Saturday, 26 May 2018

Projects I Will Never Finish

A complete series of campaign books for all the Inner Planes

A Call of Cthulhu supplement for games set among Japanese immigrants in Latin America in the 1920s

The Book of Judges as a campaign setting

The PCs are insects - like arthropod Redwall

Portmeirion as an adventure site

The Tyne Valley painstakingly mapped and made into a hexcrawl

Herodotus' world recreated as a hexcrawl

Romans explore Kent; Celtic mythology is real

Stone Age Britain with Lovecraft entities

Licensed version of Mythago Wood

Chinese explorers in Kofun-era Japan

Wildlife photographers on alien planets

This list

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  1. "Romans explore Kent" sounds wonderful. Alas!

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  2. "Romans explore Kent; Celtic mythology is real".

    This could become a very dark game. The flavour of Aguirre, the Wrath of God but with endless primeval forest, blood-stained altars, strange pale men watching from the endless underbush...

    I'd play it.

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    1. Did you see the Fassbender movie Centurion? It is based on a similar premise. It's not bad.

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    2. With real gods in it, too, I was thinking. Lugh, The Morrigan, and whatnot are actually out there.

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  3. Those all sound cool, sadly.

    I figured out how to map a Mythago Wood type area but have yet to ever use it for anything.

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    1. How did you figure out how to map a Mythago Wood type area?

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    2. I laid it out here a few years ago:

      http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8671&p=116798&hilit=Mythago+Event+horizon#p116798

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  4. Well, I very much like the idea of Portmeirion. There's a good combination of the gnarled, steep-sided coves and the slate quarries - then in the middle of it all, an alarmingly neat, fanciful Italianate group of houses and pavilions (I hesitate, in this instance, to use the word Village).

    Kent may suffer a little from Garden-of-England syndrome in this case. I say this despite living there for a time. "Kent,sir — everybody knows Kent — apples, cherries, hops and women." (The Pickwick Papers). Not, of course that such a thing is impossible - but I should need a well realised image of Iron Age Kent.

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    1. Yeah, I have lived in Kent for a bit as well. I was thinking more the Julius Caesar era where it was mostly impenetrable marshes, murky forests, and blokes riding round on chariots trying to murder each other.

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    2. Also, it depends which part of Kent you're talking about. Thanet is definitely not the garden of England!

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    3. True enough; Sheppey also had a fairly infamous repute. It still seems that it still may need that extra push to render it fully-Celticised.

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    4. I've never been to Sheppey. I imagine it as basically being inhabited by 6-fingered cyclopskin.

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  5. Lots of great ideas.

    'Book of Judges as a campaign setting' is definitely my kind of jam, I've unconsciously been inching towards it, especially since I started on Montefiore's biography of Jerusalem.

    Mycenic/Minoic/Herodotian antiquity also beckons strongly, being that it can intersect with the former through the Sea Peoples.

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    1. Herodotus is so gameable. You could almost break it down paragraph by paragraph and just re-print a translation followed by some random tables and stat blocks. It would be very easy to do.

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  6. You will never finish a project the first page of which I will read.

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