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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 22, 2013 16:03:00 GMT -6
Fair enough. What of the expansion to d20 to allow for the three types I mentioned (Minor Gods, Spirits, Ancestor Worship), and for some cults/deities to be more common than others (such as Xathoqqua)? You could keep the presence of the divine just as common as you want, but allow for more results.
Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 22, 2013 14:02:20 GMT -6
Nice work.
One thing I'd change is making the actual involvement of the Divine less common (at the moment, only 1-in-12 of each Divine table has the result, "None"). Certainly, it should be common, but I think Hyperboreans also have a wonderful tendency of messing things up and around themselves even with the gods or cults being involved. So, instead of a d12 for those two tables, maybe a d20 for each, with results 12-20 being None instead. Changing to a d20 would also give you the option of making some divine results more common than others (representing things like the ubiquity of Xathoqqua worship) and to add "Minor God Cult", "Spirit Worship" and "Ancestor Veneration"as a Divine results too.
Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 22, 2013 13:50:27 GMT -6
You're welcome. Like I said, if anyone uses it I'd love to hear what happened and how it was received. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 22, 2013 8:09:13 GMT -6
It was inspired by Gav Norman's work, which was in turn inspired by Jeff Rients' work, IIRC. But Gav's table was too random (results were completely linear, which didn't reflect the fact that certain activities would be more or less common), and contained entries that just didn't fit the S&S style I was looking for, not to mention some which were just a bit too silly as well. So, I took the basic idea and built it into something I wanted instead, then adapted it to the ASSH ruleset.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 21, 2013 10:02:07 GMT -6
Colin has been a fount of creativity! Love ya too, mate. There's a typo in the link title for the calendar in the Resources section, by the way. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 21, 2013 10:00:22 GMT -6
Glad folks like it, though it's a bit of light fluff, and the real download I'm looking forward to is Arms of Hyperborea. Thanks again to Jeff for the edit and layout, and if people do use it, please let me know how it goes. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 18, 2013 9:53:00 GMT -6
Cool, look forward to seeing it up.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 18, 2013 3:17:37 GMT -6
That's a great idea, and I'd love to see such a thing. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 17, 2013 9:57:16 GMT -6
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 15, 2013 18:01:52 GMT -6
Bloody awesome, mate! Shame we didn't have that as one of the full-pagers in the book.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 14, 2013 18:05:06 GMT -6
Nice work, though I can't read "Eternia" without thinking of "He-Man and The Masters of the Universe".
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 8, 2013 17:32:07 GMT -6
D'oh, noticed I'd typed Platinum for AH when it was Electrum like AS&SH. Thanks for the thanks though; it makes us part of a very small number of publishers to achieve sales in that level.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 7, 2013 14:47:12 GMT -6
Congratulations! When Atomic Highway became a Platinum seller, and Irradiated Freaks and ION Guard: ICONS ed. both became Silver sellers, I was very happy to say the least. I can only imagine you feel the same way. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Jan 2, 2013 21:15:22 GMT -6
The extra Players' Manual idea is a nice one, mate; I'd certainly grab a copy.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 30, 2012 19:17:56 GMT -6
You're most welcome, mate. If it helps, I changed the name of the Amazon viragos to "maenads" in the final article, which it turns out was what Jeff was thinking anyway. Given what the maenads of myth were supposed to be like, it seemed very apt. Even the name itself means "raving ones".
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 30, 2012 11:32:21 GMT -6
The stereotype of the basement-dwelling geek doesn't apply to the UK, if only because the vast majority of British houses don't have basements, nor loft-conversions either.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 30, 2012 10:10:02 GMT -6
Would you consider running Atomic Highway at Gary Con? If someone wanted to pay for my international return flight from the UK to the US to attend, absolutely. cheers! Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 30, 2012 8:25:14 GMT -6
It is d**ned good, mate. So far nearly all of the DCC modules have been excellent.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 30, 2012 8:23:24 GMT -6
Nicely organized. My RPG collection was that large a couple of years ago, but I ruthlessly sold everything I had never and likely would never use or play. These days, my collection could fit within three or four of those shelf cubes, and is basically a slew of Talislanta, Hellas, Changeling the Lost, OSR stuff (ASSH, LL, ACKS, DCC, a nice collection of modules and supplements), my own rpg work (such as Atomic Highway), and some generic stuff ala TOAD, RECG, Metamorphica, the systemless Freeport books, a felt-lined mahogany dice tray, custom leather dice cup, and antique croc-skin box containing my collection of precision dice.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 29, 2012 19:06:26 GMT -6
Well, it is "homework" in a sense, although I prefer to think of it as more of an audition. If this type of fantasy doesn't appeal to a player, I'd prefer we both knew it before the campaign begins, rather than after. In particular, I intend to include a fair dose of sick humor in the style of Clark Ashton Smith and that's not everyone's cup of tea. Also, a player who blanches at the idea of reading a couple of stories is probably going to be uncooperative and a troublemaker during the actual game. I just don't have the time or energy for that kind of thing these days, so I need a test to weed out those who will most likely cause me headaches. I don't mean to sound like a jerk. I'd gladly put up with obnoxious players if it meant I could be 21 again, but that's not in the cards... so I won't. I can think of several reasons why someone may not be able to/may not want to read the tales that have nothing to do with them being obnoxious or dickish at the table. Similarly, I can think of Players who would read them and would still be dicks. As barometers of someone being a potential problem player go, I'd say it could be pretty unreliable and that if you really want to test potential players there are likely better ways to do so. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 28, 2012 10:23:34 GMT -6
If I was to have Players do some suggested reading to get into the correct spirit, I'd only assign a couple (literally no more than two) short tales or it would start to seem more like homework for them. In this case I'd have them read CAS' "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" (for a look at two adventurers/thieves), and either "The Testament of Athammaus" (as it drives home the oddness even more and links with Satampra Zeiros) or "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles" (weird cults, odd magic, and more thievery/adventure with Satampra). If they enjoyed the two tales and wanted to read more, I'd then recommend others such as "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan".
Fortunately, these tales are all freely available online as well, so there's no need for purchases or lendings of books.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 25, 2012 16:55:19 GMT -6
If I lose any more I'll be shaving it all off myself, so eventually I'll be Baldilocks and the Three Hairs like Jeff.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 23, 2012 14:45:56 GMT -6
I have a much more generic fantasy version of the file if you're interested, and it includes height and weight generators based on human medieval norms (as well as generators for eye and hair colour, height, and weight for dwarves, elves, and halflings also). Pop me yer e-mail via PM and I'll send the general fantasy one your way.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 23, 2012 13:34:29 GMT -6
If it recedes any more it'll be on the back of my head.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 23, 2012 10:44:42 GMT -6
Joined, so now you can see the horror that is me.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 18, 2012 3:52:17 GMT -6
It's a great article for a great class; go buy it. Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 17, 2012 18:09:08 GMT -6
Great effort or not, it's a highly useful download for ASSH GMs, mate, and I think it's going to be highly appreciated.
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 17, 2012 10:54:26 GMT -6
That is incredibly useful; a big thumbs-up to Russ.
Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 14, 2012 18:16:34 GMT -6
Great to see you here, Ian; your work is superb.
Colin
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Post by Cthulhu Colin on Dec 14, 2012 17:56:40 GMT -6
When I run any pre-published adventure in my Hyperborea campaign, the first thing I do is consider where I would like to locate the adventure. For CoT, I chose Lizard Coast. One of the things about CoT that fit like a glove was the cultural aspects -- in Hyperborea, if you look at the languages, we are using the same language base as CoT, which was nice. The next thing I like to think about is the culture and history. I tied in the fall of Thracia to the Green Death, melding the histories as presented in CoT with the history of Hyperborea, but a lot of this is "behind the screen" stuff that the players get glimpses of as they continue to explore. I also look at monsters, stripping away high fantasy elements not included in AS&SH bestiary, and replacing where necessary. All in all, CoT worked nicely, and did not need a lot of adjustments, but the players did flee the dungeon before completely exploring it. They may yet return. CoT is one of those modules I've always wanted to buy, but have never found for reasonable money anywhere, and sadly it seems like they've never offered the original version in pdf for sale either. Colin
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