Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Compromise and Conceit
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The only significant enhancement on the tall ship in 200 years, the Spindrift Clipper represents a considerable performance improvement over standard seaborne vessels for a limited additional cost. Behaving in every way like a normal vessel, the Spindrift Clipper has had low-power levitation magic added to its hull so that it can become airborne when…
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I remember playing a few sessions of Talislanta when I was much younger, and feeling confused and underwhelmed for most of it. I think this was largely because the Talislanta setting is so alien and rich with new ideas that unless one has done some kind of pre-development work of some kind it’s impossible to…
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I’m not a fan of sandbox campaigns – I think plot and links between sessions make a campaign more fun, I don’t like wandering monsters and random encounters, and my experience of players’ attempts to navigate even small detail-rich worlds is that they flounder without a lot of guidance. However, at the end of my…
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Being the report of Bishop Julius Morninghope, emissary to the Pope for the New World, on the mysterious events in the American plains of winter, 1755. This report was sent to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints by Morninghope on the request of a small group of catholic colonial (white) residents of the New…
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This found in a glass case in Alastair Crow’s study, written in blood on a scroll made of the skin of an angel. It is obviously very old and very evil… They fell Weakened by battle and His Betrayal Weakened, they could not hold their form It must pass Down down down Into the Underworld…
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Being the lost verse from Dr. Faustus, with no credit to Marlowe… Satan How am I glutted with conceit of this? Shall I make mortals fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all infirmities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I’ll have them seek in India for it, Ransack the Ocean for a…
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George Washington 8 Albany Place Albany America Alastair Crow Court Mage Lanhydnock Bodmin United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1st August 1755 Dear Mr. Crow Regarding your letter of the 17th July, I am of course delighted to assure you that, should my various projects in the Americas come…
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Alastair Crow Court Mage Lanhydnock Bodmin United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland George Washington 8 Albany Place Albany Washington 5th July 1755 Re: Proper measures for the management of local populations Dear Mr. Washington I am writing to you to confirm your interest in enacting a programme of…
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Once again we find our heroes standing proud after a battle while Dave Black loots the corpses; and indeed this time, having killed a few Iron House guards, the characters found themselves disappointed by the loot on offer. However, before them stood a noble house well worthy of looting, and Lord Merton st. Helier being…
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We rejoin our characters as they make camp in the woods between Kenmare and Killarney, just Northwest of the spot where they were ambushed by the mage from Kenmare. Here they forced him to talk, and discovered him to be a weak and pathetic mageling, lured by money and the promise of great powers to…
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