> Don't you just hate it when people don't die when they're supposed
> to? Bloodly Carlo Wolff: publishes his life's work in 1928 and then lingers on until 1966! That gives his work Australian protection for another 13 years. 8) Unless the LOC has his death date wrong. I might be that lucky... Basically I was retelling and annotating his folklore collection.
If you are interested, most of the original stories are up on the SAGEN website at http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/italien/legends_in_english/sagen_legends_in_english.htm. I suppose I could just post the annotations. > Anyway, black humour aside, thanks for the note. I'm really looking
> forward to the book by the way. So am I. Seriously, I've changed it so much over the years it'll be interesting to finally find out what's in it definitively. From there I can go on with support material. > Our small covenant is in Verona, so I think, being so close to
> Venice, it is firmly within the Roman Tribunal but it seems not too
> far from Valnastium. No, quite close. Being near Venice does slightly dampen the usefulness of a couple of sets of plot hooks, designed for covenants in places like Cyprus and France, but at the same time it emphasises many of the others, because you can travel to the sites and home without losing study time. It puts you quite close to everything, since the Alpine tribunal is small and riddled with trade routes. It can be a pain to travel through in winter, but from there you are well within reach of the covenants on the eastern side of things. Some of the northwestern features are a bit distant... Geographically, the humans are concentrated in the west of the Tribunal, so the magi, naturally, concentrate in the east. There's a lot of Jerbiton magi down that way, but Cave of Twisiting Shadows is marked (on the ArM3 maps) slightly southeast of Innsbruck, which is also quite close if the maps turn out that way. Even the covenants on the northern edge of the eastern side of the tribunal are quite close because of the Grossglocker/Salzburg trade road (and because the tribunal is a long, thin shape.) There are also a series of interesting mythical places just to your north/northeast, but you'll see what I mean when you get the book. > The Roman Tribunal source book has been is circulation
> for a while (I had one player openly ask in the middle of play when
> we were going to meet the secret hermetic gang beneath the venice
> streets...) I'm looking forward to throwing some new stuff in
> there. Under Venice? I think it was mentioned twice in one of the drafts, but it's not a major bit of the book. 8) I imagine, and this isn't in the book, that the two domus magnae often buy materials in Venice, because it has such a strange role in Hermetic society, and such a concentration of purchasing power, that it must attract some of the finest Hermetic craftsmen. > Who knows, we may end up petitioning to join the Tribunal of the
> Greater Alps. There are no new covenants in the Alps (OoH/HoH) 8). The book does support the "gang of lads off on their own" style of saga founding, although its a bit different to the usual spring covenant. It also supports that "we change tribunal boundaries" sort of story, but not in the usual way. Things are a bit different in the Alps - which is why the Alpine covenants aren't just in Rome and Rhineland. Still, you -might- petiton to join the Tribunal, you just aren't saying what you think you mean. 8) Another beneficial side effect is that if your covenant fails, and your people need to hide out from their many Roman enemies, you now know where they can run away to, and look for a fresh start. This means that as GM, you have a failsafe, so you don't need to pull your punches as much as if you really, really needed them to stay in Verona to keep the story going. You realise you owe the rest of us a HP article on Romeo and Juliet, right? 8)
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