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Varo I think that Varo is having some sort of crisis of faith/atonement type issues so I suspect he is about to reconvert to the faith of the Father and invoke some Heavenly type goodness on Orcus. I say Varo for the new Patriarch! Also, I have to congratulate you LB. I think the writing...

Sometimes I will do a recap but a lot of the time it isnt necessary. several members of the group are very active blodders and they tend to do AP write ups after the game. One technique I do like is to use the "Next week on..." method as a slot at the end of any game to get the players...

Given how hard the party has become I always wondered why you didnt simply level Bile Mountain from the outside. You could then gank the survivors as they clawed their way out of the wreckage and then did through the rubble for the loot.

While not wanting to derail the thread why? If I can withstand the inferno like breath of an elder dragon a short fall really shouldnt bother me. Put me in the same camp as Shilsen, PC's of this level are heroes in the mould of Hercules and Achilles. Their concerns are bigger than whether or...

Anything that has "Casts spells as a Cleric of Wizard of level x" I dont want to have to sped prep time sorting out lengthy prepared spells lists for monsters half of which will never even be used.

It depends. Some system will provide guidelines on generating setting elements (SotC novels, Burning Wheel BIT's) etc. Bcause we have played together for so long our first instinct is always to sit down before we ever even think of what we are going to play and dcssuss what we want out of the...

Yes, its our default method when starting new games regardless of the system.

Your clearly going soft LB. In the old days the demons would have ported in while the PC's were still struggling with the dung monster... :)

As i recall by the time the Elric series begins Melnibone had pretty much sunk into serlf absorbed introspection. Once it ruled the Young Kingdoms and destroy whole regions with Dragon Fire. By the time of Elric Melnibone rules pretty much just its own Island, the rest of the world has...

So all the development blogs and playtest reports and everything else is not communicating with the players? Really, because I dont remember getting half this much information about 3e before it was produced and narely anything before 2e. Also, your crap is someone eleses interesting. Thats...

It isnt unreasonable but you are starting from the assumption that fluff issues arent already included in the game. They are there, they just dont bother you because they fit in with your view on what the game is about. They may be easier to ignore (although frankly I think thats hooey) but...

Another huge assumption without any actual evidence. The novels tend to go there own way and have certainly already introduced a fair few organisations. FR ones are packed with them, does that impact on your game?

In the same way they were stepped on by the appearance of such luminaries as Tenser, Bigby, Mordenkainen and Vecna? I thought not.

Its been a long time since I have read Von Beck so I will take your word for it. Certainly the Elric timeline seems rather, convoluted. It isnt helped by the fact that hints and suggestions are spread across a score or more books.

The Appartus of Kwalish. Not only was it a great big metal robot thing it looked like a lobster and had a stupid name. In terms of killing versimiltude its right up there with Golden Wyvern Adept and yet I have been happily able to ignore it for 20 years. Edit: of course thats just my...

I would rather none, as I have said I think it is a silly name. But that isnt really an argument, its purely a matter of personal preference. I dont see fluff included within the books as impinging on any game I run. I will simply do what I have always done, use what fluff I like and change...

thats an awful lot of assumptions there for something that we actually know very little about. There could just as easily be 6 sample feats, 1 for each "order". Just as easily GWA could be the only one.

That is not the impression I got for the books except for a few minor exceptions. I suspect it is an artifact of the RPG with its much heavier emphasis on demon summoning and every Melnibonean having demon weapons and armour.

We are still at one known. We did have Dragon Tail Cut which was about as silly but that I believe got pulled.

I thought you used different implements for different types of spells? In that case what would the Hat or Rod be used for? On a slightly more serious note I am not sure that Rod would be suffciciently differentiated from Staff.