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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garwlwyd - apparently "Gwrgi" means Man-dog?  Shocking connection between the Master of Tables and the Seneschal of the Southlands if true!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garwlwyd

Re: Braunsteins - the two RPGnet threads I found that were interesting (when last I checked): http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?691803-Building-Braunstein-A-Theory-Thread and http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?688557-Braunstein-meets-the-Petal-Throne-June-8th-2013 http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?691803-Building-Braunstein-A-Theory-Thread

Chris, is your big devious master plan to someday come up with a large campaign setting type book detailing the Hill Cantons and the dungeon areas within? I see you working on Religion stuff now and other things and wonder if this is the plan to where it's all headed. That would be cool

Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis)  Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat

So I keep plugging away at the Guide to the Hill Cantons. Given yesterday's discussion I thought the Religion chapter (not done but a lot of work in it) of interest. There are a few "public secrets"  about the campaign mixed in there

Okko's Report on King's Ten Okko seems to warm to his job and appears to be loyal, able and competent from what you observe. He gives you the following report on how he sees things.  What Okko is buying/building with the 1000 suns (all work listed will be done before next week by the available labor): 1. Two 10-by-30 foot cypress-wood and thatch longhouses. One to be used as a workshop, the other for meetings/light work in the day and sleeping area for 15 at night.  2. A cypress-wood stockade roughly 6-foot high to enclose the area before a proper wooden palisade can be built.  3. 10 medium-sized tents for temporary housing  4. An on-site worker of wood and blacksmith 5. Food for the party and all the hired help for a month.  What Okko wants to know: Do you want to keep this site as the basecamp? He lays out the pros and cons of the site below and says that since no work has been done yet that he can hold off on the work above if you want to place it  somewhere else.  Site Pro

Just placing a link to the hirelings price list so that we can easily find it:  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Eos7dWiQVGbVZ5bTNfTWVQSTQ/edit

I was talking with Anthony Picaro about this after the session, and I seem to remember Robert Parker asking a question that sort of approached this concern, but I think it's important that before we go farther with the Feral Shore that we know what points of contact with regards to the mini-domain game are the most interesting to both us as players and to Chris Kutalik as the DM.   I'll try and think of some examples in the morning.

Hey, folks. I brought this up after game last night, but I didn't feel like I explained myself properly. I have been suffering from an acute case of burnout recently. I find myself zoning out for 50-80% of the game and can barely drag myself to play. This is no way because of the quality of the players or the game; both are stellar. In fact, this is the best game I've ever played. However, I need a greater variety of play to stay engaged.  Now, as was noted last night, other players are perfectly happy returning to the dungeon every week without pause. At the moment, that group represents the majority of the regular players. As such, I find myself consistently outvoted; this has reached the point where, frankly, I feel helpless and frustrated (which makes me want to play even less). I'm hoping that this new phase of the game will give us a wider variety of play because I really do not want to leave this game. There was an excellent suggestion last night that we do some preg

Happy birthday Humza Kazmi !