Recent content by Ltlconf

Hello Folks, Yeup, Picts can be fun if you break out of the mold, both as PCs and as NPC competition. Been playing along the Black River for years and enjoyed it, but then we take on the idea that the Picts, like any other people on a frontier are neither universally hostile, nor allies. Think...

Hello Folks, Likely a little late but Green Ronin has also a "Rome" sourcebook. It came across as pretty complete and decently well thought out. As for OGL Ancients my only quibbles were two: not enough on the cultures of Egypt and Greece. Sadly old 2nd Ed TSR put out better info (yeah, that...

Hello Folks, Yeup I've heard the rumours of a 4th edition, and this is why WOC is yanking things. On the other hands, things could be much more complex than this. I reckon few of us have business licenses and successful companies. Those that do please feel free to pipe in at let us know what...

Hello Folks, Okay, new rumors are a-floating around. I got a E-mail from a gaming buddy from Chicago who has proven reliable more or less in the past. Apparently he's found out that Hasbro is (according to scuttlebut) preparing to release a 4th (!) ed. D&D in the near future. In addition to...

Hello Folks, Thulsa, as so far as to whether the OGL license can be yanked, altered, folded, spindled, or mutilated or whether Mongoose can continue to print OGL if WOC did end it is beyond me. Didn't care as so far as the info I was putting forward; it was a rumor after all all. I was not...

Hello Folks, I would recommend, as I have to my group, these two series: The THIEVE' WORLD saga. It's a shared world anthology (very popular in the 70s and 80s) with a myriad of characters in a dead-end, rotting city from all walks of life and told strictly from each character's point of view...

Hello Folks, Long time no see-um, but been busy. I agree with all the chest beating and hair pulling over this rumored change in systems for CONAN. Like many here the system has grown on me. Like a really ugly pimple, but it has grown. A change in systems would be most irritating. I have...

Hello FOlks, Don't worry about it. Really. You'll get twenty answers of which ten or so will be from those who have valid sources with PhDs after their names. Frankly no one really knows for sure. Rember this however, Ancient Greeks ran RACES in the stuff, carrying their shields to boot. They...

Hello folks, I've been gone for awhile, but could keep out of this :twisted: . I would say that the vast majority of socialogists, historians and archeologists all agree that a civilization that is united, homogenous and internaly stable and peaceful usualy stagnates. Sure there are exceptions...

Hello Folks, NEAT! Won me a bet as to the age of the crossbow. Seems to be one of those cases of two cultures coming up with the same thing with no information exchange involved to be noted (I forget the name of the Greek engineer-scholar who invented the European version at Rhodes). I've...

Hello Folks, Yeup, as I said castel, "fuzzy." I've found over 20 names for "Big siege engines that throw rocks by torsion power" alone. Since you didn't have a mass media and recognized authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary to say what was what every seemed to feel free to call...

Hello Folks, The difference between a steel staved crossbow (which took a cranquilen or a windlass to load) and a arbalast seems to be fuzzy. Admittedly a heavy weapon such as this was supremely suited to the siege, but records show steel staved crossbows being used in battle, such as in the...

Hello Folks, I don't know about modern bows overly much (I've only used the compound wheel bow), but ancient and medieval bow did in fact have vastly different "pulls" ("poundage" ect.). A medieval longbow averaged 80 to 100ib pull, while a 15th century arbalast (a heavy crossbow) utilizing...

Hello Folks, One film we just lifted from, "Naked Prey." I was a solo adventure and Sanga (my character) dang near bought it just as Cornel Wilde's ivory hunter nearly did. If you're going to the Black Kingdoms any time, check it out.

Hello Folks, I have found after 20+ years of playing and running games that three sources are goldmines for source material on the quick. 1) Westerns! Ignore the desert enviroment in most. They were often filmed their but most (in the books they were based on, Zane Grey ect.) actually took...