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Thanks, if they're at Salute I'll definitely get one.

Nice. Is it a 3d print?

@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social have you considered a print on demand service for customers outside the US? I can get copies of @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social from the evil rainforest wizards, printed to order in Poland. I have an e-reader, but much prefer the printed page.

Apparently it was #NationalProofreadingDay yesterday, or #TagdesKorrekturlesens as a local editor put it. Online search says 'Judy Beaver created National Proofreading Day in honour of her mother, Flo, who loved to correct other people's mistakes'. Funny, but a good editor needs tact. #editing

I’ve been trying to get print copies of Dark & Gold for a year now. It doesn’t make me super enthused for the expansion when I’ve no idea when I can get the base games.

1s can be gold dust sometimes. You can combine dice if you need a 2-4, but if you need a 1 and can’t get it…

I remember this well. I recall a battle against the Saxons. The Saxon shield wall was four guys in a huddle in the middle of a field.

Coc’s a good game, but it can be maddening when you roll everything but the number you need for an important activation.

Peak 70s

I miss Spangles.

As they said on the Goon Show: “Don’t try this at home, these are highly trained idiots!”

My favourite, hilarious, bit is (SPOILER) during the fight for the Spear, an actual saint descends from Heaven. ‘This should be good’ you think, before a giant punches her through a mountainside and she’s never heard from again.

Men Went To Catraeth by John James. Technically post-Arthurian, based on the Gododdin cycle, about the Battle of Catraeth ca. AD600, Arthur is a role-model for the warriors.

Trial of Three by Sandra Unerman, very 'early-Arthurian', based heavily on the Welsh legends. Had this on my shelves since the 80s.

+1 for Bright Sword, it feels like a proper Arthurian romance, and also a TTRPG campaign with power-ups, quests, and boss fights.

More Gembloux Gap PSC for Chain of Command tonight. A slow German deployment and poor artillery spotting allowed the French to form a solid line defending their heavy guns. The arrival of French armour was enough to precipitate a hasty withdrawal by the attackers. #spreadthelard #wargaming #wargames

Coming soon: Ballad Hunters RPG Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

Britain. 1813. Across the island, the folk ballads of the common people are coming to life. The dead walk, dragons rise, lovers betray one another, authorities condemn innocents to die — whatever happens in the song happens in real life. My latest TTRPG is coming soon to Kickstarter! #ttrpg

Ooh, Thomas the Rhymer, House Carpenter, Cruel Lincoln, Twa Corbies, all come to life?

It’s crocussesses isn’t it!

But YGMV is a very important touchstone, otherwise it can be really overloading for the GM to try to convey all the cultural differences. If the players want to use 'ancient Britons' as a starting point for Sartarites, let them.

In the 80s, Sartar was generally pre-Roman Britain, and the Lunars were the Romans. But I do love how good artwork is making Glorantha far more distinct from generic dark age/mediaeval fantasy. It all looks a lot more Bronze Age Mycenaean, with some early Hindu bits thrown in.

But the thing that struck me the most with the shiny new edition was how utterly awful and unreadable the maps were.

I bought the new RQ when it came out because I wanted to see how they'd update all those fiddly 80s rules, and deal with one-shot kills (I'm old enough to have played RQ in the 80s). Turns out 'it's not a bug, it's a feature', which was a brave choice, but left me thinking I'd rather play 13AG.

I've had the last two versions of Heroquest/Questworlds, though never managed to play it. Not sure why they've stripped all(?) the Glorantha out of this latest version? Glorantha is their USP, and it's a very different ruleset to RQ and probably far better suited to the mythic stuff GS envisaged.

MASTERY FEATURE Virtuoso You are among the greatest of your craft and your skill is boundless. You can perform each of your “Gifted Performer” feature’s songs twice per long rest.

RPGs have got to stop writing flavor text like, “You’re the apex of this discipline, all bow before you in awe,” and then the ability associated with it is, “You can do a thing you could do at level 1 an extra time before you need to take a nap.”

Rather like they seemed to lose all interest in Thirteenth Age Glorantha once RQ was rereleased.

Did they put Descartes before the horse?

I’m rewatching Blue Eye Samurai, and it’s just as good second time around. That & Cyberpunk Edgerunners are the only recent shows I’ve had wanted to watch twice.

I’ve started to refer to those annoying thumbnails as gurnies. The gurnier the face, the less likely I am to click on it.

I'm reading this book at present, it makes clear that there were so many factors why France fell so rapidly, and to reduce it to poor equipment and soldiering isn't doing the French justice.