DL'd, will look over this weekend...

Those look superb! 

Beauteous! 
 

I like it, but change/tinkering/chaos is in my gamer DNA. 

You're right, I missed that detail. 

I own and have played a few sessions of BoL: I liked it, but my group didn't really take to the "nebulous" task system, nor the "requires creativity" sorcery system (i.e., no list of spells, just make stuff up and GM adjudicates difficulty on the fly). It's similar to Traveller in that it uses a 2d6 roll high core resolution mechanic (so, easy to pick up), but doesn't break skills down into more than "careers": e.g., an "Assassin" doesn't have an enumerated list of skills, just guidelines for what they'd be good at (disguise, sneaking, poisions, etc.). In our sessions it appeared that the heroes were truly heroic from the beginning, so there was no slow power curve. Easy to port to other genres, too. 

Ghul wrote:

rhialto wrote:

I have thrown precious sequins your way Jeff: while I don't require a Perciplex as one of the treasures, surely there's a Pectoral Skybreak Spatterlight in one of the modules?

Cheers,

Why, Rhialto, for twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.
 

Splendid!
'I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,' said Ildefonse. 'But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.'
'Absolute falsity!' roared Hurtiancz. 'I simulate nothing!'
Ildefonse shrugged. 'For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.'
 

Belated brew-borne birthday benedictions!

Ghul wrote:

One thing that I've thought about a lot, and somewhere I have some notes on this (an idea that got scrapped during development), is ritual spells that do come with personal risks. Demon summoning, gating in horrifying, alien beings from beyond the veil, and so forth.

Now this would be cool to see: what were the personal risks and how did you propose to handle them in terms of mechanics?
 

Scalydemon wrote:

rhialto wrote:

Scalydemon wrote:

An add on thought on the broader topic of magic systems.

For me, the ideal magic system is one more akin to Stormbringer and Hawkmoon (Chaosium) as opposed to D&D based Vancian - especially when playing a sword & sorcery type game.

I'll once more plug Akratic Wizardry and its variant magic rules: they work really well with AS&SH, and are similar to Stormbringer's feel. 

Not familiar with Akratic Wizardry, do you have a link? Thanks
 

Sure: http://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2009/07/swords-sorcery-house-rules-index.html