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Title: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 23, 2021, 10:12:11 AM: https://wilgut.blogspot.com/2021/06/marganathe-second-battle-of-mudwater.html

The King of Harno seeks revenge for his dead nephew, meanhwile teh Orc warlord is searching desperately for his lost son.Has the young fool allowed himself to get captureed again?

They meet, with their armies, at Mudwater
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: BZ on June 23, 2021, 02:03:43 PM: Great photo material!
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 25, 2021, 08:25:10 AM: Quote from: BZ on June 23, 2021, 02:03:43 PM
Great photo material!

thank you
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: andyskinner on June 25, 2021, 03:35:29 PM: I love the anagrams, but I think you are using some made up words and some anagrams, and I spend too much time trying to decide which are which.

I love the Schlurpee. Is left/right a valid division?

andy
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on June 25, 2021, 06:11:54 PM: Only just spotted this one. Loving it as usual mate! You continue to inspire.
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 26, 2021, 06:57:13 AM: Quote from: Grumpy Gnome on June 25, 2021, 06:11:54 PM
Only just spotted this one. Loving it as usual mate! You continue to inspire.
Thanks Rick, if you haven't tried Fantastic Battles I can heartily reccomend it. The system just lends itself so readily to the creative mind, you can pretty well create what ever army you can imagine and its one rule book which is very reasonably priced.
Quote from: andyskinner on June 25, 2021, 03:35:29 PM
I love the anagrams, but I think you are using some made up words and some anagrams, and I spend too much time trying to decide which are which.

I love the Schlurpee. Is left/right a valid division?

andy

yes I am using one original name which was Skaythe , which I put in by accident and fogrot about! And yes I am making up names for made up creatures! (Fogrot is a typo but actually pretty well sums up the state of the post Covid mind!)

Margana is not Arda after all. I wanted to use my Middle Earth armies but the concept of the campaign does not fit well into that topography, the campaign is designed to work with a map where the four kingdoms are in the corners of an oblong map which is why I created the idea of Margana, kinda Tolkien but not. There simply aren't enough named evil characters in Lord of the Rings to provide anagram material for all the captains in Margana. However there is one Orc left yet which I have not used so he may appear in the next episode

As for the Schlurpee it hadn't occurred to me that she might be divided vertically and your comment brought an immediate and disturbing image to mind. I was thinking top half carp and lower half Betty Boop but divided vertically she's catfish and Pink!
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Little Odo on June 26, 2021, 06:28:23 PM: Quote from: Wilgut Spleens on June 26, 2021, 06:57:13 AM
As for the Schlurpee it hadn't occurred to me that she might be divided vertically and your comment brought an immediate and disturbing image to mind. I was thinking top half carp and lower half Betty Boop but divided vertically she's catfish and Pink!

To throw a spanner in the half and half division works - what about front and back vertical division? ;D ;) o_o
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 27, 2021, 07:59:36 AM: Quote from: Little Odo on June 26, 2021, 06:28:23 PM
To throw a spanner in the half and half division works - what about front and back vertical division? ;D ;) o_o

I think I once went out with this one
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: fred on June 27, 2021, 02:16:15 PM: Great write up.
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 27, 2021, 11:08:25 PM: Quote from: fred on June 27, 2021, 02:16:15 PM
Great write up.

Hey thanks Fred! Did you notice the addition of the aggression rolls?
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: andyskinner on June 28, 2021, 02:09:29 PM: I am sure I'd enjoy games more if I had a bit more setting. I also want Tolkien-inspired but not refighting Middle Earth. My favorite inspiration is the bit in Smith of Wooten Major where some elves return from battle with dark things on the edge of Faerie. No detail at all, but says what I want to capture.

Thanks for sharing your world.

andy
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 28, 2021, 10:16:27 PM: thanks Andy, I am glad you are enjoying it. I find once I get an idea everything else follows from it. The narrative starts to buld and after a while it kind of writes itselff You should certainly explore the dark things on the edge of Faerie.Thats the great thing about Tolkien, the unexpalined stuff is open to individual interpetation.
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Mister Frau Blucher on July 02, 2021, 01:31:45 PM: I'm not quite caught up to this point yet, but just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying it.

I've done a campaign like this a few times, kinda based on the Campaign system from the old Knights and Magic rules. Makes me want to get another one going.

Thanks for posting this!
Title: Re: Margana, the Fourth year draws to a close, the Second Battle of Mudwater
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on July 04, 2021, 08:41:29 AM: thanks for the encouragment! I am just writing up the next battle.