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Braden Campbell

The Children/Youth rules give the characters a 1st-level OCC... but they need +30% more XP to level up, their starting skills are lower, and their attributes are a bit different.

Braden Campbell

Based on the full script for Issue #1, it looks like there will be five PC roles:
Erin Tarn - 1st lev Rogue Scholar
little sister Alix - ? (she's maybe 15, but what OCC?)
Wimik - D-Bee, enhanced sense of smell (OCC = ?)
Bell - Operator, an adult but extremely introverted (autistic?).
The Boy ...

Braden Campbell

Thank you!

Those Dead Reign character modifiers were exactly what I was hoping for.

- Braden

Braden Campbell

Well, hello all!
t's been a while.

I was day dreaming about dusting off a concept for a limited campaign ... an idea that is now a decade old... that takes the Adventures of Young Erin Tarn as its starting point. The characters would be taken from the comic, but this means some of them would ...

Braden Campbell

@Brandon Campbell, I have 2 questions for you. Do you have a map of the Wormwood eastern kingdoms, the thread I found had a broken link.
Second, what happened to the "4th" instalment of Wormwood Addendum? or did you decide you only needed three to publish all the material.

I am hoping your ...

Braden Campbell

It can only be repaired by an Alchemist... not sure of the rates, though.

Braden Campbell

Indeed.

Have fun. Stay safe. And don't forget to purchase some orange drink Thundercloud Galaxy for the long ride home.

Braden Campbell

A looooong time ago, I had this notion that the company should launch a series of SDC "dimension books" for the Fantasy line... called "realms books." And that Wormwood could be reworked to be the first such supplemental setting for that line.

One thing I can tell you (having brought a few of the ...

Braden Campbell

Warshield73 wrote:I was going nuts looking for the desert travel rules, I thought they were in a new west book, but I found them in Vamp SB.

The suggestion that they be included was specifically one of mine.

Braden Campbell

Of the two, resin is far easier to convert... so, resin.

But, honestly, plastic is the way to go.

Braden Campbell

this is mostly published timelines in books.

Braden Campbell

It's lengthy, and doesn't contain EVERYTHING... but, here's a start.
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Palladium World Timeline

100,000 years ago — The Age of Chaos ends and the Age of Light begins.

90,000 years ago — The Battle of Gods.

70,000 years ago — The Time of a ...

Braden Campbell

I know there's the one in the Main Book, but has anyone put together an expanded version drawn from the entire line?

Braden Campbell

You could just neuter them by having Novus 9 vanish... as is hinted at in the text, if I recall.

Braden Campbell

Now I'm wondering what an orc camp is like and how territory works between the various tribes and clans.

I mean are they all nomadic or do you find orc villages and the like?

A mix, i would think, between tribes that favour nomadic wandering, and those that set up more permanently. Orcs "have a ...

Braden Campbell

My personal intension was more in line with: the party is traveling across the Old Kingdom. They encounter an orc scouting/scavenging/raiding/war party - how big and scary is said party?

Braden Campbell

Time and again, we are told that travel into the Old Kingdom is a dangerous undertaking because one will inevitably encounter hostile groups of orcs (the most numerous of the sub-human species). However, aside from this affirmation, there is little else for a GM to go on. Well, fret no longer ...

Braden Campbell

From an official answer to a long-ago Q&A, we know there are four time zones from east to we4st as well.

Braden Campbell

Yeah, Will rocks indeed.

Braden Campbell

I actually prefer the idea that they employ bioluminescent creatures as light sources. There's a lot of interesting design space there (like, a "lantern" that's full of saltwater and glowing anemone)

Braden Campbell

Book 14, pg 82-83

Braden Campbell

It's not explicitly mentioned... but, since they usually live in deep water/ocean environments, should the Zaranceti have some kind of see-in-the-dark nightvision?

Braden Campbell

A lot of OCCs can be customized with backstory and skill selection. what about a priest of light that specializes more in repelling/slaying monsters and demons than in healing?

Braden Campbell

What's my alignment?

Braden Campbell

Its an ice cap... and north of that (south, maybe, it the ice is over the pole?) you encounter the wall again.

There's no escape...

Braden Campbell

As of "Bizantium," the Black Wall surrounds the entire continent. It's six or seven hundred miles to the south, east, and west, and more to the north.

Braden Campbell

There are seasons (it's not always winter in the Great Northern Wilderness, for example, and the Golden Coast has storms only certain parts of the year)...and the prevailing winds blow from west to east (Library).

Given the tropical climate of the south, I have always presumed an "equator" to lie ...

Braden Campbell

South-east of Mt Nimro... that area is apparently all swamps and wetlands.

Braden Campbell

Well, since we find giraffes and,other African savana animals in the OK Southern lowlands (but not in the western or eastern ones) you may be right.

Braden Campbell

Being in the middle of the continent, the Old Kingdom probably sees less rainfall than other parts of the world. However, would not storms form from time to time over the Scarlet Sea, and then be carried inland by the western winds?

And what effect, if any, would the mountains have re. weather ...

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Nah... I have the fortress sitting atop the Old Kingdom version of Castle Rock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_(Edinburgh). So there's only one real approach and the site itself is 250' above the rest of the countryside.

Braden Campbell

Still, its a lot roomier than I initially thought.

Braden Campbell

My Old kingdom game has finally reached the "tiny human kingdom" based around the ancient elven fortress-tower of Shillendar. (LoB, 152-153).

Now, given that the structure is 900' across and 30' high (so... 2-3 stories) not to mention its central 150' spire... how many people could realistically ...

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Also, if you free them, they comit suicide!

(Man... I must have been going through a real dark patch back then...)

Braden Campbell

My only problem with this is that it's countered by the text saying "nearly instant". It also neuters a GB which is not as powerful as it was in the RMB days...

If the GB pilot has as few as 5 attacks, engaging/disengaging the pylons would take all of 3 seconds.

As well, every other character ...

Braden Campbell

Make it cost an attack/action to engage or disengage the pylons. Done.

Braden Campbell

Perhaps there's just a breed of Old Kingdom thouroubreds that are slightly larger and more aggressive than others...?

Braden Campbell

My current campaign now focuses on a trek across the Old Kingdom, and I'm suddenly faced with the question of what the locals (ie non-humans) ride around on. Orc barbarians on _horses_ just doesn't seem right. So, what do we have for cannon exotic mounts... or do I have to invent a few beasties to ...

Braden Campbell

I would offer this: be prepared for the fact that the Players will be able to make mincemeat out of just about every threat they encounter which is NOT prepared to fight vampires... but will be slaughtered quickly by threats that are.

Braden Campbell

OK...OK... maybe not a hydra - but defiantly a nasty big enough that an otherwise random group of people, who all happen to be there when the thing attacks, have to team up in order to defeat it.

Braden Campbell

Nothing builds bonds of friendship and mutual admiration like fighting a hydra...

Braden Campbell

The official Timisoara royal family stuff ended up in one of the later Rifters...

Edit: I'm leaving that autocorrect for hilarity's sake

Braden Campbell

In the Western Empire, knights are raised up by the nobility, but then control of them is gifted over to the Imperial House... so, I'm not sure there would be any Western Knightly Orders...

Braden Campbell

Sisterhood of the Northern Knights (Disputed Zone, E.T.)
Order of the Lance
Mistoan Order (based in Llorn)
Order of the Sword (A Rurga order)
Order of the Maple (Cirga order)
Order of the Tree (A Rurga order)
Order of the Scale (A Rurga order)
Penington Order (Peningshir-specific order)
Drakko Order ...

Braden Campbell

I'm wondering where coral reefs might naturally occur (if at all) in this island chain...

Braden Campbell

Might be of some help: https://www.britannica.com/place/Caribbean-Sea

Braden Campbell

Given the lack of volcanoes on them, the Floenries are likely "continental islands" and the water levels in between then are probably pretty shallow.

Although... the Straight of Relar could actually be a fairly deep trench... and the area of water south of The Rock could also suddenly drop off ...

Braden Campbell

Is it weird how "flat" these islands are? Does that tell us anything, geologically?

Braden Campbell

I too have been presuming that "Pendaltor" is the name of that South Wind province, separated from the rest of them by that strip of Yin-Sloth jungle.

Braden Campbell

I vote for option C

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