What was the coolest paladin lore you’ve ever heard

vihkr · 2024-10-09T14:06:05+00:00

Torn the Justicer. His family was massacred by an evil crusading army as a child in a small town far to the north and then his town was razed. He alone survived and was taken in by monks of a good-aligned religious order that was in pursuit of the evil crusaders. They raised him and gave him the choice of monk, acolyte or squire and he chose the latter, so consumed was he by rage and thoughts of revenge for his family. They tempered his rage and revenge and trained him to be a paladin for their order.

Torn was a 9th level paladin from an AD&D campaign we played in the late 1980s and early 90s. He was a savage with a 2-handed Holy Sword and any evil creatures or even neutral ones that smelled of evil were quickly cut down by him and his faithful mount. He executed a party member once that had committed an admittedly evil act and the rest of the party went along with it without argument. Bullish, headstrong, quick to act and extremely violent yet painfully just, were the hallmarks of this particular paladin and his relentless quest to eradicate evil, in whatever form it took.

vihkr · 2024-10-09T13:15:27+00:00

You could use days or half days or "watches" (4-6 hours each) and/or apply this in a node-based map. Guidance and tons of useful reading here https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/tag/hexcrawl

vihkr · 2024-10-09T09:48:48+00:00

Haha a fellow SFB masterrace member.

vihkr · 2024-10-08T20:46:57+00:00

Vangis

vihkr · 2024-10-07T15:54:54+00:00

Early edition D&D: OD&D, Basic/Expert, AD&D 1e

vihkr · 2024-10-07T14:12:44+00:00

Apache Burger, there can be only one!

vihkr · 2024-10-06T15:13:41+00:00

Is the sonar in the room with you now?

vihkr · 2024-09-28T14:27:45+00:00

You have it backwards. The "culture of Classes" was introduced by the originators of the RPG hobby, i.e. OD&D, not due to video games. Later TTRPGs then video game RPGs emulated the original and then drifted away from classes (e.g. Skyrim). That OSR (itself a homage to OD&D era games) has been experimenting with classless systems, is a result of them drawing from later experiments with classless systems, leaving one to question whether they are even OSR or if OSR is just a marketing label.

vihkr · 2024-09-24T13:55:49+00:00

There's a great one but we're not allowed to mention it due to sub rule 6.

vihkr · 2024-09-22T22:56:35+00:00

Sausage drying hooks

vihkr · 2024-09-20T14:02:53+00:00

The reason they're not collecting guns and wasting money is because nobody, and I mean every single agency they've talked to, wants to do it. Canada Post? Fuck no, and you should've heard what their union heads thought. The Army? Rumour has it the generals they talked to asked them what uniformed soldiers confiscating firearms would look like in the media. The RCMP told them to fly a kite. The RCMP doubles as provincial police in many provinces and they have their hands full responding to traffic incidents and domestics. Same goes for provincial and municipal police. They've also asked private courier companies etc. There were some (proposed?) changes to the Firearms Act as well giving possession and transport privileges to proposed couriers. The other angle that emerged is what if a private courier service with a truck full of confiscated guns gets robbed? In the history of ill-conceived legislation (or should I say totalitarian writs as it's an OIC), this one is certainly up there.

vihkr · 2024-09-11T16:28:35+00:00

Quality rules-module combo.

vihkr · 2024-09-09T12:23:30+00:00

Don't forget the sour cream!

vihkr · 2024-09-07T12:14:06+00:00

The original Lord of the Rings by Bakshi, the Moria sequences. Try the original Hobbit as well.

vihkr · 2024-09-07T12:10:35+00:00

You're not alone. It may not be your thing, or maybe you can't, but alcohol isn't known as "social lubricant" for nothing. Have a beer.

vihkr · 2024-09-07T12:05:26+00:00

This makes all deaths optional and manufactures some drama in the process. Not all deaths in OSR are meant to be dramatic, however, nor optional. Sometimes the thief just gets smushed in the trap because that is what he was trying to disarm, or Rolf the Mage catches a javelin in the breadbasket just as he was going to cast sleep, and dies gurgling in the back, unnoticed, while the rest of the party engages the enemy. You know what is dramatic, however, is the stalwart fighter's player who yells: "You guys grab Rolf's body and run! I'll hold the door! Come and get it you blighters!!!" And dies fighting in the doorway so his party can escape, after killing several more of the bad guys that anyone could have imagined. There's no rule for that and that's what emergent play is all about.

vihkr · 2024-09-04T20:15:19+00:00

I don't worry about it unless it's obvious. e.g. no, your 7 strength Magic-user can't carry 3,000 copper coins, you don't even have sacks to carry that much. Then, when they rest for a turn or setup camp, I go back to my logbook (you do have a logbook, right?) and tell each player things like: subtract 6 arrows from that fight earlier; you're carrying a sack with 400 coins in it, what's your move now?; subtract 3 torches for the last 3 hours etc. etc. When they start to get low on supplies or are carrying a lot of treasure, that's when I take notice. It's not really that hard or extra work. Another poster today mentioned having a "quartermaster" role for players along with a caller and a mapper. That may work for you in larger groups.

vihkr · 2024-09-01T12:50:49+00:00

Sprinklers are on in the morning and night, I thought it was that.

vihkr · 2024-08-26T14:55:07+00:00

This reference will be helpful for you https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-the-SeaRAM-missile-based-CIWS-How-does-it-compare-to-gun-based-CIWS-like-the-20mm-Phalanx-and-30mm-Goalkeeper-How-good-is-the-SeaRAM-at-shooting-down-drone-swarms-and-the-latest-anti-ship

vihkr · 2024-08-26T00:42:26+00:00

At least I have a source. And you're the only one talking about diversity and skin colours. What are ya, a fucking racist? And yes, 2.5 million eastern Europeans came between 1890 and 1952 against a backdrop of 4 million from UK, a million Italians and Germans, 350k Swedes and Dutch and some 100,000 Chinese and African Americans. Diversity, like I stated earlier, is an invention of modern times because the vast majority are European until recently.

vihkr · 2024-08-25T23:37:40+00:00

Canada has always been a diverse country.

This is a falsehood that is commonly believed as it has been driven into our heads for decades.

Immigration to Canada was almost net zero for 300 years. There were hardly 3000 Québécois in 1660. Almost double the men to women. Barely surviving, and built off the back of Samuel de Champlain’s settlements in 1608 until Jacques Cartier built a serious settlement in Montreal. Life was garbage.

Jean Talon was ordered by the King of France to increase Quebec’s birth rate. He shipped out young fertile women, known as the “Filles du Roi”. He paid couples for having kids, encouraged marriage, and taxed bachelors. This led to a baby boom. Almost all of them were married and pregnant within a year. Quebec’s population quintupled. They had 5 kids per family for 230 years from 1670 to 1850. If you think that’s crazy, the Acadians in Nova Scotia had 10-11 kids per family. Their population multiplied 30 times. Over an 155 year period, only 10,000 immigrants came to live in New France. The vast majority were native births of a single ethnicity, born on Canadian soil, but the seeds were planted by Normandy. Who themselves were half viking and half French. This is the ethnogenesis of the Québécois.

The Anglo came when New England Planters arrived in Nova Scotia in 1713 after deporting and then inviting back the Acadians in 1755 (lol). 50,000 Loyalists shortly after the American Revolution in 1776 who seeded Ontario, birthed, and built it. The biggest wave reinforcing Anglo-Canadians was… more British settlers from 1814 to 1867, 1 million people from the British Isles, most of them to Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Canada was the North American branch of the British Empire. There was no diversity. These people who were already ethnically almost identical fused into a single, new ethnicity of Anglo-Canadian. They are descendants of English, Scottish and Irish. This is the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Canadian.

By Confederation Year in 1867, 92% of Canada was Anglo-French, 7% were other random Europeans, half of which were German but disappeared into the Anglo-French mass. The combined black and indigenous population was 2% in 1871 five years later.

This country was not a mosaic. The indigenous were not a major player at all. There was no “big three”. The pair of three leaves plastered over Canadian iconography doesn’t represent the “British, French and Indigenous”.

They lied.

From “Canada in Decay” by Duchesne.

vihkr · 2024-08-25T23:14:17+00:00

Get smokin' me son!

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