Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇

Honestly now I'm just wondering what giving one's teeth a "hifty" entails.

I'd play Lamenters against it.

That way, I win even if I lose and get eaten, because peak Lamenters.

It is! But it's also extremely upsetting for tweens with their first flagship product Ultramarine squad having to face the true existential horror of a Tyranid invasion in a store competition.

Therefore, discouraged.

It's a spiritual successor to my 2e Frateris Militia army, so it will dominate by sheer weight of dice against anyone who hasn't managed to somehow bring a tank.

Legal, but asked to step out of competition, store and social, for being against the spirit of the campaigns.

(I'm at two!)

春が来るよ〜🌸

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Thinking about low res pikachu.

If, however, you want the most modern version where history has moved on a bit, the shadow of the Emperor Wars is a bit more distant and there's not as much fervour and fear over the coming millennium shift, then the Universe Book for 4th is your best bet.

If you just want setting and you're interested in rules but not too fussed, the Second Edition Core Book.

Well, that also might be confusing. If they're published by Ulisses Spiel post 2020 then you're fine, that's the current edition.

It might get called 3rd edition some times, but really it's the 4th, because the 2010s FASA edition was just called "Revised"

Basically, you don't want FASA.

...a more modern ruleset if that's your thing.

But one that would still benefit from some (encouraged) house ruling to sand off the edges and make a few systems work smoother.

And I say it's more Dune crossed with Arthurian literature, Allen Quatermaine and the like, as EVERYONE sees it different.

The only editions that matter are 2nd and 4th, the current one.

2nd is the big, expansive one that had all the books and lore, with it's intriguing but slightly clunky system.

4th has moved the timeline on, and not everyone is happy with how the story developed, so can just be used as...

The other instance, involving a Drakonmark captain of arms, makes even less sense, but is a tale for another time.

It ended, confusingly, with a casual note that they best be off to bed, as they had an early start the next morning, and that "Salana and the children send their love."

This was not an established code, and no one could make any sense of it.

No other messages came. The envoy remains missing.

Somehow, they divested themselves of the token all visitors are made to display and slipped into the city proper.

Their sole missive reported a bustling metropolis, almost impossibly busy, with dense architecture but nothing that would seem out of place elsewhere.

...who try to penetrate further.

Only two attempts are known to have "succeeded" if you can call it that.

A well travelled envoy of the Seven Stars Academy, child of that institution's Collector of Whispers, carried a magical quill and could relay information over great distances.

Infiltrating the enigma that is the City Of Mazes has been a major concern of Seralia, Freiwelden and Drakonmark, in order to try and understand it's mystery.

Outsiders are strictly prohibited from venturing beyond the Legation Quarter of the Dockside District, and odd things happen to those...

There are clandestine servants of various powers, engaged in very different forms of skulduggery.

Valonica has seduced some folk with promises of power, to keep tabs on life in Seralia, but as with everything they are obvious, obnoxious and oblivious to their own failings.

I don't have any Glorantha nostalgia so the duck thing doesn't do anything for me, but I'm happy for other people who enjoy it.

Thankfully they sorted out the back end years ago so @gmail works, but I still have to remember which services I signed up for with @googlemail as my address.

From a postmaster account here.

My googlemail account (cos it wasn't gmail for a few years) will be old enough to drink in the US as of next month.

An intricate comic-style poster drawn digitally, depicting a group of figures in a dark, gloomy fantasy setting, surrounded by gothic arches.. The colours are contrasting shades of muted reds and pale green on black and grey background. There is a bright red-pink moon on the top edge of the illustration, lighting the figures below. The center has 6 adventurers huddled together back to back, all in pensive and solemn state. There are roots winding their way up the group and up the stone arches on the borders. Above the group of characters, there is a large portrait of a dark haired vampire woman and 5 more smaller vampire figures to her side arranged in a crescent. There is a castle and a bare-branched tree in the background as well. The plaque at the bottom edge says “Curse of Strahd” Characters: Top left - Orren ( @aghdom.eu ), top right - Bo’rah ( tumblr.com/betaadmin ), center - Petrichor ( @eyeofthenewt.bsky.social ), bottom left - NPC Ezra (genderbent Esmeralda) (GM - Paulina) bottom centre - Victoro ( @coupleofkooks.bsky.social ), bottom right - Ireena Centre page - Countess Strahd, left of her bottom up - Kasym (genderbent Ludmilla), Escher, Anastrasya, Volenta, Rahadin.

Curse of Strahd

An anniversary poster I made for our CoS group!
Happy 3 years darlings, may we not succumb to The Horrors <3

[ We are running the She Is The Ancient module with a healthy sprinkling of even more homebrew on top, players tagged below. ]

It's all down to how close she was or listened to James Clevery banging on about 40k, surely?

Lichtar – a gift for @dimtwinr.bsky.social commissioned by @birmit.bsky.social 💛

a well-adjusted, entirely innocent little fella for @chiropteryx.bsky.social

Oh, no, it's not simply "the rotten fish" spell. (Jellyfish, I misremembered!)

It's the most number of damage dice in any 3/casting combat spell at Novice level.

By far.

Fire magic? Death magic? Pathetic.

So finally Water magic gets something cool?!

Nope, you explicitly summon and throw a fish.

If any of them turn up playing a Djinn Priest with a halberd then beware, adventurers!

Also, for the love of fuck, allow players to reskin spells if you don't want rotten swordfish everywhere.

Bit of an over-emphasis on The High One (easily my least favourite bit of the setting, should be played up encroaching villains) leading to several published adventures all being set around aiding the "definitely not proselyting evangelical Christians, nuh uh" faction.

ymmv