terje
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Post by terje on Dec 29, 2020 11:44:21 GMT -6
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 30, 2020 9:56:12 GMT -6
Looks nice! It's in my cart, waiting for me to buy a couple things at once!  |
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Post by terje on Dec 30, 2020 11:10:26 GMT -6
If you have the old pdf the selling points for this version would be:
* All new illustrations replacing the public domain ones
* A starting dunegon
* New npc's
* Stats for the WotRP game
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Post by tdenmark on Jan 11, 2021 18:45:02 GMT -6
It is exceptionally well done.
Highlights include:
New playable character races (I particularly like the Mutants)
Psychic combat
New beasties
Alien godlings!
And a nifty campaign map and gazetteer
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Post by terje on Jan 12, 2021 17:48:27 GMT -6
It is exceptionally well done. Thank you for the kind words! I am glad you liked it. |
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Post by terje on Jan 17, 2021 9:57:37 GMT -6
The files have been updated with a continental map (in both color and bw). If you have bought the pdf you should be able to download the updated version.
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Post by terje on Mar 4, 2021 10:14:01 GMT -6
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 14, 2021 11:15:11 GMT -6
Finally pulled the trigger on this. Print and PDF both. |
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Post by stevemitchell on Mar 14, 2021 12:23:09 GMT -6
Hey, me too! And I also ordered the print and PDF for Warriors of the Red Planet. I've had Sword & Planet on the brain lately--just got through re-reading the first three books in ERB's Mars series, and started Thuvia today.
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 15, 2021 4:41:34 GMT -6
I already have Warriors of the Red Planet and it's a great rules set. I also ordered the "OSR Noble" princess rules, but haven't had a chance to look them over yet. (I think there is a development thread for this here in this section of the boards.)
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Post by stevemitchell on Mar 20, 2021 15:41:08 GMT -6
I took advantage of the recent sale on DriveThru RPG to pick up a number of printed books (along with PDFs). Today's arrivals included Warriors of the Red Planet and Swords and Super Science of Xuhlan--along with Barbaric, Cepheus Atom, and Eldritch Tales. Head currently exploding with multiple setting ideas! But one thing in particular has seized hold of my imagination--the possibility of doing a Burroughs-style campaign on Mercury. In The Master Mind of Mars, ERB definitely stated that there was human life on Mercury, although no details were given. Given the science of the time, I'm sure he would have gone with a Bright Side-Twilight Belt-Dark Side set-up. With a Mercurian campaign, you could keep all the ERB flavor, without having to be tied down to the specific details of Venus of Mars. Interesting to speculate about!
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Post by cometaryorbit on Mar 25, 2021 12:22:53 GMT -6
But one thing in particular has seized hold of my imagination--the possibility of doing a Burroughs-style campaign on Mercury. In The Master Mind of Mars, ERB definitely stated that there was human life on Mercury, although no details were given. Given the science of the time, I'm sure he would have gone with a Bright Side-Twilight Belt-Dark Side set-up. With a Mercurian campaign, you could keep all the ERB flavor, without having to be tied down to the specific details of Venus of Mars. Interesting to speculate about! Yep, I've wondered about that "loose end" too.
It could be an interesting world, with human civilization in a narrow band of (presumably warring, given Burroughs) city-states, with different sorts of creatures holding the Dayside (eagle/phoenix people?) and Nightside (bat people?).
Burroughs might also have put in some kind of underground realm, like his hollow Moon, Pellucidar, or Barsoom's underground ocean of Omean.
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Post by stevemitchell on Mar 25, 2021 14:26:20 GMT -6
Heh. In my notes for a possible Mercurian campaign, I already have an entry for the Bat People. I will add the Eagle People to the list!
I believe that the humans in the Twilight Belt have run extensive mining operations under the surface of the Bright Side to extract the metals to be found underground there. No doubt some strange critters have wandered into the mining tunnels at time.
Ice melting into the Twilight Belt from the Dark Side is shunted into canals for irrigation purposes. A race of humanoids in the Dark Side--the dreaded Cold Men--have somehow adapted to conditions there and occasionally raid into the Twilight Belt.
And since this is pulp SF at its most stereotypical, I imagine there must be some silicon-based intellgences over on the Bright Side.
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Post by cometaryorbit on Mar 26, 2021 22:33:12 GMT -6
And since this is pulp SF at its most stereotypical, I imagine there must be some silicon-based intellgences over on the Bright Side. Libration (plus the atmosphere refracting light) could give the twilight belt "edge zones".
Maybe call them "Dusk Belt" (arctic-like conditions, mostly dark with occasional light) and "Dawn Belt" (tropical desert conditions e.g. southern Sahara/southern Arabian deserts, mostly light with occasional darkness)?
The Eagle/Phoenix people would live in the Dawn Belt and the near edges of the Bright Side, the Bat people would live in the Dusk Belt and the near edges of the Dark Side.
This is kind of inspired by the "triops" from Stanley Weinbaum's tidally-locked-Venus stories "Parasite Planet"/"The Lotus Eaters", which are considered to be 'darkside' inhabitants by the humans but turn out to really be more "dark edge of the twilight".
Your silicon based creatures would be inhabitants of the true Bright Side, in areas too hot for biological life (above boiling point).
Maybe the inhabitants of the true Dark Side would be some kind of ice or liquid-methane or something beings?
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