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[princeofcairo]

* If you're a fan of chadu's sweet supers RPG, Truth & Justice, now's your chance to dig up the horrific past of your campaign -- or to start a new one in the badly color-registered 1940s! Yes, Adventures Into Darkness, the definitive guide to Lovecraftian Golden Age superheroism, is finally available in Truth & Justice format on DriveThruRPG. It's the

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[lhn]

This link is a year old, but it's still just fourteen kinds of awesome: Middle-Earth Mapped Onto Ice Age Europe.

Managing to get the Shire correctly situated over England is nice-- managing to thereby get Mordor into Transylvania... wow.

"Anopheles": Cthulhoid superheroics

[ext_80854]

In 1990 I wrote a setting for the dimension-spanning Champions supplement "Champions in 3-D" that brought Call of Cthulhu tropes into a superheroic context. You can see the result, "Anopheles" (published under the too-descriptive title "Horror World") on my home page:

http://www.allenvarney.com/anopheles.html

-- Allen Varney

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[richardthinks]

the map broadly agrees with what I'd always assumed (orcs are Turks, Minas Tirith/Minas Anor are Vienna and points east on the expanding Turkish front) so obviously I'm happy. The distances all seem longer than I'd ever imagined, though; if Rivendell is way up in Trondheim, then Smaug's Lonely Mountain is somewhere around Murmansk, across the bay from Archangel, and I never got the sense that Esgaroth should be ice-bound, or northern Mirkwood would be above the arctic circle; I always assumed the misty mountains + Nimrais were conceptually loosely based on the Alps and the half-ring of mountains around Mordor was based on the Carpathian/Bucegi mountains in a mirror - although about the only real mountains I can think of that would be abrupt and pointy enough are the Tatras, making Mordor into Bohemia, which is interesting, too

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[jnutley]

The ME in Ice Age map is very neat, but conveniently ignores all the glaciers. I think in order for Doggerland to be dry a significant piece of this has to be covered with an ice sheet. Although I suppose we can apologize for it by speculating a significant injection event to correspond to Noah's flood. (Multibillion tonnes of water in a bollide splash into the Indian Ocean, raising the sea level for millennia.) If sea level was this low during a hot paleo-climate then Smaug's mountain can be in a temperate zone and N Mirkwood above the arctic circle isn't an issue

[timgray]

Cool beans. I'll pick AiD-T&J up at some point.

I was amused to notice a review of the product at DriveThru - actually for the M&M version, mis-attached - in which you seem to have convinced the reviewer that the comic series was real.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_reviews_info.php?&reviews_id=18037&products_id=56919
(Though I have posted about it in the publisher forum so it might get changed.)

[thebitterguy]

I saw that this morning. I'm still giggling.

[mollpeartree]

but don't even joke about voting often

You have spoken too soon! There's a notice up on the voting page today that they had to reset everything this morning for some reason, and everybody who voted before then will have to vote again.

[gamingkitty]

I know it glitched on me the other day -- bounced me back to a blank ballot. I had just assumed something about the site didn't like Firefox 3.