Friday Night Game Report - Yggdrasill RPG Session 14

[jkahane]

Here is the fourteenth session report on the Friday night Yggdrasill game campaign. This session was played last night, and is the most recent game session of the Friday group. You can read about the previous session of the campaign in this journal entry. This post is somewhat long, so I've put it behind a cut so that folks who don't want to

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Re: You're Drag Sill

[jkahane]

I honestly don't know whether any of the player characters will die, though the players told me after we finished gaming on Friday night that they saw various changes coming to the shape of their campaign, so we'll see about character deaths...

As for ravens... In Norse mythology, Huginn (from the Old Norse for "thought") and Muninn (Old Norse for "memory" or "mind") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring the god Odin information. Additionally among the Norse, Raven banner standards were carried by such figures as the Jarls of Orkney,King Cnut the Great of England, Norway and Denmark,and Harald Hardrada.

And then, in Sweden, ravens are known as the ghosts of murdered people, and in Germany as the souls of the damned. In Danish folklore, valravne that ate a king's heart gained human knowledge, could perform great malicious acts, could lead people astray, had superhuman powers, and were "terrible animals".

So, all sorts of potential for ravens in the Yggdrasill that might or might not be standardised. :)

Re: You're Drag Sill

[knightbane]

Kill atleast one of them.... come on be a man and bring down the hammer on one or two of 'em!!! :P

Re: You're Drag Sill

[jkahane]

Well... that's not the way I run my games. I don't let the dice kill player characters off, but decisions that they make that have bad consequences are another matter. Sure, player characters in my games have died over the years (DragonQuest was notorious for that, as the combat system is quite lethal), but not as a rule.

Convention adventures are a different matter, however...

Re: You're Drag Sill

[knightbane]

Wait? Ain't the Norseman all for dying in glorious battle?

:P