[NL] Mongoose RuneQuest II (MRQII)

En 2010, Mongoose publico una segunda edicion de su RuneQuest, puliendo las mecanicas de juego que nos habian presentado anteriormente -y reconozco que me gusta mucho mas asi, en esta edicion-, y volviendo a sacar mas libos de apoyo y de ambientacion, algunos ya vistos en el MRQ y otras nuevas, como el Wraith Recon o el Deus Vult. -que tendran sus correspondientes entradas. Lamentablemente, al año siguiente, Mongoose anuncio el fin de la licencia de RuneQuest, en principio de comun acuerdo y amistosamente. Eso si, aunque no puedan utilizar los nombres, el sistema de juego es propio y hoy en dia lo publican bajo el nombre de Legend, siendo 100% compatible con MRQII.

Mongoose RuneQuest II Core Rules The classic roleplaying game is back - in a new, streamlined, 21st Century edition! With rules and supplements written by top-flight RuneQuest designer Lawerence Whitaker, RuneQuest II retains all the flavour of previous editions and yet plays faster, more realistically and still provides endless opportunities for expansion. The main rulebook has been designed to provide everything a player needs, while the growing range of supplements ehance the game in all directions. Every core RuneQuest II book comes with an atractive leather cover, and a gold-foil stamped rune! Suitable for multiple settings and campaigns, RuneQuest II supports the original Glorantha setting, based in the Second Age, giving fans a new perspective on an old favourite. More 'traditional' fantasy settings are also supported, with guilds and quests forming major incentives for characters wherever they adventure. Further settings for RuneQuest II include Deus Vult, Elric of Melnibone, and Hawkmoon.

Mongoose RuneQuest II Arms and Equipment RuneQuest Arms and Equipment is a collection of gear for Games Masters and players to include in their campaigns. The equipment is designed to be used in different RuneQuest settings. This book includes: An extensive list of basic adventuring gear. Comprehensive rules and descriptions for armour and weapons. Details of transportation, from dog sleds to galleons. Descriptons of buildings, from simple embankments to windmills. Rules for alchemy and magical items, including their creation.

Mongoose RuneQuest II Monster Coliseum Monster coliseum details dozens of creatures for RuneQuestII, placing them in the exciting backdrop of the arenas and amphitheatres where gladiators and fearsome beasts do battle for sport and glory. Each creature features notes on how it fights along with its preferred combat styles and manouvres. The coliseum itself is also explored with notes on structure, personnel and special events: chariot races through to pitched battles. No longer are creatures simply there as sword fodder or a series of numbers. Monster Coliseum brings life and death to your RQII campaign!

Mongoose RuneQuest II Empires Empires is a complete guide on founding, growing and running your own empire. Whether you are a single knight responsible for a border keep and a village or part of a huge dynasty in command of a continent sprawling empire. Empires contains everything you need to know about taming the wilderness, building castles, governing populations, and trading or waging war with your neighbours. Leave your own mark on the game world by building an impregnable society. Updating the original Runequest Empires supplement and adding a great deal of new information on running your own dynasty. Empires features everything you need to create and master your own dominion.

Mongoose RuneQuest II Necromantic Arts Necromantic Arts is a toolkit for making despicable and terrifying enemies for the players in your RuneQuest games. Material in this book can be applied to any setting using the RuneQuest rules from Glorantha to Lankhmar to Elric or to your own homebrewed games.

Mongoose RuneQuest II Vikings A complete setting and background book for RuneQuest II, Vikings brings to life both the history and the myths of the most fierce-some warriors to take to the sea! From character creation to vicious foes to face in battle, Pete Nash leads you through everything you need to start a complete campaign based in Viking society.

Mongoose RuneQuest II Compendium, Volume 1 This first volume of the RuneQuest Compendiums collates all the most popular articles that have appeared in Signs & Portents over the years, and presents them for the tabletop! Inside you will find new magicks, in-depth treatises on the Aldryami, new monsters, shapeshifting, Gloranthan characters - and rules for getting drunk! Useable with all RuneQuest II-based settings.

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[NL] Siete

Venga, hoy unos cuantos comics, que ya hace tiempo que no pongo ninguno...

7 RELATOS
7 UNIVERSOS
7 MISIONES DE ALTO RIESGO
7 EQUIPOS DE SIETE HOMBRES DECIDIDOS A TENER ÉXITO
7 GUIONISTAS Y 7 DIBUJANTES HAN ACEPTADO EL DESAFÍO

Siete es una saga creada y publicada por Delcourt en Francia, y que ha sido publicada en España por Planeta deAgostini. Cada titulo es independiente, con una historia y ambientacion completamente distinta, y altamente recomendable, llenos de ideas para aplicar a nuestras partidas...

Siete psicópatas ¿Por qué ninguno de los intentos de asesinato contra Adolf Hitler funcionó? La teoría de Joshua Goldsmith es que todos eran muy predecibles; por eso ahora ha reunido al equipo definitivo, siete psicópatas con solo una misión en mente: acabar con una vida humana. Siete psicópatas es la primera entrega de la revolucionaria serie Siete, que cada mes nos presenta un nuevo equipo creativo, una nueva aventura, un nuevo género, un nuevo grupo formado por siete personas.

Siete Ladrones En un pasado mitológico de reminiscencias medievales, siete ladrones se alían para recuperar un legendario tesoro. ¿Pero quién de ellos podrá hacerse con la riqueza? ¿Quién traicionará a sus compañeros? Chauvel y Lereculey nos presentan una nueva entrega de la serie Siete, una de las colecciones más atípicas del panorama francobelga actual, en la que cada mes se nos presenta una historia diferente con siete personajes distintos.

Siete piratas La serie Siete, protagonizada en cada volumen por siete personajes distintos unidos por una misión en común, se centra ahora en el tema de los piratas, para el que recoge a Jim Hawkins, protagonista de La isla del tesoro, y lo sitúa quince años después de los hechos de la novela de Robert Louis Stevenson, en una aventura que cambiará para siempre la vida del joven marinero.

Siete misioneros Irlanda, siglo IX. Siete monjes que viven en comunidad han vuelto hace ya tiempo la espalda a los principios sagrados de la iglesia. Cada uno de ellos se libra en cuerpo y alma a su pecado predilecto: uno al orgullo, el otro a la envidia, un tercero a la lujuria... Pero la ira del Altísimo caerá sobre estos siete pecadores en forma de una misión especialmente peligrosa: ¡evangelizar una horda de feroces guerreros vikingos!

Siete guerreras Siglo VI, desierto de Libia. Los ejércitos persa y bizantino se encuentran a las puertas del pequeño reino de N´Nas Amon. Rodeados por todas partes, la ciudad se defiende con un grupo de mercenarios de diferentes nacionalidades. La reina decide encomendar a siete de las guerreras que defienden la ciudad una importante misión: salvar a sus hijos.

Siete yakuzas El Tokio actual. Kotobuki Ichiro, de 95 años, jefe de un clan Yakuza particularmente temido y respetado, es víctima de un intento de asesinato durante una fiesta popular. Tras escapar de la muerte gracias a su sorprendente agilidad, es acogido en casa de un antiguo amigo. Dispuesto a todo para cumplir su venganza, recluta a seis hombres a los que arrastrará a una espantosa danza de la muerte y sangre.

Siete prisioneros 2062. En la Luna, convertida en una cárcel espacial de la que nadie regresa, los condenados descubren una cueva prehistórica. Para investigar este sorprendente hallazgo, el acaudalado francés Laroche Galouseau decide organizar una expedición. Pero para conseguir que le envíen allí tendría que cometer un asesinato. Pero no hay obstáculo que pueda detenerle: el extravagante millonario está dispuesto a cualquier cosa para alcanzar sus objetivos, incluso a llevarse con él a seis "voluntarios forzados".

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[NL] Heraldica

La heráldica es la ciencia del blasón (Blasón, según la RAE se define como el «Arte de explicar y describir los escudos de armas de cada linaje, ciudad o persona.»). Es también un campo de expresión artística, un elemento del derecho medieval y de las dinastías reales hasta nuestros días. Más recientemente, ha sido admitida dentro de las ciencias anexas de la historia junto con la sigilografía, la vexilología, la falerística y la diplomática.

La heráldica se desarrolló durante la Edad Media en toda Europa hasta convertirse en un código coherente de identificación de personas, progresivamente incorporado por estamentos de la sociedad feudal como la nobleza y la Iglesia Católica para la identificación de linajes y miembros de la jerarquía, siendo igualmente adoptado por otros colectivos humanos, como gremios y asociaciones, además de ser adoptado para la identificación de ciudades, villas y territorios.

Heraldry of the World The book is devoted to heraldry and talks about its basic concepts.

A Complete Guide To Heraldry A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1871-1928) was originally published in 1909 by T.C. & E.C. Jack. The work has since passed through countless editions and remains in print more than 80 years after its author’s death. That alone could be testament enough to this book’s influence on the lay-person’s study of heraldry. Greater still however is the art the book contains from Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court. Johnston’s heraldic drawings have become the standard by which modern heraldic devices are measured and a great number of the traditional heraldic depictions seen on the internet today are in fact Graham Johnston’s work, which unfortunately is most often not attributed. The style Fox-Davies uses in constructing his Complete Guide to Heraldry is far from concise, as the text is presented in an often rambling and hap-hazard method. To the serious student of heraldry who braves the tomes 600+ pages will find the result most satisfactory, for in whole, Fox-Davies confers a deeper and wider knowledge of the art of heraldry than could ever be broached in a more ‘concise’ work.

Simple Heraldry Alternately known as Simple Heraldry Cheerfully Illustrated, this little British book was a delight of my teens and twenties; I read it repeatedly out of my local library during those years. Now I've acquired a copy of my own, and it's lost none of its charms. Moncreiffe (and Pottinger, who, although he seems to be billed on the jacket as co-author, is acually the illustrator) gives us an easily understandable, humorously illustrated look at the whole system and science of heraldry, beginning with the why of it ("A man in full armor was unrecognizable") and going on to show the elements of an "achievement" (the whole family device, supporters, motto, and all), the ways in which wives, daughters, and sons differentiate it, how other entities than individuals (everything from realms to corporate bodies) can use coats of their own, and the rules attendant upon description--colors, charges, partitions, and other devices. Anyone who needs to understand the basics of this field can't do better than to begin with Moncreiffe.

An Heraldic Alphabet A most useful dictionary of heraldry and heraldic terms. Those with a casual interest in the subject will find the comprehensive descriptions helpful and will be able to acquire the language of heraldry through them. But the serious student too will find this a useful reference book

English Heraldry Descriptions and explanations which surround Family Crests, Coats of Arms, and their relationship to history are validated in this wonderful addition to the genealogist’s bookshelf. Four hundred and fifty illustrations were drawn with countless hours spent engraving the designs on wooden blocks for printing in this meticulous reference, which has been a source of documentation for over 140 years!

Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The objects studied include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins.

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[EL] Tratados de Esgrima y Combate

Tal vez la entrada anterior me ha inspirado, o simplemente disfruto con este tipo de libros... bueno, aqui disponemos de una serie de tratados sobre el combate con diversas armas blancas en diversas epocas historicas -naturalmente, siempre en Occidente-, empezando desde el Medievo. Interesantes como fuente de informacion a la hora de intentar representar los combates en nuestras partidas, aunque es muy posible que los disfruten mas los amigos del soft-combat y de las recreaciones historicas...

Medieval Swordsmanship Illustrated Methods and Techniques As a result of both their variety and their heroic status, Medieval (or Mediaeval, the British variant) swords are among the most popular of historical weapons. For admirers of swords, a good point at which to begin is with the weapons of Medieval Europe because their use includes all the necessary fundamentals and is quite free from stylistic formality. Indeed, some people are drawn to Medieval swords because of this very fact. Of course, this lack of any truly definable and established tradition also allows for a great deal of "interpretation." This also leaves room for the assertion of virtually any notion, no matter how nonsensical, about technique or method, because there is often no real way to disprove it. However, the burden of proof is on those making the assertion. It is one thing to speculate and demonstrate viable, working theories with historical support and physical examples and quite another simply to make vague or untestable claims about fighting.

Medieval Combat A 15th Century Illustrated Manual of Sword Fighting and Close-Quarter Combat This book makes one of the most influential and lavishly drawn fencing manuals of the Middle Ages available in English for the first time. The authentic 15th Century techniques of master of arms Hans Talhoffer are illustrated in detail, presenting not only a unique historical record but also a visual guide for modern practitioners. Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the 'judicial duel' (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat. Medieval sword-fighting was not the hacking, blade-on-blade, ring of steel affair represented in films and on the stage. Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword's inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. These skills were supplemented with techniques for grappling, wrestling, kicking and throwing the opponent, as well as disarming him by seizing his weapon. Every attack contained a defence and every defence a counter-attack. Talhoffer reveals the techniques for wrestling, unarmoured fighting with the long sword, 'long knife', pole-axe, dagger, sword and buckler, and mounted combat. This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness.

Fiore dei Liberi Flos Duellatorum, 1410 "Fiore dei Liberi's "Flos Duellatorum", or "Flower of Battle" is a treatise written in Venetian dialect of Italian and was started on Februrary 10, 1409 and completed in six months in late 1409 (1410 using the modern calendar). This version includes a pair of prologs describing the structure of the treatise, and some details of Fiore's life, as well as many illustrations accompanied with short rhyming captions in same Venetian dialect of Italian. Sections on wrestling, dagger, sword, spear, two handed sword, armored combat, pollaxe, and mounted combat, and considerable discussion of disarming techniques.

Renaissance Swordsmanship The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut and Thrust Swords This scholarly, entertaining guide is the most thorough work on Medieval swordsmanship ever undertaken. It was written for advanced and beginning sword enthusiasts, students of military history and martial artists. To write this book the author combined exhaustive research with hands-on practice in fencing, contact-weapon sparring and training with historically accurate replicas. He then illustrated the text with over 100 original drawings depicting authentic Renaissance sword-fighting techniques and how you can use them today.

L'Arte di Ben Maneggiare la Spada, 1653 Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri of Padova was a 17th century master of the Italian school of swordsmanship; according to the title page of La Scherma, he was "Maestro D'Arme" to the Accademia Delia in Padua in 1640. Alfieri's manuscript, written in 1653, describes the basic guards as it pertains to the two-handed sword (from the illustrations, they appear at least 2m long). The manuscript includes textual description of the guards, along with detailed coverage of rapier, rapier & dagger, rapier & cloak.

Old Sword-Play The Systems of Fence Here are sword techniques of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries for everyone. Hutton addresses the common techniques of these periods clearly and in enough detail that someone with even a basic knowledge of fencing can follow him. The two-handed sword, rapier and dagger, broadsword and buckler, rapier and cloak, dagger and cloak, the case of rapiers, and a variety of techniques for disarming a swordsman are described in detail.

Cold Steel A Practical Treatise on the Sabre, 1889 The sabre, with the rapier and epee, has been the third arm of fencing for centuries, and also served as the major cavalry weapon. The art of fencing with the sabre is significantly different to the delicacy of epee or the thrust of rapier, and this book explains why. Hutton begins by looking at the construction of the sabre and how to hold it. This is followed by an explanation of the different strokes and defences, and how to combine attack and defence. He then progresses to the more advanced art of sabre fencing, and how left-handed swordsmen should fight. The treatment is in considerable detail, and is as relevant today for the sabre fencer as when the book was first published, in 1889. Hurtton's treatise on the sabre continues with the ceremonial aspects of the art. He also looks at sabre against bayonet, and the French sword. There are descriptions of assocaited weapons such as the great stick and the constable's truncheon, and the book concludes with a look at the sword-bayonet, short sword and dagger. There are numerous illustrations in the book, with a total of 55 movement drawing diagrams.

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Bilingüal Guide to the Exhibition: Torture Instruments

Hoy disponemos de un libro ameno e interesante sobre los diversos instrumentos de tortura que se han creado desde la Edad Media hasta la Edad Industrial que se pudieron ver en una Exposicion que estuvo presente en varias ciudades del mundo desde 1983 hasta el 2010. El libro viene presentado con fotos e ilustraciones de los diversos instrumentos, con explicaciones en español e ingles.

Bilingüal Guide to the Exhibition: Torture Instruments This catalogue captures with words and images a unique collection in the world: 95 instruments designed for torturing and executing. In the introduction to the catalogue, the origin and the purpose of the exhibition is explained in detail. It is accompanied with a brilliant and lucid explanation of the evolution of torture in Europe. There are few phenomenon like the one that is presented here in this exhibition which have changed so little essentialy trough the ages, ehile having undergone such diverse and variable historic concretions. From the Rack to the Headcrusher, to electric shocks, to the administration of drugs affecting the psyche and body control, a long series of novelties appear, (in this case it does not seem right to refer to advances or progress) but they all share an equal thread of ignominy, or public disgrace, in which the detention of an individual serves to exploit human suffering. Without further ado, what I really want to emphasize es that the sinister thread has not been broken, the practise of torture is far from extinct in our world. The sample of techniques seen here could not complete the modernization of outrage. Various forms of torture do not require specific instruments, and some spine chilling formulae do not rely so much on the instruments used. This exhibition, "INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE", bring us up to the beginning of our century. The century that is now drawing to a close would provide ample material for a separate display. But if we do not provoque decided and tenacious indignation against this barbarism, the coming century will bring, without a doubt, its rich harvest of devices, monstrosities of torture and death.