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Android, tablets and temptation

First Age — Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:07 pm

Author: First Age

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:07 pm

Oh come off it. This is sooo tempting...

http://www.ebellking.com/android-tablet/zenithink-c91

Albion is UK Roleplayers Game of the Year 2011!

Guvnor — Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:11 pm

Author: Guvnor

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:11 pm

Very well done Tim, I hope this boosts the sales.
Is it on your sales pages?

Glorantha, the Second Age

Guvnor — Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:05 pm

Author: Guvnor

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:05 pm

Simon or Colin or Newt are your men for Gloranthan maps.

What Roleplaying books have you read/bought recently?

Guvnor — Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:57 pm

Author: Guvnor

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:57 pm

Mongoose Traveller: Darrians, bloody great job from Pete Nash. They ARE my Vulcans now.

Mongoose Traveller Vargr, not quite as good as above, I think they should have explored the nature of senses more given their poor eyesight and something about sex, but also a great read and development from what went before.

Mongoose RQII Vikings: again Pete and a relaxed, calm and excellent guide to Norse games with RQII..

Skype Secrets of the Ancients

Dr Moose — Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:56 am

Author: Dr Moose

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:56 am

Hmm. "Secrets of the Ancients, being where our heroes get through starships like others get through underwear"

Real interesting...

Congratulations! Winner of UKRP 2011 Con of the Year!

Guvnor — Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:49 pm

Author: Guvnor

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:49 pm

Wow! Wonderful, I am touched!

Why is Glorantha Good?

Dr Moose — Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:23 pm

Author: Dr Moose

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:23 pm

For me the "hook" that always remains was the detail and complexity when compared to the AD&D I was playing at the time, even the stuff in the RQ2 book just blew the socks off AD&D.

I can also sympathise entirely with Dom about the scale, complexity and scope of official material for both Glorantha and the OTU. It could be in my nature, but if something is "official" well, then it's official, and if I have any aspirations to publication that can be somewhat trying. (Yeah, publication, dream on Dr Moose!)

What have you read recently?

Merak Gren — Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:03 pm

Author: Merak Gren

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:03 pm

In the last couple of months and since getting The One Ring, I've re read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I have to say that I had forgotten many little things and that my memory was tainted by the films which take some liberties.

All in all, it reads quite well, and for its size, easier for me than trying to read Game of Thrones. For some reason I do find it tedious to get into and too wordy.

I even enjoyed the riddle that is Tom Bombadil.

Over christmas, I read 'El Puente de los Asesinos' (The assassins Bridge) by Arturo Perez Reverte. The latest book in the Captain Alatriste series. Its more Alt history than anything. It is set in Venice in 1627 or 8 and it is supposed to be a Spanish backed coup that never 'oficially' happened. Quite entertaining although the books starts at the end and then tells you hoq they got there. In that respect, it lost some tension, as I already knew who would live and die.

I'm mentioning it due to the rpg connection, and my hope that for 2014 Continuum, I can run both my tranlations of the Capt Alatriste Rpg and Aquelarre (Medieval demonic spain) rpg.

'Pumping' equipment

bobslaughter — Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:51 am

Author: bobslaughter

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:51 am

How would someone adjucate the situation where a piece of equipment 'advances'. Say, a magic sword (+3d) turns out (the player, the table, or the Navigator wants to make it more pertinent or interesting) to have special abilities (flaming, singing, etc. -- traits). Would/should you just handwave this, or should a player spend XP to switch it over? And if later this special magic sword turns out to be even specialer (the Sword of MacMcGuffin), and gain even more traits, would that change anything?

Relatedly, if a player wanted to 'update' or modify any piece of equipment's traits, any special XP spends or other game-ruley bits?

Other Worlds

soviet — Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:15 am

Author: soviet

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:15 am

Darran, it may be that you've got your RPGnow account set up to block publishers from contacting you. Either way it's not a problem - just email me your order details and I can set you up a new code. (My email address is on p205 of the PDF in the Inspiration and Reference section.)

Mapping sites - following a breakfast conversation.

Dom — Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:45 pm

Author: Dom

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:45 pm

Guv, can you lock this thread so it doesn't get wiped automatically - great set of links here.

Dom

Concrete Cow 12: 10 March 2012, Milton Keynes, UK

catty_big — Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:09 pm

Author: catty_big

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:09 pm

So far we've got a game setting, a bunch of alien races with physical descriptions and core abilities, plus their complications; I've written a couple of example scenes, and we're now wrestling with how to deal with failure*. Dan and I hope to thrash out a demo scenario during the next couple of weeks, probably lasting less than three hours but we'll see. As soon as that's ready I'll waste no time in posting on any and every forum, including this one, obviously.

*I mean failure to complete a task or pass a skill check, not what if our game turns out to be a turkey (which I of course it might well do)!