The Twilight:2000-themed minis blog It's 500 Miles to the German Border has a great post on weathering vehicle minis. Wear Value 5 comes from the game scale wear value of vehicles in T2K. Vehicles are valuable but hard to maintain, and since many if not most military units have broken up into small bands vehicles are worn-out, parts-starved, gear-covered combination wagon/fighting vehicles. This is just a nice bit of advice for taking any modern vehicle and making it loot used.
Joseph Mason has more issues with GURPS Dungeon Fantasy than I ever did, but has one of the same issues I've had - he can't put it down and walk away. I've said this before and I'll say it again - we played a playtest of Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 1 just because we'd been board gaming but hadn't roleplaying gamed in a while, and then turned that into a DF game. That DF game was meant to be "mess around until we get bored" . . . and that hasn't happened yet six years on. In fact, that biggest and most consistent complaint about my DF game isn't my GMing, the wildly unbalanced encounters I use, issues with XP systems or treasure, TPKs, etc. but that we don't play often enough.
Greyhawkery has a very evocative post listing the swamps of Greyhawk. The post "Poll Result: Most Dangerous Swamp really highlights what makes each one interesting and dangerous. I love swamps, marshes, and river deltas as adventuring places, and all of these put me in mind to encourage my players to explore the Cold Fens a bit more . . .
This is pretty much what happens in my game when people decide the best rear guards are the Per 10 hirelings they hired for 1/3 of a pittance each (success only):
And finally, the roper in this picture always makes me think it's a guy in a costume. It just looks like a guy in a costume to me, maybe for Halloween or maybe in a surprisingly well-made low-budget movie.
Hjalmarr is 100% down for going to the Cold Fens both to explore the Temple of Sakatha that Gerry speaks of, and to find that Dragon!
ReplyDeleteYou do need to go and kill one of those dragons. They're really meant as big exciting fights with terrific rewards, not "maybe someday before the game ends" things to be avoided!
DeleteI thought all the holy water needed to get in was used up?
ReplyDeleteGerry is older wiser and stronger now and has much mightier buddies
I can just imagine Mo in particular being very unkind to the undead lizards
It was all used up. They'll just need some more unholy water . . . where and how they get that is up to them. It's not sold in stores . . .
DeleteDon’t feel bad about pointing to others’ posts. I often come here for the blogroll on the side.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I've also been finding so many posts I don't want people to miss, or ones I don't want to lose track of, that I feel like I have to post them in a roundup link post.
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