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Does anyone know if there are published Stats for Derenx?

I've looked and tried searches but other than brief mentions in passing of his abode and training facilities there is general dearth of information.

However he is part of the assault on the Cradle though unlikely to be used as his preceding colleagues are likely to have done the job

There's Renaissance D100 Blackpowder SRD by Cakebread & Walton which should give you the stats you need

Available at the usual places

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/97426/Renaissance--D100-black-powder-SRD

Just doing some research on tunnels...

The Limburg tunnels or Limburg Mergelgroeven were from mining limestone underground.. could this be were the stone for Pavis came from?

https://www.urbex.nl/limburgse-mergelgroeven/

2 hours ago, Ian A. Thomson said:

Just working on the encounter table for this piece, which is otherwise now complete.

If you are good to agree to non-disclosure/distribution, I am looking for someone to give it an 'Interested reader' proof. (Basically just to read it as if it was a published article and report back any errors of grammar or spelling, omissions, repetitions or indeed anything that goes clunk.)

Happy to do that Ian

1 hour ago, g33k said:

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Platemail(ish) on the front-facing elements of the bison would make for a pretty overwhelming charge...

But then defences evolve... pits, stakes, trip wires, long bows, multi-shot crossbows, Fast moving bow armed light cavalry... 

In that other world..see Battle of Legnica.. or perhaps Agincourt .. 

They have more armour? Don't let them close, Tire them out, Knock them over, Kill them before they get up again.. 

Nothing in the Prosopædia.. and nothing in the older Genealogy table of Mongoose's Cult Compendium and nothing in Cults of Prax. Only mention is of his wife, Mahome the Hearth Goddess. Nothing listed for Mahome either

I haven't access to any other documents presently so others with greater knowledge may know more

However, the Sons of Barntar like a 'peasant' revolt along the lines of Wat Tyler's rebellion, the Jacquerie or the Irmandiño revolt of medieval times.. maybe they are a secret paramilitary uprising?

Due to various extra-curricular activities in my group.. there has been a break in the Berlin campaign.. 

One of the players did a mock Paper that I use in the campaign to disseminate events that they need to know. It made me laugh and I thought I'd share it cos even after several have been sent insane through sampling the new street drug, Sternstaub or drunk too much ichor-laced Korn or even met Nyarlathotep playing Ragtime music in an underground club called Schleier des Todes.. they still have a sense of humour.

Engagement with the narrative is everything!!

Thanks everyone for the input.. interesting discussion.

I like the idea of Awakening an Animal being a rare Ritual Enchantment with costs in permanent sacrifice of POW per point of SIZ. Maybe even very rare or else there would be much more awakened animals around. Farmers would want wakened oxen, cavalry would want wakened mounts, etc. .. although the POW sacrifice might be astronomical for either of those beasts given their SIZ.

Integrated Spirits are out then being a HQ era concept.. will have to consider other ways to make it work. 

16 hours ago, Ian A. Thomson said:

he said there were definitely no major sewer tunnels under Old Pavis like there are under Paris, and well... there totally are in my Glorantha.

I'm with you Ian.. apart from the obvious MGF with an extensive sewer system below Old Pavis.. how did Greg imagine sanitation worked in a city as large as Pavis? Maybe Gloranthans don't poo? I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread to suggest they do or don't?? I'm not sure even Orlanth could generate enough wind to waft away the smells of city living without a sewage system!!

I'm reminded of the first paragraphs of George McDonald-Fraser's The Pyrates..

That was England, then; long before interfering social historians and such carles had spoiled it by discovering that its sanitation was primitive and its social services non-existent, that London's atmosphere was so poisonous as to be unbreathable by all but the strongest lungs, that King Charles's courtiers probably didn't change their underwear above once a fortnight, that the cities stank fit to wake the dead and the countryside was largely either wilderness or rural slum, that religious bigotry, dental decay, political corruption, fleas, cruelty, poverty, disease, injustice, public hangings, malnutrition, and bear-baiting were rife, and there was hardly an economist or environmentalist or town planner or sociologist or anything progressive worth a damn. (There wasn't even a London School of Economics, which is remarkable when you consider that Locke and Hobbes were loose about the place).

George MacDonald Fraser. The Pyrates. HarperCollins. 

Having spent the last week in London..I'm not sure much has changed.. except the London School of Economics bit and the large extensive sewer system..

Thanks all... I hadn't thought to look in W&E... 

I had a feeling that it was also a'thing' in RQ3 but can't check it because I'm away from home

Where can I find information on Integrated Spirits? I can't find any information about them in the PDFs I have with me at present

Possibly need to look at awakened animals too and a search in RQG shows nothing

Ermmm... what about using the Spanish Inquisition? No one really expects it... and certainly I expect Fazzur would be surprised

That's a lot of translation work you're doing @AndreJarosch... hope you get it funded and it doesn't drive you insane

And this was especially useful ... thanks again @David Scott 

Language skill 81–100

This level is the language of poets, scientists, philosophers, diplomats, and all who aspire to a fluent grasp of the nation’s speech

Thanks David... It was probably the language table I remembered... and age addled growing ineptitude and long-sightedness 

and a inability to multi-task... (singing along to Elvis Costello.. What's so funny 'bout (Peace, Love and Understanding) at the top of my voice

and... etc

I've been searching for a table (which I know I've seen) for percentage skill levels against competency ..

I know I've seen it but can't find it anywhere

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

54 minutes ago, StevenGEmsley said:

As regards numbers of "neutral" angels, I figure the number of conscientious objection was quite small to begin with, and some have since either saught (and received) forgiveness and returned to Heaven or thrown in their lot with Lucifer, presenting being cast out in the first place.

Why am I thinking... Dogma and Good Omens? And having Alan Rickman as a Demon would definitely be the icing on the cake

Mythras have just published Factions.. I think you might find it useful if you're running religious schisms

It seems to me that Factions are very transferable no matter what D100 system you're playing... I've been using it for my CoC Berlin campaign and intend to use it when I get round to my upcoming Hansa based campaign to keep track of all the political machinations throughout Lübeck and in Novgorod 

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/422477/Mythras-Factions

Also but its a while since I read it .. but earlier I was thinking about the BRP Witchcraft supplement  might be something to look at too..

but on checking I see it's no longer available 

10 minutes ago, StevenGEmsley said:

The origin of the fae is that when Lucifer led His rebellion against God, there were some angels who would nit side with Lucifer but who refused to raise arms against their fellow angels. In his wrath, God cast these down to earth, where they bred with mortal men and women, giving us the elves, dwarves, trolls and goblins who are our PC race choices (as well as humans, of course!)

You have Genesis 6 v2 to work that with... a very interesting verse imo.

11 minutes ago, StevenGEmsley said:

So how, in a Judeo-Christian context, do we justify these fantasy PC races? Well, they're all linked to the Mittelmarch (a term stolen from Michael Moorcock's excellent The War Hound and the World's Pain), which in this campaign will be an analogue to faerie.

I've always gone with the version of Faerie in Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword. Faerie is all around normal human existence but only those with Second Sight had the ability to actually perceive it. So a craggy outcrop might actually be an Elven palace.. or the storm at sea that creates waves might be a passing Troll War fleet. Every so often I'd pull my players into something weird where Færie and Miðgarðr (or Mittilagart in OHG)intersect in that dark wood.

Anderson's other book I think is useful is Three Hearts and Three Lions which brings in some of the Charlemagne Cycle heroes but has a darker version of Elven machinations 

I have a number of favourite actors that I use as templates for NPCs ... sometimes as a combination of all of them.. 

Marlene Dietrich (in anything)

Alan Rickman (in any of his many roles)

Greta Garbo (in anything)

Audrey Hepburn (in anything)

Chief Dan George (in Little Bigman)

Richard Harris (in Man called Horse, or anything else he was in actually)

Jeremy Irons (the Patrician in Terry Pratchett movies)

David Bradley (Cohen the Barbarian)

Ralph Fiennes (in anything)

I didn't buy it.. but have the Mongoose and Chaosium versions of Stormbringer which has some of the stuff @Scout was looking for

As @Stoatbringer said the Mongoose versions are probably most useful.. and from memory possibly the Campaign setting one would be most useful 

Just checked...on Amazon the early stuff on Elric is going for £100.. !!

Depending on detail you need @Scout .. there are some fan maps available for free on some sites. They are not very high quality but you could use them to create one of your own and add the bits for your campaign to suit yourself

You can get used copies on Amazon. I don't think anyone has the licence for Elric anymore so it's not in print

Just noticed the price.. expensive... I initially read $16.70.. but its $167.. and €220 in Germany 

Not really an option

Do you think this sword has a permanent Bladesharp 3? I think I need to contact Professor Pfeil and let him know... he probably doesn't know about RQG

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/till-shines-3300-year-old-sword-found-in-germany-bronze-age-grave-bavaria?CMP=share_btn_link

2 hours ago, Lofgeornost said:

Codex Integrum's Medieval Baltic sourcebooks

I found those volumes very useful and add lots of detail for even the pernickety GM..

Having spent the afternoon in the market buying food and being dragooned into a Bach recital in the Lutheran Church.. I made my mind up to buy it... and keep it for my Hansa campaign