My morning:
•  Log onto Crafty Forum.
•  Notice a  heap of posts under Spellbound (My face:  )
•  Read through the thread...

Firstly I second the above!... I know I don't post to these boards much but the rate of posting never ceases to amaze me!

Fear not, this was my feeble attempt at a LOTR movie joke. All remains as well as it can be in Spellboundia.

One does not simply walk into Spellbound...

  If that can't keep someone's spirits up and motivated, I don't know what will!

Next.. Thanks TSKoala your previous post made me read this ("One does not simply walk into Spellbound...") with Christopher Walken's voice in my head. Thanks again to this board, that happening is both amazing and scary!

Lastly Crafty_Pat, it'll be worth it however much of a slog it is, both from your point of view and ours. And I for one will wait until I'm old and grey if needs be. Chin up, Sir - we your loyal following will carry you if needs be to the finish line. All hail Spellboundia

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And for those more recent periods see here. I love the fact they skirt so close to the names, but never quite say them

Working on a Bartender one next.  One of my players inspired these. 

Being a long time bartender, surely this means your offensive weapon is your charm.. and your ability to stay calm even when being told how to do your job by someone who is currently lacking the ability to stand.

OOoooo Thanks for those links Blankbeard. I'll be lost in worlds of my own (well kinda!) creation for ages now!

For those that like their steampunk revenge based and bloody Dishonored is 50% off on Steam over the weekend. One of the better games of last year IMO.

(There's a movie.  I forget the title.  U.K.  Apocalypse.  Chick with a prosthetic eye that she can roll around and use as a camera.  Yeah.  One player wants to try to 'steampunk' that character into FC.)

The movie's Doomsday, starring Rhona Mitra, if that helps!

Great idea for an enemy force btw - looking forward to what you come up with.

Colour me interested! I like all the ideas presented, and the setting is brilliantly novel.

Ripper Street's good, Copper's IMO not worth the time but Call the Midwife (as it was called when aired over here) is very good and strangely addictive!

This one has "cyborg" written all over it.... You might want to let people take it even after 1st level.

It does indeed, and I would indeed.  I'll flesh it out soon.

You say "undead heritage" and I immediately think of Susan Sto Helit.  What other characters have I forgotten?

Blade. Presumably, at some point, the Nazgul.

And, by extension, Gollum.

(Then there's the infamous "lich-loved" feat and similar from TOG).

Libris Mortis held similar feats.. that made one shudder thinking about them. Still it was one of my favourite source book for the way it dealt with Undead PC's.

Additional material for Epoch?

I would love this to be true!

Please let it be true! Pleeeeeaaaasssseeeee

I am rapidly gravitating towards providing each player with some small unique stock of information they can show off to the rest of the team at their discretion . My more successful forays into the Amber RPG made heavy use of seperate pools of player knowledge they could use to horse-trade without GM supervision.

I do this with all my games. Not only does it promote good interaction between the players (the players change groups regularly at our club), but also stops the classic questions to the GM - "what does my character know about Admiral X". If they already know the answer, they'll pipe up with it.

I'm just about to run a Rogue Trader game and having seen the character sheets, I'm giving each player a little snippet of a story/rumour or a well founded piece of knowledge based off the skills they've picked to start with. So the Explorator who's got Forbidden Lore (Arceotech) +10 will have a rumor about a cache of STC blueprints hidden in the Xandrax system for example.

There is a lot to be said about northern culture, history, legends, and geopolitics at that time. Sadly, the only game I know which explores this theme thoroughly is Yggdrasil, and it's in French.

I'm sure I've seen an English language version of this.. yup here.

It looks to be a pretty good book.

Quite a lot actually! I've tried Eberron, Iron Kingdoms, 7th Sea, Rokugan, Conan, A Game of Thrones, everything works fine. From the Adventure Companion, I've only had the occasion to try Cloak & Dagger, but I don't despair, Epoch should be next. And finally I've tried something quite new in adapting The Witcher to Fantasy Craft. It's been really easy and it's a fantastic world to play into.

I've still never got my Epoch campaign off the ground, I think due to lack of scope and ideas, any thoughts Aegis?

Similarly I've also toyed with the idea of a Witcher campaign, care to share your ideas?

Merry Christmas to one and all, and all the best for 2013.

Saw it yesterday... and it was great. Beautifully shot and of course epic in scope. The pace was just right and the ending obviously left you wanting to see the next one. My only complaint was that some of the dwarves were a little camp/hammed up; the only truly serious dwarf being Thorin Oakenshield - but I can live with that.

Can't wait for the next one - bring on Smaug!