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t my sense of the crows was actually in some ways they feel like a revised version of first group of player characters to slog their way up the valley now again this doesn t make them a bad addition i do wonder however how many people have actually used them patrick did you use them posted by kesher at 5 30 pm 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adventure characters deep carbon observatory false machine review twerps wednesday march 5 2014 the clay that woke minotaurs and well more minotaurs well shouldn t you hey all just wanted to give a heads up for an awesome kickstarter campaign going on right now it s for a game called the clay that woke designed by paul czege of my life with master fame and it s all about minotaurs if you hadn t figured that out already here s the introductory blurb generations ago four infant minotaurs a lost species were pulled from the mud of the eternal river over centuries they develop a cultural philosophy to help them live among men be contemplative do not want do not express your emotions for breaking silence in such a way is an expression of need be courageous act with wisdom work for justice do not use the names of women we employ them for menial and dangerous work pulling plows guarding wealthy estates and for brutal entertainments i was lucky enough to be part of the playtesting for this game and it s completely unique the mechanics are indie in that they re focused on helping drive whatever narrative the players want to create but it s also focused on long term campaign style play in a completely intriguing setting minotaurs as the working class in a gigantic decaying once great city the surrounding jungle filled with strange powers a secret war and more silence to be broken boundaries trespassed desperate battles betrayals pain joy and scores of instantly memorable npc with goals of their own just enough detail to set your mind on fire and make you want to fill in the rest through play the art is fantastic and prolific custom drawn by nate marcel in order to project the mood and surroundings the picture at the top of this post is only the most recent example there s fiction too and while i know that many of us developed an acute allergy to game fiction in the 90s trust me this stuff is good and truly contributes to the actual play of the game check it out ask paul questions and i m happy to answer what questions i can as well oh and i m quoted in the video posted by kesher at 12 26 pm 15 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday june 30 2013 lonewolf fan look no farther i am a kai lord nuff said project aon has pretty much every lonewolf gamebook related thing you could ever want all in excellent bookmarked ebooks all for free and all with the express permission of the author himself joe dever awesome of particular excellence is the magnamund companion a classic example of gold age gamebookery though given what pa is offering we may indeed be headed towards a platinum age here are a few images from the companion a timeline of magnamund instructions for building you own kai monastery and then burning it down instructions for building ships and ramming them into each other a cut out view of the monastery you didn t know the secret kai language was italian did you awesome color maps of all parts of the continents uniquely split by what i guess boils down to a giant salt water river what s particularly cool is joe dever s making all of this freely available while still working away on re publishing the gamebooks in hardcover collector s editions as well the lonewolf world has gone through several rpg iterations both from mongoose the first was a big d20 tome the lonewolf rpg and the second after the release of 4e deflated a lot of planned d20 lines from independent publishers a return to the gamebook s original mechanics the lonewolf multiplayer gamebook this line also has the benefit of being entirely illustrated by rich longmore of lotfp carcosa fame this first is still easy to get relatively cheaply the second not so much in that i m not willing to pay over 30 for a 72 page book if anyone out there is interested in unloading the multiplayer gamebook volumes for reasonable sale trade just drop me a line oh and it looks like yet another rpg version is on the way published by cubicle 7 posted by kesher at 1 12 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cubicle 7 gamebooks joe dever lonewolf magnamund mongoose publishing rules thursday june 20 2013 jack vance memorial game rhialto is dead long live rhialto wherein our magicians insult twk men interfere in local mating rituals perform amazing feats of regurgitive magic and inspire filicide all before dinner as the blogosphere duly noted master author jack vance died a bit more than two weeks ago the weekend following his death i hosted a jack vance memorial game session inspired by the coincidental discovery of this astounding vancian magic supplement which includes the two perfect stories to read before playing in this particular milieu and using my large collection of dying earth rpg rules and supplements as grist for the mill i decided we d play what those in the know refer to as a turjan level game using the original d d rules all players would be magic users of mid level rolling a d6 1 2 thaumaturgist 3 4 magician 5 6 enchanter spells were generated using the list of vancian spells all were assigned two vancian taglines as per the derpg and four magical items chosen by me from various derpg supplements and the osric magic items list otherwise they rolled up characters 3d6 in order hp according to rules etc it s worth noting that grodram secured a str of 18 and therefore decided to wear platemail and carry a two handed sword in the end the group of truculent mages consisted of xamruc the gourmet played by jesse pupericion the wisemonger played by nick grodram the grisly played by sean igrex zed the colorful played by trevor abador rex played by will normally loathe to cooperate they had banded together to face the threat of zaramanth arch mage of almery who displaying perhaps fatal temerity had decided to locate his new manse sabulle in the derna river gorge in ascolais running through the great forest da the outline for this potentially radiant stew of conflict can be found in the pages of the first issue of the excellent prismatic spray known by all pundits and men of style as one of the best gaming magazines ever printed as is usual when five erudite and obfuscatory personalities congregate chaos ensued we made it almost exactly halfway through the adventure and will be finishing up this weekend honestly it ended up being a lot more fun than i d hoped especially with me just throwing it at my beleaguered players a few days before we played most of them were at most tangentially familiar with the dying earth but with just a bit of guidance they all jumped in with both feet slinging spells and taglines right and left one of my suggestions taking my cue from the rhialto stories was for each of their characters to consider themselves as the absolute authority on some aspect of magic e g igrex zed ended up with the spell the gestation of the ignoble servitor he thereby considered himself to be the last word on mephit culture physiology psychology and style and therefore began working his expertise into every conversation possible at least until he became distracted by a nubile village maiden which led to a forest chase and a disagreement with thrang the ghoul bear i ve come more and more lately to see odd as an almost transparent tool or to paraphrase jesse a practical engine of pastiche and this experience really clarified it for me though of course there s a large dose of vance in odd already especially in the magic it was effortless to translate derpg specifics into odd terms on the fly pure awesome posted by kesher at 9 14 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dying earth jack vance memorial game odd osric pastiche pelgrane press rules turjan xps magazine friday june 7 2013 dcc rpg why the character funnel s been bugging me i am your nightmare and fondest desire okay so i ve been reading the dungeon crawl classics rpg and thinking about it and probably dreaming about it and something seemed off to me i couldn t figure out what then it hit me the game is so literally and obviously lovingly culled from the appendix n source literature i mean those spell descriptions alone are enough to bring tears of sorcerous joy to your eyes right but the whole idea of the character funnel while enjoyable from an old schoolish develop your character as you go perspecitve completely violates the spirit of appendix n none of that source literature none starts off with the protagonists as you know sheepherders or whatever they all start splat in the middle of their careers and then jump all over the place but that s not important here i guess as close as i can suss it maybe a justification would be that the character funnel in connection to appendix n is tongue in cheek attempting to show just where all those protags came from i suppose it s possible that conan worked as a blacksmith with his father before storming the walls of valerium maybe i mean i can t imagine how playing through the character funnel can be anything but slapstick i m willing to be corrected which appendix n even though displaying humor at times is never slapstick it s anti genre i wouldn t necessarily jettison it from the game but even its declared purpose is to help get you in the mind set of developing a serial style character background where it grows organically from the needs of the moment but in our group we already do that so at most i d rule one run as zero level characters which is a stated option in the rules whoever survives moves on to 1st level do i look like i ever herded sheep posted by kesher at 3 33 pm 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels appendix n character funnel dcc epiphany goodman games rant monday march 25 2013 first flight of the laughing buddha part 1 step right up and rub my belly everyone gathered at my house last sunday morning and the traveller campaign began ship the laughing buddha re purposed heavy freighter re purposed for what you ask only naval intelligence knows and to a lesser degree commander pinback i don t have the deck plans handy but they ll be added in their own post crew ex naval officer commander pinback ship s owner captain and pilot ex marine force cmdr baukin bahr jr xo and medical officer ex scout rufus jones navigator and salvage entrepeneur ex merchant donovan braddock gunner and general roustabout ex barbarian j imjohtep warrior sword wielder ass kicker security chief and back up gunner ex battlefield armor repair unit rs32h aka jack steward and back up engineer jyro mcallistair npc engineer one or two other retconned npc engineers tba our cosmic saga opened in the ragged edge sector subsector mad dog s defeat planet subsec capital silver moon with rufus and companions braddock donovan and j imjohtep having come to an agreement with laughing buddha crew cmdr pinback and baukin bahr about a potentially very lucrative salvage job in the thunderbelt asteroid field returning to the starport after recruiting some engineers for the newly recommisioned ship they noticed the freight elevator was ajar scans of the ship s computers and onboard surveillance showed nothing amiss but j imjohtep braddock and rufus went aboard while cmdr pinback called the starport security braddock and rufus went to their cabins to grab firearms the planetary authority forbade all weapon bearing while j imjohtep grabbed his broadsword really more of a bastard sword from where he had left it in the cargo bay as he moved in to check the engineering sections an unfamiliar alarm began to sound and a bullet ricoccheted off the bulkhead from the open hatchway to his right ducking into cover by the catwalk ladder right next to the hatchway he narrowly avoided getting shot a second time he swarmed up the ladder moved silently onto the catwalk and got the first real glimpse of his attacker who was standing next to what looked like an open compartment in the floor maybe 1x2 meters large seeing his chance j imjohtep leapt down and took off his assailant s gun arm with a single blow of his sword then things got complicated coming up next robots mining companies and alcohol posted by kesher at 3 02 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels characters classic traveller mad dog s defeat ragged edge silver moon thunderbelt older posts home subscribe to posts atom i am thus so yes me too kesher hobbyist of the absurd view my complete profile archive 2016 1 november 1 swords glory vol 2 tekumel player s 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