The Streets of Your Town (An A-Z of Khaboom)

I am approaching the 2000 paragraph mark in 'Missing in Action' now - over 180,000 words.

I have the street location after the number for every paragraph. Here is the A-Z:

Ackland Street

Acorn Lane

Alimentary Canal Street

Alrond Rise

Amnesia Street

Arbuckle Hill

Armitage Shanks Lane

Back Passage

Bitterstew Lane

Blacksoot Place

Brimstone Pits

Carbunkle Lane

Cauliflower Row

Chaffing Way

Champs Elysee

Curse Street

Dead Man's Cove

Desolation Row

Donkey Pits

Dungbeetle Scrubs

Dunleavin Street

Ebony Square

Elsie Avenue

Epicurean Avenue

Execrable Alley

Faraway Close

Five Card Frank's-Razorwit Rd

Flaggon Fields

Fool’s Hill

Foulsore End

Friday Woods

Gate of Glory

Ghoulish Gardens

Gordon Hill

Greaspaint Boulevard

Greenfingers Market

Grimtooth’s Gaming Gauntlet

Grizzly Lane

Gutsplatter Hill

Heights of Decadence

Hemlock Hill

Hemnin Forest

Hickory Docks

Higginbottom Gardens

Insalubrious Heights

Jack and Jill’s Hill

Jasmine Dragon Tea Rooms, Tyree

Jherri Quarry

Junket Street

Krisstrasse

Lardass Street

Life's End

Liliyliver Lane

Lizardlick Road

Longsorrow Street

Mean Street

Menagerie Street

Moneybags Place

Moonshine Parade

Mortuary Lane

Netherwallop Road

Nosebleed Lane

O’Vather Hill

Paladian Plaza

Patagonia Road

Peaswasse Street

Pentagram Square

Pestilence Park

Piccadilly Circuit

Pigwhistle Parade

Pilgrim Street

Piranha Alley

Punchdrunk Arcade

Prettyplease Pass

Quill Court

Ratfricassee Road

Razorwit Road

Resurrection Road

Robert Johnson’s Crossroads

Root Canal

Sandune Street

Savage Street

Scabbyrag Alley

Shiloh

Sickle Street

Silver Springs

Skullduggery Street

Slugfest Street

Smithereens

Solitude Street

Sourgum Street

Stealth Street

Stilton Street

Sullied Trouser Inn- Dunleavin  St

Swattage Hill

Temple Mount

Territanoncarta

The High Mackerel Ranch

Threesun

Throgludite Crescent

Toe Rag Square

Trollcough Street

Trollhalla Row

Turncoat Lane

Tythe Hole

Viletooth Crag

Watergate

Wildebeast Plains

Powered Up Power Trip

So Sunday's game saw one player missing but new players meant a group of 9 to GM. This is largely a D&D crew but the T&T saving rolls are flying now with doubles causing big excitement. The 'buckets of dice' syndrome only got to the scale of 6d6 for hand blasters and the tallying of those cubes again produced more excitement than the 1 dice damage did in TOG rules.

The changes I have made to PT basic rules are:

1) everyone gets to claim a super power and it is tagged to one attribute

2) when you do something stunning using your SP you get a plus 1 on your SP to add into future SRs for SP-related actions only

3) No WIZ but PSI instead (otherwise per 7.5 T&T)

I intend to grant a second SP when +10 is reached on the first SP.

9 players worked like a dream! One died but was flipped back in time with a big SR by Tommy Two Times; another lost a hand when a blaster exploded on a critical fumble but a PC with the SP of conjuring living chocolate gave him a working new hand with a 1 in 7,680 saving roll of 1,1,  1,1,  2,2  4,4, 5,5 then (finally) a non-double. My Mediborg wildcard (his programming had been tampered with) got destroyed so I need to dream a new NPC to fox them.

Oh, and they rather prefer LK to Wisdom - very sound.

Thursday's Child Has Far To Go

I downloaded a browsed through the TOG new basic rules. Wow! You don't need a board and miniatures now. That's a step in the right direction. Too many rules, too many tables, too many reasons not to play. I looked hard for humour but couldn't find any... is it against the rules? Maybe it just washes over my head.

You need three games mechanics for a fantasy RPG: combat, saves and magic.

The bucket of dice plus saving roll stunts beats the 'you missed, he missed, I missed, they missed, we all missed, oh! I hit - lose 1 hit point' mechanic (I think).

You have to pile in a lot of modifiers to make that d20 perform the heroic deeds a pair of d6 turn out everyday (I think).

Wizards who can do bugger all are boring liabilities and spells with names that make you smile put plenty of gas in the tank (I think).

Oh well. Now we know and that's sorted.

Monday Message

GM'd my first ever 'T&T in Space' game yesterday. 7 players, 2 of them adult, 1 of them via skype. I didn't kill anyone but the annoying PC (the skype player) got bagged up and left in an alient spaceship with a bunch of time-delay bombs inside... The players were D&D people but they soon got to grips with T&T-style saving rolls and appreciated that it was less random than with the d20. Everyone nominated a superpower, based on one attribute (we had Power Trip's PSI instead of WIZ) and the PC who could stretch like Reed Richards (a dwarf!) managed to parachute to safety after his escape pod got ruptured by the now-insane Mediborg (taken over by the skype player). The players got to the planet Persephone at the end of 4 hours, a good place to stop.

Saving rolls, magic and combat - that apart, whichever system you play doesn't make so much difference unless you use a rulebook :)

Just read the dT&T update: happy for a longer wait based on what Liz says she's done with magic.

Had a good pyramid-raider game in the week on the Eagle continent and ended up with a new Wizard-God, Kafacaca - hence the thoughts on the last post as to why W-Gs go to sleep and stop dominating the world - i.e. WIZ takes longer and longer to come back the more of it you have and use - a W-G like Andy Holme's Liche-Lord might have WIZ of 980 but spend 900 and you are vulnerable for centuries waiting to get back up to W-G levels (one W-G never can be quite sure what the other is currently packing). Our friend, Kafacaca, conjured a great wall of fire to drive back the king's army: he'd maxed up by sleeping late but blew his wad in a way he hadn't planned so it looks like he's hitting the hay again soon.

Hey ho...

Some Numbers on WIZ Recovery To Account for the Sleeping Habits Of WIzard-Gods

More later (because I have a mountain of work to be done) but before I lose the numerical cohesion:

	1 per 100 10 minutes 200 hour 300 6 hours 400 day 500 week 600 month 700 year 800 decade 900 century 1000 millenium