10.30.07
Posted in gaming at by mountzionryan
[Our gaming group (MartialArtsMike, Pedagogue, Oldschool, Zippy, and LostScotsman) rotate the GMing duties in a regulated manner. Since each one of us wants to run a game we set a term limit on the number of sessions each GM has to run. My turn just ended.]
Our last of three pirate sessions coincided with my last night in the GM chair. I determined to throw every piratey cliche at them I could. We had lost temples in the jungle, ghost-pirates, heaps of treasure, a voodoo witch, and more fun than you can shake a cutlass at. They avoided the sea battle I had planned for them, oh well.
Now that my creative juices aren’t going to be used on creating adventures, I hope to have more fiction and RPG output. On the fiction front, I’m going to work on my created world: Days of Miracle and Wonder. RPG wise I am going to continue writing All For Me Grog and another system I’ve been tinkering with.
I’m going to miss the excitement of running a weekly game, but hopefully I can channel that energy into other projects.
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10.19.07
Posted in gaming, hobbies at by mountzionryan
The past two weeks, as I wrap up my turn in the GMs chair, we’ve played a home-brewed game of Pirates. The guys started out being marooned on an island, found a sloop, got revenge on their marooners and headed for the Carolina coast. The next week they pirated 3 plantations.
I have been having the “most fun evar” as a GM. And I know why. Basically it all comes down to comfort level. I am comfortable ad libing a pirate game because I am familiar enough with the period to fake and because the players all understand the genre tropes we’re working with. I am comfortable enough with the system because its my homebrew. But more than that I am having fun because the system is simple enough to ad lib.
Seriously, my last game, the only preparation I had was a map of the Plantations of the Lower Cape Fear River 1725-1760. The rest I made up on the fly because, I wasn’t exactly sure what they were going to do. They originally had planned to raid Wilmington. I had prepped that I would have been unprepared for what they did instead.
I don’t mind preparation. During my Dealands:Reloaded game I enjoyed creating interesting and challenging foes and situations. I ran a Risus one-nighter that was a pulp adventure. I prepped for it, but was able to have everything serve the plot (ie serve THE COOL) because I didn’t feel restricted by Risus as I do by other games. If I needed a giant humanoid Croc-monster it was as simply as writing Giant Humanoid Croc-Monster (6) on my notes. Up til now that Risus Pulp Adventure was the most fun I’d had because I felt entirely at ease.
But we had a few complaints about Risus. The notorious Death Spiral was the biggie. For me it was that the crunch level was a little too lite. (I have realized that I like my games somewhere between Savage Worlds and Risus. ) So I brewed up a game with 2 cups of Faery’s Tale, 1 cup Risus, 1 cup Ryan’s cool ideas.
And we’ve had two salty nights of Piratical bounty.
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10.02.07
Posted in personal at by mountzionryan
This is my new home on the web. For now.
I tried Blogger for a long time. But my interests have changed and my blog was fairly narrowly defined.
I tried Wikispaces for creative projects, but found it not quite what I wanted. And as an aspiring author, the creative commons lic. left me less than satisfied.
So here I am. I hope to post stuff from cool tidbits to ongoing projects. However, this is not a public diary. It is a commonplace book wherein I save ideas, clippings, and other Mental Detritus.
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