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Started by Ronin, March 24, 2014, 07:58:24 PM

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Ravenswing

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March 26, 2014, 12:36:19 AM
Quote from: TristramEvans;738886What's Harkwood?
It's an excellent adventure book, the very first released for the full GURPS system.  Set in the Yrth/Banestorm setting, it's in a frontier barony in a frontier kingdom, in the runup to that kingdom's civil war, covered in future Banestorm releases.

The premise is that the party's a bunch of newbies, showing up for the great semi-annual tourney in said frontier barony, either to compete, as the squires or servants of a competitor, or to hook up with any of the several lords hiring mercs with the oncoming civil war.  Adventures spill out from there.

One of the nifty bits is that there's no predetermined Big Bad.  Instead, there are six possibilities -- each with a different possible lead henchman -- and the GM's encouraged to choose which one will be It.  The baron's sweet daughter and heir could in reality be spoiled and twisted, his senior knight could really want to be baron himself, the local charlatan could really be a stalking horse of an enemy lord, the baron could be in fact an insane split personality trying to ruin himself.

Definitely worth having and running.
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March 26, 2014, 01:24:32 AM
Quote from: TristramEvans;738886What's Harkwood?

I'm pretty sure it's the sourcebook for The Land of Poncy Knights.
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March 28, 2014, 02:13:05 AM
Quote from: The Butcher;738615Congratulations on the phat lewt.



You sir, hold a piece of gaming history in your hands.

This is the book that made Kevin Siembieda sue a budding WotC nearly out of existence.

Am I correct in remembering that this lawsuit set off a chain of events that led WoTC into eventually getting D&D?  Was is that this was what pushed them into M:tG? Or am I remembering it wrong?
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March 28, 2014, 03:03:49 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;739265Am I correct in remembering that this lawsuit set off a chain of events that led WoTC into eventually getting D&D?  Was is that this was what pushed them into M:tG? Or am I remembering it wrong?

Here's a decent summary;  http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory1.phtml
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March 30, 2014, 04:47:59 AM
Quote from: trechriron;739271Here's a decent summary;  http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory1.phtml

Cool, thank you.
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