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Oh! Are we running a Stafford/Doyle style game here? Like RuneQuest meets creepy lizard snakes? Wait, they exist in Glorantha too. Dragonnewts, right?
The age is Hyperboean Earth, correct?

If you have the space, i'd like to join in the barbaric tales.
/Dave

Actually this is a Howard scenario, I'm just using the ligth rules of runequest because I think they are the best to this kind of scenario. I like glorantha but I have only play it once, my group was fascinated with the game pendragon.
If you want, you can play it, just choose the race and I'l create the char.

Howard! Silly me....

So, are you still interested?

Do I look grim? Yes, I´m interested!

Öz Khan the Devourer

I´m going for a Pathenian horse lord of a fire tribe worshiping Elrik. He rides from the Mongolian reaches and eats the hearts of his enemies. At least that´s what he claims.

Excelent! Now all I have to do, is wait that invisible castle starts to work again...

It seems IC has really gone this time. Try http://orokos.com

I don't mind whatever way you roll'im up, even phys-dice are fine by me.
Cheers!

Thanks Priest for the sugestion!

By the way syrinx, if you ever create a glorantha game don't forget to invite me

Ah, that would take me back to the 80´s and the setting got to be in The Big Rubble and New Pavis. It will be awesome! Invite will arrive when things are set.
A warm-up for that would be Fjallhallenberg Castle, which I started as my "Inception" experiment during The Lurking Horror. I might pick that out and launch quite soon. Maybe a Christmas special speed-run? Like a Gauntlet game. (Did you play that in the arcades back in the day?)

Gauntlet? I think I played it in a spectrum in the latte 80's. The lurking horror, I just played a bit much, much latter.

I've never played RuneQuest, but I do remember that game-within-a-game in The Lurking Horror. Mostoli dwarves rock! Dwarves were always meant to use firearms.

I've played Gauntlet, both the arcade game and a computer version (Apple IIc). That brings back memories! "Barbarian needs food - badly."

Well, you can always play king of the dragon pass, an old computer game (and one of my favorites).

Never played it but it was a strategic text game with graphics, right?
I just saw a demo on Dave´s site.

I did try a RuneQuest addon for Age of Wonders 2. Not very good, though.

I think Skyrim has all elements to be a Glorantha game. Just mod it right and you have it.

I have King of Dragon Pass on GoG and have heard great things about it, but I haven't had time yet to play it (or hundreds of other games in my library).

I'm also very interested in the Night's Watch game set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire you mentioned possibly running once, especially since I've been reading the books.

The Lands of Always Winter will be up over the holidays. Then I´ll see which games to actually finish and which to keep playing. They are starting to pile up now.
Btw I just started to play Telltale Games´ House Forrester GOT. It runs much like a choose your adventure books format. Tried any of the games by Telltale episodics?
Cheers!

King of dragon pass is a strategy with rpg elements. Besides managing the village (magic and cows), you have everyday problems to solve: a women that runs with another men, petty thief, fitghing against other clans. And visually it was beautiful.

Great! I'm looking forward to The Lands of Alwas Winter, and I've had a character concept for it for some time.

I don't have the Telltale Games GoT game yet. I'm waiting for the price to drop, especially since I have such a huge backlog of games that it'll be a while before I get to play it anyway. I do have another GoT game on Steam that's supposed to be very good, but I haven't had time to play that yet. I'm almost halfway through reading A Storm of Swords, and earlier I read the part where they return to Craster's Keep. None of the characters realized that they could have sent Lord Comander Mormont's pet raven back to Castle Black with news of their critical discoveries, but I thought of it right away. Castle Black is that raven's home, so it could have flown back there like any other raven.

I bought several of Telltale's other games, most of them in a bundle directly from them that was on sale. I have The Walking Dead Season 1 (waiting for a price drop before I get Season 2), all of their Sam and Max games (I played the original back in the 90s), Back to the Future, and several of their older games. I haven't had time to play them yet, though.

You must have an impressive wall of games and books, Jonathan. I only have about twenty good old books. And a handful of RPG books. Most of my games and books got lost in one of the moves many years ago. Now, I have most stuff digitally. I find it really cool to be able to read old articles from White Dwarf and Dragon magazine. Would you care to send a snapshot of your gaming corner? I know some of the guys at YSDC did that some time ago.

On that note, did you guys join the secret Shogott this year?

/Dave

I don't have that many RPG books, but I do have shelves lined with all of my interactive gamebooks from the past thirty years or so. Many of my board games are in boxes in one of my closets, but I've filled another closet with most of the games that I've bought in the past couple of years. Most of my computer games are digital copies, but I do have quie a few physical copies of games. The boxes are mostly put away in larger boxes as well, but I do have a rack with the jewel cases/DVD cases. I've seen the "shelfies" that were posted on YSDC. I could take some pictures and post them when I have time, maybe later this weekend.

I didn't join Secret Shoggoth this year. Lack of time again.

I see, I guess that´s understandable. Don´t make it a have-to-do thing, I was just curious.

If you guys have the time, though. I´ve set up the Rune Quest game and the Land of Always Winter over at Obsidian Portal.
They have a neat layout on the site now, and I´ve activated forums for them.

They will be run on two boards as Antarctica 1983.

Pick which you´d rather want to use and I´ll continue recruiting.

/Dave

I'm in in the runequest game (but it will take some days to make the char).
I haver played a bit of the walking dead. Excelent game, but vey stressful.

Cool! I´ll add some more background to the upcoming Mostali-mission.

I will be out for the next couple of days. A merry christmas for you and for you families!

I'm back!

Well, the scenario has ended. I hope you liked, even if I must admit I had to change it a lot, since playing with just person isn't the same.
Thank you to stay until the end.

You're welcome, and thank you for running it! I enjoyed the scenario. What would have been different about it if we'd had more players? May I read The Korajan Servant thread now?

When you're ready, let me know, and I'll move the game into the Hall of Fame.

Yes, you can.

Well, the first time I runned this scenario, the group had to figth the others like gladiators (with the promess that the winners would take the survivors as captives, but of course it was only a ruse to weaken both group). The player who had discovered the true, explained quickly to his companions, there was a huge carnage, they had to run (discovering latter that the weapons stolen from the captors were full of jewels, it was good reward). Since in here, the player dropped, I had to improvise, create the orgy (instead the combat) and finish as quick as possible.
Anyway, I'm thinking of creating a scenario of delta green in a couple of months.

I'd be up for that!

Taking the priest hostage really helped keep the combat to a minimum in this game, but it's good that there's a way to win without too much fighting.

I am usually very open to creative solutions. And with fight, there is the risk of some players dying... but it's a easier path to choose.

Please move this game to the hall of fame