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I have this scene envisioned for a RPG. Pretty railroad-y, to make it work. Historical (-ish... alt-history would work) Dark Ages. Players are doing <something, not sure, doesn't matter> on the fringes of a war zone. They're outside their home territory; language skills are ... adequate, but barely. They're captured by one side (q.v. "railroad") the soldiers suspect them of being agents for the other side (they aren't). There's some debate about killing them out of hand, but finallly they decide the PC's should be taken to "Big Chuck," who seems to be their go-to guy for taking the blame if big decisions go wrong. He's Charlemagne. (my point is - how the GM (or the setting) describes things the characters see/experience -- the language, the referents -- can intrinsically change how the players see the events and the setting)

It'd take a bit of a re-org, is all. Neither Chaosium nor the other publishers would be best-pleased to have their works mis-attributed. Very do-able, all in all... If there was enough traffic to justify doing it (but there doesn't seem to be).

Huh. Almost like the guy is prescient or something! No sooner did he suggest it, than I found just such a forum here! "Mythic Worlds." 😁 But this, notsomuch. It's a Chaosium-specific subforum. Arguably, "Blood Tide" conversations would go there... clearly, Pirates of Legend (& other non-Chaosium publishers' stuff) would not.

Some of them are well worth their while, time-tested & solid. Some of them need to be quietly buried in unmarked graves, and their records expunged. Some of them need to be dragged through the streets and publicly humiliated, then strung up as object lessons. See? I'm being "meta:" all those are themselves, tired old stereotypes! (or am I being recursive? sometimes I forget.)

Sorry, Bill: that's not this plan. But should such a plan emerge, I'll put you at the top of my list!

Gotta give big, BIG props for Odd Soot. It's an amazing and very original work. Also wanting to point to "...Mystery/Horror Scifi in 1920s ..." and say that while that's is completely accurate, it could also apply to Cthulhu... But I must stress that Odd Soot is UTTERLY NOT a Cthulhu (nor Cthulhu-Mythos "vibe") setting. It's very VERY much "ominous noir mystery" with a hint of maybe-supernatural-(and/or-spiritual)-corruption sort of horror, rather than Cosmic Horror with Eldritch Beings. It's also alt-history / alt-science. It'd be a brilliant thing to blend with Luther Arkwright (looks like a pretty seamless fit), or with Worlds United (need to tweak some 20's-alt vs 50's-alt stuff, both setting and tech).

I've known all along that this division wasn't much of a thing in Glorantha. Rulers are often priests -- often High Priests, in fact! -- and so are officers in the military, especially high level commanding officers. In fact, the civil/military/religious leaderships overlap pretty darned freely (except among the GLish cultures which reject theism & worship in favor of seeing the "divine" beings as just another kind of lever in the universe's control-room, to be operated as you are able and inclined). But somehow, looking at some other threads just now, this has suddenly opened up a new way of thinking about Gloranthan cultures... and leadership. (The key thread -- in fact the key post, FWIW -- was Nick Brook's summary of the Cult of Glamour in his RQ-subforum edition of the "Rough Guide to Glamour" thread (as an aside, I am kinda hating how there are many iterations of specific significant topics, distributed ALL the FRACK over teh Interwebz)). Hmmmm. Gonna take some pondering, this.

Ooooh. Imperative+AGFS? Add some of M-Space. Add some bits of L.Arkright. That could do most of the Expanse out-of-the-gate, I think... adding as needed (mostly from M-Space, at a guess...) Hmmm ...

Expanse really leans in on hard-sci-fi & gritty (albeit not grimdark) realism. WU is clearly pulp physics & pulp vibe, "planetary romance" with an alt-history / alt-science setting. Their solar-system scope is shared, but that's really about all, honestly. Yeah, this would be my path forward with Mythras, I think. I'd use M.Imperative at the core with M-Space for the bulk, maybe adding bits from other books in the Mythras line (I think mostly LA). Does it indeed? Iiiiinteresting! TYVM.

I like the idea of varied prerequisites. Some stunts need skill-levels, some need a status (such as "PC, Boss, or Elite"). I like the "stunt tree" notion, too (I liked D&D3e's "Feat Trees"). You could broaden this... Racial stunts, Cultural Stunts, etc. Various backgrounds could allow (or DIS-allow!) various Stunts. You could require TWO skills (such as a Weapon-Skill 80% & Athletics 60%) before being allowed to Buckle any Swashes. Etc... TYVM!

Yeah. I can skip Tapatalk if I find it too painful, but I cannot play (or buy) the books you guys haven't put out yet because you had to redirect the resources. All in the hypothetical case! Not saying y'all DID do such a thing!!!

I'll go... Stunts. Tell me about 'em. Are they "Feat" like (akin to D&D Feats), unlocking new abilities &c? Or more "depends on the roll" options like Mythras Special Effects? Or something else?

Explicitly says glued, yes. Agreed that getting stitched folios would be wonderful!

Have not seen NEARLY enough traffic on that game to be worth a separate subforum! A thread (or two, or three) here seems sufficient.

You are a bad, bad man.

... or Fumbles, and gets tentacles instead. Ducktapus.

I've got one game that we're going to try moving online. I'm the most devoted gamer in the group; most of the others are never-before or only-rarely players. However, I've never run online before. I'm looking at these tools for the first time, really. One of the players was actually the one who suggested moving online, using Zoom & document-sharing (not realizing, I think, that gamers have been working this issue intensively). I'm looking at three platforms, mainly... Roll20, because of specific content support (this game is really about my niece, who specifically wanted D&D, so <shrug> LostMineOfPhandelver it is; Roll20 has a LMOP module (otoh re-buying the same content kinda rankles...). Astral, (astraltabletop) because they've made their paid/premium service free through end-of-April specifically to support covid-19 isolation, and I want to throw my (presumed, eventual) money behind the kind of folks who do that kind of thing; also, I know Astral did some CoC-specific stuff a few months ago, so I'm hoping all the BRPish mechanical issues will run smoothly. DIY (based likely around Zoom, as per the original suggestion) Also considering a "blended" model running Zoom (and/or other non-gaming-specific collab tools) alongside Roll20 or Astral. My main considerations are two-fold: ease-of-use (gonna have a mix of technically-adept and very-non-adept trying to make this work); also least GM-prep to run, as I'm already juggling a fair number of RL items. Anyone with specific experiences with any of the above -- I'd love your input!

Agreed! Or if they feel to you like they are too "over-the-top" for the rest of the piece, put them under separate cover as another title in JC, subtitled "for very advanced adventurers only." Rework them to be easier to place outside Dorastor, or mark the high-level title "for use with Secrets of Dorastor, another fine Jonstown Compendium supplement."

Nothing that I have heard of. I think the best (public) list is the "Upcoming Publications" thread pinned near the top of the Glorantha forum; post #1 of the thread gets periodically re-edited to stay (relatively) current. There is a Wyrms Footnotes #16 listed as coming out, but it's way, way down the list. Still, as a collection of varied articles and essays, it looks possible that some Dorastor content might be in that. Depends in what gets pitched to Chaosium, really! Back around the time of the RQClassic KS, Rick (somewhat coyly) admitted that a similar reprint-KS for RQ3 products was possible. I haven't heard much since; I've no idea whether he is an the verge of announcing such a thing, or wincing and dodging (and hoping he dies of old age before the fans force him to the project). That'd be a RQ3 reprint though, not a RQG product! I stress that I'm just an avid fan, not part of Chaosium, so my ignorance of their plans is MUCH greater than my knowledge. Maybe if we summon @Jeff he will have more to tell us; or maybe he will say to let him ALONE, dammitall, to write the stuff we want and keep wondering about, instead of coming online to tell us he's trying to write it, but keeps getting @summoned to the forums & away from his word-processor... 😉

Except that (temporary) shelter-in-place & self-isolation is the ONLY technique we have that is effective. (If we hadn't screwed up initial test-production, we might have tried that method, like S.Korea did (to good effect); but we're so far behind that curve we may not be ABLE to catch up even if we get test-production fixed). This is neither panic nor conspiracy, it's fundamental disease-control. It has been well-known for many years. We just haven't had to face the realities of logarithmic disease-spread for so long that it's striking people as an unreasonable imposition on their "god given rights." This isn't a civil-rights issue, it's a public-health emergency.

I too got tapatalk-spammed. All tapatalk coming to my inbox now gets filtered as spam, regardless of content. Also, there's something weird (probably in my config, so it's "user error") in that I cannot find other tapatalk groups that I try to find; logged into TDM-forum, I try to hit another tapatalk site, and get denied or login-prompted. I've generally experienced tapatalk as more trouble than it's worth. It makes me visit TDM a lot less than I otherwise might.

You are asking US to explain to YOU why this preference of yours -- that you cannot explain -- exists? Sorry man... Even Lucy charged a nickel for that kind of stuff! For myself -- I like Mythras reasonably well, but my group hard-nope'd out of Combat Effects. I think that I'd enjoy Combat Effects, if I could get my group to play them; I certainly liked the idea. I enjoyed reading the section, the examples, &c... And (unlike you) I love hit-locations in BRP/RQ (and thus Mythras). To answer your question, I go back to looking at RQ2 v RQ3. Some RQ2 players moved to RQ3 and stayed there, but lots of them just stayed with RQ2, and pack-ported RQ3 content. Some players began with RQ3, and only looked at RQ2 because they heard about the great content (and were generally dissatisfied with the rules). "Which is better" was a perennial topic of debate (resurfacing recently as the RQ3 tribe griped at the RQG dev's for the RQ2-chassis path they took). I think a vague, yes-there-are-exceptions rule of thumb is, people tend to prefer the version they first got intensively into. So I ask -- was BRP BGB your first? Is Mythras just some flashy younger New Hotness that you've flirted with... but you keep going back to your First Love? That'll be 5c, please!

No, Chaosium doesn't DO updates when there is nothing new to say. They were working on it last time, they aren't changing that, so they're STILL working on it (they'd have announced a cancellation). Read the most recent from Rick, a dozen or so posts upthread from this post ... It discusses that "when will book <X> be out" is something they just cannot answer.

Unfortunately, it did not. This -- and other similarly nutjob-origin theories -- are out in the wild. 💩💩 As witness the sub-topic -- right here in this thread -- where multiple theories are being reported as currently-believed, by multiple people. 🤡

Gadzooks, sir, but you're right!! That quirky little gem /most/definitely/ should count!