Taking the weekend off to rest after a lonnnnng weary (but yay, successful) campaign that mostly involved almost no time off.
Meeting with some friends tonight to play a game of Fate. I am taking the challenge of taking what is considered one of the worst D&D modules of all times (one that used to accompany a DM screen, "Terrible Trougble at Tragidore"... I got it for fifty cents...) and rewriting almost the entire thing from a different angle (let's take out all those sexist themes, get rid of the fantasy racism, cut out this whole part, transform it this way, hm..... this could be interesting now...) not to mention doing it in a different system.
The way I've redone it, I don't think it's really the same game anymore. It'll be interesting though... :)
Some people mellow out as they get older. I definitely think I'm just getting nerdier and nerdier.
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motters at 2014-04-19T19:37:55Z
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I am also taking the weekend off. And I will probably convert an old module to play in Fate. But I won't play it. Who's nerdier? =]
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The game went awesomely and was some of the most fun I've had in a long time. The players had a blast, I had a blast.
All modifications I made to the game I think were successful. After the game the players asked me to explain my modifications. I changed a lot of things, especially the main premise: it's not a village full of women whose men have been hauled off and now they need heroes to save them... that is super sexist. Instead, it's a village full of children whose parents are all gone. This changed the story's narrative dramatically, and even though the kids weren't menacing, gave a nice eerie "Children of the Corn" start to things. (It was also fun to take some of the fake vampires that showed up to harass the players in the original and instead turn them into opportunists who were taking a boogeymen tactic to try to squeeze resources out of the village while the parents were gone from a bunch of scared kids.) Lots of things changed.
Anyway, it was fun. One of the players was a fantasy author, and it was her first game playing a tabletop RPG. She managed to get into it immediately. It was also somewhat reassuring that she thought I did a good job and that ... I'm definitely not as well versed in the genre as she is.
A good night off with some over the top fun. Now to spend Easter with my family. Then tomorrow... back to work :)
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-04-20T14:15:02Z
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