Puzzled at LW RPG Gazeteer

[andyr]

Hi,
reading around the Mongoose LW RPG, quite a nice piece of work, at times more detailed and systematic than the MC, I've gotten a bit surprised at the extremely long lifespans of Magnamund rulers!!!!!

Check it out if you can, but, barring beings of possibly altered lifespans (like Archdruid Cadak and of course the Darklords and Autarch Sejanoz), isn't it odd that some rulers, like the king of Durenor, the queen of Talestria and the High Mayor of Casiorn are all the same than in the LW gamebooks? (IIRC the RPG is set in MS 5000 and LW1 begins in MS 5050)... odd

[Relenoir]

Well, I don't have the book yet, but that definitely sounds strange! They would have had to take power very young, and live a fairly long lifespan for a human in a world without antibiotics. . .
Of course, Moses in the Bible was said to have lived to be over 100, and they didn't have antibiotics either.

[The Wytch-King]

Have to admit, I have just browsed the gazetteer so far, but a few things like that even I noticed ...

Main example: Baron Shinzar, the enemy commander at the Battle of Cetza (in The Dungeons of Torgar), already is in power. The rulebook does say he has an extended lifespan (which I'm not really sure I like), but he's the first one to come to mind.

Another thing is: For some reason, the Gazetteer gives us the Sommerlending King as of MS 5050 ... Okay, probably a typo, that one.

Maybe they planned at first to set the game in MS 5050, and when they reconsidered, they forgot about correcting those entries? Can't imagine that to be pure laziness, the book really seems to be a work of love!


The Wytch-King

[KaiLord]

Maybe they planned at first to set the game in MS 5050,

Yep, probably so. I guess they realized that if they dated the game at MS5050, most Kai Lords would only have, oh, a few weeks left to adventure.

One thing I noticed today was the extreme cost of laumspur. 350gc for one potion? (p. 127)

KL