Paul2.Harmaty writes:
>A reasonable model from recent (ha, ha) publications would be something akin to
>the campaign portion of Dorastor. Here the players meet and interact with their
>(fairly well personified) clan leaders and build a stead of their own. I'd have
>loved this supplement to death if it had been placed in Sartar with either the
>Upland Marsh or Wolf Woods providing the primary forbidden place and bad guys.
>Playtesting this package we (the players) all warned Ken that our primary goal
>was to eventually leave Dorastor, not settle there. Had we been establishing a
>new stead at the edge of our clan territory in Sartar we'd have been more
>concerned with earning a good reputation with the clan.
I too made this very same point when playtesting the D:LoD material. In many ways the book is somewhat schizophrenic: the gross-out monsters in the first half of the book would make mango chutney out of any of the PCs from the second half in about 3 Strike Ranks.
I suggest that you can place the 'Risklands' into a Sartar setting quite painlessly; in fact, it might even work more successfully than the Dorastor setting. Anyone tried it?
Andrew Joelson:
>Hwarrin Dalthippa 'the Conquering Daughter' created the Duaghter's
>Road, from Jillaro to Mirin's Cross. But I can't remember if there was
>another road leading northwest (instead of southwest), or if the one road
>was simply built in two stages. (I do seem to remember two 'building'
>stages.)
The rune lord rank of Harald Smith's Hwarrin Dalthippa cult is called a "Road Warrior". This is so groovy that even if Harald's Imther stuff has been stripped of its Gloranthan content, it's now IMG!
Phillip Hibbs:
> On Languge & Dialect:
>There is a place here in the UK called "Pendlehill".
Here in Australia, a lot of confusion arose when the first Europeans tried to talk with the Aborigines. For example, it's likely that 'kangaroo' means "huh?" or "I don't understand a word you're saying" rather than the name of the lovable hopping marsupial with a pouch. The river that flows through my city is called the Yarra River, but as 'yarra' was the local aboriginal word for 'river', I guess it's really the River River. Canberra, the nation's capital was so-named because distinguished anthropologists said it meant 'Meeting Place', but if they'd bothered to check with the local natives they'd have learnt that the real meaning of 'Canberra' was 'the place in-between the two hills that are shaped like a woman's breasts'! I suspect that the aborigines those stuffy academics first talked to might have been taking the mickey!
Cheers
MOB
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