BROKEN CIRCLE

The Dream That Came to Old Tal

WANTED

players for a fantasy campaign; experience with roleplaying games is not required
style:
themes:

THE GAME
When & Where Played: online IRC chat, every other Saturday night - familiarity with IRC or chat play not
required
Game System Used: ICE's HARP (High Adventure Roleplaying) - ownership or familiarity not required
Setting: the world Medr thrae, in the land Tha, beginning near the city-state of Tal
Year:

CAMPAIGN
Game Style (4 total for each category)
Cinema (2) Realism (2) -
Hack (2) Thesp (2) -
Comedy (2) Drama (2) -

WHAT HAPPENS (out of 4, 4 being "happens every session")

Action & Fights 2 -
Tea & Crumpets 3 -
Character Power 3 -
Building 4 -
Destroying 2 -
Exploration 3 -

HOW IT'S DONE

Athletics
Combat
Communication
Diplomacy
Investigation
Persuading
Scholarship

SOME POSSIBLE CHARACTER TYPES

clan member, tribal,
oathbreaker, oathbound, swordsworn
elementalist
forest
gods-slayer
halfling
healer
hill scout
plains horse archer
mercenary
priest
mage

SOME POSSIBLE CHARACTER ROLES

scout, horse archer, psioli, auxilla, bard

INSPIRATIONAL WORKS (needs sifting through)

Authors: C.J. Cherryh (The Morgaine Cycle), Glenn Cook (The Black Company), Lord Dunsany, Edward
Gibbon, Mercedes Lackey (Vows & Honor), Michael Moorcock, Tsutomu Nihei, Andre Norton (Witch World
etc.), Mervyn Peake, H. Beam Piper (Paratime stories), Clark Ashton Smith, J.R.R. Tolkien (The Children of
Hurin, The Simarillion), Jack Vance
Games: Al-Qadim, Blue Rose, Divine Right (Minarian Legends), Lone Wolf (Magnamund), Planescape,
Tekumel, Wilderlands of High Fantasy
Movies: Conan the Barbarian, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Gladiator,
The House of Flying Daggers, Ladyhawke, Last of the Mohicans, Sleeping Beauty, The Scorpion King,
Warlord
TV Shows & OAVs: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Heroic Legend of Arislan, The Legend of Escaflowne,
Record of Lodoss War, Robotech: The Next Generation (Invid Invasion), Slayers

TAGLINE
“We weren't geas-pressed that time, or being altruistic—we were in it for the money, dammit!” - Tarma in
Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey

“Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the
earth. Once giants lived in the earth, Conan, and in the darkness of chaos they fooled Crom and they took
from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered, and the earth shook, and fire and wind struck down these
giants and they felled their bodies into the waters. And in their rage the gods forget the secret of steel and
left it on the battlefield. And we who found it are just men, not gods, not giants, just men. And the secret of
steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle Conan, you must learn its discipline. For
no one, no one in this world can you trust, not men, not women, not beasts. This you can trust.
- from the Conan the Barbarian film

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Another tale of the Lords of Space.