RPGaDay2024 in August - August 15th: Gear
We continue on today with #RPGaDay2024 for August.
Day 15 - Great character Gear
When it comes down to it, roleplaying games tend to have terrific lists of gear for characters to port around with them. While horror rpgs tend to have very...standard gear, modelled on the genre, fantasy and science fiction rpgs have a lot of gear that is more varied due to the nature of the game. Throw in magical or high-tech items (which aren't always distinguishable, given the third of Clarke's Laws), and fantasy and science fiction rpgs can be truly special, depending on the nature of the equipment/gear. However, when the roleplaying game is part of a sub-genre, the equipment and gear the player characters can have becomes truly unique and special to the game itself - and to the characters! A sword enchanted with an efrit's spirit that can do double damage to jinn or an ancient alien orb that when activated shows a holographic map of the aliens' former empire, for example, make their games different and makes the gear and equipment possible in those rpgs unique. And what's truly neat about this is that player characters and NPCs can become known for their gear and can be made unique during character creation because of the equipment and gear they carry.
And there you have it, my thoughts on this fifteenth day of #RPGaDay for August, 2024.
Comments, thoughts, questions, etc. are all welcome, of course. :)
Day 15 - Great character Gear
When it comes down to it, roleplaying games tend to have terrific lists of gear for characters to port around with them. While horror rpgs tend to have very...standard gear, modelled on the genre, fantasy and science fiction rpgs have a lot of gear that is more varied due to the nature of the game. Throw in magical or high-tech items (which aren't always distinguishable, given the third of Clarke's Laws), and fantasy and science fiction rpgs can be truly special, depending on the nature of the equipment/gear. However, when the roleplaying game is part of a sub-genre, the equipment and gear the player characters can have becomes truly unique and special to the game itself - and to the characters! A sword enchanted with an efrit's spirit that can do double damage to jinn or an ancient alien orb that when activated shows a holographic map of the aliens' former empire, for example, make their games different and makes the gear and equipment possible in those rpgs unique. And what's truly neat about this is that player characters and NPCs can become known for their gear and can be made unique during character creation because of the equipment and gear they carry.
And there you have it, my thoughts on this fifteenth day of #RPGaDay for August, 2024.
Comments, thoughts, questions, etc. are all welcome, of course. :)