Thanks for the heads up DMPrata, and excited to chip in!

Hey, Iron Ranger!  We have recently kicked-off and are four strong.

I'll ask Brock Savage who's running the show to get in touch with you.

Nemomeme - do you know of an alternate table-top ruleset that handles the circumstance to your liking?

I don't know of one that will satisfy your conundrum. Such is the power of initiative.

If B or C were my character, and A got the jump on me, next time I'd think twice about warming my hands by the brazier when the likes of A are nearby.

Jimm - that is perfectly horrifying.  I'd support its owlbear adaptation for an AS&SH campign, and get a daemonic influence into its backstory.

Demiurge - these are great!

The guys below have supplied the soundtrack of my life for the past decade, their name says it all:









 

Thanks for the reminder, Handy - I gave the amount of push I could.

Better yet, it alerted me to the wild coincidence that Juan Ochoa (http://www.juanochoa.co) is a contributing artist!  You can see some of his work on The Midderlands in the Kickstarter project updates.  He and I collaborated on a mini-comic a few years back.  Who knew?!

Awesome, Kradonus!  I'll talk to Brock and we'll get a plan together for the three of us to talk shop.

Handy Haversack wrote:

I find that PCs of whatever class that survive for any length of time in my AS&SH game have a good chance of some kind of deformity, mutation, or horrible scarring. No system needed: just regular old game play. I don't think there's any reason to formalize it for spell casters when *everyone* has a chance of ending up with ape arms and snake hair.

Brock Savage wrote:

...and has some application to my own campaign

Handy - you and Brock have been drinking from the same tainted well; he's been threatening our PCs with similar afflictions for our adventuresome efforts.

Thrilled to have stumbled upon this thread and videos.  I was entirely unaware of De Camp's IP/character assassination of Howard.  Eye-opening to say the least, and an excellent cautionary tale.

Certainly, the video's creator should have taken his own medicine and credited the source material on screen.

Now I need to go watch "Whole Wide World."

Thanks, Ghul!

Ghul wrote:

Fellows, it is with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of the hardbacks. Now I must beg your patience as we begin the process of fulfillment.

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Jeff - staring at these 2E hardback images has me entranced.  I now must do my best to grab one of the precious few overstock blue foiled versions.  Will those appear on DriveThruRPG sometime after the standard hardbacks?

No rush; happy to wear out the PDF for years to come if I must.