I may have mentioned before that I was looking forward to more "Conferences of Victor Gagné"... and the second chapter in the gentleman's adventures did NOT disappoint!
Tense, well-written, and some truly eerie ideas that confirm my own opinion that gothic and eldritch horror can be used together perfectly well if they're used right. Marvelous! I'm biased to enjoy Lilliend, but Victor Gagné was my personal favourite of QtR #25.
This is hopefully better than making my own thread... I recognize Camille Churnstone, the Darklord of Lilliend! I know for a fact that a past netbook, either one of the Books of S or the Undead Sea Scrolls or something, featured a domain ruled by a crazed, incestuous, misandric lesbian vampire darklord, who would murder all men as soon as they performed their "duty" of fathering a daughter for her domain! But... I can't remember what sourcebook she appeared in, and I think this updated version has changed the names as part of its expansion of the region... can anyone tell me where the first iteration of this domain and darklord showed up?
"Is there any word more meaningless than 'hope'? Besides 'blarfurgsnarg,' of course."
"Seek and Locate! Locate and Destroy! Destroy and Rejoice!"
Compliments for the MotRD adaptation of Sweeney Todd! I see ways those pies could have caused even more mayhem; all who ate them might be in danger of rising from the grave as Hungry Dead, or gaining the Ravenous feat from VRGttWD....
Thanks, I knew I'd seen Lilliend before, and I couldn't figure out where - it was driving me batty. Much appreciated. And the idea of introducing The Silver as a way to counter Camille's list of magical options for flight, and thus let a heroic band of adventurers end her once and for all, was a great addition to the lore. I've never been a fan of the Undying Soul mechanic that plagues Ravenloft - reeks too much of metaplotting and creator's pets. Looking forward to seeing more of the Wartorn Cluster, even if I have no idea who the narrator/in-universe author is, where they came from, or why I should care about her.
Heck, or the Plague of Famine from Dragon #319, that'd definitely be appropriate to Sweeny Todd's pies.
"Is there any word more meaningless than 'hope'? Besides 'blarfurgsnarg,' of course."
"Seek and Locate! Locate and Destroy! Destroy and Rejoice!"
Heh heh, Ciska (she signs her name twice as I recall) is an NPC I created for the Wartorn Gazetteers. More about her will be revealed in time... More than she'd like.
I will say this up front: she is not S.
(In fact, she dislikes her.)
Wow, that was a great number; my congratulations to all the authors and to the fraternity; Kudos to Tomoachiko for the Death Knight Archetype; Compliments also to Brilliantlight, and you are very wellcome pal;
I liked a lot the 50 NPC and the 100 Darklords, my thumb up for 47.
Mistmaster wrote:100 Darklords, my thumb up for 47.
Indeed, that meta gaming darklord is fun
"A full set of (game) rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume, they underwent gravitational collapse and became a black hole" (Adams)
Don't have time to stay, but I wanted to mention this; in the article "100 Shades of Darkness", Darklord #39, Rothbart, is clearly based on the evil wizard of the same name from The Swan Princess, whilst Darklord #61, Zelig the Shrinker, is clearly based on either the B-movie villain Dr. Cyclops, the Sid & Marty Krofft mini-serial Dr. Shrinker, or both.
"Is there any word more meaningless than 'hope'? Besides 'blarfurgsnarg,' of course."
"Seek and Locate! Locate and Destroy! Destroy and Rejoice!"
When I read the name "the Man in the Yellow Hat" in A Hundred Shades of Dark, it forever linked this figure with the guy of the same moniker from the Curious George books.
I may have mentioned before that I was looking forward to more "Conferences of Victor Gagné"... and the second chapter in the gentleman's adventures did NOT disappoint!
Tense, well-written, and some truly eerie ideas that confirm my own opinion that gothic and eldritch horror can be used together perfectly well if they're used right. Marvelous! I'm biased to enjoy Lilliend, but Victor Gagné was my personal favourite of QtR #25.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
I just read the opening to Lilliend, and I look forward to reading more when I get more time on my hands. The beginning sequence made me think about Roland Deschain (I am working my way through Wizard and Glass right now), then I saw the quote from Wolves of the Cala at the head of the next section. That was perfect timing.
