the bond between a bishop and his chorbishop
is a sacred one, of the utmost trust for, as chorbishop Veltinari famously observed, how else would the business of the church ever get done? Since it falls to the chorbishop to do all the lower church...
View ArticleCughell’s cupiditous ciosc
In the Friday mosque at Firuzabad they tell of a bold, ingenious and prolific thief, who would set himself up in front of another merchant’s stall in the market and sell their goods, magicked up for...
View ArticleReal historical adventurers: Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Alongside all the buzz over DCC beta there’s been a load of irritable hand-waving about that old, old chestnut, epic vs. picaresque heroes (or heroes vs. anti-heroes, if you like. Or consciously...
View ArticleTelecanter wrote an unbeatable one-line campaign pitch. I stir in Central Asia
So Telecanter wrote this typically inspiring post, the final line of which is undiluted adventurous expectancy: A city of ancient magic users so corrupted that mages only visit it through constructs...
View Article20 questions for Tartary, my Carcosesque Bollymecha, Wacky Racing and...
Following some inspiring posts about weird post-apocalyptic and sciency-fantasy settings, I figured I should try to explain my Tartary setting (again!), this time using Jeff’s famous 20 questions. …I...
View Articletrade goods by theft rating
Somehow over the past 2 weeks I’ve missed a great series of posts by Telecanter about procedural/random trading games. Right at the beginning of that series he asked about lists of trade goods and what...
View ArticleThe only trainspotting post I will ever write. Probably.
Looking at the trailer for the latest film in which Johnny Depp’s makeup upstages the titular character, I realise that what I really want to watch is a movie all about disruptive technologies. Or even...
View ArticleAgainst the Steady State Universe
A comment on G+ reminded me of a little bugbear I have with almost all RPG settings: they tend to have in-built resistance to change. Whether it’s “points of light” or Battletech’s unending, entropic...
View ArticleBack to the bad old 6-mile hex
So the topic of the enormous howling waste of the 6 mile hex has come up again. Here Steamtunnel remarks that all of Bethsoft’s Oblivion fits in a 4 mile square. Commenters note that verisimilitude for...
View ArticleMen in Black 2: Priests of Ming
While their sardonic cardinal gets all the best lines, the whole Priesthood of Ming shares a sense of humour perhaps best appreciated from a safe place very far away. Priests of Ming are the hands and...
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