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Post by Nym90 on Jun 8, 2017 19:44:40 GMT
Yes, which means by book 32 you will get to have all sixteen disciplines which is a nice loyalty bonus for readers (at the expense of any strategy at the beginning of the book in picking your disciplines).
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Post by GhostofLandar on Sept 11, 2017 1:35:54 GMT
Reading this book was like finally getting to see a loved one after many years but having them taken away from you again. I don't mean the actual reading of the story but the passing of Joe. As much as I want to have faith that the books will be released, I know that Joe was planning on December or so of 2016 for the next installment and here we are almost at the end of 2017. Of course, there is a mourning period but I know Ben is/has been working on it, but I always wonder about how that will be. Honestly, I'd pay just to read Joe's notes and a chronological list of the "heroic" flowchart entries.
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Post by littletaffer on Jan 22, 2018 7:55:01 GMT
I can say that I am one of those who finally got the one of the last 100 copies of Storms two weeks ago. I've played a few times it as to see how a vet player like myself would be able to complete the quest. What begs me to ask here are several things involving the gameplay mechanics, especially if you have collected key items in the previous adventures and handful of erratas that are discovered in here: 1) Since the Kai-Weapon was damaged in Vampirium, does the bonus gets restored in the book as if it's been repaired after 17 years since Hunger? 2) Does the Ang'sei, the Korlinium Chainmail and Rakhi's Wardstone bonuses are stack on one another (+2 CS for yourself, -2 CS for the enemy, another -3 for an undead enemy)? 3) Other Kai-Weapons, especially if this combat occurs at raining daytime or if this monster is a winged creature, can Sunstrike or Raumas work too? 4) There are some sections that are inaccessible: if you are at (322/337), you should be turning into section 185, not 126. The erratas were also highlighted in outspaced.fightingfantasy.net/SVG_Flowcharts/LW_SVGs.html, as well as some section numbers reversed by mistake. For #4, I know that Project Aon guys have done a good job of fixing the erratas in all of the books, but reading the printed edition, made me wondered whether if Ben and Vincent are aware of a number of unanswered gameplay mechanics and erratas including wording / spellings that needs fixing as well?
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Post by GhostofLandar on Mar 27, 2018 3:49:15 GMT
Re-read both adventures this weekend. Great stuff.
I asked this in another place but maybe Vincent can answer---I thought the Menagerie and Bestiary stuff was great and noticed there was to be an upcoming Realm of Sommerlund and Demonlords/Darklords sourcebook/expansion. Are these still in development?
From 18-20, it seems there are Dark Gods (the Pentad, etc) but the Demonlords are beings of immense power who in some mortal or astral plane did great works of evil and were granted realms in the Plane of Darkness. I'd love to read what Joe (and co-creators now) have to say about what Tagazin did (or is he 'native' to PoD) to earn his place as Ixiataaga's pet (lol), who Ixiataaga or Shamath or Zantaz. I feel like a great deal was written about Darklords in past RPG material BUT
EDIT: I see now that the Darklords didn't emerge from a Shadow Gate beyond the Darklands but from Nengud-kor-Adez. Still, I had a theory about why the Darklords can't survive beyond Darklands (after all, Agarash and other great beings of evil don't seem to have this problem) for very long. it's clear that they ruined the Darklands and corrupted it, so what came first?
1) Kai/Ishir or in conjunction with the Elder Magi 'cursed' the Darklords because they were a breach of the Balance of Aon. Maybe because they all had a core of Naar and so he's intervening directly but not "formally" breaking the rules.
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2) Naar made them this way because he needed to tie the Darklords to 'achievements' because they could not be satisfied to rule an empire like Agarash but to actually vanquish Good and "Win" the contest.
3) Or their emergence from N-k-A changed them in a way that perhaps would not have occurred had they come straight from a Shadow Gate?
Just some ideas, it doesn't make sense to make your Darklords so reliant on carving out a territory for no reason other than 'plot.' (obviously if they're unkillable besides Sommerswerd and the occasional stole Zejar Deluga, why not lead armies from the front immediately?)
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Post by zorkraan on Mar 28, 2018 20:33:33 GMT
Re-read both adventures this weekend. Great stuff. Hi Ghosoflandar, thank you so much. I asked this in another place but maybe Vincent can answer---I thought the Menagerie and Bestiary stuff was great and noticed there was to be an upcoming Realm of Sommerlund The Realm of Sommerlund is completed and will be available on preorder at Cubicle 7 store very soon: cubicle7.co.uk/our-games/lone-wolf-adventure-game/ and Demonlords/Darklords sourcebook/expansion. Are these still in development? The Darklords will be addressed in the LWAG "Darklands" supplement, which will be an extended version of the Mongoose "Darklands" sourcebooks. No date for the release of this supplement yet, unfortunately. The Demonlords: it is not decided yet in which book they'll be addressed. Perhaps "Darklands", but they are rare in this region (a few of them to be summonded by the Darklords,like Fydakzh in Gazad Helkona), and the most powerful ones, like Agarash and Tagazin have nothing to do with the Darklands. From 18-20, it seems there are Dark Gods (the Pentad, etc) but the Demonlords are beings of immense power who in some mortal or astral plane did great works of evil and were granted realms in the Plane of Darkness. I'd love to read what Joe (and co-creators now) have to say about what Tagazin did (or is he 'native' to PoD) to earn his place as Ixiataaga's pet (lol), who Ixiataaga or Shamath or Zantaz. Joe and I started to prepare a book on the divinities of Magnamund, but sadly it is mostly uncompleted. It will notably address the Lords of Darkness, i.e. the god-like entities who lurk in the Plane of Darkness, including the Gods of the Pentad (i.e the original gods of the Plane of Darkness, Naar and his 4 greatest Demi-god vassals), the champions of evil who were given immortality and domains in the Plain of Darkness as a reward by Naar (like Nza'Pock, Huan Zhor and co), the Demonlords (creature of ultimate evil spawned by Naar), and the Deathlords/Chaos-masters who are entities born from a pure primal Evil Power like Death or Chaos.[/quote]
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Post by GhostofLandar on Mar 30, 2018 2:29:09 GMT
I don't think I realized (or at least remembered right now) that Fydakzh was a Demonlord! Thanks for the info. From the perspective of someone who has all the non-special books (besides Chai, of course) and has kept up with Lone Wolf forever, I'd say that the Darklords information (some of it was a little weird when I read the old Darklands supplement, it seemed like some of it was someone else's vision, not Joe's but Joe was probably open about interesting ideas) is pretty well covered between the recent sourcebooks (Menagerie) and a discussion of the astral planes is warranted. Who was Shamath as a mortal? Who the hell wrote that book that guided LW through the PoDarkness? Perhaps even a Plane of Light addition, and discussion of the Beholder, Serocca,Lorkon, etc for astral planes. I love how you guys weaved in the Academicians into the Toran Shadow Gate and the two heroic classes (Brotherhood and Varetta Sages) in the Realm of Sommerlund (I bought the PDF.)
I hope you've only just begun to dig into Joe's notes and your own approved contributions.
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Post by zorkraan on Apr 3, 2018 20:25:51 GMT
I don't think I realized (or at least remembered right now) that Fydakzh was a Demonlord! Thanks for the info. It was stated in the Mongoose LWMPG supplement "Darklands". Who the hell wrote that book that guided LW through the PoDarkness? Regarding the Tome of Darkness, have you read the bonus adventure of LW20, "The Purifiers of Kazan-Oud" ? I do think it could interest you ^^. I love how you guys weaved in the Academicians into the Toran Shadow Gate and the two heroic classes (Brotherhood and Varetta Sages) in the Realm of Sommerlund (I bought the PDF.) Thank you so much, you're one of the very first to notice this exciting detail spanning both LW and Grey Star series . I hope you've only just begun to dig into Joe's notes and your own approved contributions. Yes, 3 huge gamebooks to come, and many RPG supplements ... at least!
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