Okay, I have a couple of questions for all you readers. Which kind of setting for a pencil and paper fantasy game would you rather play in and GM?
Setting one an Arthurian era setting before the sinking of Lyonesse and Hybrasil. Something like the Lyonesse stories and Arthurian legends.
Setting two a fantasy setting in an altered North America set after a couple of thousands of years of migration from Europe and North Africa.
Both have fantasy, swords and sorcery and derring-do.
Question Two would you rather play a fantasy skill based game, class based game with levels, or a combination of the two.
Please leave answers in the comments. If you think of some options I've missed for game type go ahead and make recommendations.
My son has created a very similar card based rpg with Magic cards. Tough to figure out which card to play when you don't know what they do. How did you decide what to use?
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I've never been a fan of cards as a mechanic. Probably because my brother was an amateur magician. I know too many ways to move cards where you want them. Plus I can recognize the cards in a deck by their backs. I don't like it when I know what other people have.
ReplyDeleteIf it isn't that kind of game it doesn't matter as much.
I've never been fond of using collectable cards for something else. Although when I was a kid we made up our fantasy baseball teams with the cards we had.
ReplyDeleteI like regular cards better and values can be assigned easily. It is a different feel than dice that is for sure.
I've played Protocol, which is a card-based GM-less narrative game. It was great and run through Greybarks. The cards were normal playing cards.
DeleteAs for the setting, I think alternate North America would be cool. Or even the whole American continent. You could have tribal nations and them eventually banding together to stave off the Aztecs or something, even, with the random explorers from Europe or Africa and Asia thrown in. Especially funny would be references to the viking colony centuries before the Age of Exploration (I think it was called Vinland or something and they all died/assimilated IRL).
That setting is kind of like what I am thinking of. The first non-Native colonists would be small city states on the East Coast that were refugees from Atlantis.
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DeleteI would be interested in alternate North America if it was a Shannara-like setting only.
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ReplyDeleteSo is that the movie Shannara or the books Shannara? I haven't followed a book in decades.