Well, I'm most of the way through rewriting White Wolf's "Changeling" setting to use The Shadow of Yesterday ruleset. A legitimate question would be - why, when there are at least two perfectly reasonable rulesets for playing Changeling? (The WW tabletop rules, and the Shining Host LARP rules.) Wouldn't my time be better spent writing up the adventure that I'm meant to be running tomorrow?
And indeed, wouldn't my time be better spent writing either the adventure, or the rules, rather than creating another journal entry?
While I have no good answer to the last question, I've never been very happy with some of the assumptions of the default setting, and this gives me a chance to remind myself of the things I like about it, while formally chucking out the bits I don't. While playing around with the Cantrip system, for example, I've ended up messing with the Art descriptions quite a bit, and have tended towards the model used in Hosts rather than the tabletop version.
Anyway, I'm getting close to finishing the rules, which given I've basically used no text from any of the original Changeling sources (except a number of titles), is no mean feat. It looks like it'll be about 25-30 pages when I'm finished, though there's plenty more I could do. I might put a link up, or I might decide that I prefer to avoid having my pants sued off me by White Wolf's attack lawyers. ;)
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And now for the non-roleplayers... it's been interesting to read what some people choose to tell the world about. I mean, I can't imagine writing about liking a girl - and not just because I know my Mum reads this (Hi Mum!). It probably has something to do with the fact that I can't imagine talking about liking a girl.
"Liking a girl". Good grief, what am I, from the fifties? :)
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The mighty Need to Know pointed at the good old IRC not-always-safe-for-work humour site, bash.org.
WallJam7: roses are red
WallJam7: violets are blue
WallJam7: all of my base
WallJam7: are belong to you
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Anyway, back to trying to get ready for tomorrow.
Posted by svend at April 4, 2005 8:24 PMI just wanted to share this one:
<Bwaa> I tend to do stupid things when I panic
<Bwaa> Like when I accidently poked my friend in the eye, panicked and poked him in the other one.. because it seemed the sensible thing to do
Should this system fusion ever appear in a document format, throw it my way so I can have a look :)
And with the writing about girls thing - I find writing in my LJ is like lying on the couch talking to a shrink - it helps me get it out there and think about it myself, and when I feel differently I can go back to it and think 'oh yeah, that's what I thought then'. Plus with the locked-ness feature I can be sure only people I don't mind reading it will read it.
Posted by: James P at April 4, 2005 9:09 PM*Of course* you're from the fifties. I mean, how else would you be as old as you are now???
I'm not allowed to write about liking girls. Lee gets jealous.
Posted by: Jenni at April 5, 2005 11:57 AMI have never written about liking girls... or guys actually.
Posted by: Naomi at April 5, 2005 12:21 PMSometimes I talk about liking girls And guys. Like, I like jenni AND you! Other people too! ALso I luff Beau and it does kinda weird me out to think that your mum might read how I do, but then I think it'll make her happy that we love each other. ;)
Posted by: giffy at April 5, 2005 4:41 PM