Romerac Elerion

patience is a virtue!

An overrated one at best.

And if you have been following the tweets, it is out in the merry merry month of May!

May in the year 2098?

Chaosium have annouced that they are publishing Enlightened Magic, a Western Tradition Sorcery & Alchemy Sourcebook for Basic Roleplaying. Enlightened Magic combined with the newest, long awaited, edition Cthulhu by Gaslight looks like it would make for a great Victorian occult game. I get tired of the Cthulhu mythos being the only "occult" background for BRP and would like to see more. Nephilim didn't work for me as there wasn't an option to play the nephilim as the bad guys. Maybe Enlightened Magic will kickstart a small diversion from the path of the Cthulhu mythos?

The Hidden People (Elves) are statted and have a whole chapter in the book. Thing is, they are different from all Elves of a Fantasy setting I know and are in my opinion more believable if a GM would use them.

Oh, so its not just a reference to them after all. Good. So there is plenty of stuff (a whole chapter, as you write) to do with elves, or as they were known to the Norse, the Alfar.

I think it is not fair of you speaking bad of a book you have not even read. I can see where Tolkin might got his ideas from (sagas of Iceland), but this does not mean you have Elves running over the place all time.

I know the difference between full on Tolkienistic fantasy and a more historical, more realistic fantasy, with the fantasy elements a lot less full on. I never wrote that "you have elves running over the place (sic) all time." That is your misconception.

You were the one that misled me into thinking that there were no stats for the Alfar when you wrote this...

No, you find references to them (hidden folk)

When in fact there is an entire chapter on them, according to you, with yummy yummy stats.

Also, when read the book, you get an extremely well researched impression about Iceland, its history, its people, community, sagas and Islandic life..

Thats what I am looking for. Thanks for elaborating on the contents of the book. I will definately buy if it ever appears in book form.

No, you find references to them (hidden folk) but it is all optional.

Any supplement that has the term "Mythic" in its title and deals with an Icelandic/Norse setting had better have the original concepts of elves and dwarves, Alfar and Dvergar, mentioned in it; otherwise it isn't doing its job. If there are no stats for them I'm glad that I bought MRQII Vikings, which does more than reference them, and the mythic elements in that setting are also optional.

Even then, they are absolutely different from Tolkin creatures.

They are very different from the original Norse concepts. Gimli would be a statue if he went about in daylight if he was more like the Norse Dvergar, and Alfar can be more like spirits at times than physical creatures.

Mythic Iceland is a very nice setting. Finally a bit of Fantasy without Dwarfs and Elves. I really hate people connect Fantasy with "Lord of the Rings" all the time.

I think you'll find plenty of elves and dwarfs in Mythic Iceland. The original concepts from which Tolkien derived his fantasy folk.

I emailed Dustin about this last week, and at that point he didn't know. Since then, a notice on the Chaosium site states that Mythic Iceland has headed off to the printers.

SDLeary

Ég er svo leiðist.... Its taking an eternity.

Wondering when Mythic Iceland is out in paper form?

ack !, thanks what I get for being impatient . . . at least 8 weeks isn't too much longer ;-)

8 weeks is an eternity:_(

Does this get some kind of award for the longest time for a supplement to get published?

Welcome Romerac Elerion!

Thanks for the welcome Trifletraxor.

Very imaginative 1d8+DB.

I suspect that those ratings were meant to address Elric's ability to handle himself in the middle of a gigantic mess of warriors, such as the Kelmain Host, attacking and parrying multiple times a round and wiping out dozens, if not hundreds of foes, single-handedly.

Giving him a ludicrously-high weapon skill is one way to handle it... it's not necessarily the way I would have done so, but it does emphasize his quality of deus ex machina.

How would you have handled this problem/design quirk?

That's just because I'm too young to be an Urvile.

And too nice to be evil;)

Hello. I just got here from Facebook via Vile Traveller's wall ( I think he is known as just Vile around here).

1d8+DB, will you write the next CoFE supplement please?