Diet update and Rumour Tables

This week I weigh 13 st 10lbs again. However My total inches are 147.5 which is a decrease of 4.5” since I last measured. I have also been tracking my BMI which is going down, but the scales I am using are not reliable enough, so I am going to find other ways to measure it.

One of the tools I use to encourage a player led game in This is Thracia (my D&D Next Playtest campaign) is the rumour tables.

When a player makes a new Character and then each month of real world time they get a rumour. If they have an appropriate Theme, Skill, Background or good excuse I will give them another.

Each ties into either a location on the game map, something that happened in play or one of the NPC’s in town.

Here are the first twelve Rumours on my table as an example (and a bonus to anyone playing This is Thracia)

1	Douvan Stahl has found something at the “Dragon Burial Site” Whatever it is it scared away his guards.
2	Passara was sleeping with Xavian
3	Valthrun the sage will pay good cash for books about The Temple of Elemental Evil. Apparently the Churches want him to do more research for them
4	The Clerics at the Church of Hades will pay for heretical relics associated with Death cults (and reward people for wiping out such cults)
5	Bugbear brigands in the old dwarven mine east of town are working for spider monsters.
6	Cryofang the White has woken from his slumber and has been seeing flying over the black wood.
7	Bruno has been acting very strangely since he came back from being missing
8	The Ruins of Troy hold many riches but great danger from the unquiet dead
9	The Giant Pirate Grethan Greybead is looking for the people that killed his Goblin first mate he is offering a reward.
10	Torendil is looking for a potion of stone to flesh to restore his sisters head.
11	There was a rash of murders in The City last month
12	Frances Gottlestotch (the tavern owner) is missing

Last week I picked up a copy of The 50 Fathoms explorers edition. It is a pirate themed Sandbox Campaign for Savage Worlds. One of the most interesting parts about it is that like Skyrim it is a completely open world but it has a overarching plot. the Idea being that your players can bump into bits of the meta plot as they explore and choose to pursue it or not.

I also ran Deadlands Hell on Earth last weekend. We played Infestations a dime novel written by Charles Ryan who I used to work and game with before he moved back to America. We used the pdf of the new Reloaded version of the setting.

Ant has started a spinoff campaign based on my Dnd Next Playtest called This is Rome. So now if you want to play and live near either Aldershot or Birmingham you can.