I have some projects going on right now that I am trying to get organized for my big Christmas break this year. I am planning on burying myself in writing. So I am finding bits of text here, and some ideas there, and I have not even gone through my bookmarks* yet.
(*I scribble ideas on bookmarks while I read. Habit from my undergrad days.)
A couple came to me more or less at the same time. The first was more details on what I am doing with the various incarnations of my iconic witch Larina. The other was some notes about an Amazing Adventures street-level supers game I keep batting around in my notes. Since the new printing of Amazing Adventures (well, new printing and reorganized material) is now up on Indiegogo I thought, let's clean up one stack of notes with a post.
I have always been rather fond of Amazing Adventures. It is a modern version of Castles & Crusades and with the 2nd printing, the rules cleave much closer to the C&C SIEGE Engine rules. My understanding is that this new printing (a bit like a 2.5) is even closer. So close that the three books of Castles & Crusades are called "The Three Sisters" and the new three books for Amazing Adventures are called "The Three Brothers." Three brothers and three sisters? That sounds like my family.
If you like modern games then this is a great time to get into Amazing Adventures. Especially if you are a fan of Castles & Crusades.
One thing that I do with my Larina is to have different versions of her in different games. These are truly different versions of the same character in the multiverse but connected a bit like the Eternal Champion. These are my worlds, I get to do these things. The GREAT thing about Amazing Adventures is that it IS so much like Castles & Crusades I can make moving between a modern world and a fantasy world much easier. If I can do that with her, you can do it with any character.
Also for me, there is this notion of adventures connected by places or people and displaced in time. This would be my trilogy of adventures "All Souls Night," "Blight," and "The Dark Druid" dealing with D&D-like fantasy, Victorian-age Gothic horror, and modern supernatural respectively. Larina, or someone like her, would be there in all three, reincarnated each time to deal with the threat of the Dark Druid.
But before I can do that right, I have to make sure I can move characters, or their other incarnations, to each time. Here is my Drosophila melanogaster for these experiments.
Race: Human
Strength: 10 (0)
Dexterity: 11 (0)
Constitution: 13 (+1) P
Intelligence: 17 (+2)
Wisdom: 17 (+2) P
Charisma: 18 (+3) P
Hit Points: 79
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
AC: 10
BtH: +4
MEP: 226
Languages: English, Latin, Gaelic, Greek, Russian (native language is English)
Background: Scholar (Librarian)
Skills: Mythology (Celtic, Norse)
Powers
Familiar: Cotton Ball
Spellcasting
Spells
Cantrips: (9) Arcane Mark, Dancing Lights, Detect Illusion, Detect Magic, Light, Magical Aura, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, Stun
First: (5+1) Color Spray, Command, Darkness, Identity, Shield, Sleep
Second: (5+1) Alter Self, Blur, Burning Hands, Hold Person, Pyrotechnics, Scare
Third: (4+1) Aid, Blink, Nondetection, Remove Curse, Tongues
Fourth: (4) Dispel Magic, Emotion, Phantasmal Killer, Seeming
Fifth: (4) Feeblemind, Mass Suggestion, Projection, True Seeing
Sixth: (3) Mislead, Veil, Wind Walk
Seventh: (3) Prismatic Spray, Teleport without Error, Word of Recall
Eighth: (3) Antipathy, Prismatic Wall
Ninth: (2) Astral Projection
In truth, that was a LOT of fun to do. Makes me realize how much I miss playing C&C and AD&D too.
So everyone get in on that Indiegogo campaign so others can see just how much fun this game really is.
This is a really fascinating idea! It reminds me of... I think it's called "Ripples of Carcosa"? A Call of Cthulhu adventure that does something similar, with adventures across time connected by shared themes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning Amazing Adventures, it looks like I should consider picking it up!
Cheers!