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Post by GRWelsh on Sept 25, 2018 13:45:56 GMT -5
On our fortnightly Game Night, Ray started running a 2nd edition AD&D game. The campaign story arc is based on a curse on the lands, and the curse is based on the lyrics of "The King of Pain" by The Police. It's an original world and I'm enjoying it so far. We're only two sessions in. Ray is not stingy with magic items. By the end of the second episode we had a Horn of Collapsing, Cloak of Arachnida, magic short sword, shield and dagger, and various magic potions and scrolls. Also, we were assisted by a hermit named Herman... another musical pun. Eric asked, "Is that the theme here: a world of musical puns?" And Ray said, no, the entire world wasn't based on musical puns, he just threw a few in there for some humor.
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 25, 2018 14:11:32 GMT -5
Don't go yonder that way, adventurers... " said the minstrel. "Tis ye dread Vale of Sans Finis...oh wait, I meant ye dread Vale of Short Refrains..."  |
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Post by GRWelsh on Sept 25, 2018 19:02:50 GMT -5
He used the lyrics for "The King of Pain" to create an overall arc or framework for the campaign. Various lines in the song represent an adventure location and possibly a clue to what is there. I don't always like 'epic quest' campaigns with the quest given to you in the first adventure and the whole epic laid out on the map, for a number of reasons... One of those is because they are hard to finish ("We never got out of the Vale of Sans Finis"). But Ray has proven to be a creative DM who will see it through and we have a stable player group. I don't like railroading either, but framing the campaign with an initial goal is acceptable to get the ball rolling... If the DM doesn’t do something like this, the opposite end of the spectrum is players meandering around aimlessly or role-playing in town for 4 hours... Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of total player freedom, but only when players set their own goals and stick to them and the party for the most part stays together. So, I'm okay with a DM imposing some sort of initial structure.
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Post by Scott on Sept 25, 2018 21:10:54 GMT -5
It sounds like a good game. I’m bummed our games are on the same night. It’s been forever since I was ap,e to play a PC in a game.
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 25, 2018 21:27:14 GMT -5
The weird thing is you reminded me that I a vague memory of playing King of Pain while DMing back when the song came out. Thats freaky.
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