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Re: Acquitaine [PDF] now available. Nice! Purchased.

Re: TUALA MORN -- Interested In More Stuff? I happened to be wandering by the forum and this thread caught my eye. My copy of Tuala Morn's been serving on a gang of books flattening out some prints, so the cover keeps catching my eye. Every time, I think, "I wish they'd published supplementary material for that world." So I am completely on board with snapping up new Tuala Morn material. Subscribing to the thread for updates!

Re: The Price of Hiring a Villain

Re: The Price of Hiring a Villain They left it to the NPC technical boffin, despite his strenuous complaints he wasn't a bio-engineer. I'm sure that won't come back to haunt them at all.

Re: The Price of Hiring a Villain For the curious, the characters pooh-poohed the idea of dealing with a villain seconds after an NPC brought it up. I kinda saw that one coming, so I didn't push the matter.

Re: The Price of Hiring a Villain

It's not WWYCD, but more like What Would the NPC Do? Suppose for a moment there were a plague or virus of some sort spreading through the city. The heroes, lacking a biologist or doctor amongst their numbers, find themselves turning to a Teleios-style villain for his services in devising a cure. What do you suppose he might want in return? Things I've thought of so far: he asks the PCs to steal something he can't get hold of himself -- a DNA sample of a well-guarded and shielded person, maybe, or chemical X-19 -- and putting his latest monstrosity through its paces. Any other suggestions?

Re: Wizard of Oz: perhaps a one shot or short campaign. Sounds like a clever concept! Reminds me somewhat of Philip Jose Farmer's decentish A Barnstormer in Oz, in which Dorothy's son accidentally flies into Oz in his biplane. A lot of that book was spent making Oz "plausible." I forget what the Cowardly Lion was rationalized as.

Re: Currency . . . of the Future! It'll be three quatloos to a quid, but seven zorkmids to the quatloo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7029564.stm "'None of the existing payment systems we use on earth - like cash, credit or debit cards - could be used in space,' said Professor George Fraser from the University of Leicester. "'Anything with sharp edges, like coins, would be a risk to astronauts while the chips and magnetic strips used in our cards on Earth would be damaged beyond repair by cosmic radiation,' he added."

Re: Urban Fantasy Recommendations I'll throw in James P. Blaylock's The Paper Grail and The Last Coin, which share a lot in common with Tim Powers' novels. I'm told All the Bells on Earth rounds out the trio, thematically speaking.

Thought the podcasters in the audience might be interested to know that the latests episode of the gaming podcast Roll 2d6 is devoted discussing the development of Champions and one of the hosts' love for making characters.

Re: Known Spheres, a Spelljammer-inspired campaign Just wanted to update y'all that unfortunately Known Spheres stalled after one session because of a lack of sleep on my part. The hour-long ride home at midnight was not compatible with the other demands on my schedule. But I haven't given up, and am using the downtime to refine setting details and mechanical tidbits. And the quickie battle we did have during the one session was quite valuable in finally seeing a HERO combat goes.

Re: Hero System and Rpg.net

Re: When you hear Urban Fantasy... There was a short-lived series on USA, briefly revived on the Sci-Fi Channel, called G vs E, about working stiff-style agents of heaven fighting against, unsurprisingly, the forces of darkness in sunny Los Angeles, California. It was light, action-y fare with a sense of humor, and kind of a sort of urban fantasy.