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  1. Bilharzia

    Media D100 Workshop

    D100 Workshop is a new blog started by Raleel for d100 games (largely the ones inspired by the original Chaosium games). We are a mix of authors who are writing about these games. Currently Raleel is focusing on a series of detailed Cults for Mythras (and potentially other BRP-derived games)...
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    What is your favorite zero-prep game for ongoing campaigns.

    You just need to read up on a location that the group are heading to. Beyond that everything is generated on the fly.
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    What is your favorite zero-prep game for ongoing campaigns.

    Mutant Year Zero works well for this.
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    Media Opposed Roles Podcast - Cults

    Opposed Roles on using Cults in Mythras https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/opposed-roles/id1508915200
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    Blockchain and RPGs: When Fantasy Meets (Digital) Reality

    There's no "continuously vomit" button.
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    Free League announces Dragonbane, the translation of Swedish RPG classic Drakar och Demoner

    Ducks are very much part of RuneQuest from the beginning in 1978, they are in the rules as a creature and intelligent playable character.
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    Illiteracy and shamanism

    Animism is widely accepted as an appropriate and general term which does include veneration of ancestors. It is not limited in the way you suggest.
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    Illiteracy and shamanism

    https://www.enworld.org/forums/d-d-older-editions.701/
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    Illiteracy and shamanism

    Since this is the "TTRPGs General" forum, would it not be better to ask in the "Older D&D" forum?
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    Illiteracy and shamanism

    Of course there are charlatans everywhere, and there have been at all times (see the Trickster in Mythology). It is worth pointing out that modern medicine recognises the power of placebo, which is effectively, the belief of the patient, not the medicine at work. Not only do placebos work, they...
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    Illiteracy and shamanism

    Shamanism describes a role, someone who communicates with spirits. Animist in general is a better term, as it covers anyone who believes in and interacts with spirits. For example, Celtic Druids are a type of animist.
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    Illiteracy and shamanism

    I don't get what (or why) you are talking about, or asking? As Aramis Erak has indicated, Japan has been a literature culture for hundreds of years and also maintained animist beliefs. If you are looking for a more general term, Animism is more appropriate to describe belief in spirits and a...
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    Coyote & Crow: Stories of the Free Lands: An Interview with Connor Alexander

    I absolutely see his point and agree with the spirit of what he is saying, but if you are speaking to an audience or a potential audience then the way you come across is important. Haranguing your audience is just not good a look, irrespective of whether you are right or not. I would use harsher...
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    Coyote & Crow: Stories of the Free Lands: An Interview with Connor Alexander

    The "Important Message" post does sound like an exasperated drill sergeant. For a project of this size it might have been a good idea to employ a communications and marketing person who is not the creative lead. That post illustrates why you need some separation between those roles.
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    Artworks in an RPG

    oooohhh-kay.
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    Artworks in an RPG

    Just for reference this is what you call Chaosium's "hand drawn" (which for some reason you think is not a good technique?) crap art. This is all, in your words "hand drawn crap". Out of interest, do you know how digital art is produced? Because artists who use a stylus and a tablet...
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    Artworks in an RPG

    Yeah I am afraid what you are saying is not supported by the evidence, or what most of us refer to as "reality". There was a huge amount of excellent black & white artwork in RPGs prior to digital painting and drawing, and that includes Chaosium, in fact Chaosium had some of the best. Of course...
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    Artworks in an RPG

    Yes ... I'm ... taking the Michael. They are both iconic covers to me.
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    Artworks in an RPG

    You mean this impossible RuneQuest art? Presumably this is Lisa A Free painting is terrible, This watercolour painting in particular repulses me Both date from the early 1980s, RuneQuest.
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