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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 3, 2019 20:37:47 GMT -5
As some of you know I am currently playing in a face to face game out in the real world with some friends. The game is a 2nd Ed AD&D game and the DM is known as garkhal over at Dragonsfoot. He has been a member in the current iteration of Dragonsfoot (he was a member before the reboot) since April 30, 2004 and in that time he has made 66,536 posts and most of them are creative posts, as he is strongly represented in The Workshop over there and in rules discussions. That works out to an average of 12 posts per day for over 15 years. So he is imaginative and prolific.
I have never played 2E before and getting used to it and getting up to speed is taking a while. One of the things that struck me about the game is kits which by and large are IMO written with non-player characters in mind and not written with players characters in mind. So for a few months I have been kicking around doing a mashup of (primarily) OD&D and 2nd Ed AD&D, but I will take ideas I like from anywhere.
So this subforum is going to have kick around threads and then eventually have a new game writeup from it. Just for kicks I am even considering writing it up under the OGL, but that decision is way down the road.
So I am going start threads as the muse speaks to me and I welcome everyones ideas with the understanding that no matter how much I like your idea it may not work IMO for this document, so please do not feel slighted and two, if you post in this sub-forum you are by posting giving me the right to use your idea if it works for me. Since I am not expecting this to ever generate money, I am not offering you any money for your ideas. Just to be clear, if (and that is a big if) rules are ever published it will be in a free pdf or PWYW (ie free pdf).
I will be posting further notes in this thread as we go and everything posted in this thread is subject to admendment.
At some point I will need editors to help me with the wording and other things like that. Any art will be strickly public domain, unless someone wants to donate art freely to the project. But that is also a long ways down the road.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 3, 2019 21:41:43 GMT -5
I stickied this for you PD.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Jul 5, 2019 16:47:56 GMT -5
Looking forward for future posts TPD and see where this goes. I am sure ripx187 & I can assist if you have questions. I own a LOT of 2e AD&D books that are going to waste, so I can skim through them if you need assistance. |
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Post by mao on Jul 6, 2019 7:34:47 GMT -5
I am ALWAYS up for group projects. I think you need to make some sort of outline or mission statement on how you are thiking about this.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 16, 2019 15:30:55 GMT -5
I am up for chiming in with comments on this project.
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Post by eldrad on Apr 29, 2020 18:27:13 GMT -5
Let's make this happen!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 29, 2020 19:09:05 GMT -5
My blog posting this year is going to be were I am writing down a lot of my ideas as I go back to my beginning. One of the things though I have been thinking of is how to use the idea of the kits, but not the kits themselves to spur people on to developing their characters in game, when they have not got the reading background I and my friends had when we started. How Arneson, Wesely, Gygax, etc had this broad pool of knowledge to pull from. One of the problems with the kits is that they are not written for PCs, they are NPC write-ups which is a failure in editing. |
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Post by mao on Apr 30, 2020 5:59:13 GMT -5
My blog posting this year is going to be were I am writing down a lot of my ideas as I go back to my beginning. One of the things though I have been thinking of is how to use the idea of the kits, but not the kits themselves to spur people on to developing their characters in game, when they have not got the reading background I and my friends had when we started. How Arneson, Wesely, Gygax, etc had this broad pool of knowledge to pull from. One of the problems with the kits is that they are not written for PCs, they are NPC write-ups which is a failure in editing. Always loved the kit books, It's the only part of 2nd I am very familer with. That and The Villians book which was fantastic except the writer hated Batman. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 30, 2020 9:05:14 GMT -5
My blog posting this year is going to be were I am writing down a lot of my ideas as I go back to my beginning. One of the things though I have been thinking of is how to use the idea of the kits, but not the kits themselves to spur people on to developing their characters in game, when they have not got the reading background I and my friends had when we started. How Arneson, Wesely, Gygax, etc had this broad pool of knowledge to pull from. One of the problems with the kits is that they are not written for PCs, they are NPC write-ups which is a failure in editing. Always loved the kit books, It's the only part of 2nd I am very familer with. That and The Villians book which was fantastic except the writer hated Batman. Did you notice though that most of the kits are not compatible with adventuring, they are mostly geared for the stay at home community types. |
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Post by mao on Apr 30, 2020 9:49:30 GMT -5
No, I only had the Al QAdim mage barbarian and Necromancer books
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Post by hengest on Mar 2, 2021 17:44:09 GMT -5
Always loved the kit books, It's the only part of 2nd I am very familer with. That and The Villians book which was fantastic except the writer hated Batman. Did you notice though that most of the kits are not compatible with adventuring, they are mostly geared for the stay at home community types. I'm not sure this is an appropriate comment here, but I'll say anyway that this reminds me of a common problem with RPG materials, that they are often 10 to 45 degrees away from the direction the users want them to go in. Nothing against the writers or creative people anywhere, but somehow that seems to happen. The most basic form of this is the conflict between "books that are useful for gaming" and 'books that are meant to be fun to collect and read." |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 2, 2021 21:47:02 GMT -5
Did you notice though that most of the kits are not compatible with adventuring, they are mostly geared for the stay at home community types. I'm not sure this is an appropriate comment here, but I'll say anyway that this reminds me of a common problem with RPG materials, that they are often 10 to 45 degrees away from the direction the users want them to go in. Nothing against the writers or creative people anywhere, but somehow that seems to happen. The most basic form of this is the conflict between "books that are useful for gaming" and 'books that are meant to be fun to collect and read." Completely appropriate! I want books useful for gaming. Not interested in collecting, although if I have time and it is handy, a fun read is good, since it usually spawns other ideas. But I want useful, if I am going to shell out money for it. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 2, 2021 21:48:17 GMT -5
I am thinking about writing up useful kits specifically for 1E or 2E games, but go a different way with my personal writeup.
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Post by Death Even XIII on Jun 4, 2021 20:39:40 GMT -5
Wow, you are an ambitious sort.
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Post by moose on Jul 24, 2021 22:35:33 GMT -5
This is a massive project, fellow could get lost in what you have already done.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 25, 2021 17:56:33 GMT -5
I am thinking about writing up useful kits specifically for 1E or 2E games, but go a different way with my personal writeup. Still basically OD&D and not really a mashup, but the use of ideas with a twist. Starting a new thread in the Village Commons to pursue and idea. |
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