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Mia_the_Dragon said:
The Spider--god Toxic Zoruh, AKA Charlotte's followers already seems to have the bad habit of attacking our party... Probably we accidently killed a little spider that was in some way sacred for them or something like that... I think stealing secrets to create powerful artifacts from the Spider goddess will not make Cat much more hated in her (probably many) eyes than she already is.
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I'm not saying that Kat should care about angering a tribe of goblins. I'm just pointing out that the artifact was created with the help of a god.
Mia_the_Dragon said:
Pretty sure you hinted that See Aura could be used to see invisible enemies when Kah Gong Wong used it to see the assassin sent after him, so other players probably just did not see it used in similar way to make the logical conclusion that it can be used to reduce the effects of blinding spells. Also I'm pretty sure that I cannot use it and cast my Fire Sheet (or Fire Bolt) at the same time, so there were some calculations where the target was at the moment when the spell fired in order to hit it. There were 2 targets, but just to make sure that Cat would hit the goblin priestess, she used Fire Sheet which covers bigger area and so managed to burn both the priestess and her carrier.
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i didn't say what spell] or ability he used, but your deduction was accurate. Yes, you have to take your attention off of "See Aura" to cast another spell. So, a moving target requires calculation.
 
Mia_the_Dragon said:
Another entry in Cat's "To Do" list: "Find a way to interrogate the Spider--god Toxic Zoruh, AKA Charlotte about the skin armor and find out why this crazy b*tch has a problem with me."
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In a dream, no interrogation:
"You are alive and not a goblin, hobgoblin, or spider. Stop being alive, or turn into a spider, we have no problem."
 
Thanks to the Sim Manifesto thread, @hawkeyefan posted a link to the Blorb Blog (thank you, man!), which seems indeed (almost) fully along the lines of what I try to do as a Referee. Amusingly, I still haven't found who the author actually is, I just know her name is Sandra:D!

I suspect @Mia_the_Dragon might be interested in this explanation, in the list of principles, and in the approach to mysteries.

Bill Reich said:
In a dream, no interrogation:
"You are alive and not a goblin, hobgoblin, or spider. Stop being alive, or turn into a spider, we have no problem."
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So, vampires and liches are Charlotte-OK 🧛‍♀️?
 
AsenRG said:
Thanks to the Sim Manifesto thread, @hawkeyefan posted a link to the Blorb Blog, which seems indeed (almost) fully along the lines of what I try to do as a Referee. Amusingly, I still haven't found who the author actually is, I just know her name is Sandra:D!

I suspect @Mia_the_Dragon might be interested in this explanation, in the list of principles, and in the approach to mysteries.


So, vampires and liches are Charlotte-OK 🧛‍♀️?
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Sure. If something eats an occasional goblin, she has more, plenty more
 
AsenRG said:
Thanks to the Sim Manifesto thread, @hawkeyefan posted a link to the Blorb Blog (thank you, man!),
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Sure thing! I figured it would be something a lot of folks here might be interested in if they didn't already know about it.

I also love that they just made up a word as the label so that they could avoid the typical definitional arguments.
 
hawkeyefan said:
Sure thing! I figured it would be something a lot of folks here might be interested in if they didn't already know about it.

I also love that they just made up a word as the label so that they could avoid the typical definitional arguments.
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I'm pretty sure my wife uses that word on occasion...
 
Preparing for @Bill Reich's session tonight, I weaponised my Tarot cards. And they totally went easy on the character:shock:!

What's up, random generators:dice:🎲?

OTOH they went real hard on the NPCs. I hope that wouldn't make people suspect me of going easy on PCs and hard on NPCs::honkhonk:!
 
AsenRG said:
Preparing for @Bill Reich's session tonight, I weaponised my Tarot cards. And they totally went easy on the character:shock:!

What's up, random generators:dice:🎲?

OTOH they went real hard on the NPCs. I hope that wouldn't make people suspect me of going easy on PCs and hard on NPCs::honkhonk:!
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The only thing I've used Tarot cards for is playing Konigsrufen or Point Tarok or a couple of other games I can't remember. Playing games with them is older than their use for divination.
 
Bill Reich said:
The only thing I've used Tarot cards for is playing Konigsrufen or Point Tarok or a couple of other games I can't remember. Playing games with them is older than their use for divination.
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I've played the original Tarocchi that Tarot is based on, AFAIK. They still play it in Italy, for example...:thumbsup:

I need to get myself a new deck of those:D!

But I've got French and German decks for playing card games, so I keep the Tarot for divination.

It's not that you can't use one for the other. An aged friend of my grandma was actually famous for doing exactly that 🧙‍♀️!

I guess I'll divine the events for the session after tonight's game with my French deck, and see which ends up being more stringent :dice:!

I can also vary them each session, after all, the previous session used lots of random tables... 🎲
 
Fenris-77 said:
The games that use Taot mostly expect the standard White-Rider mix of cards, so things can get stick if you're branching out.
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You have, 22 named cards, and 56 split in 4 colours ("suits", as you call them 👹), so 14 cards in each, including 4 with faces and 10 with numbers. I admit I haven't heard of any decks that deviate from the above, so how much can you deviate:devil:?
 
Bill Reich said:
The only thing I've used Tarot cards for is playing Konigsrufen or Point Tarok or a couple of other games I can't remember. Playing games with them is older than their use for divination.
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I ran a three year AD&D 2E sub-campaign with my wife, using the Tarot to generate happenings as an oracle. It was back in the eighties, so give me a break! :grin:
 
clash bowley said:
I ran a three year AD&D 2E sub-campaign with my wife, using the Tarot to generate happenings as an oracle. It was back in the eighties, so give me a break! :grin:
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I never pretended to be original, it's just that I didn't know of others doing the same:D!


...though now that I think of it, some Savage Worlds supplement probably does that with the French cards :dice:!
 
AsenRG said:
You have, 22 named cards, and 56 split in 4 colours ("suits", as you call them 👹), so 14 cards in each, including 4 with faces and 10 with numbers. I admit I haven't heard of any decks that deviate from the above, so how much can you deviate:devil:?
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Oh you sweet summer child. The New Agers are capable of all manner of heresy.
 
Fenris-77 said:
Oh you sweet summer child. The New Agers are capable of all manner of heresy.
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Not just the New Agers. There are traditional decks that deviate from the number and mix of cards. We had a Sicilian deck with the tiniest damn cards and so many of them. Simon is a collector and had a book with dozens of card games played with varied Tarot decks and he would collect the decks and we would play a different one every once in awhile, besides an almost weekly Point Tarok, and a weekly RPG session.
 
Dreaming of a couple flirting with each other half-lovingly, half-reproachfully (as long-term lovers sometimes do) as they 'free luge ¹, at breakneck speed, along the empty motorway in the first flush of daylight, only to have a violent encounter with some entity that clearly wishes them dead and she subsequently (having been the one to eliminate the danger, by reaching out from the 'sidelines' and pushing it away to crash and burn, whilst he maneuvered to avoid the same fate themselves) regards him with outraged incredulity as he blames her for always being the one to seek unnecessary conflict (he, not she, was the one who spontaneously, stepped out into the road to engage in highspeed antics in the first place).

I'm not sure who ... or even what ... they are - she might once have been human (now, perhaps, something else, there again maybe still human and all too aware of it), but whether he was ever more than an archetype of some kind (Wanderlust, Impetuousness, a weirdly ancient Youth, something) from 'birth' or simply became it so long ago that he has forgotten ever being other than he is now, I couldn't say. But they are clearly meant to feature in my game, or the memory of them would have faded upon waking (as so many do) ... but it stuck vividly with me (and here we, or rather they, are). I just need to introduce them to it and see where it takes them.

So ... not so much what I've been up to lately, as what I'll be up to in the near(ish) future - but, beggars can't be choosers and you get what there is (and like it, what's more 😜).

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¹ Using one's backside in lieu of a toboggan.
 
I received Clash's Compact/Alliance/Union book and it looks great. And then I played a character in Asen's Silk Road setting. The thing that I found interesting, almost unsettling, was how Nara, my character, felt vastly relieved when his attempt at diplomacy and negotiation went sour and he had to fight. He is, after all, a simple soldier and fighting he knows. He actively enjoys the process of combat, although he doesn't like the risk and he isn't particularl8y blood-thirsty or vindictive. Fortunately, one of the guys who was trying to sacrifice someone Nara has some responsibility for was still alive, so the godling accepted him in exchange for our guy.
 
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