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My allied spirit is Laphraoig ... it also helps with discorporation

Don’t get me started on Broo and Post-modernism...

"The show has been lauded for its realistic take on dealing with depression, trauma, addiction, self-destructive behaviour, racism, sexism, sexuality and the human condition" yep...that sounds Brooish

Oi-Boi definition: A person or animal who is particularly fat, lazy and sleepy, yet comforting, soft and kind-faced. Never thought of orcs as soft and comforting but I guess people change and evolve. Next we will have Walktapus Social Workers and Scorpion-people nurses However this picture is even more disturbing and insidious and shows how Broo infiltrated the 70's hippy culture posing in front of the ruins of the Big Rubble

My sister, who is an artist, has just sent me some of her older artwork to keep for her. Its a set of prints from her "My head is an animal'" She did a whole series of plaster moulds and subsequent bronzes and then took pictures of them and made prints I was thinking that perhaps Broo have evolved to be accepted in modern society.. for evidence I present the following .. his chaotic feature appears to be 'Like the Specials'. Those of us who are old enough will remember the particularly dystopian Ghost Town which I guess is how Broo sometimes see themselves.. outsiders, left on the shelf, forgotten and despised ...though I am struggling with Ska being associated with chaos

It’s Jar-eel’s teeth that evoke similarities

My Hardcover arrived today and hadn’t realised you can get a PDF free 😭😭😭

I was thinking about the best lines from players in my 30+ years of gamesmastering...some of my favourites are: On a week trip to the wilds of West Cork I ran a short number of scenarios where the players were Broo. Periodically the Malia Rune Priest showed up to check they were furthering the spreading of disease, chaos and general mayhem. On one such occasion, one of the Broo characters greeted the Rune Lord with, ”The pus in my soul rises up to greet thee, My Lord”.“ Or perhaps when Lord Harold (Harry to his mates) Cadwalader, and upper class twit dilettante, was asked to make a History roll in CoC. He turned to his Valet, Toby Perkins (run by another player) and asked him: ”What is my History roll, Toby?” ”I think your Lordship will find it on his Lordship’s character sheet, directly underneath First Aid”, replied Toby ”Would you be a good chap and roll it for me Toby? I have a glass of brandy in one hand and a cigar in the other and quite frankly this is what I pay you for.” Anyone else have any classic lines?

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Two out of three...

I share a common fate with the sea, Spinning the months around in alternate cycles. When the glory of my light-forming form wanes, so, too, the sea loses its swollen flood tides No-one can see me or catch me in their palms I spread the noisy sound of my voice through the world; I can break to pieces the strong oak with my loud crashing voice, as I beat against the high poles of the sky and traverse the fields Formed in a marvellous way, born without seed I loan my sweet great with treasure from flowers; By my art the golden platters of Kings grow yellow; always I bear the small, sharp spears of cruel war And though I lack hands, my spear stings more cruelly than weapons forged by smiths

We need a new Character class.. Wordsmith or perhaps a Blatherskite ...and some new spells.. Dispel Pun Protection from Pun Counterpun Invoke earnest and for CoC Temporary Insanity of Paranomasia

My polar bear was known as Asgeir's Bane... It's true name was Fluffy however but luckily no-one ever learnt that

Looking forward to this

I'd be really interested to know

The ubiquity of Blood Magic strikes me as difficult to leave out of games as it runs through every culture particularly in Celtic/ Greek/ Northern Germanic which I am presently interested in. I think you're right Soltakss.. people find it unsettling and dark.. particularly if we want to be on the 'good side' and it is sometimes difficult to suspend our 21st century morality. I've looked at the Legend rules and will likely take parts of that to use I was looking at the pictures I'd taken of Bog bodies at the National Archaeology Museum in Dublin ... blood sacrifice...fascinating stuff

I won't ask African or European .. but I will ask if they can carry a coconut?

I'm interested to know if anyone uses Blood magic in their games? It is so widespread in different cultures that I am interested in including it in my game for special sacrifices on High Holy days, wars, natural disasters, ill omens, crop failure...etc

Yes..it is... was trying to find an older soft back book I had on weapons and armour ...but seem to have mislaid it

These illustrations might be helpful... definitely no sign of cuirboilli chest armour that I can find...

Yes...that's it... I just knew I'd read something ...couldn't remember where and had been checking all the core rules I had with no success

I have read a piece about Blood Magic... but can't for the life of me remember where it is. Can anyone enlighten me as to where it is?

I'm not sure if this is helpful given there's probably more up to date pictures but these are from my original version of The Big Rubble and they are pictures taken on my phone I had reduced them so as not to take up too much space but happy to send the full size ones if anyone is interested Picture 1 is of New Pavis and the Rubble in the Background showing the Gates of New Pavis Picture 2 shows an existing Gatehouse in the wall of the Rubble at New Pavis Picture 3 shows the Griffin gate in the background with a building that is definitely bigger than the walls Picture 4 shows the ruins possibly around Griffin Gate. The text seems to suggest that but I am not sure what the building is in the background with the dome. It may just be an example of type D ruins

You can't do that!! We Irish didn't do anything to get blamed for... apart from giving the world U2.. actually yes you can blame the Irish

I'm interested to know what happened? I had a Polar Bear running around in my vikings campaign.. it had escaped and killed the hunters that had captured it to present to the Jarl. It swam around Sognefjord making a nuisance of itself every now and then by attacking fishing boats, trailing bigger ships etc. The players were convinced it was a dísir or a sjóvættir. Some of the locals started a 'cult' and provided it with food as a propitiation