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WANTED
players for a fantasy campaign; experience with roleplaying
games is not requiredstyle:hemes:
THE GAMEWhen & Where Played: online IRC chat, every other
Saturday night - familiarity with IRC or chat play noequired
Game System Used: ICE's HARP (High Adventure Roleplaying) -
ownership or familiarity not requiredSetting: the world Medr thrae,
in the land Tha, beginning near the city-state ofTalYear:
CAMPAIGNGame Style (4 total for each category)Cinema (2) Realism
(2) -Hack (2) Thesp (2) -Comedy (2) Drama (2) -
WHAT HAPPENS (out of 4, 4 being "happens every session")Action
& Fights 2 -Tea & Crumpets 3 -Character Power 3 -
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Building 4 -Destroying 2 -Exploration 3 -
HOW IT'S DONEAthleticsCombatCommunication
DiplomacynvestigationPersuadingScholarship
SOME POSSIBLE CHARACTER TYPESclan member, tribal,oathbreaker,
oathbound, swordswornelementalistorestgods-slayer
halflinghealerhill scoutplains horse
archermercenarypriestmage
SOME POSSIBLE CHARACTER ROLESscout, horse archer, psioli,
auxilla, bard
NSPIRATIONAL WORKS (needs sifting through)Authors: C.J. Cherryh
(The Morgaine Cycle), Glenn Cook (The Black Company), Lord Dunsany,
EdwardGibbon, Mercedes Lackey (Vows & Honor), Michael Moorcock,
Tsutomu Nihei, Andre Norton (Witch Worletc.), Mervyn Peake, H. Beam
Piper (Paratime stories), Clark Ashton Smith, J.R.R. Tolkien (The
Children Hurin, The Simarillion), Jack VanceGames: Al-Qadim, Blue
Rose, Divine Right (Minarian Legends), Lone Wolf (Magnamund),
Planescape,Tekumel, Wilderlands of High FantasyMovies: Conan the
Barbarian, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Fall of the Roman
Empire, GladiatorThe House of Flying Daggers, Ladyhawke, Last of
the Mohicans, Sleeping Beauty, The Scorpion King,WarlordTV Shows
& OAVs: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Heroic Legend of Arislan,
The Legend of Escaflowne,
Record of Lodoss War, Robotech: The Next Generation (Invid
Invasion), Slayers
TAGLINEWe weren't geas-pressed that time, or being altruisticwe
were in it for the money, dammit! - Tarma in
Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey
Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But
Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in thearth. Once giants lived
in the earth, Conan, and in the darkness of chaos they fooled Crom
and they tookrom him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered, and the
earth shook, and fire and wind struck down thegiants and they
felled their bodies into the waters. And in their rage the gods
forget the secret of steel and
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eft it on the battlefield. And we who found it are just men, not
gods, not giants, just men. And the secret osteel has always
carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle Conan, you
must learn its discipline. Fno one, no one in this world can you
trust, not men, not women, not beasts. This you can trust.
from the Conan the Barbarian film
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