Bill the barbarian

2 minutes ago, Martin said:

Drinking Dragonblood...thats got to lead to an exposure to the cosmic ALL and Illumination

Or at least one mother of a hangover!

First heard this when we had successfully set up the Jasper Heritage Folk Festival for the very first time way back in '85, at the Bedfrod Inn in the basement of the Baptist Church. It was led by Mr (Gordon?) Bell and the rest of us bellowed God damn them all! at the top of our voices. I can still feel the goosebumbs!

This might be one of my favourite bits of music of all time! Right up there with Ode to Joy, the Brandenburg Concertos. La Sacre Du Printemps,  Harmonium, Harmonium or Dark Side of the Moon (et al)!

Now here is a song of a type that I  could easily guarantee has been song in this temple, I could even take the truth spell of the greybeards on this,  A song of this type has bee song in The Temple. 

Granted, that temple is on Salt Street... In Pavis... and is now called by the unwashed "Gimpy's", us old grognards still hoist a few at The Temple. I swear!

https://youtu.be/UMV34CwNMY0

There are better versions, but this has the lyrics...

Cheers

2 hours ago, colinabrett said:

You mean the dolphins?

<Add major vibrato to following voice than pitch it incredibly high>

Of course not, winged quadruped. Look down, I am referring to us, the little white mice.

10 minutes ago, styopa said:

If you think RQ combat is crunchy, C&S rulebooks will blow you away.  

Yep, crunchy and chewy... we had a good GM, thank the gods!

17 minutes ago, seneschal said:

Felines may be our ultimate salvation!

The true rulers of the planet might object!

1 hour ago, Byll said:

Or maybe its at the bottom of a wardrobe upstairs.

 

Beware the lion and the witch... just saying!

24 minutes ago, g33k said:

Or -- gods forbid -- the entirety of Barley Mow.

 

Now what were those words again... ah here's my pitch pipe...

<huuuummmmm>

picture the gent at left wearing the pointy helmet shaking knees, hips and elbows right along with Zuco's boys singing...

"a Walla, walla, walla"

25 minutes ago, g33k said:

... except it might incite Barbarians to sing another verse.

 

Tell me more, tell me more

Barbarians like to  sing

Tell me more, tell me more

This could become quite a thing...

Oh oh... oh, oh, o Oohhh... all on a summer's ni—iggh—igh—ight...

On 7/8/2019 at 6:52 AM, Sean_RDP said:

, but the main issue is AB&B is getting to show off

I just noticed the moniker, AB&B.

Bad Sean, to your dungeon young monster! No more puns for you!

Cheers

32 minutes ago, g33k said:

 Or... well.  Really, we don't know.  REALLY we don't!  Unless you've had PM's with the people who React'ed, and gotten them to expand upon their clicks.  😳

Yeah, what he said.

4 hours ago, klecser said:

Now, I may have misread the situation. That is the point. As a new player, I don't understand what those reacts mean. No one has ever reacted "Sad" to an attempt to help before. I'm an experienced gamer and I've always believed that it is incumbent on experienced players to work extra hard to welcome new players.

Oh and klecser, we love ya!

Cheers

4 hours ago, klecser said:

Now, I may have misread the situation. That is the point. As a new player, I don't understand what those reacts mean. No one has ever reacted "Sad" to an attempt to help before. I'm an experienced gamer and I've always believed that it is incumbent on experienced players to work extra hard to welcome new players.

29 minutes ago, Crel said:

I encourage each group to try having trollkin in the party, at least once. It's... an experience. Our current trollkin is effectively the Issaries merchant's pet because he keeps feeding him table scraps and just barely being useful. And of course, an excellent reason for any trollkin to be partied up with human adventurers is that they won't eat him. Probably. Pluses for trollkin are Darksense and a point of AP.

 

Hilarious!

5 hours ago, Ochoa said:

You are all awful enablers. Thank you.

You are very welcome, it was the least we could do...

Quote

Chaosium fans who recognise the shared vision, the old alliance from the dawn of roleplaying, may wish to help us. We are all Uz.

—Andrew Staples, Brittannia Games

Always loved this kind of philosophy, loved it when Steve Jackson Games helped out Greg, Love it when my next door neighbour community  of St. Albert Alberta is home to my 2nd fave FRPG and its creators Ed Simbalist and Wilf Bachaus.

Cheers

2 hours ago, Valnar said:

as the versions recounted by Danny Zuco and Sandy Olsson of a summer of love ( a walla walla).

Tell me more, tell me more. 

40 minutes ago, klecser said:

So, clearly my comment above is considered "Sad" by people, and I don't understand why. I was just trying to be helpful. Why is it "Sad" to ask a designer to give insight on the design process? It's a rare privilege that we have from Chaosium designers. If you don't want me to be helpful here, I'll stop commenting.

I would not be put off by the sad comment, assume that it does not say much other than I am sad. It could be that they are sad because they have not seen an answer to your question or that you have to ask the question instead of it being clear.

In any case, don't give up yet. We do not know why you got the sad face, perhaps they will answer you here or you can ask them in a private post. In any case, I can not imagine that you are being disparaged for asking for design perspective,

11 minutes ago, Bill the barbarian said:

Speaking of placated, unless you are the nasty sort a trip to a library specializing in ancient lost relatives of Maran Gor to find another way to placate Idrema might be in order seeing as all she seems to want is blood and lots of it. That would be where I would start to build a spirit cult...

 

If not a library, I suppose a quest for the spirits who not only knew Idrema back in the day but spirits with this knowledge required,  might work seeing as we are playing at least an assistant shaman. Again, you might gain shamanhood in the time it takes to gain this knowledge.

19 minutes ago, Shiningbrow said:

But... IIRC, the Wooden Sword had to be returned to the elves to be used properly. So, there is Humakt - a cult that can be worshipped by humans, ducks, elves, and the rare troll. If Humakt gave them all a mission, they'd be forced to work together (but probably not happily). We could also argue that joining Humakt not only severs family and cult ties, but also racial.

 

Good call.

33 minutes ago, Hzark10 said:

Another question somewhat related.  How would you handle if the Assistant Shaman wanted to start a Spirit Cult with Idrema?  Would he have to wait until he was a full shaman?

I would guess the prospective shaman might want to gain some more power, defences and knowledge first. Whether this means becoming a shaman or not is for your table to decide I would think but... my two bolgs...

The force known as Idrema is not a friend or patron merely a goddess without all the power, and worshipers that go with the title. Worse, while no god thinks of its little playthings as more that servants, this one is not removed from, your presence by time. She can hurt you directly. Getting one's power and defences increased might help with surviving  the first attempts at worship. This one also seems to be damaged or perhaps was never totally sentient. SO finding out whether or not she has enough thought to be useful for worship might not be a bad idea, plus finding out what powers she might have had and can be quested for, as well as what she still has... as well as problems she could cause (beyond the obvious) and how she can be placated.

Speaking of placated, unless you are the nasty sort a trip to a library specializing in ancient lost relatives of Maran Gor to find another way to placate Idrema might be in order seeing as all she seems to want is blood and lots of it. That would be where I would start to build a spirit cult...

Cheers

11 minutes ago, Joerg said:

That carries a lot of cultural differences. For me, Tango music will be indeletably linked to Scandinavia and Finland rather than Argentina since my stays there. Peruvian reed-flutists and players of guitars of all sizes (could be replaced by russian balalaikas of all sizes) are part of the German pedestrian zone experience, and German medieval reenactment music like Corvus Corax has been co-opted by the Dark Eye community among German roleplayers (ugh).

 

I was going to mention how all over baroque and medieval music the d&d crew are. Forget Gregorian chants and the Medieval Babes.

3 minutes ago, PhilHibbs said:

You're right, attacks on the same SR are supposed to be in DEX order, or simultaneous if both have the same DEX. Since it's quite ok to resolve them simultaneously, though, I just skip the DEX thing and go straight to simultaneous on the SR. It's quicker and easier, and leads to more frequent interesting outcomes.

Thanks Phil, glasses aint worth a damn these days. 

And needless to say, but allow me to say it anyway, you are correct g33k.

Cheers

2 minutes ago, Joerg said:

A bit like the cooking book project by Claudia Loroff. Purest geekery, though.

 

Entirely, but having seen what can be done with music, number and religions (Bach and St Mathew's Passion or Jesu Joy of Man's desire come to mind). In any case I would love to hear the concept when finished Joerg. Let me know.

Cheers

On 7/7/2019 at 10:58 AM, albinoboo said:

I often play music in the to add flavor to my games. In the case or temples or religious ceremonies, I have used the followings

In no way do I claim that these are canon, or even lore lawyers proof but I just use them to add atmosphere. I have never found anything that I felt that fitted with the Lunar pantheon, anyone got any suggestions.   

Truly apologizing for the geekery. 

Sorry

10 minutes ago, Joerg said:

IMO Sacre du Printemps is the perfect accompanyment for the Wild Temple rites. No Chaos required, only raw Creation powers of Arachne Solara (and perhaps some digestive problems after giving birth to Time).

Okay, that would not only work but would fit into the temple theme of the topic!

https://youtu.be/GwcUSshWhlw