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Morning Stars: the Gristle (Languages, Money)

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There is an empire broken apart, in flames, brother soon to be turned against brother in a war which will set the course of history forever. It's best to remember what you have before you lose it; hold tight in your hands the tools your mother made you, and hold close to your heart the words your father taught you. Memory awaits. Gerard van Honthorst Languages Morning Stars characters start with Lingua and one other language of their choice, plus one for each point of INT bonus they have. Characters are assumed to be able to read and write in the languages they know with a base level of proficiency. You may say, " PRIMEUMATON , why are these filthy past-century-equivalent people so literate?" Because it's more interesting to be able to interact with parts of the game than not. I once had an otherwise very enjoyable dungeon cut short by the fact absolutely none of us could interact with the puzzles due to not being able to read a language. If you insist on Trve Mvdcore...

A CHALLENGE FOR 2026: THE STARTER B⬡X

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Here's a sad story in six words. FOR SALE: RPG SETTING, NEVER RUN As bloggers, we have reams of loreposts and toneposts and appendices N and classes and bestiaries and all the things which a game is built  on- but a dearth of games. There are settings which exist solely as ideas in heads, lauded though they may be, awaiting the day they hatch from the skull that holds them. Look at all these settings from  The Nothic's Eye . Of the twelve of them, I think about three of them have ever been run. Three others have absolutely no mention outside of this chart. This isn't a specific callout post, just an easy example. Although Locheil does owe me thousands of dollars from the ill-fated Ashes to Ashes: the Motion Picture project, I expect this to be mediated by my various eastern European thugs. Anyways, the trouble with many of these great works and passion projects is that if you don't know the person who wrote it, it's extremely unlikely that you'll get to play it ...