[PnP] Dumb Questions concerning P&P at 1 am in the morning

[Franklin Robertson]

Maybe I should redirect/rewrite the last question concerning "flavor"...I 
think what is so great about the PL is that, as you said, it has all flavors 
for whatever you the GM and the players want.  You can have high fantasy or 
barbarian fantasy, just kind of depends where and at what time...I dont know 
if you all are familiar with the writer, but some of the lands, though, kind 
of remind me of ... I believe his name was Clark Ashton Smith or something 
like that.  He wrote a short story about a necromancer's kingdom for a world 
that was dying.  Very interesting.  Still, I think the PL, imo, is one of 
the better world settings out there...though I will admit I'm a big fan of 
RuneQuest and Arduin Grimoire.  Then again, for me at least, games like RQ, 
AG, and P&P are as good as they are because the people writing the games 
really cared for the games, instead of mass production RPGs like we see 
today.
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Subject: Re: [PnP] Dumb Questions concerning P&P at 1 am in the morning


> At 01:13 AM 10/21/06, Franklin Robertson wrote:
>>As it is one in the morning here, a series of dumb questions come to my 
>>mind ...
>>a)  considering the discussion on what mages and how many mages should be 
>>in the party...what would be a good "party" make up for a P&P GM and a new 
>>group that's never played the game before?  Possibly using the adventure 
>>Country Mordara as an example.
>
> It depends.  Where you start and when.  Using PL or home brew.  Some 
> cultures don't like mages.  Some do.  But for Mordara I'd say 1 Magic 
> users, 1 healer (if not MU), and rest fighters.  The most experienced and 
> math savvy should play the MU till everyone gets the jist of the game.
>
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>>b)  concerning Perilous Lands, the Dark City...there's the cutout of the 
>>city on page 3.  Is each horizontal line a level of the city or would 
>>there be sublevels that continue downward until you reach the Eye?  I've 
>>always been intrigued by the City but not wholely sure how and what way I 
>>should develop it beyond what is in the campaign boxset already.
>
> Been awhile since looked at it.  But I believe each line is a level or 
> floor of the city.
>
>
>>c)  maybe it is my mind at 1 in the morning, but (and this may be a 
>>twisted mind set of a thought) is it just me or does the P&P world setting 
>>kind of resemble that of John Norman's Gor novels more than, say, the Lord 
>>of the Rings kind of worldsetting?  Just me but it just seemed to have a 
>>rougher, more Babylonian or Greek setting mixture than King Arthur's kind 
>>of world setting.
>
> No.  I think its more king Arthur if you dig into it.  There are barbarian 
> and civilized cultures of all types.  Making it a multi diverse land. 
> More so than any othe rsetting I've seen in 25 plus years.  When I did 
> work on my culture project about the culture book I read every line of the 
> culture book and the detail that was put into the land is extraordinary. 
> The mix of ties and cultures intertwined took exhausting time to do I'm 
> sure.  For those who tend to complain about it I've yet to see them try 
> better as detailed or find a alternative ;).  You can literally spend 
> YEARS of real life in the PL and  only see parts of the PL.
>
>>Again, dumb questions...what do you think? lol
> No question is dumb until asked :)
>
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