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Gringle's Pawnshop

Darran — Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:31 pm

Author: Darran

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:31 pm

There is a RuneQuest II/Glorantha forum that some of you might be interested in called 'Gringle's Pawnshop.' It covers the Chaosium 2nd edition of RuneQuest, not the current one from Mongoose.

http://gringlespawnshop.proboards.com/index.cgi

Might be worth a look?

UK Roleplayers?

NeilFord — Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:15 am

Author: NeilFord

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:15 am

The server hosting the site seems to have broken. It's displaying the default Apache2 page.

I'll get on to the company responsible for the server and see what I can do.

- Neil.

What makes old skool D100 for you?

Merak Gren — Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:21 pm

Author: Merak Gren

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:21 pm

Godammit. I'm now hankering to run some 1-3 Stormbringer. Happy memories of maimed, mayor wounds and deadly criticals. At least chargen was quick and easy.

Recommend me an Android Tablet

Newt — Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:24 pm

Author: Newt

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:24 pm

its a strange stream of consiousness review, were the reviewer has strarted from first impressions and raised his mark , and opinions, as time went on.

I agree with you though, I'll wait a good six months at least

Adventures in Wordplay

dr_mitch — Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:00 pm

Author: dr_mitch

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:00 pm

Sweet. Well- I had to say something on this thread. But I do like the idea of a post-apocalypse volume.

Games for Furnace 2010

rain — Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:59 am

Author: rain

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:59 am

Think I might have to update my Lacuna game's Description following my last trip to the cinema:

rain wrote:

Best described as a twisted hybrid of The Matrix, The Cell and Inception, in Lacuna the player characters are Mystery Agents, who 'dive' into Blue City - a surreal manifestation of the shared human consciousness - to track down and destroy Hostile Personalities.

Looks like Chris Nolan's shilling for Jared Sorensen.

Couple of questions

rain — Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:56 am

Author: rain

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:56 am

Speaking for myself, not only am I intending to explain Lacuna's rules before the game, I've actually managed to fit them on the back of the character sheets.

Gotta love weird rules-light indie games.

What have you read recently?

Dom — Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:31 pm

Author: Dom

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:31 pm

Guvnor wrote:

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories which has some great nuggets (Ken McLeod's multiverse hopping including a Socialist Scotland as far south as Marble Arch) and reminds me a multiverse hopping game would be so easy with Traveller.

I have this in the pile o'books to read too!

Rush - Time Machine Tour

Sacha — Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:55 am

Author: Sacha

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:55 am

Thanks for posting this, Loz. I am super-envious and praying to all the Elder Gods that the Time Machine tour makes it to Europe very soon.

Glad you had an ace time.

Cheers,

Sacha

Which flavour of FATE?

DigitalMage — Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:38 pm

Author: DigitalMage

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:38 pm

Starblazers for me, but then I don't have DFRPG or Diaspora - so for me its a choice between Starblazers and SotC and I like the former a bit better in that gear has some impact, plus I would use it for Star Wars

Starblazers was my first FATE game and the one that therefore inspired me the most when I wrote Free FATE.

Hearts in Glorantha issue 5 : Call for Contributions!

Newt — Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:59 am

Author: Newt

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:59 am

Right I'm having an open call for submissions for Issue five of Hearts in Glorantha.

I'm open to anything, adventures, non-player character write ups, myths, cult write ups, fiction - with a strong emphasis on stuff that can be used or inspire actual play.

Deadline for submissions : End of October

Here's the submission guidelines

All submissions should be made to the Editor at

newt@d101games.co.uk

Authors
First off write a short synopsis of your article, five hundred words maximum, and send it to me. Then if I like your idea I’ll ask you to submit the full piece.

Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or text format with plain formatting. By all means include a formated version to give me some idea of how to lay it out, but I must also have the plain text only version.

Artists
Submissions should be 300dpi images. While I accept unsolicited submissons it is also useful to contact me before hand to see what is planned for the next issue.

Copyright
Copyright remains with the author/artists. Issaries, Inc and its Licensors (Moon Designs and Mongoose Publishing) has the right to use any Gloranthan concepts in this magazine. Issaries Inc owns all Proprietary Material as defi ned in the license with Boldhome Press.
How this Copyright Statement Works

In plain English, what the above means is that Issaries Inc and its Liscensors (Moon Designs and Mongoose Publishing) has the right to use the concept and owns the Proprietary Material (ie the stuff that Greg and Issaries has written over the years). But they do not have the right to just take material others have written and say it is theirs.

For example, if Simon writes a story about the Boatspeople of Kethaela, Issaries and its Licensors have the right to use theconcepts, people, places and ideas in the story. But they do not have the right to print the story itself without Simon�s permission.

Wordplay a quick round up of what's going on

Newt — Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:32 am

Author: Newt

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:32 am

Hi all

Just a quick post to say in big capital letters WORDPLAY ISN'T DEAD!!

The core system + four settings (themes) is available as "Wordplay: The Big Five"

http://d101games.co.uk/wordplay

WPB5 has been out since early April and is selling steadlily. Took a pile along to Continuum at the begining of the month and sold 2/3 of the stock I think people are still digesting the game, I've yet to see any actual play reports or any games spring up at Conventions independant of the people involved in development, but I'm quite confident that in a years time there will be a nice little buzz around the game. OpenQuest started off slowly like this and 2 years on its a game thats spawning other games, being run at conventions on a regular basis by people other than myself and has a dedicated following.

Talking of Continuum the author Graham Spearing did a talk about the game, and one of the sections was the future of the game.

This comes down to two tracks;

1. The Creative Commons version. If you've bought the original 6"x9" plain text version or the Big Five, this is the version you've got. D101 will be championing this version, by making the text of it available via our website (I've just finished the files this morning and they are going to be checked before release), and providing ongoing support in the form of Adventures in Wordplay, a new ongoing series of adventure collections. We'll also be developing standalone games from it, I've got a couple in development and I'm working with another developer on another game. From the Creative Commons text, you can either get the game for free and try it out or make your own supplements or games and release them either for free or commercially.

2. A commericial version being developed by Triple Ace Games. Graham can tell you more about this, because he's acting as Line Developer, but from what he said it would consist of a core rulebook with seperate theme books. Also be aware that the commercial version may not be called 'Wordplay', although it will acknowledge the games hertiage in its intro.

Player Character Archetypes?

dr_mitch — Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:31 pm

Author: dr_mitch

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:31 pm

I think there are various roles in a group of PCs, not all of which need to be filled.

Ones that spring to mind at the moment:

Magic-user
Fighter
Sneaky Person
Know-it-all
Face man
Healer
Leader
Comic Relief

Not all of these are to do with character stats- some are to do with how a player chooses to run them.

The thing is, typically a character will have two or possibly three roles in the sense I've listed. A typical RPG wizard will be magic-user and know-it-all. A paladin might be both fighter and healer. A leader might also be both face man and comic relief. Et cetera.

Lack of coffee and tea at continuum

Jane — Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:40 am

Author: Jane

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:40 am

Loz wrote:

Personally I think we should have one of the Gopher team perpetually doing the rounds of all the rooms, kitchens and gaming tables to take coffee/team/double-double/latte/cappucino/frappe/etc, etc and doing a Starbucks run once per hour.

That brings back happy memories of Scotscon, where the gophers took bar orders and meal orders, for delivery to the gaming table. Amazing bunch of people, mostly local students as I recall.