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I actually yearn to do a Trade Caste level adventure exclusively filled with folks like butchers, bakers, candlestick makers,...etc., just to see what players do when their characters haven't been built as "adventurers", and were literally part of some merchant outing that went "awry" in some way... Armed with little more than knives, their wits, and other tools of their trade, they could be plunged into some sort of setting (such as getting stranded in a distant jungle) that would test their me…

Quote from MystRunner: “We shall try to not horrify anyone this year in a game....then again no guarantees. ” Hah hah! What good is an RPG session without a bit of fun "horror" now and again! We will also be doing little mini-sessions in the booth itself, this year... Not full adventure, but little sessions to show off a bit of combat, or magic, or intrigue... We might even provide windows into how characters are created...that type of thing... Brief interludes throughout each day of the convent…

That's right, it's called Tamáystra (taw-MAY-straw) - The unluckiest night on Dárdünah, one when none of the three moons are visible in the sky and some of the stars can actually be seen. These stars are held to be the baleful eyes of demons, eager to possess victims. Being born on one of these nights is considered very bad luck, so there's no doubt that regardless of societal status a person born on such nights would be seen to be prone to ill fate, and no doubt under the baleful attention of w…

That's a wonderful quote that I fully agree with.... Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “"You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ” Words to live by, honestly...

Some GM's might allow for that, to some extent... There's really no "hard and fast" rules for that kind of thing offered in Shard, because we wanted to give Game Masters the latitude to make such determinations based on their personal beliefs about the extent to which the "human" and the "animal" combine in Shard, when it comes to things like Animal Abilities... For instance, I'm betting most players would hope that their cat character could see all the colors a human can, while simultaneously h…

Yeah, there's certainly a lot of favoritism based on species stuff that I notice in the fandom... But that's OK, I suppose... RP-ing characters of the opposite sex, though, is an interesting exercise in "putting yourself in another person's shoes" when it comes to the typical kinds of issues/circumstances that people different from us deal with on a daily basis...whether that difference is age-based, "race"-based, gender-based, or otherwise... If you have a good GM who is really capable of seein…

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “I really like how each Element has a different personality I tend to like Air's personality best happy until it's freedom is constrained ” I like to imagine them like the Jinn...

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “Darn...I wanted to see what Teenage Mutant Scott was ”

Hey there! And welcome to the Forums! We will absolutely be at GenCon 2019! We'll be in the Studio 2 booth again (they're our publisher), like we were last year,...and we plan to run demos and everything! This year we'll have a whole booth, instead of just a table, and we'll most likely be running games right there at our booth! It'll be wonderful to see you again! Scottie

Quote from griffin: “It is also important to mention that when Adhitúmuss, "slipped through the cracks of the "Cycle of Life and Death" to escape from the Swirling Hells and manifest, once again, on the world, where he immediately took up his plans for world domination" he used the rules that other beings without physical bodies use to do so, which means that he sought out a new vessel to be used for a home to his spirit as he set about his diabolical plans... ” You are absolutely correct!

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “Would love to hear about the Mutant Characters you played! And what kind of adventures did you have? Did you deal with Dr. Feral? ” Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “I guess another question for Scott is did you have any of the expansion books that fell under After the Bomb like Road Hogs and Mutants Down Under which added more Animal Templates? ” I actually never played games using these particular books and expansions (though I collected them all, and still …

That type of issue is one of many that would be on the plate of the individual GM running the particular game/campaign featuring these jánah prominently. I'm sure that most GMs would choose to indicate that (like all poison dart frogs, due to their body's particular amino acids) the children of poison dart frogs would share an immunity to that type of batrachotoxin... That isn't to say the immunity would come "for free" in the case of game rules and terminology. It would actually be "built in" t…

The specific jenu identity of many different historical figures have been lost to time, and the sometimes obscure annals of history, and others (due to various cultural biases) are widely debated across the many countries of the world. The identity of Adhitúmuss, the “Isvar of Suffering”, is certainly one of those. There are actually two images I've created that at least "hearken" to the form he may have had over a thousand years before what is considered the "current" timeline of Dárdünah, and …

In fact, Dar-Puram is the next country I'm working on as we move through the Countries and Cultures chapter... Once I have a chance to get it into a more "finished state (for its rough draft) I'll share it here!

Yes,...long before the Shard RPG was conceived, the Palladium (I believe) TMNT game was a thing I recall from my high-school days... Good stuff back then!

That should be an amusing exercise for you!

There's certainly no doubt about that, and possibly even thoughts like "Why did the devah give me this form? Why not a form that would have made me happier?" But, of course, a LOT of that would be explained by past lives and karma and such... It's easy to "rationalize" using faith... And as long as that faith doesn't blame others, and instead promotes reflective self improvement, it can actually work out!

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “Heroic Mice are actually a pretty common Trope themselves, so for a Paksin specific example the Evil Duke is a Menacing Raptor and his illegitimate daughter is turkey! Don't see a lot of turkey protagonists particularly female turkeys ” Ha ha! I love the humor of a turkey being the daughter of the protagonist especially because it conjures up that cartoon moment when she's finally introduced in a "Spongebob" kind of way at a climactic moment of the story, only …

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “Holy! Which Emails were those? ” It was the email Strong Bad answered where my nephew and niece had their friend Andrew tell him that they "liked it most when you harm your friends"... youtube.com/watch?v=_NNztP5H97s