The other day, Zak at DnD with Pornstars wrote something, as he is apt to do. I skimmed through most of it as most of the politics and bullshit between rival game people bores me but one thing really struck me.
That was this:
“the purpose of this blog and any activity connected to it is to improve my game at my house. I write my ideas here so people can read them and maybe give me new ideas, I write books so that I can use them and so that other people will steal the ideas and write better books that I can use for my game, I talk about what a game community should be so that I can benefit from the ideas a good community produces.”
That sums up what I’m trying to do here pretty well. Except for the “write books,” part which I have yet to do.
I like to scour other blogs and forums for ideas and adapt them to fit my own thing. For example, after trying to come up with a new system for the setting I’m writing, I decided, “fuck it!” and am going with Castles and Crusades. Which I haven’t played or thought about in half a dozen years.
Why Castles and Crusades?
Because of a thread I read on theRPGSite. TheButcher put down some house rules of his that I thought were interesting, enough so that I gave C&C a second look. The setting I’m writing is unique unto itself, but one of my design goals was to be able to drop any pre-made module into it; TSR, WotC, Hasbro, Palladium, LotFP, whatever. C&C is the most universal system I’ve found so far, that keeps rules simple and easy to learn. While I love LotFP, I’m making something more fantastical rather than grim and gritty, and the more I’ve written, the less I felt LotFP would be the best fit.
I also want to use a bunch of subsystems I’ve found from other sources. The encumbrance system from LotFP (cause the encumbrance system from C&C is terrible), the character backgrounds from 10 Foot Polemic (which will include the Secondary Skills for C&C), and the Class leveling stuff from DnD with Pornstars (stuff to happen when leveling up and nothing happens with the standard C&C character), and classes from Engine of Oracles, to name a few.
I can incorporate all of those into C&C with little effort. And with the exception of the encumbrance system, I have already modified those systems quite a bit to fit with what I want. I will post that stuff on here in the near future.
