Bill the barbarian

Here's a real world brain twister for y'all. What is an inhabitant of Halifax called?

Oh mein gotts, are you suggesting: * * * Trump vs Delecti in 2020!

Not sure about that one, the adventure I was referring to under the spoiler is great for atmosphere and details daughters of darkness, and a bit about the trees and some on the denizens of the area as well as a myth. Sounds like you got a good bit more than just the gist of the swamp in any case. Cheers

Let's make that three, it might make this area a bit less tomblike. Of course that might not please all the denizens of these tombs. @Trifletraxor

It seemed to obvious to mention but i have not seen anyone mentioning

Aw d()()d, you broke the 'net, man!

Check the box for a spoiler about Dorastor: Land Of Doom"

Ah, an answer. I got so lonely in here and the echo fro my voice bouncing off the far walls, the sound of the crickets, it drove me mad, mad, mad I tell you, mad... er, hmm, ahem <cough> Sorry I was away and was quite busy you see... I wrote 3 modules and a play complete with an operetta and then thought, damn, did I once upon a time have a post here, I should check upon it and see. if some kindly soul deemed me worthy of a response <grin> duck Ah hell it's only you g33k, what a waste. (truly kidding, thanks for answering g33k) I think I said I was happy to run those modules or at least implied it. Heck will run a great RQ 3 MOB adventure with mello yello as one of the pregens, can't recall the name. but I have it somewhere. Hmm, so did your summon spell for todd work? Todd? What du you say about the future? And understanding the new Chaosium I will not ask when. Now it seems to me like I have answered your third query first. Bad barbarian! No, these days I answer to a different whip's crack, summer time, the rock shows are coming through town and I am busy, plus shows that I travel to work or run.. gaming stalled, my 1000 page rogue galley of all references to all npc that I have modules for is stalled at 500 pages (only ⅓ edited to my satisfaction), my Torkani Campaign handbook is stalled at 169 pages and must become many fewer plus a players book must be calved off from the result... and I am almost finished my incorporated character generation pdf at 100 pages. I might have to release that but at the moment contains much copy-written art (for personal use only hell for that matter I guess the entire text is copywriten I might never be able to share it ). so cutting out the art would move the text and add a bit of time/could be a bit of work. I have a wedding to plan, a bride to kill and an enemy state to pin it on. I really am swamped. And you know what they say about one's health... cheers

I wonder, has anyone asked if you could turn that amazing pen of yours to Sartarite tattoos? As it has come up a few times, I am sure much more that a Orlanthi All would be incredible happy to see them. Being small they could be wonderful corner fillers, chapter headers, footnotes or page headers for layout and design purposes.. Cheers

Can someone tell me how to link a thread across forums in a quote like this?

We are all uz, trollki... munchkins... egregiously!

Ooo, gold-leaf! Spiffy dahlink!

As an exercise in naval gazing... ducks

Merci!

Je parle plus Quebecois, mais je veux essayez ton ouvre, mon vieux, merci. I would like to give that a try. Where did you say you say it was stashed?

Holy crap, MOB. that is one serious review! I don't know whether to use my RQ G books to game or whether I should bronze them and put them in a place of honour on my trophy shelf.

Very true, have them roll on the old occupation chart and have a majority be from the cottar and carl classes. There is no reason to give the 600 or so skill percentages that RQ G gives in chargen, use the skills as given and half with rounding for about 300 skill percentages much close to the usual 240 points that RQ 3 gave on average), Abandon all those d&d like stat rolling techniques and go back to the tried and true RQ 3, 3D6 and 2D6+6, keep stats as rolled style. Almost all characteristics can be elevated to creature max anyway for all intents and purposes in between adventure upkeep. Keep the plus 3 add to chaacteristics if total stats add up to less than 92 and the 3 point adds for rune affinities. It is kind of like RQ 3 And for the truly brave, roll 3D6 seven times place stats where they fall and add no skills pf background, except passions and runes. Voila RQ 1 and 2 (kinda) minus optional previous experience. Good luck! Cheers

Yeah, you described my problem exactly, I have a solution that might be unique to my current situation. I am have a problem getting a large game and all my players fro decads ago have moved, moved on or... but that has always been the problem here in the north. People do play the more common BRP games but not a lot. D&D is king here with the niches filled with many many many different game (anyone remember Paranoia, Shadowrun... Bunny and Burrows?). I am running two people playing 5 characters (one NPC played by me and two characters per player). Really not enough but running RQ 3 games allows me to place the party at a qualitative advantage if not numeric. The players are aware of the deadliness of combat even with qualitative advantages so they tend to role play anyway. They have half made t through GreenBrass in two sessions without combat and lots of roleplaying. I am running in 1611 ST so there is less given as bonuses in chargen at this point and the gravity of the situation is less heroic and more zero (ic).... Overall, if I am not being overly generous it seems to play well enough and I bet I have close to a dozen sandboxes ready to play. I use the stats as written and hand wave passions and runes... Cheers

Yep, can I play... I want to be a rich duck!

Too good! I'm not unsure that this doesn't belong in Egregious Munchkinnery, but here will do fine if just to prove you have a bit of the munchkin to ya... Cheers and a no-prize!

See, I told you he plays differently. He often makes sense :)

soltakss plays differently than many of us, I bet he is the reason for the expression YGMV... I admire him for that! Cheers

No worries, I assumed you were on about geases—period. I will defer to the words of Jeff and what he has said here and in the rules first (canonical, simplifying my worries {truly, why worry about entertainment}) and my own beliefs so well stated by PhilHibbs a post or two back. Work with your friends to reach agreement. Why lose friends over minutiae. Ah the meat of your treatise. Sometimes minutiae matters... Man, if I was smart I would let the real grognards deal with this, and set[ back (so who's smart) Still, there are many here so much smarter here than I, so weight this accordingly. Onwards! We know the gods do not work we'll with time. so to your first point... When? the god's can not know before you break the geas (time and the great compromise and all that).So news of the transgression would have to travel at (let's call it) the speed of sin. How fast does news of sin travel to the deity. The gods are not omnipotent, so I would imagine that it could not be instantaneously transmitted (unless there is something in the mythos that would explain this, like incredibly great speed or... So the sin is transmitted by agents, perhaps? Wind carry news of deeds to Orlanth. cats travelling night and day to bring word to Yinkin. shadows drifting eerily quiet on their way to where the shadows dance and were lies the Castle of Lead to bring word to the Mother of Darkness... Okay, if this is right. possibly sometime after the sin comes the other shoe dropping and your doom falling upon you. The god or goddess's grace and luck are now removed (Hmm how?) There is a permeant linkage after the initial sacrifice of a point of POW but how much attention is the deity investing into the link? Enough to hear a DI, sometimes, and power spells if all circumstances are correct, but that is about it, usually. Hmm is it a spirit tagging along, or just rumours drifting up or down to be received of not depending on whether the god or goddess would be paying attention or not that whispers of your sin. Assuming deities would use the simplest solution available (barring myths that must be satisfied first) it might be the many spirits that interact very close to the transgressor at all times in his travels in daily activities. or the cult animals that might be around a good religions stead that the the word to the deity or.... In Glorantha many rituals and teachings are about the separation of the dead from the living. since death came into the world. There does seem to be something that lives like you (to a degree) after death, with your beliefs and seeming as well. Let's say soul or perhaps POW. I would imagine tis is what the deity is interested in dealing with. Anyway that would be my views on those questions, I have answered all as best I can (and possibly incorrectly, but) nah, I got silly questions, just try me. Cheers

Despite what you think it should be, alas, it is something different. Argue if you will, it doesn't change facts. A geas in the real world (well, so to speak) is often unfair. Period. There are story after story of folks breaking geases and suffering for it, not story after story of people praying to gods to let them go this time and they promise to never do it again and the gods realizing what curs and boors they have been and how they realize they were wrong and their worshippers were right. And yeah, Humakt would know if the devotee was unfaithful. Cheers

In true tragic fashion a broken geas would not have to be known. *not even aware* to bring down grief on our hapless hero or heroine, Now Phil is making some great points about keeping ones friends versus keeping canon with the rules...vary to taste! Cheers