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Nozbat

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  • RPG Biography
    RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, Mythic Britain, RQG, BRP Lüneburg
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    1520 Lüneburg, Call of Cthulhu
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    Belfast, Northern Ireland
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    I have played RPGs since I got my hands on the first iteration of D&D in 1978. Moved to RuneQuest fairly quickly after my Wand of Wonder fired 10,000 butterflies at a giant Red Dragon. I generally like realistic, historical games that I can manipulate for my own purposes. I seem to spend more time Gming these days than playing, possibly because all my players are incredibly lazy about doing their own games?? I've been fascinated for a long time by Northern Europe and Scandinavian/ Flemish/ Wendish/ low German history and culture. I've finally got around to playing a Hansa based game with the help of 1520: Lüneburg.

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  1. Intersting @Ian A. Thomson.. I had been reading an article on Missed Connections and how much they can be regretted or what people subsequently do to try and put them right. The flip side of the coin is that sometimes those small things can change the direction of life. Taking that turn, staying somewhere an extra night, a chance smile in a busy café.. or stopping to look at a second hand bookshop. Life can be full of those small decisions..
  2. and for those that don't know the references, there's always Well of Daliath https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com and this wiki page which gives all the references https://glorantha.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
  3. Thanks @lawrence.whitaker... now I have an issue .. watch the rugby or read the Book of Schemes... Attentional Shift is difficult Looking forward to reading it though
  4. I'm not getting impatient to spend my money or anything like that... but... the weekend is almost over
  5. Bought it... quick scan ...and impressed.. definitely recommend it later... Read it through..that will be fun to play @hix and I'll enjoy GMing it. Not sure if I'll use the pre-rolled characters or use existing characters as the interesting consequences are useful in a longer campaign. Can't say much more without giving too much away. Very much recommended
  6. From my understanding it’s both… Build your Setting One of the cores of any game or campaign is the setting. With the ability to easily customize BRP, players can rely on knowing the core game mechanics, but experience settings from the mundane to the fantastic, from the prehistoric to the far future. Leveraging the equipment lists by era and the optional rules, a game designer can tailor Basic Roleplaying to model any setting you need. Writers and game designers can take their original settings, or see if they can license an existing one, to produce their own setting book. They can choose not to include any rules and rely on the core Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine book separately, or include the rules that they need! Augment other BRP-based games A gamemaster creating their own house campaign can easily adapt any BRP-based product to another one. They can bring in creatures from RuneQuest into a BRP game, add Allegiance to a Call of Cthulhu game, or make other similar changes. This creates an opportunity for game designers to create products that will work with all BRP games. Some of these ideas could include: A tome of sorcery spells that emulate a certain magical style A bestiary of creatures to challenge players in a post-apocalyptic world A detailed equipment guide for a cyberpunk game There are lots of options..
  7. Just found this which could be adapted and is on sale under GMs bundle sale. Enough books to satisfy everyone.. https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/404336/100-books-to-find-on-or-about-the-new-world
  8. It was posted earlier today here
  9. That could be your part of the just announced Chaosium BRP Design Challenge @Scout? I think the community should be stepping up and filling in the gaps.. magic and a bestiary would be a great start
  10. I missed this post @HierophantX..could have been I was severely distracted by real world events but could you clarify what information you wanted from this? My first and immediate thought is that from the wider dissemination of the Printing Press, books became cheaper and easier to come by. The explosion of interest in the Renaissance of Classical works, Portuguese access to Africa and Asia opened up a lot of new knowledge. In Renaissance Deluxe skills are divided between Common and Specialist. Both can be started using a period of study, using an appropriate teacher at a base skill. So for instance, if someone got their hands on a translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War or Von Clausewitz’s On War.. I’d allow the start of a specialist skill in Strategy & Tactics.. if a player read Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince.. Start Intrique or Bureaucracy etc Knowledge is there for players.. they just need to be smart.. This was in the Guardian yesterday and shows just how much interaction between various cultures and how knowledge is shared https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/05/extraordinary-islamic-and-jewish-science-merge-in-11th-century-astrolabe
  11. There’s an upcoming Design Mechanism book, which while not Early Modern real world is based on a north Low German Hanse city. I’m not sure who the authors are but if it’s in a similar vein to @Alex Greene excellent Fioracitta, based on a Renaissance Italian City State (and not on some delicious artisan Tuscan bread)… it’ll be worth investing in. Whether you favour the Mythras rules or a BRP derivative, it’ll be easy to convert. Not sure what the timescales are for publication maybe @lawrence.whitaker could update us?
  12. No.. but I must get it.. would you recommend it? I've used 1520 Renaissance as the basis of a Hansa Campaign and was intrigued when my partner suggested one time stopping on the way back home in Lúneburg , when I had forced her to go to the Hansa Museum at Lúbeck. I think she must have secretly liked the 5 hour trip to the Hansa Museum, despite how many times she has dined out on that (awful extended stay'. It had been a longterm ambition to do a Hansa based campaign and being there just increased the ideas. So I did lots of research on Lúneburg, started the game... and apparently being a Salt Merchant, even with a penchant for 15th Century Italian poetry and visiting bordellos, is not fulfilling. Who knew? So, at the merest hint of trouble, they decided to leave Lúneburg for Rotterdam via Hamburg by boat and down the Rhine to Kóln. All is not lost, I can scavenge plot seeds I've done and use them in other situations as they decide to wander off course. There current situation results in them being penniless in Antwerpen, accused of murdering a Papal Legate, on the run and between a rock and a hard place. Unable to leave Antwerpen without shoes or money and being very ill-equipped to enter a life of crime. I believe some are now hankering for the quiet life of watching Salt crystals form in heated pans.
  13. I’m doing 1520 at present so it might be some time before I get round to doing it. We started in Lüneburg but the players seem to have decided on a whim to go to their sick father who was on a pilgrimage to Köln for some unspecified demeanour, thought by the players to have been the poisoning of his brother. Unfortunately, they ended up being framed for a murder of a Papal Legate in Antwerpen and are hiding out in a bordello while trying to work out who to trust in a hostile city. Apparently, being salt merchants wasn’t exciting enough.
  14. Sorry @Butters.. I have both but never actually ran them .. when I do.. I'll be coming back to you for advice
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