This thread discusses the Content article: The Game Master Show Ep 79 (AP) Unhallowed Metropolis pt 2

NO ONE DIES! Whatta jip! Shaun, what were you waiting for?!

And on the quaint historical notes--

Hansom cabs were horse-drawn. If you've ever seen any Sherlock Holmes they're the two seaters with the driver on top.

Pence is used to talk about value, or an amount of worth: i.e. That costs four pence. Pennies is used to refer to the coins themselves: i.e. Look! Four shiny pennies!

Coins at this point went up to a pound, also called a sovereign, but those were not much used. Most people would have bee using crowns (5 shillings) or smaller change. Paper went as low as 10 shillings, the ten-bob note you will read about in Lord Peter Wimsey novels up into the 30's.

Next time somebody dies, right?!

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Next time somebody dies, right?!

I am going to try and tip the cup in that direction next game we shall see if it happens.

Unfortunately thou it will be a few weeks before the next session will be out due to origins being next week and other untimely things happening this past week =(

ianengle, he are a man with an impressive know-how. Thanks for the heads up and info, both from this ep and the one prior.

And whats with everyone want Dan to smoke one of us. Man rough crowd.

Actually we have been talking about how there hasn't been a death in one of our games yet. And that maybe we should have one. Dealing with character death is something that every GM will have to deal with.

That being said I hope its Shaun.

tgmsmario wrote:

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ianengle, he are a man with an impressive know-how. Thanks for the heads up and info, both from this ep and the one prior.

My mother was a children's librarian and I was raised on English children's books: Huhg Lofting, Enid Blyton, Arthur Ransome, and things like that. Then in college I was introduced to Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, Conan Doyle and a few authors of that ilk. This is the reason I was able to sit through Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility" and laugh at places that nobody else in the audience realized were funny. It's a lonely destiny

Oh, and my parents took the family to Enland before decimalization, so I actually had to work out pounds/shilling/pence.

Last year's project was trying to put lots of this to use in a project for Hex Games, a Victorian gentlemen adventurers game tentatively called "The Pytheas Club." I think I reduced rank to one of three Gimmicks. Player start as ladies and gentlemen, beign called Mr. or Mrs. (or Miss) Lastname, Titled got you the right to either Sir or Lord Firstname (since the title adheres to you, not the family), and Noble got you Estate, or Firstname, Lord Estate.

So Mr. Engle, or Sir Ian, or Ian, Lord Franklin (sometimes just called Franklin)

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And whats with everyone want Dan to smoke one of us. Man rough crowd. :laugh:[/quote/

Not you, but where's the fun of a zombie game with no exploding zombie heads?

[quote]Actually we have been talking about how there hasn't been a death in one of our games yet. And that maybe we should have one. Dealing with character death is something that every GM will have to deal with.

That being said I hope its Shaun. :evil:

Shaun, this is not a conspiracy! Nuh uh, no way!