Showing posts with label Jack Vance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Vance. Show all posts
23 December 2025

The Sorrows of Young Efric (Lyonesse RPG)

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As I mentioned recently, I’ve started playing in a Lyonesse campaign. I’m quite excited about this, as Jack Vance’s Lyonesse trilogy is am...
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30 March 2025

Praise for Songs of the Dying Earth

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Among my favourite works of fantasy fiction are the Dying Earth stories and the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. I’ve read the Lyonesse tril...
09 September 2024

Mythras and Against the Darkmaster news

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Some quick notes on a couple of things for two of my favourite RPGS: Mythras and Against the Darkmaster . First,  Mythras . There is a new ...
26 August 2022

Fictional worlds and the RPGs that I would use for them

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Below I list some of my favourite settings from fantasy fiction that I think could serve as viable RPG settings and the rules that I would u...
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23 January 2022

Giants in the Earth and the pre-TSR Known World

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Some interesting notes from the original “Known World” Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting have been made available for all to enjoy. (See...
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10 June 2021

Mythras Bundle of Holding

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I thought that I would mention that there are four days left to pick up the Mythras Settings Bundles (PDFs): the “Starter Collection” (which...
31 December 2020

Praise for Lyonesse

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Mythras is my favourite FRPG of the 21 st Century and Lyonesse is one of my favourite trilogies of the 20 th Century—so naturally I’m a gr...
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04 July 2020

New Lyonesse and Mythras adventures

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The good people at the Design Mechanism have released a couple of new adventures for Lyonesse and Mythras : 'In High Dudgeon', an...
01 May 2020

Sail to Lyonesse today!

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The Lyonesse role-playing game is now available ! The system is based upon Mythras , adapted to Jack Vance’s classic fantasy setting. ...
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30 March 2020

Lyonesse is coming

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The good folk at the Design Mechanism have received the proof copy of their forthcoming Lyonesse book: Lawrence Whitaker writes: “...
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04 August 2019

Coddefut’s Stipule: a Lyonesse adventure

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As I’ve mentioned a few times here, I’m really looking forward to the forthcoming  Mythras -based Lyonesse  FRPG from the Design Mechanism....
07 June 2019

A new Mythras Companion and a future Lyonesse scenario

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A new thing for Mythras ! It’s the Mythras Companion . Here is the description from the good folks at the Design Mechanism: A compila...
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14 May 2019

The Dead Gods of the Elder Isles

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A few months ago I reread (for the third time!) the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. My main motivation for doing so was to refresh my me...
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24 March 2019

Not one but two forthcoming Vance-based games

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I’m a big fan of Jack Vance’s fantasy works—in particular, his Lyonesse trilogy and his Dying Earth stories. So I’m quite excited about ...
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14 December 2018

Jack Vance’s Lyonesse: read it, discuss it, play it

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As I’ve mentioned before here , the good people at the Design Mechanism are producing a role-playing game based upon Jack Vance’s Lyonesse ...
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09 August 2018

Lyonesse map draft

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The good people at the Design Mechanism  have shared this draft of their map of the 'Elder Isles' for their forthcoming Lyonesse R...
13 April 2018

A Lyonesse FRPG is coming!

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Exciting news from the good people at the Design Mechanism: they will be producing a freestanding RPG (using the Mythras rules) based on...
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