Post by James Maliszewski on Dec 16, 2007 9:12:49 GMT -6
A huge snowstorm on the east coast of Oerik has canceled my OD&D game today. As much as I was looking forward to it, when even the subway system is experiencing delays because of inclement weather, it's a good indication that it's probably wise to postpone it till next weekend. A pity, because my players were really starting to come around to the idea of the game. They absolutely loved that their character sheets (which I wrote up before hand) were so clean and easy to use and that I could still derive some very fun and interesting backgrounds for their characters from these simple stats. One of my players went so far as to ask, "Where are you getting all this stuff from?" I replied, "My imagination"* and that response seemed to remind him that that's what we always used to do back in the old days, before a dizzying array of mechanical options seemed to be the way to create characters rather than good ol' fashioned imagination.
*I'm using a modified version of the Wilderlands setting, so many of the place names and broad situations derive from it, but I have a somewhat idiosyncratic take on it. My Wilderlands is a bit more explicitly science fantasy, with a past in which there was a much higher "tech" magical civilization that collapsed due to a cataclysmic war, as well as more frequent travel between three inhabited worlds. Think of it as "What if Robert E. Howard had written The Dying Earth?" and you have the gist of it.
*I'm using a modified version of the Wilderlands setting, so many of the place names and broad situations derive from it, but I have a somewhat idiosyncratic take on it. My Wilderlands is a bit more explicitly science fantasy, with a past in which there was a much higher "tech" magical civilization that collapsed due to a cataclysmic war, as well as more frequent travel between three inhabited worlds. Think of it as "What if Robert E. Howard had written The Dying Earth?" and you have the gist of it.
