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Been into Mystara lately
2023-May-05, Friday 15:17
I've been doing some RPG tinkering lately--slightly modifying True20, which hits my sweet spot between complexity and ease-of-use--and when trying to find a good setting to run with it, I've been looking at my old Rules Cyclopedia and the twenty years of fan work up on the Vaults of Pandius and I'm realizing that Mystara has the combination of interesting fantasy and totally crazy sci fi nonsense that I love in RPGs while also avoiding a lot of the problems that people have with standard D&D settings. For example:
( A long list )
It honestly all sounds like the kind of fantasy that would be the background of an isekai anime series, which makes since because anime fantasy is based on 80s D&D through computer games like Wizardry and Japanese TTRPGs like Sword World. Low magic, humanocentric fantasy is out, kitchen sink fantasy is in. A town street with wolf people hawking wears, a group of elven tourists, a wizard doing magic tricks for money...and honestly, you could even have some guy from Japan who was magically transported there after being hit by a truck. It'd all fit.
This seems to be keeping my attention for longer than usual. What I really need is to be running an actual game so I can devote my creative energy toward that.
( A long list )
It honestly all sounds like the kind of fantasy that would be the background of an isekai anime series, which makes since because anime fantasy is based on 80s D&D through computer games like Wizardry and Japanese TTRPGs like Sword World. Low magic, humanocentric fantasy is out, kitchen sink fantasy is in. A town street with wolf people hawking wears, a group of elven tourists, a wizard doing magic tricks for money...and honestly, you could even have some guy from Japan who was magically transported there after being hit by a truck. It'd all fit.
This seems to be keeping my attention for longer than usual. What I really need is to be running an actual game so I can devote my creative energy toward that.
