12-16-2011, 06:21 PM | #11 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/38: The Power of Myth
You are welcome. Maybe you already are aware of this, but just in case, let me tell to you that the article "The Journey of the Dead" isn't focused in Dungeon Fantasy (of course, you can bend its contents for suiting it).
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12-16-2011, 08:45 PM | #12 | ||
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In this sense, I liked to see that the adventure "The Golden Geniza of Ezkali" included in this Pyramid issue features
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On the other hand, since there are many ancient cosmogonic myths portraying the immense power of divine entities, it's not difficult to understand how someone can think about them as "Cosmic level tales told in an epic style", albeit that won't be applicable to all of them. Quote:
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12-17-2011, 01:20 PM | #13 | |
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Anyways, I figure a look at descending into the underworld to raise someone from the dead is a hell of a lot cooler than just casting a 'raise dead' spell, though it might only be used for special kinds of death. |
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12-17-2011, 01:43 PM | #14 | |
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12-17-2011, 01:54 PM | #15 |
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I agree very much.
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12-17-2011, 02:41 PM | #16 |
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I read The Journey of the Dead last night and I liked it alot but I feel it would have been more useful if there were more ways to handle omens from a gaming perspective. Most of this could just be fluff and added creepiness though, maybe in an area near a boss monster there could be crows waiting for the delvers to be slain so that they could sate their hunger. I think it could unnerve some players if there are crows waiting around but not attacking as they might think that the crows were spies for the boss monster.
I think the part where the players delve into the lands of the dead could be a lot of fun. Imagine, a player that worships a god from the Olympic pantheon and he is slain in a dungeon. His fellow delvers would have to go into Hsades to try to retrieve his soul in order to ressurect him. Other players could worship other gods and if they are slain then their fellows must retrieve their souls from the lands of the dead as well. Celtic, Egyptian, Babylonian, and other lands of the dead might have to be explored should other delvers worship gods from different pantheons. It would also make it useful for players to choose a god or pantheon so that in case the player dies there will be somewhere for their soul to go. Also, it would provide more fun than just taking the dead body to the temple near the dungeon and then pay for a ressurection. Anyway, this article was a lot of fun to read and provided me with a lot of ideas. |
12-17-2011, 03:39 PM | #17 |
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Okay, reproduction question.
Pages nine, ten, eleven and twelve are the map pages. What percent do they need to be blown up to in order for each map to be 1 inch= 1 hex? |
12-17-2011, 09:26 PM | #18 | |
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(*) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 2: Dungeons, p.16: Archetypes. Also, GURPS Fantasy, p.174: Into the Labyrinth.
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08-09-2017, 09:44 AM | #19 |
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Want to see the kind of things adventurers will deal with if the recover the golden geniza? And want to help with real research on the real geniza which inspired it? There's a project crowd sourcing basic sorting and identification of document fragments from the Cairo geniza. Check it out to get a feel for what your delvers are doing when they make that Research roll.
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