Tikon2000 wrote:

Concerning the ending of the adventure
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If the gem kills Ronan, and the doom comes to the keep. can placing the sacred flame in the keep, or the mine itself counteract the corruption that will destroy it?

I would assign a reasonable % chance of this being successful, make a roll, and see how it pans out! It's an interesting proposition.

Blackadder23 wrote:

I don't think I changed anything relevant to the original download?

Although I might eventually create a refinement of it based on lessons learned from doing these race kits.
 

OK, let me know and we can piece that together.
 

Right now, most of our PDFs are 25% off at DriveThruRPG for their annual Cosmic Horror sale. It's worth surfing around some of the other publishers, too, if you're looking for more Cthulhu Mythos-related content.


 

On August 20, at 8pm (central) / 9pm (eastern), Ryan Howard and I will be live on the Rollin' Bones podcast to celebrate the works of Clark Ashton Smith. Currently, we are both reading (and rereading) a fine selection of CAS tales. Your mission, should you elect to join us to share your own thoughts and observations, is to read (or reread, as it were) any or all of the following tales before the show:

Horror Story:
"The Devotee of Evil"

Xiccarph Story:
"The Flower Women"

Averoigne Stories:
"The Satyr"
"Mother of Toads"

Zothique Stories:
"The Charnel God"
"The Isle of the Torturers"

Hyperborea Stories:
"The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
"The Seven Geases"

Ryan and I will review these stories in the context of their respective cycles, we'll discuss our personal reactions to them, and of course we will chat about how these stories can relate to gaming and creativity. I am a longtime fan of CAS's fiction, which I have incorporated into my Castle Zagyg works with Gary Gygax, as well as my own role-playing game, HYPERBOREA, and I never cease to marvel at the man's brilliance.

Would you like to join us? Great! Start reading! You can find all of these tales on a website called Eldritch Dark. You can even find audio versions of some of them on YouTube. Read one or two, or read them all. As we get closer to the show, Ryan and I will post a link to it.

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Clark Ashton Smith was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. With Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, also a friend and correspondent, Smith remains one of the most famous contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
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CAS was a man of many talents. Pictured here is one of his sculptures.

Way back in the early days of the game, before we even published the first edition of Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, I ran this adventure for my home group, and it was great, but that was using an old, beat-up copy of the Judges Guild original. I think that the original  would likely be a lot easier -- practically seamless, really -- version to use, if you ask me. Adapting it was a lot of fun, because we already had Thracian background stuff built into the game, influencing the Ixian and Kimmerian races and their respective languages/dialects.

Iron Ranger wrote:

No, but I've been moving all new ones to Stored section. Hopefully that works for future.

Ahh, OK, sorry for the hassle.
 

Vetus Miles wrote:

Ghul wrote:

That's good, BA23, but I must admit that when I was conceptualizing the race, I had three things in mind -- Egyptians, Scythians, and Stygians from REH's Hyborian Age. As such, I had an image in mind that their skin tone looks something like this:

Hah, yes Jeff, thank you! That is what I was imagining as well. I thought I’d float the question just in case I was in error. I know, it’s my game. However, I do want to know what the intent of the creators are. I like to stick to canon. It’s my game but I appreciate the framework and the process that goes into it all.

Excellent. Happy to be of service.
 

We're doing Oblation Slab for the shirt, but it was a tough choice.

Master Magician Rennalds wrote:

Seriously psyched for this one after hearing Ghul talk about the premise with captcorajus.

So far ive gathered: Orks, dæmons & a lone keep astride a blood-red river in an uninhabitable zone.

I will be running this the day It comes in.

That's the spirit!
 

The only instance in which my group did what you suggest was when, in AD&D, we used the dex modifiers "to hit" for rapiers.