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The Joys of Sandboxing

October 9, 2011 12:13 am / 3 Comments / Chris

So the idea what simple: a zombie invasion of a city powered by the Vornheim supplement. Today I had four hours for players to be in my sandbox.

There are no specific goals, but a number of options and ways the players could effect things if they chose to and played well. Several escape opportunities. And of course there is always DOOM! I was prepared for a few likely options: a drawn out survival scenario, an investigation into the nature of the undead and even delving into the bowels of a giant.

They went with option D, which was to look to Thor’s cathedral for answers. I had to make up the details for the endgame, which needed some sort of challenge and mystery but which had to play out in about 20 minutes or so. I was lucky that circumstances made it possible to present a mystery ending and leave the party to an uncertain fate in a city clearly burning to ashes.

Luckily, I had quality players who, if they didn’t get on the same page regarding goals, at least were not fools. They soon got the LotFP is a game where combat is to be avoided when not necessary. Some would clearly have wanted to fight more, but in the end, a four hour minicon game is not going to give everyone what they want. At least, not until I am a much better GM.

I’m going to release some of the monsters and set pieces here on the blog over the next week and get things going. In going back and rereading old pieces, I felt proud of a few of them and remembered how much this blog stretches my imagination, muck like GMing ‘on the fly’ did today.

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Posted in: legacy D&D / Tagged: city, GMing, lotfp wf rpg, nerdnyc, recess, Sandboxing, survival, undead, vornheim, zombie

Recess Eve

October 7, 2011 11:40 pm / Leave a Comment / Chris

On the night before Nerdnyc’s Recess minicon, I’m printing player handouts, tables from Vornheim, monsters from this blog while packing dice, markers, hex paper, chess pieces and a jenga set.

I really have come to appreciate the simplicity of LotFP. Pregens take maybe 4 minutes, since I already have stock equipment lists for all classes. At this point, were I picking a pre-gen from my game, it would be the Elf or the Dwarf.

Once I’ve run this, I’ll post a play report, the monsters and eventually the enture adventure. Since I’m using Vornheim for the first time as well, I’ll blog the city as it develops on the spot.

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Posted in: commentary, legacy D&D / Tagged: Dwarf, Elf, lotfp wf rpg, nerdnyc, recess, vornheim

Planning for Weird Players

September 10, 2011 12:43 am / 3 Comments / Chris

So a thousand-foot giant lumbers across the countryside, reaches the the edge of a port city, falls over the wall and vomits up undead.

I’ll be posting whatever I come up with after the con on October 9.

 

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Posted in: legacy D&D, Uncategorized / Tagged: lotfp wf rpg, recess

For My Next Trick…

September 1, 2011 12:44 am / 3 Comments / Chris

Sometimes the best way to get to something you really want to do is to commit to do it in front of a lot of people.

So I signed up to run LOTFP Grindhouse Edition at Recess, nerdnyc’s mini-con in Manhattan on October 8.

I’m going to use the Vornheim kit to run an urban crawl/defense/zombie invasion scenario. Think of this as the aftermath of certain OSR module where all hell is let loose. I’ll be using variations on the undead from this blog and an adventure setting I have used in the past plus perhaps something from Zak’s blog and Ancient Vaults.

I’m mostly out of the weeds now, and will be posting more stuff as I come up with it (except things that I want to use at Recess).

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Posted in: commentary, legacy D&D / Tagged: nerdnyc, recess
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