Big Shiny wrote:

Handy Haversack wrote:

Also, can I mention how annoying I find it that there are two categories for AS&SH with GC? I registered my games as AS&SH because I don't find the edition distinction worth dwelling on. The game's the game!

Ya, I fell victim to that same thing. Weird and pretty unnecessary. 

Say Handy.... If the wife and I try to get into one of your games and fail, is there any chance that you might have an extra ghost seat or two figured into your games for walk-ups? I know some people only like to run for 6 players, but I didn't think it would hurt to ask here, just in case.

 

I don't mind running for 8, provided there are chairs ad enough space at the table. I'd def. give priority to someone on the waitlist. I find that there's a pretty good chance of people not showing up for the Sunday afternoon game, too. I have run for as few as two people on Sunday. Though I think two of the people signed up for my Sunday game this year are friends of mine, so they *better* show!

So, short answer: yes! But do put yourself on the waitlist so it's fair to others.

gizmomathboy wrote:

Ynas Midgard wrote:

I think that's pretty much by the book - the only part deviating from rules-as-written is the abolishment of minimum DX to perform the maneouvre.

Two deviations.
 * Monks can do two-weapons fighting with a DX below 13, but only empty handed.
 * Monks with a DX below 13 suffer a -3 penalty with their Secondary Weapon instead of a -2

I erred on the side of being complete about the change which includes much of the BtB text. Mostly to avoid pedants looking for holes to wiggle through.

Pedant's Wiggle was one of Rhialto the Marvellous's favorite spells, right?

There's no reason to assume the Hyperboreans and Atlanteans are sexually incompatible for any biological reason. There's also no reason not to. I'm just saying there's no default position here.

Viz. https://hyperborea.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=519

If they are biologically sexually incompatible, the word we're looking for is "speciation" -- in Myperborea, Atlanteans have ovipositors and cloacas. Certain bargains had to be made with science and the gods of the sea. Which makes them a different but related *species*.

Hyperboreans are clearly just moody jerks.

BenA718 wrote:

Handy Haversack, that's pretty much exactly what I needed to know, thanks!

I have run Ynn many times, I usually have it sitting just off camera waiting for a PC to stumble upon a journal describing it and how to enter it in a journal picked up among loot. Anyone/anything describing Ynn always uses the most exultant and flowery praise, more than enough to get PCs to enter, quickly get lost, and run for their lives. Even in a convention setting, it never fails to freak players out.

I wish Emmy Allen would do a POD version of her ice age RPG! I feel like it could have definite AS&SH applications -- made me think especially of when BA23's players ended up rather far back in the past. But, yes, Ynn is an excellent product from a sharp-as-a-magic-spear-that-cuts-through-anything gaming mind.

Like I said in your other thread, BA718, I throw adventures from all over the damn place at AS&SH and never find that it's the systems that create friction but the level of skill with information presentation and understanding that the adventure writer brings to the table, vis-a-vis my prep time and smoothness in running it.

Hi again, BenA718.

I ran Ynn in my AS&SH game not long after it came out (the PCs had tried to assassinate their patron in Brigands Bay and cocked it up SPECTACULARLY and had to get lost in a HURRY; so: Ynn).

I found that very little was needed from me to creep them out -- they were lost and confused and oddly obsessed with the materials of the various strange portals trying to figure out patterns -- and it was the lack of a pattern that really started creeping them out. All I had to do was present them with what's in front of them.

Importantly, in Ynn, there are a lot of INTELLIGENT creatures who have been dealing with that environment for a very long time. So there's lots of room for faction play and RPing, which is good because the few times they tried going toe-to-toe with something they got their asses handed to them. Plus, terrible bad luck with surprise dice and a giant preying mantis. But reaction rolls and charisma adjustments become IMPORTANT.

In my half-assed Hyperborean lore, the clan of Hyperboreans that developed Ynn when theirs was a multiverse-spanning empire of eldritch power degenerated along with the rest of the culture but rather than falling into Xathoqqua worship and terrestrial squabbles went strange and fey and and feral in their garden realm -- and that's the Sidhe and the Idea of Thorns.

Rules-wise, I think the most friction between setting and system in Ynn comes in resting. They might end up harried and desperate until they figure out to retreat "upward" before resting.

Seven of us, generally. Maybe meet for a happy hour or something near Brooklyn Strat some time?

Nice -- we play in Greenpoint but come from Midwood, Bay Ridge, Washington Heights, Woodside, Carroll Gardens, all over the place.

We haven't. I can't think of one from 1e I'd need that isn't represented. We do take classes from a few other places -- mostly blogs. Plus the mystic as written up on this board.

Quick and dirty list of adventures we've used in our game in the past year and their system:

Praise the Fallen: OSR/system neutral
The Monastery of Inexorable Truth: S&W
Hybrid Bone Effigy Crucible of the Urgent Chimera: Homebrew AS&SH
The Barbarian King: OD&D
The Charmed Grotto: S&W
House of Flowers: Five Cataclysms
Barrow Mound of the Gravemoor: OSRIC
Brazen Bull: AS&SH
Kellerin's Rumble: S&W?

I barely even glance at system for adventures. It all works fine.

Also: good to see a New Yorker around these parts. You in 718?
 

grodog wrote:

_So_ looking forward to seeing you guys next month! :D

Allan.

Right back atcha, Allan!

The NYCrew is bringing yet another player along this year! Our cleric, Gary Blevins!

Gizmo, if you search for the "Character Sheet of Wondrous Automation" thread, I added a lot of one-line spell descriptions there.