Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Compromise and Conceit
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The Reverend Mike (whose site burns my eyes with its insane redness) is hosting this month’s RPG blog carnival on War (my, how topical!), and I want to contribute with a selection of the types of nasties which are used in the world of the Essential Compromise for the prosecution of that most loved of…
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I don’t know if my American reader(s) will consider this completely inappropriate, but it is so completely apt for my Compromise and Conceit campaign that I have to put it here. It concerns the man all my players love to hate, George Washington: They still want to kill him though…
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My gaming party ran up against their first 2 Myrmidons on Thursday, which necessitated the development of some on-the-fly rules for handling death and healing. The body-count was 2 dead, 2 injured. And this was before they had to take on the 50 elite militiamen, the wizard and the colonel. Fun was had!
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Spells are cast as a skill, with the base difficulty for partial success given by DC = 15 + Spell level + Effect Modifications Usually these effect modifications represent a decision to increase the number of targets beyond the basic amount allowed by the spell level; or an attempt to increase duration. Partial failure occurs…
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A while ago I mentioned that I used to like skill systems which incorporate partial success/ partial failure, but now I am not so enamoured of them. Since I wrote that I had to rejig my magic system slightly, because I had configured it to be a little too easy. As my magic system was…
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Being a brief guide to the peoples and concerns of the New World, prepared for the discerning reader of The Ladies Illustrated Quarterly by M Scott Momaday, whose recent novel The Last of the Mohicans, though not in any wise a truthful account of matters Indian, is humbly presented in serialized form in this same…
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After a summer’s evening party meeting the main factions operating in the New World, we meet our heroes as they try to decide whether they need to pick sides, and what sides to pick. Sympathies seem to lie with the Natives, though those sympathies would perhaps extend to the colonials were they not so thoroughly…
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The crowning achievement of the pre-Victorian era, the Myrmidon first appeared in Europe in the mid- to late 18th Century. The Myrmidon is a construct of demon-hardened ceramics, artificially living flesh and bone, and superhard steel. Endowed with the spirit of a simple Demon and bound to specific magical and religious commands, the Myrmidon is…
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Colonel George Washington, 5th August 1754 Attended Madame C’s Firefly party last night. Better than last year, more pretty dancing girls (one Chinese with a cloud of fireflies particularly feisty in the back of the library, damn her for saying no but she learnt the hard way that no-one can!). Guests were worse though, one…
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Once again we find the characters standing amongst their dead foes, splattered in blood and shrouded in darkness. This time however, the blood is mostly their own, and the situation dire. Father Cantrus was forced immediately to invoke his sternest healing disciplines, and with the help of the Angels on High soon restored the party…
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