• Sentinel Gate (category Sentinel Gate) (section Operating the Gate)
    checking with a referee. Sentinel Gate design - a longer explanation of some of the out-of-character design philosophy for the Gate. Conjunctions - advice for
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  • Sentinel Gate design (category Sentinel Gate) (section Core Design Criteria)
    where) - we don't need to have control over how the Gate is opened, or who opens it. The design for the Gate avoids deliberately eschews NPC control by having
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  • Conjunctions (category Game Design)
    Sentinel Gate - in-character details of the Sentinel Gate. Sentinel Gate design - a longer explanation of some of the out-of-character design philosophy
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  • great work. They mark a spiral design worked into the sod of the foothills and reinforced by wandering feet. This grand design subtly alters and focuses the
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  • determine what use will be made of the major conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate. The Council also meets regularly during events to allow generals an opportunity
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  • Anomalous conjunctions (category Sentinel Gate)
    Sentinel Gate - in-character details of the Sentinel Gate. Sentinel Gate design - a longer explanation of some of the out-of-character design philosophy
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  • pillars of the gate - the devices of Orzel, Du Soleil, Vexille, Deveraux, and Arwood are all clearly visible. On a promontory facing the gate stands a glorious
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  • Anvil, where the generals determine which major conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate the Empire will take advantage of. The muster takes place on the first night
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  • allowing them to influence the use of the major conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate. Each general is responsible for the Imperial army they command. They have
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  • It is usually accompanied by a design laid out on the ground, often with braziers or candles. at key points of the design. Fire and light often play a key
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  • cities, each terminus is marked by a grand gate in the shape of two crossed butcher's cleavers. These gates are inscribed with elaborate carvings and inscriptions
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  • heading to the Sentinel Gate first a problem, then you may ask the other players going with you to tell the ref or plot writer at the gate that you should be
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  • frost giants and kobodi respectively to bolster the defenders of the Adamant Gate. Gold and silver owls, servants of Barien bring swift warning to the defenders
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  • suggestion for how the final design might be chosen. Eilian proposes a contest for the Empire's finest artists to create a design for a commission to celebrate
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  • whose tattoos were damaged or lost due to misadventure or war, finding the design reappear somewhere else provided they stayed true to the oaths. Very rarely
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  • Crime and criminality (category Game Design) (section Design Goals)
    have put a considerable amount of time into the design of the legal system in Empire - along with the design of the game rules - to try and make it as effective
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  • disaster, the Fengari Gate was built, to keep out any of the other citadels of Axos who might take an interest. The Fengari Gate itself is a great set
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  • white-granite wall with two gates, one to the north-east and one to the north-west. Beside each gate is a spacious road-inn, designed specifically for drovers
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  • Rules update 2016 (category Game Design)
    between the nature of this decision - which is fundamentally an OOC game design taken by Profound Decisions - and the nature of the IC explanation. The
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  • of their destiny. The torches of Ratibor's Gate, and torches lit by them, do not go out easily Ratibor's Gate - the old prison - is lit internally by flickering
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  • with one bear on each gate, protecting each other back-to-back. This gate leads from the north-east into the Sculpture Garden. The gate has twisting wave-like
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  • objectives for one or more conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate. Details relating to the day, timing, gate size, and any additional information will be summarised
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  • Rules update 2014 (category Game Design) (section Clarifying the Sentinel Gate)
    Sentinel Gate at events in 2013, how it operated, how it worked, etc. We have reviewed the situation and created a page to clarify exactly how the gate works
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  • and the Imperial Senate when the Wolves of War pass through the Twilight Gate into Spiral. The soldiers of the League are supplemented with some of the
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  • tunnels. The Gates are named for the immense white granite wall that surrounds them, with access allowed only through immense mithril-bound gates. The fortress
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  • examine the Gate with their spells and converse with egregores and astronomancers, and do their best to compile information about where the gate will open
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  • late through the sentinel gate. Implementation of this rule was always spotty at best and it violated some of our core design principles in the way it confused
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  • end emerges in the hills above the ruins of Damakan's Forge. The Twilight Gate linking the plains of Proceris and the northern Ossuary. This "pass" is wide
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  • King Bréanainn who won the grand tourney with armour and arms of his own design. Ever since that early day the House has always sought to elevate to its
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  • architecture of the huge chapterhouses. The entire city has been expressly designed as a monument to the devotion of the Highborn. When the Imperial Synod
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  • they call "The Floes of Tokusok" via the Sentinel Gate. The prognosticators who study the Sentinel Gate indicate that a conjunction to this place exists
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  • with the League natural philosophers made several advances on the original design. Spyglasses are expensive, and fragile, but almost anyone who can afford
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  • focused assault on the redwood gate. As scions fall left and right around them, the grand archon of the Silence Arc touches the gate with their blue iron rod
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  • or what, or where Lan Thúven might have been. Only the gate remains - this one, and a second gate in West Ranging on the far side of Liathaven. Between
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  • Military Council Field Marshal Quartermaster General of the Imperial Armies OOC Design
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  • through a covered colonnade that winds through a park of a labyrinthine design. In the middle of the park stands a tall granite bell tower. The bells do
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  • they are home. The grand lighthouse echoes the Lighthouse of Alexandria in design, rather than more modern tall cylindrical towers, and is constructed of
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  • locks is undone. The water starts to flow freely, aiding the Jotun's ruinous design. They continue their wreckers work through the night, lit by great bonfires
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  • a book, you know," said Margueritte calmly. "About Carmen and her grand design. Couldn't get it published. No interest, you see, in the history of a bridge
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  • things to be frightened of. If I'd been one of the people going through the Gate that morning, I think I'd have been afraid as well." "She still went though
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  • Interestingly, this limitation is violated by the power of the Sentinel Gate. The Gate is a magical item, and as such it is a thing of the mortal world only
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  • spyglass, and with heavy iron bells to raise the alarm. Over the western gate that once saw so much trade flow into Tassato from the Marches, a small keep
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  • poison to a character if the potion is specifically designed to be used that way (such as The Assassin's Gate). Poisons are highly volatile, and break down quickly
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  • Setting a test (category Game Design) (section Design)
    characters do not - the ability to create quests and trips through the Sentinel Gate for example.
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  • to fall behind in the fight against stone and steel. We will trust to the design of the Five-Who-Are-One. Tomoreh Galdramathur, General of the Jaws of Winter's
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  • Dawn monarchy update (category Game Design)
    face the barbarians alone. Just losing access to the power of the Sentinel gate alone could damage their military capabilities - assuming that such a nation
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  • the engineers of Wunderkind were known for centuries for the creation and design of everything from toys to fountains to siege engines and crossbows - and
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  • Summer Solstice itself, the heroes of Dawn travelled through the Sentinel Gate to the depths of the Barrens, to create a lasting monument to the courage
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  • middle of Bertram's Square - an open air market not far from the cleaver gate that marks the terminus of the Blood Red Roads. Commissioned in Autumn 381YE
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  • scoring at the oak by Blacksmith’s gate, John the Blacksmith counting at the oak. Youngerhowe running from Blacksmith’s Gate, scoring at the red beech at Mill
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  • valuable, especially in moderation. Many stargazers perform experiments designed to create balance between the influence of the realms, or to highlight
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  • the Cenotaph, Frederick drew up a design that celebrated Lisabetta von Holberg as the Empress of Flowers. The design focuses (unsurprisingly) on flowers
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  • round a camp would serve to protect against. This set-up is part of the game design, intended to make Anvil as open as possible to encourage interaction and
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  • indifferent advance to the future, the civil service examine the Sentinel Gate - that source of so much hope and despair and joy and grief - and reveal
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  • Sentinel Gate for the current event are on the Winds of War page During the Winter Solstice there are a number of conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate that will
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  • The three aqueducts of Kantor, said Istacia, were originally based on a design the Terunael used to bring water to Cavan, and with innovations such as
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  • crept through the settlement under cover of darkness, before seizing the gate, and holding it long enough to allow their allies entry into the town. It
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  • received nineteen entries to design Bastion anew We celebrate all these visions. We instruct architects to use the design of Millward Cowley for the structure
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  • points during the Autumn Equinox where Imperial heroes can use the Sentinel Gate to interfere in the strategies of Cold Sun. But at the same time the consequences
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  • interpretation of the Way to eclipse Timoj is still being discussed An inspirational design has not been settled on; the project cannot yet be commissioned The League
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  • is accessible via the Sentinel Gate and then convincing enough vates to risk their lives to travel there. The Sentinel Gate responds to the whims of fate
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  • on the gate under PD's current guidelines. We highly recommend creating an account and a character, even if you are planning to pay on the gate as it will
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  • and airy; stone is plentiful and the Urizen prefer open plan chambers, designed to let light flood into them. These chambers are usually joined by short
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  • the Chapter of Fulmon's Bounty has put his chapter's resources to work to design a series of beautiful hostels and facilities intended to support the increased
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  • departing, visitors can choose to stop by a small sturdy wooden cabin by the gate to purchase Kleist’s signature Spiced Biscuits, Cheesejacks or Battle Cake
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  • The smell of burning coals and a metallic tang fills the air; the magic of design, artifice, and craft vibrates through the ground. Anyone who travels to
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  • received nineteen entries to design Bastion anew We celebrate all these visions. We instruct architects to use the design of Millward Cowley for the structure
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  • elegance A powerful merchant-prince seeks to build a school of fashion and design According to their history, the League tradition of wearing masks begin
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  • close an bar the gates... but for some reason the gates stop moving before they are half closed. The first soldiers through the gate - a mixture of Imperial
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  • is appointed to lead the Imperial heroes who travel through the Sentinel Gate to do battle with the barbarians. They have the ultimate authority for determining
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  • the Empire. The Civil Service studies and compiles notes on the Sentinel Gate - the unique teleportation device that allows the heroes of the Empire to
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  • family members as part of their performance of Whispers through the Black Gate. The part of the body where the blood is taken from can have different significance
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  • roughly equal, but that it should be separate from the negotiation. It is designed to put both parties in a good mood before the haggling starts in earnest
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  • is particularly appropriate for magic such as Whispers through the Black Gate that may have unexpected outcomes, or for curses that already draw on malignant
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  • impossible, have the prognosticators look for some conjunction of the Sentinel Gate that might make it possible for a contingent to travel to them. From their
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  • the best tool for thwarting barbarian raiders is most likely the Sentinel Gate, supported by the Vigilance of Imperial citizens. Click for audio version
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  • the civil service have reported that a major conjunction of the Sentinel Gate has been identified that seems to lead to the northern part of the Caida
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  • them to avoid any escape attempts and once it is clear that the Sentinel Gate has opened then they will move the lighthouse attendants during the battle
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  • objectives for one or more conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate. Details relating to the day, timing, gate size, and any additional information will be summarised
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  • Military Council design (category Game Design)
    topic. Unfortunately we failed to carry those design goals through to completion with the original design of the Military Council. The Council had civil
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  • the pillars might have. As befits the concepts of purification used in the design of this ritual, the rune Cavul is especially well suited – but so is the
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  • Rules update 2017 (category Game Design)
    The Locked Gate of Mutualism demands that private resources only be used for the common good. The Conclave represents a fascinating design challenge in
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  • valuable intelligence gathered by the heroes of the Empire through the Sentinel Gate. Advance warning of some of the Thule plans allows for troops to withdraw
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  • the gates of the chapterhouse, slaughtered everyone inside, and then tried to re-fortify it. Then the Dawnish knights had come and smashed the gates in
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  • accepted the aid of King Adamant to construct the Gate and work has already begun on the Adamant Gate as it is being referred to. The construction of the
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  • Talking to eternals (category Game Design)
    player-character send a message to a non-player character. As with most design posts, it takes a more informal, chatty style than a lot of our other content
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  • ballistae, reinforced pneumatic gates, mechanical blades designed to destroy siege ladders, and pits and traps designed to slaughter any attacking force
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  • more opportunities to strike, than there are chances to use the Sentinel Gate. When this occurs, the military council must choose which opportunities to
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  • What we do (category Game Design)
    ready, then one ref heads to the gate to meet the players while everyone else set up in the woods. The players open the gate and then we take them to the woods
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  • Luckily, the heroes of the Empire were able to make use of the Sentinel Gate to put a stop to their audacious plan, and exorcise the ghosts bound to the
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  • the healing arts and doughty thorns, who can travel through the Sentinel Gate to help the Marchers. There are other dangers than the vallorn in Brocéliande
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  • artifactual Phial of the Sun that was taken over a century ago The Sentinel Gate will open at 19:30 on Friday to Grove of Einar, Icewood, Tromsa This skirmish
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  • meeting with a number of heralds and cultists near a Night chamber The Sentinel Gate will open at 21:15 on Friday to Crowned Trees, Southmoor, Mournwold This
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  • the Muster of the Imperial Military Council on Friday night. The Sentinel Gate opens at 11:00 - regardless of whether anyone is ready or not! If you are
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  • of Karov, but La Volpe's ambitious program of road-building ends at the gates of the well-defended vale - perhaps the challenges of creating a safe, easily
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  • at the end is there a hope of light. Click for audio version The Sentinel Gate opened during the Summer Equinox, allowing the heroes of the Empire to travel
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  • objectives for one or more conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate. Details relating to the day, timing, gate size, and any additional information will be summarised
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  • functional in nature. Such constructs are expensive and time consuming to design and create, but the Crucible is the perfect place for such work to take
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  • made to support the restoration of Zenith. The Guardian Gate contains four rituals - Guardian Gate, Irresistible Stance of Force and Focus, Peregrine and
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  • used not only by Almodin Oktístis the Asavean architect who oversaw the design and construction, but from the Thule orcs in Krevsaty. In addition to the
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