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Rel, Shaylon, Reveal, Contrarian: you guys didn't get your e-mail addresses to me before my last-minute background material posting. So, in a few minutes I'll be attaching it to this post whence you can download it.

Well, as the "Dark Ages" refer to the first half of the Middle Ages, I don't think we're too far apart here. Yep. One has to delete some stuff from the equipment list or make it really hard to find. But I'm not suggesting that my way of playing is what the RAW expects; given the sample settings...

Let's assume I'm cheap and short of time. Could you give me a rough precis?

I think the problem is the term "world." My worlds are of limited geographic and cultural scope. Why? Because in the mythic past that fantasy tries to evoke, the "world" was a whole lot smaller. By "world," I mean the totality of places, things, ideas, etc. that shape the reality in which the...

I'm not really interested in mass combat systems or making large-scale battles part of my games as a regular thing. Nevertheless, there is going to be a clash between armies that my characters will be an important part of. Any advice on how to make the battle as a whole feel real while...

I'd like to send out some background material for the game. Could everyone please either post their e-mail address here or send me an e-mail at stuart at subversive.org?

Another spot has opened-up in the Thursday game.

I'm a big fan of making character background a matter negotiated between GM and player. My games tend to be quest-oriented and so characters often share a purpose as well as a background. But even I would say picking out a character's god and class for him may be going a bit far. On the other...

I really hope you explore alternatives. I did not appreciate having a mandatory 20% gratuity imposed on me for :):):):):):), incompetent service and a long wait for my food.

Because I like GMing quest-oriented campaigns, my characters rarely have a base and usually both being pursued and pursuing the object of their quest. It's a personal style thing. The other problem with having a home base for the characters is that they can easily become distracted just with...

My Lord is a good generic title to use whenever there is significant social differentiation. It is very rare that it will be viewed as insufficient except in the case of the very powerful who often excuse it, given how inexperienced everyone except high aristocracy would have in addressing the...

The best out of the box album to use if you don't have a custom soundtrack made is Peter Gabriel's Passion, the soundtrack from Last Temptation of Christ. If you have the time, I'd recommend the following songs: Tom Waits Black Wings Cranes Shining Road Beautiful Friend Leonard Cohen...

Where in my posts do you get the idea that I'm claiming the concept comes from Persia when I say

Hence my statement in the post you quoted, As I said, "less generically coherent." I have no dispute with your statement that the game already contains a bunch of genre inconsistencies. I don't like most of them. Hence my statement I totally agree with this. Some parts of their project worked...

Are you saying combat strategy wasn't part of the game before 3E?

Yes. But some GM's can't keep it all in their head and absolutely have to diagram the situation precisely on graph paper to get AoOs right because they lack geometric intuition. I'm one of those GMs and would like a set of rules where I didn't have to do this. You are fortunate that your GM is...

Fill me in. My co-GM did the Japan section.

That was the point I was making. I would like to go back to a combat system where a grid and minis are optional because, right now, they are a requirement. Look at the Mutants & Masterminds system -- there, you can use minis or not, depending on your preference. I'd like to see that flexibility...

If realism is the goal, then obviously you must have serious problems with AC and HP mechanics. If you're looking for combat realism rather than cartoonish hyper-balance, another game system may be the way to go. Whereas making it impossible to sever limbs or organs using normal non-magical...

First, the nature thing: my point is not that the word did not exist but that the concept to which it is assigned did not. Until the 13th century, nature referred to the universe and how it works. There was no category other than nature into which things could fall. The opposite of nature was...