Bill the barbarian

Any problems with the above?

Hijacking, this thread with the intent to stay on topic, (is that allowed?). Summer game opportunity. I will be looking for 2 to 4 players (newcomers, please as I am running old classic games) for a possible 6 week session. One or two games with a one episode zero to meet and decide which direction we want our one/two shot game to go. I intend to use pregens from the RQ RiG book seeing as it is such a chore to roll new ones and we are only playing one or two scenarios. Also still desperately (now closing in on one year, curse that unnamed GM who turned me down thrice without a reason) looking for a game of Six Seasons in Sartar to play in.

Agreed to both the previous thoughts with this caveat, my complaint was more to do with the feel of PhilHibbs comment in general not this one specifically. In my game I allowed this chicanery, dare I say munchkinnery, even though I disliked the feel of it. And as Rodney said, I have warned my party to expect to reap as they sew... in general. Overall, I have been avoiding this thread (thanks for the spoilers, A5), but I saw a portion of Phil’s comment and liked it!

Without a timezone (GMT +/- is the easiest) those numbers mean little on BRP, good sir.

As a matter of fact I will be looking for 2 to 4 players (newcomers, please as I am running old classic games) for a 6 week session. One or two games with one episode zero to meet and decide which direction we want our one/two shot game to go. I intend to use pregens from the RQ RiG book seeing as it is such a chore to roll new ones and we are only playing one or two scenarios.

Thank you ever so kindly for saying so, I have been carping for my entire time in BRP on that subject!

Glad it worked for you!

Haha, yes I did. And did not know it was an easter egg or what an easter egg was in the 80s! I had quite forgotten that Gahan Wilson had a hand in it.

A possibility I had not postulated!

Darkness, Water or Sun or Earth are the only choices pre-Umath. Unless one could: a/ breath aether, or b/ not breath at all!

No worries, i am lucky enough to have PDFs and hard copy of both. The original is still holding together in a very nice faux leather 3-ring binder, spine long gone, while the Rick Meintz led remake is what got me back into RQ. I was gifted with the G2G hardcovers, RQ 6 and the Griffen Mountain remake back in ‘16. Sweet!

So you think that AS will bring the necessary demonology to make Constantine’s LimbQuest a possibility for home use? Not having the BGB, something I will have to resolve, I could get Magic World and Advanced Sorcery. MW is a prerequisite for AS isn’t it?

You know, thinking on that point, with his curiosity about the little folk a player or puppeteer troop should make a killing at the Castle!

Page 210 of Griffin Mountain by Moon Design, pages 183-184 of the classic Griffin Mountain by Chaosium

To trade: magic Items, lot’s o’ them. But cheap, no way. Useful, well that depends on the use. Odd items found no where else that can only be bought by small nations, nobles of means, very rich adventurers, odd monsters, information. Trade for: large trees or large milled lumber, food in large quantities—think herds, Bushels upon bushels of vegetation etc. Rolls of linen/leather/cloth/ and large furs, large metal tools and household implements. Odd items found no where else that can only be bought by small nations, nobles of means, very rich adventurers. Being a famous site for Trollball, one could assume merch! Odd monsters, information, goods for an inn. Metals, gems and jewels—magical or mundane.

Just finished watching Constantine with Keanu Reeves <whoa>. And as bad as one might think it could be... my first 10 minutes looking at Keanu Reeves' Honolulu good looks and black hair had me thinking. ‘this is as poorly cast as Interview with a Scientologist... Vampire!'’ Thankfully, I was wrong and it was not John Wicks vs the Devil. Soon after getting into the groove of a back haired John Constantine, that I kept expecting to take out hordes of demons with a HB #2 pencil, I relaxed and started thinking this is ready to be BRPed! I mean if Great Cthulhu could be brought down to BRP level, surely the world is ready for John Constantine’s LimbQuest? Anyone else thinking so?

Ooh, I love me some A.A. Milne... Let’s see... “...took the loaded pistol, from the glove compartment...” Now wait a gol’darn second <squints suspiciously>. Something very fishy is goin’ on ‘round here! 🤨

Ooh, and my book finally arrived. Thanks TDM, looks great!

And while doing so, inventing golf (hold on, I hate golf)... Down with hobbits! Garcon, more sprinkles for that man’s steak! He looks unhappy, oh and an extra order of Ding Dongs, as well...

Still love me my hobbits, sorry svensson. While you say you hate hobbits, what you are complaining about is DnD and halflings! and this is bad?

Thanks for putting my feelings on the matter into words, simonh! Oh, bother! Yep

Found a couple of freebies for Himiko and Fehérlófia, but could not find a full movie for Freak Orlando. These two are odd, but they are travel to the “other world” so should be. Thanks Eff, I will be watching these in the next couple of days! himiko movie 1974 A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk. Fehérlófia/Son of the White Mare (1981) One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, SON OF THE WHITE MARE is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-seven dragons in its roots; to combat these monsters, a dazzling white mare goddess gives birth to three heroes - Treeshaker and his brothers - who embark on an epic journey to save the universe. Directed by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (famed for his 1974 Oscar-nominated short Sisyphus), Son of the White Mare has been restored in 4K using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian National Film Institute - Film Archive. https://archive.org/details/son-of-the-white-mare-feherlofia-1981-hungarian-film-english-sub-k-vzkl-4-b-9slvf

Work with your GM and/or your table so that you have more minds that know your campaigns needs, compare what you want to achieve to what you will pay in (remember your responsibilities/debts/expenses/SoL/tithes/taxes/costs of research tools/costs of training* etc.). But me anyways, I would go to the maximum of 1 experience tick to 1 training/research roll, (this is a HR and one I am experimenting with now), what ever I come up with is unlikely to suit your table to a tee, and for that matter my table in every circumstance... flexibility/common sense will be good ) and there is a possible minimum of 4 experience ticks to 1 training/research roll. there's your outliers, what do you (and those you play with) think it should be? Ah, and another limiting thought comes to mind, would one be able to find 5 different professional trainers in any given season who would train you? Again, discuss with those you play with, and get a variety of opinions to work with. *If your rewards are as small as they should be in RQ G the cost of training should be prohibitive and should keep your wanting to trade one experience tick for one down training/Research tick to a dull roar... 5 professional skills would cost 450 lunars per season. Even common would cost, 150/season...OUCH! Looks a little easier (and cheaper) to just stay with my original thinking upthread. Just one training/research roll with all the other ticks of a student/adventurer. Hmm, well those 4 experience ticks for our s/a will have to cost something but it should only be a fraction of the following. This is not a home rule I am currently using, but it is becoming close too good enough to be a HR for the future.

There’s a spell for that!

Propaganda!