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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1355183" data-attributes="member: 6398">That was me... (The Chronicles of...) The Black Company is a series of books by Glen Cook about, well, "The" Black Company, last of the Free Companies of Khatavor (think I spelled that wrong...). It is everything you had described in the "cool campaign ideas" thread: bleak, grim, no real metaplot (except for politics, of course), but a chance of hope if the right people win the battle (which were usually large-scale national conflicts). Focuses mostly on the life of mercenaries, being pawns of political intrigue within a sorcerous regime, and the fact that the good people in the world usually don't leave the farm (for obvious reasons). I've gotten more inspiration from it than from any other series, including Lord of the Rings (if I got anything from Tolkein, it's the drive for detail). Hell, I've gotten more from it than I have a lot of supplements. And if Chris & company mess it up, I'll come down on them harder than I've ever came down on WotC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  Seriously <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, I have the utmost faith in GR on this... There really are only a few companies I would have been happy with getting the license, and GR is one of them... Although, with what I've seen of Slain and Conan, I would have been happy with Mongoose as well. I would have trusted Bastion with it, but they are doing what they clearly do best already, so I'm happy they're not getting distracted from Oathbound and general supplements. I'm just happy that it's in the hands of someone that's not going to treat it like "D&D with a dark paint job". Anyhow, to point... Yeah, I'm going to parrot the call for Starship Troopers. The movie was slick and the book was excellent. Indiana Jones would be cool, too, but I don't know if WotC inhereted that license from TSR or if it expired long ago.</blockquote>

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