Lacteal libation. Hah!

Good morning! It’s a beautiful day down in Northern Virginia!

😂 Birgir sure did get some incredibly good rolls while berserked. Very nice accounting of the battle (so far).

My players are close to finishing up Xaambala and it seems they have some interest in seeking employment from the Witch Queen. In light of that, I am planning to flesh out Yithorium and give it the Xaambala treatment. I think Anthrophagie is a fantastic setting/adventure and want to emulate its style.

I am happy to hear from those that may have already fleshed out that city or have some thoughts on how it might be developed.

In chatting with ghul he confirmed that the Witch Queen is generally based on the evil twin in the Howard Conan story ‘A Witch Shall Be Born’. The city itself is based around a 100’ tower of alien origin. There are springs/oasis’s there as well. I’m leaning heavily towards a city design resembling Angkor Thom/ Angkor Wat. Namely, a city with spring-fed canals and something resembling a moat, but otherwise unwalled.

Howard’s Witch Queen is thoroughly despotic, and a fairly insatiable evil, well... witch. Debauchery rules the city. Anyone that catches her or her advisors eyes are snatched from the streets regardless of station. Is that a sustainable element in Hyperboria? Obviously Conan overthrows the Witch Queen in a relatively short time where as in Hyperboria she is ageless and has been in power for a very long time. That sort of behavior doesn’t lend itself to long-term rule.

Anyway, I’m straying a bit but feel free to chime in with ideas for Yithorium. If you are one of my players, get the@$?! out of here. :-)

Oh snap, Hackhampster. Eloquently written! Im glad to have the gang back together again! You write it so much better than I DM it, lol.

Great thread. This is also one of my all-time faves! At one point I had been trying to develop a "secondary delve' into the Forbidden City. There are so many unmarked buildings on the map to play with. One is a Tamoachan-like pyramid that I started fleshing out. Sadly, I never finished it... Maybe I'll dive back into it one of these days.

Yeah, that looks like a good selection.

rhialto wrote:

Ghul wrote:

Table 43: Unskilled Weapon Attack Penalty 
Table 44: Attack Rate / Rate of Fire 
Table 45: Monetary Exchange 
Table 46: Armour
Table 47: Shields
Table 48: Melee Weapons 
Table 49: Missile Weapons 
Table 62: Armoured Sorcery 
Table 77: Light Sources
Table 78: d6 Task Resolution
Table 85: Reaction
Table 86: Combat Matrix 
Table 87: Attack Roll Modifiers 
Table 88: Armour Class Modifiers 
Table 89: Basic Combat Sequence 
Table 90: Comprehensive Combat Sequence (Melee) 
Table 91: Comprehensive Combat Sequence (Missiles) 
Table 92: Comprehensive Combat Sequence (Magic)
Table 94: Turn Undead
Table 95: Combat Movement 
Table 97: Two-Weapon Fighting 
Table 98: Critical Hit Results 
Table 99: Saving Throw
Table 100: Item Saving Throws 

Just those listed above, assuming a four-panel screen with plenty of room.

Well, s***. That blows, Chainsaw. Tell your employer to suck it and come on up anyway!  

I'm heading out from northern Virginia at 4am tomorrow with some peeps. See y'all when I get there. I'll be the nerd with the Washington Capitals hoodie on. 

Anyone going to Mentzer's par-tay?

As others have said, the HP penalty for losing your familiar goes back, at least, to 1st edition AD&D. The familiar is a so much a part of the magician that its loss takes a bit of you with it.

As for the spell book, 1st edition AD&D suggested a Magic User carry a secondary "traveling spell book" that would contain just the most used spells while the full spell book be kept secured at home or wherever.  I imagine the extra cost for a replacement may reflect the cost of starting a spell book from scratch (without any 'starter' spells).

I convinced my peeps to roll out Wed morning before the crack of dawn, rather than thursday. w00t! Should be there by 5pm