Just a few links today.
- Low-powered GURPS magic for a new campaign.
- OD&D as the Fountainhead.
- Sleeping dragons
Have to love the assumption that dragons have epic hoards, but often are sound freaking asleep on them.
- Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Comes to Devastating End After 30 Years
Okay, so a campaign reset off a "tpk." Interesting reset in any case. I've heard of similar, before - one of my friends played in a Rolemaster campaign set in the world after the previous players lost vs. the BBEG. Seemed pretty cool.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for reading!
DeleteThanks for the shoutout. I've been wondering (emotionally; I can see the hit counter for an objective view, but it isn't the same as interaction) if anyone was paying attention, given that I hadn't updated in something like 10 months.
ReplyDeleteNow to find some GURPS players interested in playing in a less "rule of awesome" oriented game/setting. And a place to play. Maybe I should just do some Mythic GME solo gaming for now - I do have a couple of characters I designed to test out how the setting looks in practice: a peasant adventurer and his sister, who have been run out of their home village due to her being accused as a witch who allegedly put the Evil Eye on her neighbor (she didn't, but he had a grudge, she does have magic, and he blamed her for a run of bad luck).
If you put up a players wanted ad, I'll amplify it here.
DeleteDragons are often compared to cats in both physiology and attitude. The sleeping a great deal of the time also fits the cat analogy. Apex predators require a lot of energy for the hunt and need to spend a lot of time inactive as a balance. I imagine the same holds true for dragons who need even more energy to fly with the body of a school bus and to generate temperatures of thousands of degrees for fire breath (or gigawatts for lightning, subzero for cold, etc).
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I've ever come across "dragons are like cats" before now. Even so . . . if apex predator monsters sleep a lot, it should be more than just dragons - it should be most of them. Dragons just get singled out for sleeping (and subdual, back in the day.)
DeleteI get the "they need lots of food and rest" but it's a fantasy game . . . whatever explanation you need to make it work is fine, and not all of them will need hundreds of thousands of calories plus lots of sleep to make it work.
It just feel inconsistent - which was fine in AD&D, since it's just a big pile of inconsistencies . . . but ultimately unsatisfying.