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AndyStaples
Oct 10th, '05, 01:06 PM
Remember Graham Staplehurst's wonderful MERP/RM/Fantasy Hero campaign book Robin Hood: A Giant Outlaw Campaign (http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9649.phtml)?

Well, back in 1987, Staplehurst gave game stats for the lynx as a creature native to medieval England. Conventional wisdom had it that the beast died out in England sometime around the transition from the neolithic to the Bronze Age (around 2000BC).

The latest evidence, carbon dating of lynx bones found an a cave in Craven, Yorkshire, suggests Staplehurst may well have had it close: the bones are dated to c 500AD...

Full story: http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/newsview.php4?ContentID=2796
Steve Long
Oct 10th, '05, 01:44 PM
Hey! I don't wanna talk to that lynx! The last monster we talked to ate half the party!! :eek:
Fuzzy Gnome
Oct 10th, '05, 02:54 PM
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Steve Long again.
AndyStaples
Oct 10th, '05, 03:24 PM
Hey! I don't wanna talk to that lynx! The last monster we talked to ate half the party!! :eek:

Egads, I have to go roll me a random dungeon...
keithcurtis
Oct 10th, '05, 06:09 PM
Hey! I don't wanna talk to that lynx! The last monster we talked to ate half the party!! :eek:
"Hey, Dave, I think the barbarian in the corner wants another beer!"

Keith "Ain't no gamer like an old gamer" Curtis
Curufea
Oct 10th, '05, 06:11 PM
The big question is - were the Gazebos in medieval England?
Theron
Oct 10th, '05, 06:18 PM
"Hey, Dave, I think the barbarian in the corner wants another beer!"

Keith "Ain't no gamer like an old gamer" Curtis

Ah, Will McLean. Pity he got out of drawing game funnies when he got serious about the SCA. Though he's still a funny guy.

"I'm told they worship rats..."
GothKidSamurai
Oct 10th, '05, 06:44 PM
The big question is - were the Gazebos in medieval England?


No, they were wiped out early on by fire. Once the locals realized arrows were ineffective.
Susano
Oct 11th, '05, 11:19 AM
Ah, Will McLean. Pity he got out of drawing game funnies when he got serious about the SCA. Though he's still a funny guy.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Will McLean was a close friend of my (SCA) knight's grandknight (err... the guy who had squired the guy who had squired the guy who had squired me). So I met him in person, initially not knowing who he was exactly.

PS: He helped with a book titled "Life in Chaucer's England" which is a must (I think) for anyone doing fantasy RPing.