Finally clicking
Dec. 11th, 2018 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kesbeaconThis is a pretty hectic week, which means I haven't had chance to digest my Monday game (or, for that matter, Sunday game!) yet. It was a good gaming week/end; Friday was cancelled (but I got to hang out with my Pals) and so was Wednesday, but Sunday and Monday made up for it.
Monday was 23rd Age, my cyberpunk fantasy hack of 13th Age. I've been struggling with it all term - I run my games through the university RPG soc I'm an alumnus and GM 'elder' of - a combination of a group I don't know not gelling, it being completely not my normal genre, and me not having time/energy to prep it properly. I didn't have time to prep this session properly either, but it turned out not to matter because the concept was just so good.
Lich World is just such a good idea. Skeletons that talk in very deep but very perky customer service voices is even better. 13th Age's coin zombies, reconstituted into an arcade game with BIG payouts, is even better. Like, this was a player idea - this is exactly why I do collaborative worldbuilding, because frankly these days my limited creative juices are better spent on reconstituting things into a cool structure rather than making building blocks. It's always nice to send players to the places they created.
This game is slower than I'm expecting. I don't know what that means in terms of 'final confrontations' and probably won't for another three months; I've kind of forgotten how to be okay with that. Last year I always knew the Second Sun was the ultimate evil in the world.
...actually what am I talking about. It's cyberpunk. I know EXACTLY what the ultimate evil in the world is.
Monday was 23rd Age, my cyberpunk fantasy hack of 13th Age. I've been struggling with it all term - I run my games through the university RPG soc I'm an alumnus and GM 'elder' of - a combination of a group I don't know not gelling, it being completely not my normal genre, and me not having time/energy to prep it properly. I didn't have time to prep this session properly either, but it turned out not to matter because the concept was just so good.
Lich World is just such a good idea. Skeletons that talk in very deep but very perky customer service voices is even better. 13th Age's coin zombies, reconstituted into an arcade game with BIG payouts, is even better. Like, this was a player idea - this is exactly why I do collaborative worldbuilding, because frankly these days my limited creative juices are better spent on reconstituting things into a cool structure rather than making building blocks. It's always nice to send players to the places they created.
This game is slower than I'm expecting. I don't know what that means in terms of 'final confrontations' and probably won't for another three months; I've kind of forgotten how to be okay with that. Last year I always knew the Second Sun was the ultimate evil in the world.
...actually what am I talking about. It's cyberpunk. I know EXACTLY what the ultimate evil in the world is.
