tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post4615501932852004796..comments2024-03-25T22:48:31.750-04:00Comments on Dreams in the Lich House: Colonial Hex CrawlingJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-28624713615861423092012-09-27T02:53:32.753-04:002012-09-27T02:53:32.753-04:00Sorry to be so late to the party, but I've bee...Sorry to be so late to the party, but I've been doing research for a Halloween adventure for my group (I try to do one every year) and I literally stumbled on this moments ago. It's brilliant! I have a great idea for an adventure, but I was wondering if you ever got this off the ground and if so, how did it go? Also, if you're still looking for inspiration (or for any future visitors out there) I cannot recommend highly enough the movie Eyes of Fire. It's set in this exact era and deals with this very concept. The SFX are dated (from the 80's) but the story and concepts are awesome. Anyway, cheers!Tinker Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07314300661032066374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-75956780898629594312012-09-27T02:48:56.650-04:002012-09-27T02:48:56.650-04:00Sorry to be so late to the party, but I've bee...Sorry to be so late to the party, but I've been doing research for a Halloween adventure for my group (I try to do one every year) and I literally stumbled on this moments ago. It's brilliant! I have a great idea for an adventure, but I was wondering if you ever got this off the ground and if so, how did it go? Also, if you're still looking for inspiration (or for any future visitors out there) I cannot recommend highly enough the movie Eyes of Fire. It's set in this exact era and deals with this very concept. The SFX are dated (from the 80's) but the story and concepts are awesome. Anyway, cheers!Tinker Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07314300661032066374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-58956420688911153252012-04-13T22:28:14.461-04:002012-04-13T22:28:14.461-04:00Richard - I'm off to the library this weekend ...Richard - I'm off to the library this weekend to grab some books on the Iroquois and Algonquin Indians, as well as some books on colonial life. Any suggestions on sources for Dutch settlements north of New Amsterdam? I'm thinking of placing it around Fort Orange or Schenectady - it's rugged and a crawl could stretch all the way to the Finger Lakes. Hope I'm not imposing - it sounded like you were open to reaching out for ideas - contact info is off to the right if you want to send a gmail.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-25578405941326934262012-04-09T22:02:54.445-04:002012-04-09T22:02:54.445-04:00Sorry. Here's the correct link.Sorry. Here's the correct <a href="http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2011/12/those-who-went-remain-there-still.html" rel="nofollow">link</a>.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-5029567287608230562012-04-09T19:51:29.941-04:002012-04-09T19:51:29.941-04:00You might check out this guy's stuff: http://t...You might check out this guy's stuff: http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/<br />If you haven't seen.landlord dombrowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06388900543064531396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-34152886205425104802012-04-09T17:07:39.235-04:002012-04-09T17:07:39.235-04:00I remember that one, The Burrowers. It had a cree...I remember that one, <i>The Burrowers</i>. It had a creepy, humans-being-dragged-underground-as-food thing going on - those kind of creatures would be great. I also liked the the things from <i>The Descent</i> living in Appalachia.<br /><br />I'm heartened to see interest in the idea. So much of our fantasy gaming is European themed, I'm intrigued by blending bits from Native American folklore and myth with the cosmic horror.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-20790078512771204522012-04-09T16:26:41.029-04:002012-04-09T16:26:41.029-04:00This is a really interesting idea. It sounds like ...This is a really interesting idea. It sounds like a great time & place to play a campaign out. <br /><br />When I read the line about "degenerate neighbors", I remembered a Native American/Western Horror film called the Burrowers. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.Psychoda Presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12924358841634603828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-2647197662233696902012-04-09T11:59:02.512-04:002012-04-09T11:59:02.512-04:00I'm itching to do the same.I'm itching to do the same.John Matthew Staterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310914386482078369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-15217761016280821152012-04-09T10:25:44.602-04:002012-04-09T10:25:44.602-04:00That's a cool concept- I think we'll see m...That's a cool concept- I think we'll see more people interested in the Colonial and earlier period soon, given the upcoming Assassin's Creed VG. I already had one of my normally history-adverse group come up and ask about a tabletop game in that era, primarily based on the advance artwork they'd seen for the VG.Lowell Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02359280169506945906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-19485556278378926772012-04-09T08:53:00.841-04:002012-04-09T08:53:00.841-04:00Monsters like Ithaqua (you think Ithaca NY is name...Monsters like Ithaqua (you think Ithaca NY is named after some place in Greece? Nope, that's ancestral brain-echo). And baxbaxwhatever: the cannibal-at-the-north-end-of-the-world (no google right now on my phone, but he's worth looking up).richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-50517484467947050552012-04-09T08:40:18.384-04:002012-04-09T08:40:18.384-04:00Cool, there's something about explorers in rac...Cool, there's something about explorers in raccoon hats and fur jackets poling up a murky river into unknown lands that screams adventure to me... Richard, I'm definitely considering the <i>Heart of Darkness</i> approach and all the things that can go wrong with those border forts and way stations out in the wilds. I see this as a little side project though, and wouldn't take on the globe trotting version. That being said, if the scrawlings in my notebook indicate an alternate mythology is taking root, I'll take you up on the kindly offer to talk about the historical side of things - sounds like you'd have ideas on the best decade and location in the 17th century, and that could really focus my reading.<br /><br />I'd want there to be a lot of intrigue in the wilds with the mix of continental powers (ie, ,<i>Last of the Mohicans</i> style conflicts), plus the rivalries between native nations, and then those groups that are involved with dark powers.<br /><br />@Trey: your link didn't work! I'll google it though.<br />@JD: I like that idea of pre-glacial remnants - who lived in North America even before the native Americans? Monsters.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-9577076301927039952012-04-09T08:12:32.551-04:002012-04-09T08:12:32.551-04:00just re-read my comment and realised I sound incre...just re-read my comment and realised I sound incredibly arrogant. Sorry about that. I'm really not, usually.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-6042107385160865452012-04-09T07:03:24.161-04:002012-04-09T07:03:24.161-04:00I think this is a good idea. Some of Howard's...I think this is a good idea. Some of Howard's stuff would offer inspiration, too. Solomon Kane, of course (though it isn't set in the New World), but also the Conan stories about the Pictish wilderness (which are sort of a fantasy Leatherstocking Tales). Cherie Priest's <a href="http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2011/12/those-who-went-remain-there-still.html%22" rel="nofollow"><i>Those Who Went Remain There Still</i></a> is latter era, but close enough to be inspirational.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-36449799532143262612012-04-09T07:01:11.000-04:002012-04-09T07:01:11.000-04:00There are some glacial caves in New Hampshire that...There are some glacial caves in New Hampshire that legend says the local indians used for unusual rites. I've visited these caves myself and in spots you can see phosphorescent minerals and you can still feel the cold bubbling up from the clacier fragments buried far beneath the caves which are formed by boulder gouged up out of the earth and pushed aside by the glaciers of old.JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-73514741937638085622012-04-09T06:49:29.764-04:002012-04-09T06:49:29.764-04:00I don't have time today, but if you're ser...I don't have time today, but if you're serious we should talk: Dutch expansion is what I do for my day job. Hexcrawling the Albany hills is one great approach, Heart of Darkness Journeys Up The Awful River is another - Hudson's adventures and eventual disappearance have a flavour all their own. But I'd do this as the very first globetrotting wave- or coast-crawl: right at the same time the Dutch were getting lost in Sumatra, imprisoned in India, wrecked in Western Australia, malaria in Mexico, not-scalped in New England (thereon hangs a tale) and frozen in both Spitsbergen and the Bering Strait. The deadly, exotic and id-calling Indies was the whole world beyond Europe, and I see no reason not to draw strange parallels across all of it... in a game.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.com