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why, brain, why?
Feb. 14th, 2011 03:56 pmSo I'm hauling laundry out of the dryer, and my brain randomly decides it wants to distract itself from the tedium by figuring out how to hack an RPG system to run a Wheel of Time game.
I have no intention of actually running a Wheel of Time game, mind you. But as I said to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kniedzw, I think it's the fanfic impulse gone sideways; there's stuff I really like about the setting, but also stuff that really annoys me, and a game would give me a way to mentally inhabit my preferred version of that world -- maybe even critiquing it in passing. I have no concept for such a game, and probably nobody to play in it anyway (since it would go best with people who know the series), but every so often my brain likes to play with mechanics, and today was one of those times.
Yeah, sure, there's already a rulebook for it. It's d20, people. Which may be the Official System for Epic Fantasy Gaming -- but it's abysmally unsuited to handle the magic paradigm presented in the novels. Anybody with an interest in system hacks or running their own Wheel of Time game is invited behind the cut to see how I would do it.
( There's more than one solution, I'm sure. But I like mine. )
That's what I worked out while dealing with laundry. I'd be curious to hear alternative suggestions, whether tweaks to this basic concept or suggestions for entirely different systems to use as the base. I gravitate to WoD mechanics because I'm so familiar with them, but there's probably stuff out there that would work as well or better. (And certainly better than d20.)
I have no intention of actually running a Wheel of Time game, mind you. But as I said to
kniedzw, I think it's the fanfic impulse gone sideways; there's stuff I really like about the setting, but also stuff that really annoys me, and a game would give me a way to mentally inhabit my preferred version of that world -- maybe even critiquing it in passing. I have no concept for such a game, and probably nobody to play in it anyway (since it would go best with people who know the series), but every so often my brain likes to play with mechanics, and today was one of those times.Yeah, sure, there's already a rulebook for it. It's d20, people. Which may be the Official System for Epic Fantasy Gaming -- but it's abysmally unsuited to handle the magic paradigm presented in the novels. Anybody with an interest in system hacks or running their own Wheel of Time game is invited behind the cut to see how I would do it.
( There's more than one solution, I'm sure. But I like mine. )
That's what I worked out while dealing with laundry. I'd be curious to hear alternative suggestions, whether tweaks to this basic concept or suggestions for entirely different systems to use as the base. I gravitate to WoD mechanics because I'm so familiar with them, but there's probably stuff out there that would work as well or better. (And certainly better than d20.)
