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Wrath & Glory: Threat Assessment - Xenos. Mongoose Traveller - Opening Moves and War Fleets of the Fifth Frontier War

London passed 2 million in the 1840s - the first city in the world to do so. Which required railways, canals and a large seaport to bring in food. A tenth of the population of the UK at the time, near enough. Bear in mind this is a city powered by coal by this time, not wood. And it was the...

Could someone explain to Ed Greenwood if no-one else wants to listen what 2 million people need in terms of food, water, firewood, cloth, and other necessities' and politely suggest that perhaps Waterdeep could be toned down to something more reasonable like 1/2 million or so. Not to mention the...

It wasn't Socrates, though it's often attributed to him. It's probably adapted from something Plato wrote and has been atrtibuted to Socrates later. Also, an older one. "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and...

No, there's plenty who want their favourite class to be superior. But I give an absolute guarantee based on observation (Pathfinder fans most recently) that no matter how much people say they don't care about balance or see any value in it, if the class they like playing comes out inferior in...

Agincourt is a fantastic example. 5,000 English/Welsh archers, issued with 30 arrows each. That's 150,000 arrows. They ran out in the course of the battle, so they're all loosed. And the French still get into melee combat. Add in, careful reading of historical records suggest around 5,000 French...

Because, demonstrably, before gunpowder, it was? It seems quite reasonable that fighting in a way that was more lethal would be, wel more lethal.

The Deep and the Dark, Aliens of Charted Space Volume 4, and Whispers on the Abyss. I don't know if it's just my FLGS, but Mongoose products seem to arrive in clumps - they also had the new Shield Maidens adventure book and something for Paranoia just in.

If a PC does something people remember and worship them for, I've always taken the view that in future campaigns they'll have a cult dedicated to them and be available to new PC Clerics. One of my players had a Cleric who worshipped one of his previous characters, and made up a whole religious...

Probably Classic Traveller in 1977. I still have the LBB, along with my original subsector map and the school workbook I wrote up the planets in. I'm not absolutely sure it was my second RPG - someone else I knew began a Tunnels & Trolls game around the same time and that might have come just...

Light, imo, is a fundamentally simple system which doesn't have a great many "exceptions" where the rules are changed by one special ability or another. So most versions of D&D don't have particularly complex basic mechanics, but there's so many things which don't follow those rules and replace...

Pretty sure we meet his niece(>) Sylzenzuzex in one of the other books too. Tru is around much more though.

From Traveller; Githiaskio Because everyone loves sentient squid who like playing poker (because, nobody can really read their expression and multiple arms make cheating easy. From Warhammer 40k, Necrons. Imagine entering a lost pyramid and finding it full of ancient suits of armour, before...

Start with something simple, and if they enjoy it start bringing in more complex aspects. When all's said and done, that's the easiest way to start with any new game. The Starter Set is pretty good in that respect (if you aren't a jaded grognard who's tired of Sartarite clans). But nobody needs...