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Wordplay: The Big Five

Newt — Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:21 pm

Author: Newt

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:21 pm

Guvnor wrote:

I hate to have to say this, but it is the wrong cover for this book. It should be a SF or near future cover given the contents of the book, which I know you don't want to hear, but it's true.

Is it too late to go looking for a more appropriate piece of artwork?

Does Jon do SF?

Unfortunately I've dropped Flashpoint due to time constraints,

So the mix of the book is;

Fantasy/Urban Fantasy/Conspiracy Thriller /Gonzo Sci-fi

There's a fair bit of Fantasy in there from that mix

Its still going to be the Big Five, despite me dropping Flashpoint, because the system itself + four themes = The Big Five.

Continuum 2010: Gaming (RPG) Highlights - more to follow!

mike_m — Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:09 pm

Author: mike_m

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:09 pm

Continuum 2010: Game Highlights

Updated: 8 March 2010-03-08

Here are some of the games already planned for this year�s convention. If your game isn�t listed here then contact Mike at bingopajamas@gmail.com with your game details!

You�ll be able to sign up for these games and lot of others at the convention � they�ll be game signup sheets in the main hallway (outside the dining room).

If you�ve not already booked your ticket and accommodation for Continuum 2010 then go to www.continuum.uk.net and get yourself sorted before it�s too late!

Mongoose Living Campaigns!
Continuum is proud to announce the launch of Mongoose Publishing's 'Living Glorantha' campaign at this year's convention. Continuum 2010 will see the launch of Living Glorantha and the continuation of Living Traveller (debuted at Conception 2010). Allowing you bring specially created characters from scenario to scenario, event to event, Living Campaigns aim to emulate the massive online experiences but conducted with the intimacies of the table top. Both Living Traveller and Living Glorantha are intended to be growing, developing, living events in which characters take part in the epic events of the Third Imperium and Glorantha's Imperial Age. These are games for heroes and heroes in the making - saviours of their worlds, or possibly their destroyers.

Join us at Continuum for the birth of a new and dynamic development of immortal Glorantha!

A whole sack o� Cthulhu! Heaving and squirming like a squamous thing!
Ex Kult of Keepers Rik Kershaw-Moore, Wim van Hove, Keary Birch and Paul Fricker will be orchestrating horror and madness throughout the convention.

Wim van Hove will be running some classic Kult scenarios, and on Saturday night Wim and Rik will be joining forces to run a special version of Milan Conference for 8 players. This scenario has been proven to give players nightmares � you have been warned!

Rik Kershaw-Moore will also be running come Call of Cthulhu games single-handed, as well as the Ghostbusters RPG (Sandy Petersen�s �other� game!) and the uber cool sci-fi pulp that is Spaceship Zero the RPG.

Keary Birch will be bringing his usual chills and spills with a brand new Call of Cthulhu scenario titled � Camp Sunny 2: The Return! Be afraid, be very afraid�.

Paul Fricker� well lets just say that Paul will be running an original new scenario using a very special version of the Call of Cthulhu rules (oh, and someone called Mike may be doing the same�)

The Dice are NOT your friends�
Cruel Dice is a brand new rpg system that�s been designed by the creative powerhouse that is Alan Bligh and John French, the lead writers of Warhammer 40KRPG: Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader and the soon to released Deathwatch. When not writing about corruption, chaos and Space Marines, Alan and John have been tinkering with Cruel Dice. Be amongst the first to try out the system with two very different scenarios.

Dino-Geddon II: More Awesome! More Destruction! More Action!
Can you handle the raw power of Dino-Geddon? Can you? This year convention attendees are invited to bring their own remote controlled (dinosaur operated) car to face off against the conventions own machines of death. Only the strong survive.

Plus we have a load of other great tabletop rpg action, miniature gaming and live action/freeform gaming � details on all these and more to follow soon!

Continuum 2010 venue - John Foster Hall

Darran — Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:23 pm

Author: Darran

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:23 pm

Accommodation at John Foster Hall.

I thought I would go through and mention about the accommodation we have at John Foster Hall for Continuum 2008.
The Conference Facilities Building is centred amongst the new and very modern development that consists of several pavilion style accommodation blocks.
Each pavilion block is four-stories high and each floor contains two flats.
Each flat has four or five single occupancy en suite bedrooms and a shared kitchen and lounge.
This means that a group of five friends can share a flat together as they share the communal space together but also five strangers can occupy a flat as each bedroom has its own key.

The kitchen is fully functional with fridge/freezer, microwave, electric oven, electric kettle, iron, ironing boards, vacuum cleaner, mop and bucket, and there may be a selection of cutlery and crockery. There is also a large kitchen table with five chairs as well as plenty of worktop space for food preparation. A full list of contents will be posted nearer the time of the convention.
Some of the kitchens may not be fully stocked with all the items due to natural shrinkage with contact with the students.

Just off the kitchen is the lounge area. The lounge has a large window lets in plenty of daylight. There are five comfy lounge chairs and a small coffee table making this a nice place to relax in. There are ten chairs in total in the kitchen/lounge making it very useful for running games in, you can either be in the lounge or around the table in the kitchen. There is plenty of space to move about, even for those of us who are ‘standard gamer size’!
With each flat having this extra space ideal for gaming this opens up the possibility that more games can be ran during the convention. Just book the time and space with your flatmates first. Advertise your game with pavilion name and flat number and your gamers can arrive at your pavilion and ring your doorbell to be let in. Or just run the game for all your flatmates, whether you know them or not, simple!

You will be issued a set of keys when you register at the main reception desk in the Conference Facilities Building. The main key will open the door to your flat as well as your own bedroom door. The little key will open the post box in the pavilion entrance foyer and the key fob itself will open the main door to the pavilion electronically. The flats are numbered 1 to 8 while the bedrooms in each flat are lettered A to E.

All accommodation will be single occupancy bedrooms with en suite bathroom. You will be issued a set of towels and some basic toiletries but you will need to bring with you your own wash kits, bathrobes and other personal hygiene items. The bathroom will have toilet roll and the single bed will have fresh bed sheets, two pillows with fresh pillowcases and a duvet with bedspread.
There is a desk in your bedroom with built-in drawers, shelves by the window, a desk lamp, mini-kettle with a small selection of tea/coffee condiments, two power sockets, a phone, and an Internet connection. We do not currently have a list of the charges for using the phone or connecting to the Internet as yet.
Next to the desk is a medium-sized wardrobe with space to hang clothes as well as plenty of shelves to store folded clothes or other items.
The en suite bathroom, consisting of toilet, washbasin and shower cubicle, is located as you enter the bedroom. It has its own lockable door and is light and airy.

The good thing about this accommodation is that it is brand new. Very little wear & tear would have happened over the two years that it has been opened and even students will treat things better when they are new!

The front of the Pavilion [accommodation blocks]. Each has a wide path to the doorway and has plenty of lush growth between each of the pavilions. There is also plenty of car parking nearby.

The front door of one the pavilions. The main door is nice and wide for easy access.

Door bells to each of the flats in the pavilion. The key fob on your room keys will open the pavilion door electronically.

The post boxes for the flats. The small key on your room keys will open your flat’s post box.

The entrance foyer of the pavilion. Note the lift for easy access to the higher floors avoiding all those stairs.

The inside of the lift. Plenty of space to get your luggage in and up to your room.

The inside of one of the bedrooms. A single bed with a bedside table unit and light. A set of towels with basic toiletries will be waiting you on arrival.

The desk in one of the bedrooms. There is a desk lamp, a phone, mini-kettle with tea/coffee condiments, an Internet connection, and two power sockets.

The mini-kettle and tea/coffee condiments on the desk. Just bring extra if you drink many a cuppa.

The inside of the wardrobe in the bedroom. Plenty of space for all your clothes [and all those frocks for the freeforms!]

The en suite bathroom with shower. The shower cubicle is large with a modern shower unit.

The kitchen and lounge area in one of the flats. Perfect area to socialise with your fellow flat mates as you cook, clean, iron your clothes or have a drink. This is also big enough to host a game in either at the kitchen table or in the lounge area or both! Just reach over to the fridge to get a cold drink or put the kettle on to make a brew.

The kitchen area of the flats as seen from the lounge area. A nice large kitchen table, with five chairs, to eat your meals from or play some excellent games!

The lounge area as seen from the kitchen. Five comfy chairs with a coffee table in the centre. Ideal for a nice and relaxed game?

The fridge/freezer, microwave and electric oven. Plenty of worktop space to prepare your meals and lots of cupboard space for storage.

Everything including the kitchen sink!

THE KRAKEN is coming!

malcojones — Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:10 am

Author: malcojones

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:10 am

Very interested!

Flavourful old East Germany.

And just when Continuum used to be.

Best, malcojones

Concrete Cow 10: 20 March 2010

Neil — Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:38 pm

Author: Neil

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:38 pm

Less than two weeks to Concrete Cow, and the list of games on offer is growing. If you want to drum up some interest for your game before the day, let me know and I'll put it on the list.

Also, James Mullen has been busy. He's talked the owners of the Veranda Talk indian restaurant, directly over the road from the Old Bath House, into giving us an offer on a lunch buffet. Concrete Cow attendees will be able to eat there for �5.00 a head, instead of the usual �6.95. However, they need to know that they'll be getting at least 10 people to make it worth their while.

If you want to have the indian buffet lunch, please let us know ASAP that you'll be coming so that we can let the restaurant know. We need to make sure we have enough people going to offer the deal. Either PM me or just reply here if you'll be coming.

The Veranda Talk is very nice, with really good food. I had lunch there last time and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is an excellent deal for an excellent meal.

Neil.

Trollzine (T&T)

zanshin — Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:08 am

Author: zanshin

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:08 am

Also, there is a competition with the potential prize of Japanese T&T books, as well as publication in the next copy of TrollsZine.

Submit an article , 250-350 words on a Monster or NPC for use in T&T, with or without a picture. If you are not familiar with the system, i will be happy to stat it for you as part of the editing process.

The email address for the submission is in the zine, or you could pm me.

MRQII

Smiorgan — Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:36 pm

Author: Smiorgan

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:36 pm

Hi,

I'm reading MRQII, so far I'm really impressed. There's a lot of new stuff, but, at the same time it feels distinctly RQ. It feels compact and Gloranthan like RQ2, comprehensive like RQ3, and often more elegant and streamlined than any other version of RQ. Kudos to Loz and Pete!

Perhaps it's the effect of the leather cover but, it really feels you hold a real classic in your hands!

My only (very minor) nitpicks are the art - which, apart from two or three tributes to the unforgettable Avalanche Press, contains a few other WTF pieces (like page 22!); and the character sheet, which I find badly organized and un-RQ.

Con-Quest, Derby UK.

Darran — Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:53 am

Author: Darran

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:53 am

There are several ways to get tickets for you to attend Con-Quest Midlands 2010.

1. Press this Paypal link below and buy a ticket on-line. Remember to fill in you name and contact details.
You will collect your ticket from the convention desk on the door on the day so avoiding any long queues at the box office.

To Paypal link on Con-Quest site.

2. If you are in Derby you can buy tickets over the counter at the Derby LIVE box office either at the Assembly Rooms box office located at the Market Place or at the Derby Theatre box office in the Westfield Centre.
Opening hours are 10:00 until 20:00 Monday to Saturday.

3. You can ring the Derby LIVE box office 01332 255800 and buy tickets over the phone. Both credit and debit cards are accepted for payment. Credit cards incur a �1 booking fee [debit cards don�t incur a fee] and postage will incur a charge of 50p. When collecting tickets from the box office the card used for payment must be seen.

4. On-line through the Derby LIVE box office system.
Go to the Derby LIVE Con-Quest website and click the �Buy Now� link.
Check it says �Con-Quest 2010 RPG Convention� and click �Buy Tickets�
Select the amount of tickets you would like to book and click the �Continue� button.
Select your concessions and click the �Continue� button
Check your ticket summary, if this is correct click the �Continue� button.
Enter your personal details and credit card details. Please note Derby LIVE charge a processing fee of �2 per transaction (not per ticket).
Click the �Purchase� button to complete the transaction � you may wish to print the Transaction Complete page for your reference though an e-mail confirmation will be sent to you.
All tickets purchased within the UK more than 7 days prior to Con-Quest will be posted to you.

Page counts of RPGs

Sacha — Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:00 pm

Author: Sacha

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:00 pm

Shaira wrote:

Oops! Sorry Sacha... I can only apologise, humbly and unreservedly!

Cheers,

Sarah

Oh, absolutely no need for any of that! I've been looking forward to this book since first hearing about it. I can't wait to give it a read.

Cheers,

Sacha

[OpenQuest] Adventures in the Savage North

Newt — Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:29 pm

Author: Newt

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:29 pm

The Savage North is now available for pre-order

Free Pdf + Print copy when ready for �15 + p&p

http://d101games.co.uk/store/savage-north-pre-order-offer/ for more info.

GM's Day sale

Vile — Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:12 am

Author: Vile

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:12 am

Picked up a copy of Mongoose Traveller's Central Supply Catalogue at last - although either DTRPG or PayPal screwed up so that I paid but didn't get my download. Luckily one quick email to DTRPG customer service sorted it out.

Now I just have to wait until I get home to check it out ...

No Police Procedurals RPGs?

dpmcalister — Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:18 pm

Author: dpmcalister

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:18 pm

Wiggy wrote:

dpmcalister wrote:

Wiggy wrote:

Hogshead Publishing released a handful of Crime Scene books for the d20 system. Among the titles were Police Investigation and Forensics.

http://hogsheadpublishing.co.uk/

Great minds think alike (I posted the same information to UK Role Players )

I followed Pedr's link and saw your post

I only know of them 'cos I bought the wife the Police Procedures one at GenCon UK back along. She's a big CSI and NCIS fan but my plans to get her to run a game failed.

You think you've got it bad, at least your wife plays - my wife is a massive fantasy novel fan (Gemmell, Kerr, Martin, all the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books, etc.) but will she try RPGs?

Favourite Adventure Scenario ever

Loz — Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:39 am

Author: Loz

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:39 am

Darran wrote:

Dom wrote:

A Tale to Tell from Shadows in the Borderland for RQ3. A truly scary dungeon style adventure.

That is a good one.
I played that right out of White Dwarf 85, it was written by Jon Quaife.

Running it right now for my little Canadian group...

Diaspora- actual play

dr_mitch — Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:28 am

Author: dr_mitch

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:28 am

Fourth session. I had the feeling I wasn't as on the ball as I should have been tonight, but anyway, here it is...

The gang fled in the aircraft with the woman they had rescued- Rachel James. They then found out from her that the guard they had beaten up were the only guards.

They returned in their lander, after some debate. They found the guards armed with rifles and waiting. And the leader had a rocket launcher!

He fired and missed. He was then taken out. More gunfire, and an automatic burst from the heroes took out the remaining guards.

[A very short personal combat- a massacre over in 2 rounds, thanks partially to some very lucky rolls by the PCs (generally around +3), and unlucky rolls by me (around -3).]

Michael Gecko then went to convince the mine workers to help him load the U-237. The mine workers wanted to be taken away from Penn for a better life. Gecko wanted to convince them to hold out here- perhaps the PCs would be back. He succeeded.

[This was social combat, and went quite smoothly this time. Only one PC involved, however.]

Meanwhile, the others went to the villa of the quarry owner- Robertus Fenris. They found him having called the local authorities [aspect tagged- "Where did it go wrong?", screaming at them about 'space bandits' and trying to bribe them. The PCs basically forced him to free the mine workers, who were debt-slaves to his business.

While this was in progress, the authorities arrived- three aircraft full of Elysian military. The mine workers were armed, and had Fenris- and a document granting them "freedom". But the PCs fled- pursued by two of the aircraft.

They fled and didn't stop running. Barely pausing in Elysium (just topping up reaction mass at the gas giant Lusus- after all, with the U-237 they had plenty of fuel). Still with the medical supplies they had intended to sell on Penn, they returned to the Mesa system.

The Indie Nightmare could not return to Station 9. So they got in touch with their contact and arranged a meeting at an asteroid called Aleph. An asteroid, as it turned out, owned by Zientek. Their spaceship had been stolen from the Crown Prince of Zientek.

They escaped detection [my moves to compel aspects were turned down], and as soon as they had been paid for cargo left for a better place- Eos, a semi-inhabitable gas giant moon, and territory of the Liberty Alliance, another of Mesa's nations.

There they sold the medical supplies, and thanks to some incredible rolls and copious use of aspects avoided consequences to the ship due to lack of trade and abuse. They were not so badly off in some regards- after all, although they had done no selling on Penn or (on the way back Mesa), there was an *incredible* Brokerage roll, and they had not even paid for the U-237 sold.

Then Jarek van Haarl was approached by an old friend from Pegasus- Soren Andersen- with another job. Delivering half a tonne of the spice from Phobos back to the moon Eos.

What could possibly go wrong?

[One thing I've thought of that might be a motivator for letting me compel more next time- allow Fate Points to be kept between sessions. Essentially, if someone (or the ship) has more than five Fate points, allow them to begin next session with that number rather than just five- though five is still a minimum.

Of course, so far it's never been a factor.]