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Holo Shrine A common divice in most spaceports. Generally a small "Chapel" with a computerised list of religions. You pick your religious preference and holographic projectors create the look of your prefered sactuary. An interactive Holographic guide aides you in concecrating the site so you...

Back in the middle or late 1980's, when I called the Chaosium office and got to speak to Sandy Paterson, he, or someone else in the Office, told me there was a Mesoamerican RuneQuest suppliment half finnished in one of the filing cabinets there. I think someone told me (but don't hold me to...

My mistake!

Hey Superc0ntra! I looked up Warlords of Alexander, I liked it. A critique of the magic section. You need a means for Magcians to Summon and Bind spirits. In period, and in the period's fiction, magicians were believed to work magic by binding spirits to the will and having the spirit do their...

I always wondered where and when the Anti-Christmas stuff got into Calvinism. John Calvin loved holidays.

I shall tell the Irish that! They won't believe me, but I believe you.

Stereo Earrings These are so common in the 3I that they're often simply called earrings, and no common term really exists for them. They look like common earrings but perform the functions of I-pods and bluetooth phones. The works normally being hidden in the jewels. Some of these earring...

Charles probably wanted to move the C of E much closer to Catholoicism, mainly to improve his chances of being an absolute monarch. He never could understand why anyone might object to this. He made it clear he'd fight for absolute monarchy and vengence until he died, so they killed him. I've...

One Traveller campaign that wasn't going well (Secret Psions fleeing Imperial Agents) I switched up by shipwecking the PCs. The next few months until the group broke up where spent on a lost colony world. The PCs both liberated a kingdom from a corrupt monarchy and started scientific and...

The king caused the trouble, Cromwell was trying to fix the mess. He failed badly (as an American of Irish Catholic ancestry, I'd say very badly). But, in the end Charles was the foe of any religious freedom and an advocate of Absolute Monarchy. Cromwell, like Milton, was an advocate, however...

Having looked at Clockwork and Chivalry I can't say that I think it comes close to what I'm talking about. First, it assumes that the Royalists are moral equals of the Purtitans, bunk! Charles I wanted to be an absolute monarch, contemporary English people called England a Commonweal. I did...

Planetary Romancer is a great Genre to link Fantasy and Science Fiction. A RuneQuest:Mars 1939! would be a perfect place to put rules on switching your Traveller characters to RuneQuest and back again.

Hey my poll has gotten 105 votes! I wonder if anyone else might vote on the poll.

Explaining the option to go with Rare Magic, Secret Magic, or No Magic, styles of play, would fit the setting. But most players would want the magic.

True, very true. However, Gods and Runes would fit too. Afterall, Hieroglyphs are assumed to be Rune-like magic code writting throughout this period. (The scholars of the 16th century had recorded the Coptic language, but until Campolion, no one knew it was the key to the hieroglphs).