you asked for it and now it is happening and you have no-one to blame but yourselves
Benjamin West (1738-1820): Started as a wargamer; wrote his own mass battle system and uses it whenever he gets the chance. His system broke down spectacularly when he tried to use it to model 'Everyone vs. the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and also a lion' at the end of a long-running campaign.
John Flaxman (1755-1826): Has a long-running Mazes and Minotaurs campaign, all about the exploits of a bunch of heroic warriors who go around battling monsters in Mythic Greece. Doesn't understand why so many of his friends, including Blake and Fuseli, insist on making their games so weird and creepy all the time.
JMW Turner (1775-1851): A devotee of ultralight abstract minimalism, determined to boil the game down to its purest essence. Has pruned OD&D down to two pages and is always looking for opportunities for further cutting. Smiles enigmatically when people point out that, under his rules, there's no difference between a monster and a natural hazard like a wave or a storm.
Can you spot the cyclops? |
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881): Began as one of William Blake's players, but started his own group after the disintegration of Blake's long-running 'Jerusalem' campaign. (The revelation that the PCs were Jerusalem all along didn't go down very well.) Loves fairytale adventures. A big fan of Beyond the Wall. Has never run a single scenario set during daylight hours.
(See also: Jacques Callot at Honor and Intrigue, and Thomas Cole at Zenopus Archives. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery!)
I...really badly want to read Turner's ruleset.
ReplyDeleteI like this style of writing. It reminds me of John Clarke's novel "The Tournament," where he writes about the accomplishments of famous people from the 20th century as though they were tennis players in the middle of a match.
ReplyDeleteI think I am either Flaxman or Delacroix.
ReplyDeleteI did a few for the Symbolists/Decadents: http://bearded-devil.com/?p=1599
ReplyDeleteNice! The random encounter tables are a nice touch...
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