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Stability: Same Test, Six Years Later
I had already done the same test (What D&D Character Are You?) six years ago but I wanted to check if there was some reliability. (I also tried to stat myself using GURPS with - 50 pointsThe result did not change (except the Level, which got an upgrade). Oh, ok, I lost an IQ point and a Constitution point ( Read more... ) -
Of Memory and Oblivion
At the beginning of Hesiod's Theogony, there are two odd verses (v. 54-55):
Μνημοσύνη, γουνοῖσιν Ἐλευθῆρος μεδέουσα,
λησμοσύνην τε κακῶν ἄμπαυμά τε μερμηράων
Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, gave birth
to a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow
The Nine Muses are daughters of Memory and the gift of Memory is Forgetting ( ( Read more... ) -
Of Thirteenth Age
I've not been an official playtesting GM for the new game 13th Age but have seen some parts of the background as a player and I really like the High Fantasy setting the authors designed. As usual, I think I may steal some parts and change them but I hope I will not end up with a sum of too many plagiarisms.
A few examples of the setting I loved :
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Crossing the Boundary
The Psychopomps of Limen can offer some very limited "safe-conduct" (laissez-passer) or passports to the Land of the Dead. Usually, there is a price to pay and you have to do some service to be able to enter the Here-after.
Some passports are weapons and you have to sacrifice an innocent first. They can also be "oboli" to pay the Wardens. Sometimes ( Read more... ) -
Of Alchemy
Necromancers from Urn were the first who tried to synthetize the "Elixir", the Eucharist from the City of Relic. It failed and they got the Withering Curse. They were able to stay alive but in their horrible decomposed forms. Many people say that the Empire of the Ghouls come from the same origin: the crime of cannibalism to find immortality. A ( Read more... ) -
Of the Wild Hunt
In the City of Limen, the Horned Hunter of Fury has antlers and he/she rides evil Perytons (flying stags), who are said to have the souls of murderers (their shadow is human-shaped). Each time they slay another victim their antlers grow.
The Horned Hunter looks for escaped ghosts and it is ironical that he has a shape of the Hart. Some people saw ( Read more... ) -
Of the Song of Siren
Siren is one of the cities of Dreams in the Chimerian Coast, like Ivory Gate.
It is the City of Temptation and Desire, the City of the Five Senses. It is the place where you can find the greatest Opera House in the world and the huge Panopticon Theater where everybody can see and everybody can be seen. You want to hear the songs until you die of ( Read more... ) -
Of the City of the Blackwell
The City of Blackwell (see Previous Entry) leads to the Underworld but there is hellish warmth coming from below, maybe from a secret dark fire in the depths. That's why the air glider can rise from the slopes of the vertical city. There are three main levels:
(1) The Day Heights where the light of the sun comes more or less naturally.
(2) The ( Read more... ) -
Of a Preliminary Timeline of the Chimerian Coast
Mythical Time
The Palace of Memory or Map of All is folded in Oblivion. It is the first Limit.
The Dark Age
According to a gnostic version, the Ancients build Giants and the Giant is sacrificed by Dragons to create the World-Soul. The Fire of the sacrifice threatens to destroy everything and the Flood extinguishes the Holocaust.
Historical Time
There ( Read more... )
