Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 22, 2024 12:16:18 GMT -5
Herein he discusses settings and also delves into scenarios. Scenarios are necessary for wargames, but in roleplaying games scenarios are known by another name, that is railroads. Context is everything, scenarios are necessary for wargames, but completely unnecessary for roleplaying games.
I find it interesting that he credits Robert Louis Stevenson with the publication of Treasure Island (original title “The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island”) as the beginning of fantasy fiction, when so much predated it. At that time fantasy fiction was called "romances."
That said, Treasure Island was one of the books I read at the age of six. I have read it several times, the most recent being 60 years after the first time, still a very good story.
I find it interesting that he credits Robert Louis Stevenson with the publication of Treasure Island (original title “The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island”) as the beginning of fantasy fiction, when so much predated it. At that time fantasy fiction was called "romances."
That said, Treasure Island was one of the books I read at the age of six. I have read it several times, the most recent being 60 years after the first time, still a very good story.