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I'd use the same as a small Cog, sp 15 officers and sailors. After all, they were used for transporting between England and Flanders/Low Country, so they were sea-going and should have am appropriate crew.

Thanks Simon.

I never did get The Yule Cat to download.

Good job too. The Yule Cat was well nigh unbeatable!

Does anyone know of a UK shop that has actual books of this supplement to sell?

I know of three game shops and none of them stock that book. If it was published in book form, in the UK, they would have it.

Will there be any new scenarios for Mythic Iceland published in the next year?

In Merrie England the number of crew for a Hulk is missing, and isn't in the errata, can someone please furnish me with that information.

Wolves kill with their jaws. Horses don't.

Commands that are suicidal, such as being told to stand still while being hacked to death, get an Idea roll that is Easy. If it is made, and the roll is a special or critical, then the target has broken free from the spell. Thats what I get from reading the description on page 96, second paragraph.

Besides the point Simon made about RQ and BRP having to cover a greater range of real world periods, you really shouldn't ever try to make claims about Stormbringer armour. Its a game based on pure fantasy, created by a drug-addled, idea purloining author, and is subject to no more reality than its own need for a dramatic story!

LOL! What did Moorcock to do you Pete? Sleep with your wife? Shit on your carpet? Rape your dog? Why the rant at Mike Moorcock when it is the Chaosium staff that created the rules for armour, and gamesystem, for Stormbringer RPG, not Moorcock.

Other than not making Elric pretty enoug and making him seem too skinny, I agree that Brunner's art is quality composition. The Stormbringer! boxed set is one of the first RPGs I was given.

To digress from the main subject of this thread...do you like Elric as portrayed in this french graphic novel, Le Trone de Rubis?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=le+trone+de+rubis&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1Q3IUt7tGIK3hQfWpoCwDg&ved=0CFEQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=896

My favourite incarnation of the EC stuff is Elric! RPG which made me fall in love with the game system.

"Go for straight BGB BRP, all the worlds of the Multiverse are already there!" Unfortunately Moorcock had a big fallout with Chaosium a long while back, so you are unlikely to see a BGB BRP supplement for the YK setting anytime soon.

http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?p=237034

Before the event occurs let me wish you all a happy and prosperous new year, if you celebrate it. And let me ask what games you're hoping to play in that new year?

Dr. Antonio Nikola -- Mad scientist with an occult bend, Nikola's goal was to live forever. He was totally amoral and ruthless in his quest. A small dark-haired man with hypnotic eyes, impeccable suit, and baleful black cat always perched on his shoulder, Nikola was a sort of Caucasian Fu Manchu (although he came first).

"Totally amoral"? I say sir he was, at times a real bounder but, sir, he had a soft spot under that amoral appearance. "He is charming and genial in person, with obviously great intelligence, and despite his world-conquering aims (his exact goals are never clearly defined, and his goal at the end of his first book is to get the token of a medieval Chinese executioner--a small black walking stick. With this he plans to rule the world. Somehow) is relatively reluctant to kill, sparing Hatteras a number of times. When he kidnaps Hatteras' fiancée he acts as a perfect gentleman towards her, and at the end of the first novel, when Hatteras marries his simpering, milquetoasty bride, Nikola sends them a collet of diamonds with a note reading "With heartiest congratulations and best wishes to Lady Hatteras, in memory of an unfortunate detention and a voyage to the Southern Seas, From her sincere admirer, Dr. Nikola." http://www.reocities.com/jessnevins/vicd.html

There were also some psionics rules for Elric!/Stormbringer 5th edition. http://www.oocities.org/area51/chamber/5004/digest/80.htm

the Hands of Fate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Manos%22_The_Hands_of_Fate

Does anyone recognise that the reference to the Dropa race in Dragon Lines (page 93) goes back to long debunked hoax? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropa_stones And did anyone catch the reference to a place called Battuta in Atlas of the Young Kingdoms (page 106) which is the name of the Muslim explorer Ibn Battuta? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta I'm just wondering what other obscure references I've missed in various other BRP supplements? Do any of you have any?

Cheers.

Is a dead tree version available in the UK. I tried to find it on Amazon UK but it isn't available, and I don't want it as a pdf.

Hi! scribe here. i looked at the thread, saw "witch" and "sensitive" as well, both good terms...

"Witch" and "sensitive" may be good terms, but Leon specifically wanted terms that sounded scientific.

I want something scientific sounding so some (vaguely) plausible prefix + suffix kind of term.

Psychons?

Not sure how familiar people are with Buddhism and Hinduism and as Lovecraft himself got a lot of ideas from the latter - Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth and Nyarlathotep being three prime examples. Plus nowadays with a lot of information only being a click away I'd thought I would share this.

Buddhist cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brahman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It would be quite easy to incorporate all of the above. Hope this helps anyone and gives you all lots of ideas.

Secrets of Japan has a lot of stuff on integrating buddhism with the mythos. Chaosium Inc. - Pages

Greetings,

I've never actually seen this book so I have to ask:

1. What was the Gateway Bestiary? A supplement for Runequest?

2. As it doesn't seem to be in print, could I use the pdfs of "All the World's Monsters" from Chaosium's site to use as more creatures in the game instead?

1. Yes the GB was a supplement for RQ. Some of the monster stats are more readily available elsewhere, and have been updated, if you're interested, there is a list of the creatures in the book here: The Gateway Bestiary - Acaeum

2. All the World's Monsters has conversion notes for RQ but aren't in normal BRP stats. You would probably be better off buying more modern supplements either for RQ or BRP.

I remember having that issue. The DM at the time used it for a city thieving campaign. My character got extremely drunk at the annual winding ceremony for the clockwork barges and had most of his kit pinched. Happy days.

The wind up barge engines would make the background useable with Victorian steampunk too.

Given that I wasn't particularly impressed by Stormbringer and its extended family (I like Hit Locations, prefer RQ-Style combat/skills, am not keen on Stormbringer's Demon rules) and the fact that the Magic World PDF costs more than the paperback and PDF of Legend combined, if I bought the PDF of Magic World, would it really annoy me?

I don't want to say anything bad against Magic World, in fact a reskinning of BRP without the options and in a coherent form is good, and by all accounts it is an excellent job. However, if I bought it and it just seemed like another version of Stormbringer, then I wouldn't be very pleased at all.

So, should I buy it?

Yes you should buy it. Then you can post on this site whining about how much you hate it. Then I can mercilessly mock you for being a whining prat. But at least you'll have supported Chaosium by buying a copy of Magic World, so don't feel so bad about the mockery, since you'll be on the moral high ground.

By the way, saying yes just to annoy me would be a legitimate reply - please say what you are doing if that is the case.

Do you really need me to tell you that I'm doing this? Are you really so dense that you can't tell what a sarcastic reply is?

Consensus would have us all playing D&D. Or, a wider form, not playing any RPG at all. In fact that would probably be best for... Public Safety. No telling what dangerous subversive ideas might occur to the citizens otherwise. You are quite right to brutally crush any dissent, Comrade Middleton.

Quite right comrade. If you don't like a rule in your game, then you have every right to change it. Just don't expect everyone to agree with your opinion though.

So, explaining the terms I used; explaining the original rules contexts of the specific rules we are discussing (including highlighting some subtle features you appeared to have missed); pointing out the work that had gone into developing these rules; querying the exact criteria the change you were proposing is supposed to satisfy; explaining that I believe there is a large body of evidence supporting the assertion that division is more "difficult" than subtraction... This is "crushing dissent" is it?

People disagreeing with you is not "crushing dissent", nor is suggesting that revising rules needs a somewhat more robust and quantified criteria than "frogspawner thinks it should be different".

Cheers,

Nick

Just watch your back dissident Frogspawner. Nickolai Middletonivitch will probably be sending his secret police out to get you. If you're not careful its the BRP Gulag for you!