I spoke to Mark on the phone today and got the latest on Uresia. The recent re-re-re-re-re-re-re-revision of the release date seems to be the very final one....
GoO's Jeff Mackintosh just posted the following message on their ezboard: "Yes, S. John Ross's Uresia: The Grave of Heaven is finally back from press. This...
... I'll second that! I just saw it a few minutes ago, myself ... Austin's experiencing an unusual bout of freezing weather today, so the net connection was...
In anticipation of the book's arrival, I've been all fidgety, with the following results: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/temphis-expand.htm ... and probably more...
[does the I-finally-have-a-copy-of-Uresia dance] And on the bright side, the shop gives me an "industry wonk" discount, so I didn't have to buy my own book at...
Like a bartender "seeding" his own tip jar with a dollar, I've opened up the Characters Archive with a couple of my own (both of which have appeared here...
Robert Laib is officially the first Uresia fan to submit to the Fan Archives, with his cool Red Slime, Spaz. Spaz is both a slime _and_ and sporting chef of...
Hi everyone! I just finished reading the book and I loved it! It has nearly everything I like about anime style fantasy and plenty of space for me to put...
... of ... Hi! Glad you enjoyed it :) ... just ... They do, yeah. Slimes are incapable of any kind of fine manipulation "on-screen," inkeeping with most of the...
I am preparing to run an Uresia campaign, and am setting up all the particulars for a "down the rabbit hole" scenario -- my particular favorite type of anime...
... Oooh, sounds fun :) ... Page 20, near the end of the first paragraph under "Emerald Orders," should confirm your suspicions. To go into a little more...
Here's another question: Do you have any particular stats for the Yellow Maple Bows? Page 23 says that "In a master's hands, the bow can skewer an eagle from...
... They're _really_ snazzy to look at, and while the _idea_ is that they have more dramatic range than ordinary bows, BESM saves us the trouble of granting...
Rather, a _full_ league is comparable to the horizon distance, but nevermind about that (noplace on Uresia is flat enough for it to matter anyway, except some...
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9200.phtml Uresia's had light but very warm buzz on most of the online fora I peek into, but I think this is the first...
First off I was really impressed with the book. One of my co-workers flipped through it, Ran into the "Chain Bikini", and was hooked, He's buying a copy this...
... Groovy! ... I understand completely :) Guardians of Order have no current plans for more Uresia material; they're busy with larger projects (keeping SAS...
... In those nations _with_ a capitol, that's correct. The only full-on exception is Temphis. Shadow River is the seat of the Duchy of Shadows; the current...
I'm about to start a BESM campaign set in Uresia. My games have always tended to be on the seriouse side and the Grave of Heaven is great in that it can...
... Be sure and let us know how your game goes! ... There are Trolls here and there. Shadow River, as we see in the book, has a kind of "Trolltown" west of...
If anyone's hovering near a keyboard, I'm in the #BlueRoom channel on magicstar.net -- you can get there with any IRC client. I'll be there for the next hour...
Hello all! I'm new around these parts, but SJohn suggested this mailing list to me on another message board. I'm working on my first Uresia character for a...
Are the Emerald Knights all green? I know the Emerald part of their name comes primarily from the magic emeralds that power them, but I thought maybe all the...
... That's usually only true of the new Koval orders. As you can imagine, the notion of a Kovali Emerald Order strikes a chord of deep irony anyway, so the...
... Brilliant stuff. One point of possibly amusing irony is that -- when describing the way the Emerald Armor shifts and slides to absorb the wearer, the...
I just got the Temphis Runes and one page 2 of the Rune Guide it says that lands of Birah and the Volenwood prefer to use the script Nandree to render their...
... Those (along with a Heltish font and some others) are in the works for a followup set, but in the meantime, "anything that feels right" is the best answer....
Do you have a recomended reading list of books for a Uresia GMs? A recomended anime list, movie list, tv shows, and manga ones too? I find that often checking...
