It might be good to have fresh blood with Akala and Tarnessh MIA. One option for new joins is that they come from a different clan, then they'd not have heard all the stories of the current Rangers (and so the player would not have to catch up on all the history)

Think we need a Sun Hawk really.

I definitely like Ohanzee's "different clan" idea to save on learning. I bet we could womp up a "Game Common Knowledge" sheet for new players between us in no time (if you wanted, I could even try having a pop at doing a draft).

In reply to GM (msg # 913):

I'll ask one of my mates this afternoon if he's interested.

Agreed that we need a Sunhawk PC.

I like Hoskars idea about a common knowledge sheet.

I've sent him a message with a link to the game, I'll let you know when he gets back to me.

Yeah, I think we might need some new characters. It is tough to join, but we're a welcoming group of souls.

We're going to a place where it makes sense people would wait to join us and they don't have to be from any clan we're a part of any more (although they'd be visiting our clans a lot).

First my twin goes missing and now my cousin *sobs* why does everyone leave me???!!!! :_(

the title 'Death of a Hawk' has just made Hawkwind's 'Night of the Hawks' run through my head, so I've now got their album 'Chronicle of the Black Sword' blasting out :)

Great albulm.

We shall have to have a Lemmy character in the game.

In reply to GM (msg # 921):

definitely, maybe a Windlord?

and now I'm going to have to dig out my Elric books and reread them

and a bad ass Donandar worshipper.

That'd be an amazing combination.

Sorry, was busy again yesterday.  Hope to catch up later today...

Right finally caught up IC and put  a quick post in.

I'm happy to tell the story from when we left the GFH on the harpy quest to Hatha and the folks and we can then plonk it into the thread you mentioned before.

It might take a while to pull together though so don't wait for me :)

Thanks Ohanzee,  on my desk by monday morning please...

Hoskar name that kid, he will now be important to our story in the future.

Crikey. And all from a bit of character development.

Okay, he's Torm Hathason right now, not having yet got his own attribute-name. If he comes to remember this incident fondly as a rite of passage, or if it just sticks, maybe he'll be Torm Quickspell later. Will that serve?

Seems like a future shaman perhaps. Good names thanks.

Just heard back from my mate, he seems interested but had a few more questions, which I've answered, so when he replies I'll point him the GM's way.

Cheers Tarosh.

Great story Ohanzee. It would be great if other players could add to the tale or tell other stories.

(italics added by Hoskar)

I spy a chance to make sure all the PC Rangers have heard "Ongar the Unstung" IC here instead of just Melock (who's the only one to have heard it IC so far), so I'll segue into that for now.

Rather than be repetitious in the IC thread, I'll just bung in the opening with a "..." and anyone who wants to can view it on the stories thread in full if you haven't already (I've lightly edited the opening paragraph since last time this got an outing, having read somewhere that Jaldon was functionally mute - the previous version was quite a howler on my part if that's still canon).
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Salen doesn't have much in the way of stories. I'm not sure recounting the tale of Kaonu when we're accompanied by Morokanth is a good idea. He does have the fable of Foundchild and Brother Dog, but its not exactly news, is it?

Sorry, yesterday was unexpectedly busy as well.  Have finally caught up.



I have a bad feeling about this.



I'm not sure about passions myself, though I've never played a game with passions before.  One the one hand, if they help flesh out the character, that's fine.  On the other hand, if in practice they serve as a straitjacket of sorts to restrict role-playing, I'd be against it.  Not everything needs to be quantified.
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Nice story Ohanzee.

Hopefully will catch up a bit on IC posting this weekend.

[slight rant alert]

Although I've never actually played a version of RQ involving passions, what I've read theoretically would lead me to concur: for me passions seem to be a rather mechanistic way of correcting bad roleplaying (if one does it well, the "passions" spring out of the character freeform because to act otherwise would be out-of-character; for example I the player did not want Hoskar to kill that wounded Sable rider, but to act otherwise would have made a mockery of his personality). Passions sort of put me in mind of "Investors in People" (which I have dubbed "Investors in Paper") and PDR processes: systematising what will happen naturally unless one has an incompetent manager.

It is no coincidence that one of my favourite business quotations (from an unnamed Harvard professor cited in the Times Higher 7th January 2010) is "Quality assurance is only needed when you don't have quality in the first place".

Having said that, I don't 'oppose' passions as-such, just don't think they're really needed. Rather like I have no plans to hit Jeremy Corbyn so there is no need for an injunction to stop me doing so.

Ohanzee will sleep, but Umbra will be about through the night.

I've met more incompetent managers than I have competent ones :)

Tarosh will stand watch for half the night as he doesn't trust the Red Thorns that much.