Comments | ophblekuwufu: My current obsession

ophblekuwufu

My current obsession

Feb 04, 2010 22:39

I've found no shortage of ways to fill my free hours since moving to DC, including but not limited to: cooking, chamber music, Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Tutu, bridge, Kill Dr. Lucky LARP, Aaron Sorkin shows, HBO's Rome, and, of course, underlying all of the above, awesome friends. But my current obsession is a tabletop RPG campaign I'm hoping to ( Read more... )

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novalis February 4 2010, 23:04:30 UTC

I think I would like to read session reports of this.

ophblekuwufu February 5 2010, 03:08:26 UTC

:-)
If things go well, I'll probably want to preserve a record of what happened, in which case perhaps I'll post session reports up here under a cut.

edjoesu February 5 2010, 03:51:55 UTC

Any need for an epistolary NPC? I imagine that one of the things the characters might do occasionally is literally sit around and draft correspondence to Rome.

ophblekuwufu February 5 2010, 05:16:00 UTC

Very cute. I'll think about it.

locke61dv February 5 2010, 05:21:04 UTC

This sounds fun! The history, as you describe it, makes for a truly complex/fun powderkeg of an opening scenario.

ophblekuwufu February 5 2010, 12:08:02 UTC

I hope so! I just hope I've got the wherewithal to leverage it into a game that's somewhere near as awesome as the setting allows for.

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ophblekuwufu February 5 2010, 12:06:01 UTC

Indeed. After I first posted this, I realized that elishabenabuyah is not actually the correct handle for this context, but I was so tickled by it that I had to let it stand. Admittedly, ben Abuyah is 50 years younger than these people; still, it seems quite likely that he'd be as good a consultant on ancient near eastern magic as one is likely to find.

And yes. The idea of 2d6 as a cutting edge gaming technology is pretty hilarious. Still, when I think about the Crazy Percentile Die system, 2d6 makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.