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Septentrionalis was actually submitted to WOTC's setting search. It will be published as Northern Crown: New World Adventures by Atlas Games next year.

"Breaking and Entering" and "Pandora's Box" are probably the two most common adventure elements I use. "Recent Ruins" works, too. What a GREAT list of plot hooks -- thanks.

Here's the straight story: Northern Crown: New World Adventures is slated for an early 2005 release from Atlas Games. Michelle Nephew has already completed a close edit of the manuscript (at nearly 300,000 words, a monumental effort) and the ball is back in my court for final edits and...

I like to design adventures for particular players and PCs, rather than generically. What kind of adventures do they like? Hack and slash, puzzle-solving, lots of NPC interactions and character building, or a combination? A crew of action-craving players isn't likely to enjoy a murder mystery at...

Playing Saturday AM with my brother and two friends. The four of us have been meeting regularly to play D&D since 1977 -- good lord, that's 27 years. My spouse will be there too -- she's been gaming with us "only" since 1987. We meet about once every six to ten weeks, for an all-day session...

You will enjoy "Northern Crown*", the title I am developing for Atlas Games for early 2005 release -- a complete campaign setting in an alternate-history colonial America, with folk magic, folkloric monsters and personalities, witches, pirates, puritans, coureurs-de-bois, ruined Moundbuilder...

Hear! Hear! To elaborate, Wombat is likely referring to the composer Korngold's film scores for classic swashbuckling films like The Sea Hawk and The Adventures of Robin Hood. I have a CD of this music and it is among our top choices for piratey gaming music. If you ever wondered where John...

The hippogriff is actually an invention of a known fantasy writer, Ludovico Ariosto, in the early 1500s. It is not from ancient Greek myth. The kraken is Norse.

Thanks for your support. I love Solomon Kane (anyone seen Gary Gianni's illustrated version? -- wow!). It's definitely in the same vein as Septentrionalis, I agree. The published version will be an OGL stand-alone game, with significantly different core classes, combat, and magic from standard...

I think the "guy" you refer to might be me, and the campaign you refer to is Septentrionalis. It's actually set about a century before the AWI, but is applicable for any campaign reminiscent of North American between 1500 and 1800, with or without fantasy elements. I've taken the old PDFs off...

My list: MUSEUMS 1. Museum of Fine Arts 2. New England Aquarium 3. Museum of Science DINING AND SHOPPING 1. Harvard Square (across the river in Cambridge) -- there's a good gaming store/sf bookstore there called Pandemonium -- also, the Harvard U. museums are quite impressive, especially the...

I went to Danger Planet today, actually. The guy there was really friendly, and the store was very clean and tidy, but it was essentially a GW store with two shelves of d20 stuff and a small but well-chosen selection of board games. Outer Limits, around the corner, actually has a larger RPG...

Good publicity for Danger Planet Games. I live just one town over and I've never been to that particular store. Judging by their web site they seem to be big on Warhammer and card games, and not so much on RPGs. Any of you Bostoners been there? What kind of selection do they have compared to ...

In Ariosto's satiric epic poem Orlando Furioso, begun in 1505, there is a wizard named Atlas who lives in a high, many-towered castle. This poem, by the way, is the original source of the hippogryph, which the evil wizard used as a steed. "Then I came to a stark, grim valley hemmed in with...

I'm a MasterMaze enthusiast. They are expensive but the quality of the sculpting and painting and the attention to detail are excellent -- your lovingly painted minis will no longer feel embarassed standing around on a vinyl mat or a whiteboard. I find the pieces quite durable, having dropped...

1. Use pregenerated characters, and write up a little one- or two- paragraph summary of their background, motivation, and relationships with the other PCs. This gives each player a hook to get into character quickly. 2. Start in the middle of things -- the PCs can be in a besieged fortress, a...

Not sure exactly what you saw, but try: http://www.hovelsltd.co.uk Also, http://www.terrainosaur.com is a good starting point for gaming terrain in general, including buildings.

I couldn't stop talking about it either. Great fun all round. Please reserve me a table for the next Boston game day. Dibs on the living room!

Yes, that's me! Sorry that the PDFs aren't available anymore. The full story is that they are likely to be published as a 256-page hardcover sourcebook in 2004 by a major d20 publisher. In fact, I'm going through the editing process right now. I pulled the PDFs because they're not 3.5e and don't...

I attended a panel with Mr. Mieville at last year's WisCon which was about the geography of fantasy. He made several remarks about cities as settings for adventure. Now that industrial cities are more common that deep, dark forests, (he said), they have replaced the wilderness as the archetype...