{"id":93,"date":"2016-06-15T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/15\/purpose-of-this-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:18:00","slug":"purpose-of-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/15\/purpose-of-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, Zak at DnD with Pornstars wrote something<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

That was this:<\/p>\n

“the purpose of this blog and any activity connected to it is to improve my game at my house.<\/i> 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.”<\/p>\n

That sums up what I’m trying to do here pretty well. Except for the “write books,” part which I have yet to do.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. Which I haven’t played or thought about in half a dozen years.<\/p>\n

Why Castles and Crusades?<\/p>\n

Because of a thread I read on theRPGSite<\/a>. TheButcher put down some house rules<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n

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<\/a> from 10 Foot Polemic (which will include the Secondary Skills for C&C), and the Class leveling stuff<\/a> 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<\/a>, to name a few.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Purpose of this blog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}