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Not fearing being seperated while a Deadly Fire and Fleeing Horsemen are around, the little group of travelers decides to split up, with Jareth the Half-Assed Paladin and Eldon the Thief choosing to remain in town and help try to extinguish the flames threatening the tiny thorp of Kurmish, while the Wizard Zodem pursues the Horsemen, hoping to cath up to them before they are able to get a long enough lead to escape into the far copse of trees.

In other news, Up With Roleplaying Games’ Warhammer RPG sub-site is slowly adding a feature or two to the site every now and then, the latest being a large map of Happy Town and pictures of hand-painted miniatures of potential enemies, presented by Hobgoblirob.

If anyone is interested, Ye Old Worlder, UWRPGs’ WFRP site, welcomes any interest or questions or comments on tabletop Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, and is looking for some adventurous souls to try to make a character or two and hopefully participate in our own local games, via the WFRP forums.

Having started over a month ago, the forum-based roleplaying game scenario, Silence Beneath the Trees, going on over at the WarHawK forums, is entering its final stages, as the heroic PCs tangle with their primary enemy, the dreaded Horsemen, though just the few attacks the PCs made have already handed the majority of the Horsemen their own a$$e$, so now there is a Deadly Fire, and the Horsemen are Fleeing - what will our heroes do?!

I am running this scenario using a slightly modified version of Dan Bayn’s Wushu rules, which encourage interesting and exciting actions by awarding dice for each relevant detail.My online dice roller can be found at http://www.zanysite.com/tabletoprpgfun/dice.php Most of the players still haven’t quite grasped how and when to break their creative writing and storytelling with the action movie stunt descriptions, but I can’t fault them - they’re all interesting to read.

http://forums.valorin.net/smf/index.php/board,2.0.html

Medieval Coins

This post concerns the value of medieval coins, specifically what equivalant amount of modern money they would have been worth at their time.

I had found a site that tells the relative worth of current coins in the past, but it only went back to the 1900s, so I have had to do my own research (and I apologize for not posting the links I used, I just got my info and went to the next site).

From all the reading I did, it would seem to me that a typical peasant who made about one silver shilling per day would be like a modern “wage slave”, burger-flipper/store clerk, etc.

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Farador D&D: Tom and his Chums (French with English subtitles) is a cute 2 part “episode” about some French gamers getting together for a game of tabletop D&D. Whether you play D&D or not, it’s an entertaining and somewhat exaggerated look at the type of things that a gamer has experienced (or done) at least once in their sessions.

I Am Babycakes: The Roleplay Tournament

I’m not sure how I missed this site, this e-zine, up until this point, as much as I enjoy reading well-reasoned articles related to tabletop role-playing games, but I’d like to correct my oversight now. Places to Go, People to Be is a terrific e-zine with articles on all sorts of aspects of RPGs, from mechanical discussions of systems to group and social dynamics, historical perspectives on role-playing and contemporary real-world opinions on the hobby. I know I’m going to be reading up on all this for the next few days, at least, and encourage other interested parties to do the same! Here’s the address: http://ptgptb.org/issue-index.html