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More "A Magical Society: Silk Road" have been found, which is cool, because that gave me a chance to buy it! Thanks for the sale. Love getting quality stuff cheap! Blame my Scottish parents.

Trapped in a dungeon of 10 X 10 rooms? Trying desperately to get your group into the modern world? In Getting Modernized, the Accidental Survivors discuss how they have tricked, cajoled, threatened and otherwise persuaded groups to play in the modern genre. While headlocks, chokeholds, and...

I'm not pretending anything. It does what I need it to do. It's a game people are willing to play, they are rules I know very well, and I can spend time working on the campaign rather than learning a new rules set. Even moving to True20 is a hit to rule knowledge. I've heard it before--you...

That would be the one! It was, of course, larger and designed in the Tolkienesque map style we all remember from LotR. Odd you should you mention that . . . Yes, that was one of the hooks, also the basis for the Big Bad in our Fourth Age campaign.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind a little fisticuffs and mixing it up, but I really don't enjoy dungeon crawls (which are basically a linked--no matter how poorly--series of challenges and combat). I definitely voted story. And it kind of makes me smile when someone advises me that if I want...

I've never read it that the Easterlings or the Southrons were all evil, rather they were allied with Sauron who was considered evil. Further, Denethor was on the "side of the angels," as was Saruman for some time. I think there's room for moral ambiguity in ME, but only if one moves away from...

In my opinion: Victorian era coolness. I just took the opportunity to update my Imperial Age collection with Gentleman Scientist, Victorian Occupations and Fisticuffs & Swordplay. With a new baby on the way, I didn't think I'd be doing any game purchases in the next year or so. Thankfully, GMS...

Two Cows! Chris Engler, the Wapcaptain and fellow Canuck, is acting in a very anti-Scrooge manner and we at Sword's Edge Publishing want to get all Tiny Tim with his festive idea. Here it is--buy some cows. I'll let him explain it (from the website): "Recent news has been focused on economic...

Let me add my voice to those here with a solid "interested."

Planning on running a Vikings True 20 campaign set in 988 AD. I have the prep work all done, now I just need to get group buy-in. We'll find out next week if the longship sails forth in search of the Bulgar Gold (extra points for knowing the reference) or if we're running something else completely.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and the Accidental Survivors will attempt to profit from that any way they can. Their first plan? A) podcast about the apocalypse. B) ? C) Profit! I love this plan and can see no fault in it. La-la-la, I can't hear you.

Well, I have a second kid on the way in February, so I'm afraid SEP is going to take an even bigger hit than has already happened. That being said, if I do further work in RPGs, it's either going to be my pet project (Choson, an RPG about 16th century Korea) or True20, so there's always a...

The first episode of the GenCon Survivors Interviews has been released. GCS Interview 01 is with Eric Wiener of Paradigm Concepts discussing Witch Hunter: the Invisible World. The content has had minor editing, but all the important stuff is still in there. You can find out more about the...

I certainly wouldn't say one misinterpretation makes on a bad historian. I would say that you are right in that gunpowder is all but absent from a vast majority of popular fantasy fiction. Personally, I like gunpowder in my fantasy. Many of the assumptions of D&D have always seemed as much late...

Kelly DeVries in "Medieval Military Technology" indicates that John the Fearless of Burgundy had about 4000 hand-held gunpowder weapons in his arsenal by 1410. Dr. DeVries refers to "coulverines a main" and "haquebusses" earlier in this same paragraph (pg 149 of the 1992 Broadview Press...

Captain Needa. What? I couldn't resist. Like this thread doesn't need some humour.

Let there be no mistake, what The Le did was wrong. I'm condemning the action. Personally, for me, no biggie. I have never trusted RPG Now/OBS review system. There's no quality control. And while I don't have evidence that would be accepted in court, I have definitely seen situations that...

What's GCS? It stands for GenCon Survivors, the Accidental Survivors who attended GenCon 2008. Episodes on the GenCon Survivors feed will include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary. The sound quality is very poor. The language is very...

Looks like I'm in some good company. Ironic that True20 actually removes the impetus I had for working on Modern Medieval, since it provides a unified system with all the coolness and functionality I desire for use with both Fantasy and Modern. That, of course, doesn't mean that the Modern...

Let's just say that for RPG rules, I'm not an early adapter. I may be late to the party, but I'm here until dawn.