks like Modiphius Entertainment is losing the Conan RPG license. They are handing it over to Monolith. I've always thought the BRP family of games would be ideal for the Hyborian Age setting, and I can't help wishing BRP, Mythras or Legend could step into the breach! Modiphius Conan License Update
  2. Agreed! I personally don't care for Glorantha at all, and I've always created my own setting with every previous edition. Glorantha is so hardwired into RQG that the rules as written are practically useless to me.
  3. I do wish Chaosium would support Magic World better, or release an OGL for BRP so we can do it ourselves!
  4. I agree that the scenario as written has major problems. I just don't think a handful of unintended pregnancies would seem that unusual, especially since they wouldn't know for sure they were pregnant yet, as you pointed out. I changed it from pregnant women to men and women both who were ill with some undiagnosed parasite. Like the alien xenomorph that just uses humans as hosts, except that it changes you into a deep one. That way, both male & female investigators were at risk, and it avoided all the questions of real-world pregnancy. I made it a fast-working thing that either killed you or changed you in a matter of days or weeks. I changed a couple of the victims to be male, and removed the home for unwed mothers from the scenario. It was all the sanitarium, which I changed to a "Wellness Spa." The spa and town were trying to cover it up so as not to hurt the tourist trade. Dr. Gray was doing all this without the deep ones' knowledge. I also removed the jewelry since it made no sense. The deep one hybrid gang were dispatched by Deep One HQ to find out what was going on; I treated them as a rival group of investigators. We ended up with one (male) investigator infested at the end of the scenario, so we'll see what, um, develops. ... Dr. Gray was taken back for "interrogation" by the hybrids, who also set the spa on fire. My players never looked into the Lake Brethren at all.
  5. I ran Part 2, The Inheritance, for my group. I added a whole section with the investigators arriving the day before the will reading and having to stay at the Gilman House hotel, with the expected sneaking around and attempts on them by the deep ones, etc. I'm glad I did, because even with an hour or so of that, we still finished the will reading, interacting with the family, the chase, the bank, Chastity, and the getaway, all within our planned 4 hour window. Does anyone else feel like the scenario as written is a little thin? A little short?
  6. I ran "The Lightless Beacon" after "The Star Brothers" because there was a nice connection to the "alien" gold. Again, I changed the Deep Ones to aliens. The Younglings became Hopkinsville Goblins. One of the players thought to check on the generator building, so they avoided a blackout. They went to the top of the light just as I wanted them to, and the session ended with a survival-horror type shootout with the Goblins climbing up. The group survived, though, and now have even more gold coins!
  7. In The Star Brothers, with the Men In Black and Neptunian transmitter and the strange lights, I ended up changing it to aliens as morganhua did. I also changed the location to Michigan, since I know the area well. It was all very X-Files in tone. The scenario went pretty much as written. Otis ended up being taken away by the police. I found that the investigators (with the help of the bootleggers) made short work of the "Star Brothers" (Deep Ones- I didn't change their stats), since the party were all armed with shotguns and tommy guns. One of my players made this afterward. There are lots of references to the player character group.
  8. This is great news! I support this 100% and look forward to seeing it. Always a fan of Magic World!
  9. Licensed? Who is producing licensed products for MW?
  10. One method I've used is to base the creature on the game stats for the bear, condor, crocodile or giant squid, depending on which it seems closest to. Then use a Chaotic Features generation table from just about any edition of Runequest (like this one: http://runequest.org/ChaoticFeatures.htm) as an inspiration for the creature's alien powers.
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