Vanilla in my Future!
So, Thomas having dropped out of our OHMAS IRC group due to ill health, the whole premise of the adventure pretty much dissolved. It was all based around espionage, and Tom was playing the only spy. So Tyler - my nephew, who is also in the group - proposed we start up a new adventure , a standard low-magic Tolkien-esque fantasy game. I had major trepidations, as I burned out on this kind of fantasy long ago, but the group liked the idea, so we decided to go ahead with it.

We are using Volant - Kingdoms of Air and Stone for the game, with no floating skylands, no floating stone ships, but yes to the giant riding birds. Last night we did the group setting generation. We used the Skylands generation tool to create normal earthbound regions rather than floating lands. These would be civilized lands, surrounded by wilderness, in a Points of Light type setting. Each player made two Regions, all to be part of the same Kingdom. We had a complete blast making the setting!

This coming week, they will finish up their creations with Cultural Oddities, then create their Association, then their characters. We will be embracing Troupe play as recommended, with each player playing two characters. Chargen is fast in Volant, as it is done with overlaying templates.We should get done and start the actual play next session.

I am still very nervous about this. I haven't been able to run anything this vanilla in decades. Pray for my soul!

Quote from: flyingmice;814364Vanilla in my Future!


I am still very nervous about this. I haven't been able to run anything this vanilla in decades. Pray for my soul!

I'd love to play in your version of Vanilla

I was going to say - this doesn't seem low-magic nor particularly vanilla with giant riding birds et al.

I'm sure you'll find something to entertain you running the game. I find it's more about the people you're playing with than the game itself, everything else is only relevant to we persnickety gamers.

//Panjumanju

Quote from: Silverlion;814375I'd love to play in your version of Vanilla

Are you free Wednesday nights, 9-12 Eastern, 8-11 Central, Tim?

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Quote from: Panjumanju;814379I was going to say - this doesn't seem low-magic nor particularly vanilla with giant riding birds et al.

I'm sure you'll find something to entertain you running the game. I find it's more about the people you're playing with than the game itself, everything else is only relevant to we persnickety gamers.

//Panjumanju

Well the magic in Volant is limited to alchemy, harnessing the magic inherent in things - animals, plants, etc. - which makes it appropriate for a true Tolkien-esque fantasy. There are no spells, no fireballs, no magic missiles. True magic is inherent in the world, not in people.

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Quote from: flyingmice;814385Well the magic in Volant is limited to alchemy, harnessing the magic inherent in things - animals, plants, etc. - which makes it appropriate for a true Tolkien-esque fantasy. There are no spells, no fireballs, no magic missiles. True magic is inherent in the world, not in people.

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Interesting. I'm going to look into this system.

//Panjumanju

Quote from: Panjumanju;814393Interesting. I'm going to look into this system.

//Panjumanju

Oh! Sorry! I wasn't trying to shill the damned thing! There are a million fantasy RPGs, most of them probably far better than this. Volant was just handy is all.

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Quote from: flyingmice;814402Oh! Sorry! I wasn't trying to shill the damned thing! There are a million fantasy RPGs, most of them probably far better than this. Volant was just handy is all.

-clash

Oh, don't apologise! I just thought you presented the system in an interesting light, I'm always on the look out, and it seems worth looking into.

I hope you have lots of fun with your game.

//Panjumanju

Thanks, Panjumanju! I'm hoping I can pull it off.

-clash

Quote from: flyingmice;814380Are you free Wednesday nights, 9-12 Eastern, 8-11 Central, Tim?

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Alas, I am not. I've got two games on Wednesdays.

Quote from: Silverlion;814438Alas, I am not. I've got two games on Wednesdays.

Dammit! That would have rocked!

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