Scott Ruggels

Oh. If you wanted a good “Hand Lettered” font, there are free and paid fonts actually used in comics on the site Blambot.com. I myself use a font called CCWildWords.rtf, from Comic Craft, which I think has now gone defunct. Any of the good Blambot word bubble fonts will work. It’s just that Comic Sans is a terrible font, owing more to Charles Schultz’s arthritic lettering than the pros from DC or the late Albert Deschanes (sic) who lettered a lot of comics.

Wouldn’t it be advantageous for the city to have magic difficult to cast within city limits?

I would suggest using the Hero rule book layouts as a style guide. Comic Sans is a very bad font for body type. For long passages, it is preferable to use a serif font, from a Latin style group, rather than any sans serif type. You can use anything you like as a display type for titles and headers, but try not to be too goofy about it, and strive for readability.

Are you trying to create the “Immovable Rod” from D&D?

Very much a Golden Age GM/Player. Class of 1105 😁

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So, then, what does work?

I dropped info dumps, several "books" on the players, but I come from a time where GMs Home brewed their fantasy campaigns from scratch, as there weren't any FH Published materials other than a Grimoire, and a Bestiary. Also running the campaign for years generated more written material. I may publish some of it later when I can put it all back together. Character Generation consisted of "Package Deals" that, at the time gave you discounts on points, and the deals were organized as "Race/ Species", then "Cultural", and then "Military". They would "stack (especially Military"), but Disadvantages of the same type would not. This was all 3rd Edition/ Fourth Edition rules. The current campaign has some templates for races, but not a lot of development past that, since it was more of a PBP game.

Killer Shrike has the right Idea, but I generally take a much further back approach, by starting with the geology. Until you get to some sort of industrial revolution, water traffic is going to be the primary source of movement of bulk items to that city. So work out the flow pattern and the traffic on that river. Because of that river, as well, farms and docks along that river will be how farms, ranches, and mines will move the enormous amount of resources needed to feed and clothe the inhabitants of that city. Putting the city near the lake outflow is logical, but so it putting it near multiple water sources at the other end of the lake. But work out the geology and topography of the area and the site will make itself known. I never start a fantasy game until I have mapped it out. Is the northern sea north enough to be ice bound or not, as that will effect trade quitye often if there are seasonal stoppages.

This sounds a bit like "Bringing in D&D but with Hero rules".... AGAIN> There was a fairly recent thread about the definitions of evil. but is Bad Evil, or is it the other team?

On Roku TV< My mother and I watched a Crime procedural from New Zealand, called "Harry". It 's a little uneven, but how they ratchet up the tension is very good.

wrong thread... Deleted.

I would suggest that a Pittsburg resident, walk, drive, or bicycle around town and take pictures of the important locations within the city, for the artists to trace for interior illustrations. For maps, provide Google Maps Satellite images for tracing for maps and top down images.

it’s not a bad premise, however I am still running a PBP game, where there is no magic, but it is most assuredly a fantasy game. The fantasy is, fictional countries, A couple of nonhuman species, and occasionally odd weather. No magic though. Well, the “no magic” fantasy game did include non-humans that the player specifically asked for. They’re quite happy with it.

I’d say rather than “War” make it a god of wrath. One aspect is war, but do is logistics, and planning and decent and discipline. The god of wrath is much more chaotic, and would incorporate war, but also revenge anger, cruelty, and such and would be in opposition to the god of justice.

As a GM I do try to be as flexible as I can. I would have been resistant for the player to change before, but after experiencing some problems in some recent D&D games with a Character Mismatch to the campaign, and having the GM just suggest swapping out a character, and how the party could use "X"< I have stopped being resistant to people wanting to swap out characters. However swapping them out every two sessions might be a little much..l If anything, talk to the player and see iff you can get an idea about how or why they swap out characters?

[Partial Repost from Facebook] Just got the news Scott Bennie Passed away Yesterday. Hearing about this is kind of Crushing for me, because he was a friend and collaborator. We were both in Carl Rigney's immense Play By Mail/ Convention Champions game, and Scott was who I would run into at various conventions when we would game out the combats of Carl's game, but then I would see Scott in just about every other Convention Champions game, run by the "Good" GMs. We were both in the various 'zines. I think we even exchanged phone calls a few times. His villains could be very scary, not only because of their builds, but their convictions. His anti-smoking assassin was memorable. Scott had health problems that made him a rarer, and rarer presence over time, but he still continued his writing. I lost touch with him when I dropped out of gaming due to my move to Los Angeles in 2005. Very sad to hear of his passing, but now his suffering has ended.

Drhoz, you have become my weekly television drama. Play on!

Life god(ess?) animals primarily. Domestic, Feral, for healthy cattle, but also the rats and mice that your eat the grain. Predators and prey.

I think a few of these first appeared in genre books such as Savage Lands by Aaron Allston, also Western Hero, Horror Hero, ect. and then got consolidated into 4e, afterwards.

Hit locations, and "sectional armor", for FH and Modern Mercenary. I leave activations for the superhero crowd.

They added a pistol to the product line up!

I never look at the recommends, The recommends even on YouTube are getting worse and worse, so Instead I look at my Subscribed list to see what's new from people I actually want to hear from in a timely fashion. For HBO, it's a case of just digging by subject. Oddly though, the Amazon Recommendations are actually not terrible, which was a surprise.

Part of that is that yes, you do need the exact titles, yes. The other is that you have to go down to the bottom, and search in the submenus for the "Channels" that Max offers. IT really is annoying, but there really is a lot of material if you look under every nook and cranny of that terrible interface. That being said, I kind of prefer Amazon Prime, and I am still poking at Netflix on occasion, as long as I avoid Netflix Originals, and look at other offerings.

Katla (Netflix) an Icelandic TV show with curiously high production values about a few families staying behind in a village slowly being buried by a volcanic eruption, and has lasted for a year. One day Duplicates of people, living or deadstart to show up in the village. Strange and very interesting, the show builds up a very specific mood.