d(sqrt(-1))

If you don't mind a bit of plagiarism try stealing Sárku from Tékumel: http://www.tekumel.com/world_gods10.html

On Tekumel he is a major deity and accepted as part of normal life...he can also create zombies and jagji, who are undead that are practically indistinguishable from the living...

Mine turned up today too, Oxfordshire UK.

1 hour ago, Pentallion said:

Do you have a date on when you'll be ready to give out dates?

Better yet, can you define when "not before" is, perhaps with dates?  Such as "We will give out the date when we are ready and not before (date)?"

Yeah, you tell 'im!

I'd like to know 'cos I have a voucher that expires at end Oct, so I'd like to know if I should spend it now or wait for more stuff to come out...

14 hours ago, MOB said:

That shipping price for UK is correct.

We hate the high costs of shipping, we make no money from it, and we are always looking for the best options. We have invested a lot of time and money setting up three fulfilment warehouses that decently cover about 85% of our main customers, something that was not easy for a company our size. Please bear in the mind compared to the Royal Mail price quoted, we have to include processing the order, picking and packing via the fulfillment company, a suitably robust shipping box, packing material etc. All expenses that are factored into the shipping cost beyond just the price of postage.

 

Dustin replied to my query to let me know it was correct too - thanks.

Do we have a date for the GoG pdf? Sometime after the GM's book I guess (do we have a date for that too?)

In this post:

MOB suggests that the odd P&P that Finnish/Swedish backers are getting is due to postcodes not being formatted with a space in the right place(!) I just checked my (UK) order and it too does not have a space in the postcode - does that also mean that my address is being interpreted as in the US (even though the country field says UK)?

3 hours ago, MOB said:

Trying putting a space between the first three digits and the last two in the Swedish postcode. If that still doesn't work, contact Dustin  - customerservice@chaosium.com.

I don't wish to state the bleeding obvious, but couldn't it actually look at the "Country" field to work out where the customer is? It seems daft to me if you have to format your postcode in a specific (non-obvious) way.

If it's a few £ different no problem, but my worry might be that if it does physically come from the US, surface, it could take weeks, also (as Soccercalle says) possibly hit by customs, VAT and the ripoff charge for being charged (although books don't normally get hit you never know) 

My partner works in a PO, I'll ask her what she thinks... 

1 hour ago, Soccercalle said:

Hi,

I made an order for the Leatherette version of RQG with a coupon (I boyght the PDF). I now realize that I was charged for postage from US instead of from the UK. Strange as I am a returning client and used my regular address. 

 

I want it sent from UK so that I dont need to pay tax and tariffs. I guess that postage is much cheaper from UK as well. Postage from the US is also quite slow.

 

How is this fixed?

 

I ordered yesterday and thought the P&P was bit expensive - I'm wondering if the same has happened to me, shipping was £9.76. Looking here: https://www.royalmail.com/personal/sending-parcels/ I would expect it to be about half that.

I've sent a query to customer service. Order 158579.

22 minutes ago, Grievous said:

I have a hard time believing this. I mean, what kind of Orwellian working place is this? And that any place would bother going through and listing the unsuitable pages is straight outta some totalitarian cartoon.

Sure, I can see they might not want you reading at work (not even at lunchtime?) but if they try telling you what you can and can't read when it's obviously not porn - hmmmmm. Also, presumably the people going through it were also being paid for their time doing that over 449 pages and being irrevocably corrupted in the process?

As I say, I'd be tempted to take in a big art book of classical nudes to read, or maybe the office could do with a nice renaissance piece of art like this to appreciate http://www.mheu.org/en/timeline/gabrielle-estrees.htm

4 hours ago, Mechashef said:

Ok, so some background.

I posted this after getting to work today and finding an email stating that I had to answer a claim of reading pornography at work.  I.e. I had been reported because of the content of the RQG PDF.  

After going through mediation and checking each page it was decided not to take it further as the material was considered borderline.  The agreement was that an official complaint would not be made if I agreed not to read it at work again.

Ironically the page the person complained about wasn't one of the "worst offenders"

For the record, it was decided that the unsuitable pages were:

12, 22, 51, 83, 99, 268, 272, 289, 302, 364, 424.

I later heard the person has a long history of making similar complaints.

 

 

 

I'd be tempted to take into work a book on classical art and read that instead...

Although, given what happened to you at work I can't quite square that with the OP. You were told off for reading something deemed unsuitable for YOU to read at work, and then posted here that the art needs to change? It sounds like you are doing the person attempting to censor you's work for them...

I bought the PDF of the main rule book, but looking back I don't seem have received a coupon code - where would I find it? Or have they not been issued yet?

3 hours ago, womble said:

Classes and levels are, at the very best, 'training wheels', and, at the worst, dreadful straitjackets that the rest of the rule system's development expends (wastes) 90% of its time trying to undo. Witness: the core concept of the 'prestige class'; the progressive liberalisation of multi-classng rules as official versions are released; the ongoing proliferation of classes each more niche than the next.

I haven't actually played 5e, but having read the rules I think there are a few developments that look welcome, maybe even nearly 'inspired' and a whole swath of changes that are, for me, definite turn-offs, compared to 3.5e. It seems to have taken half a step back towards 2nd, which for me, is a backward and unwelcome step.

Oh no - after 42 years of role-playing I'm still on training wheels! Farewell cruel world...

8 hours ago, Mugen said:

What I'm saying here is that if you have a character with attribute 8 and not proficient and another with attribute 20, proficient and level 20, one has 20% chance to succeed at a DC 15 task and the second has 85% chance to succeed at the same task. That does not make a big difference considering one is Mr Nobody, and the other is at the pinnacle of human capabilities in a fantasy world.

Yes, imagine how bad it would be if one always succeeded 5% of the time and failed regardless of skill 5% of the time - the horror!

8 hours ago, simonh said:

If your careless with the sword, or get into situations where it risks getting damaged or destroyed, that's not anyone taking it away.

Well I was talking about the GM taking it away, not an in-game reason/NPC etc. If someone has put points/effort into something then I'm going to make sure they can get it back or quest for a new one.

17 hours ago, jajagappa said:

Why?  That's the stuff of stories and legends!  The Eurmali trickster shatters your famed sword Trollbane, but you know Humakt blessed you to carry it into the heart of the Black Dragon Mountain so you could confront the great darkness there.  You consult the sages of Jonstown, but their only answers are to seek out the Seers of Enervi in distant Esrolia.  But you know Humakt has set this task to you, so you gather companions to journey there and learn what you can.  The price of the seers is high, but you learn that Trollbane can be reforged in the Fires of Heaven, Gustbran's birthplace, a place that darkness cannot touch.  It is a journey into the Sky World and the way is shrouded, but your quest is clear...

Yes that's exactly what I would do too - let them do something to get it back.

17 hours ago, simonh said:

Nobody's talking about taking it away from anyone.

So what does

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One it's gone, that's it. Better be careful with that sword.

and

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What I have told my Humakti is - DON'T LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO THAT SWORD and hinted that it is part of the adventurer's connection to Humakt or even part of the adventurer's soul

mean then? Sorry I'm confused now.

From a game point of view, if the player has made the commitment and taken the geas, it seems a bit crappy to then take the sword away from them but leave them with the geas.  

If the sword is part of the geas to Humakt then if it is destroyed I could see the PC having to go back to a temple for a ritual to consecrate(?) a new one, like getting an allied spirit etc. After all they have taken the geas as part of the deal and Humakt would honour that, surely. Of course they might have to go without it for a while until they can get to a (large?) temple...

Does the damage double twice? I could see that it might be that the damage is only(!) tripled i.e. the base damage is basically added on for each doubling. 

3 hours ago, Roko Joko said:

First you roll to hit, and your opponent can try to parry, but if you hit you then roll damage and hit location and subtract armor.

Anything I haven't known for 40 years?

TBH I can't be bothered to watch something 3 hours long - any summaries?

Hm if Oct/Nov that's annoying, as it means if I want to use my coupon I basically want to wait for all the pdfs to come out before I use it - which means I can't buy them until near the end of Sept...oh well I guess it's only about 10 weeks or so...

I have a coupon code from the Miskatonic University KS that is valid until end Sept. Do we know if the hard copies will be up for (pre) purchase at that time?

6 hours ago, jeffjerwin said:

De, Ve, and Is seem like mystic entities (they sound even a little Draconic).

I assumed it was because they are De-Ve-Is!