tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post2467413913184556685..comments2024-03-28T15:13:35.126-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Mining RPG GoldJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-19919168750530395752012-04-23T01:53:54.680-07:002012-04-23T01:53:54.680-07:00Another vote to watch it ASAP. Even my wife is enj...Another vote to watch it ASAP. Even my wife is enjoying it (probably more than me!) and that speaks volumes of how well it's able to capture the viewer (my wife is not that much into fantasy.)<br />I have run a short Westeros campaign, using the notes published in an old Dragon Magazine article (one of the first of the 3e era, IIRC) including a nice map of the setting. In D&D terms, it's mostly a low-level campaign, with some notable critters (dire wolves, wights, giants.) In fact, the suggestion in the article is to treat the standard character classes as Prestige Classes, so everybody starts out a Warrior, Aristocrat or Commoner. There is not much D&D-like magic, but probably an Adept or Witch (both in 3e DMG) should fit the bill. <br />Probably the 2e Birthright rules could be used to frame a campaign there, too.<br /><br />Note that there is a Song of Ice and Fire rpg, published by Green Ronin. I have not seen it in details, but it seems to be built around politics and intrigue.Antoniohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17258180992723371727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-39638309830144345102012-04-21T11:48:34.421-07:002012-04-21T11:48:34.421-07:00Fan of the books/series here and recommend them. ...Fan of the books/series here and recommend them. Yes, Martin is a gamer but I'm not sure that Game of Thrones came from one of his games. If it did, I think it more likely that it might have come from a miniatures game rather than a full-on RPG. My recollection is that he got the idea for the series after imagining the scene where the Stark family finds the dire wolves - and then set it aside for 10 years or something while he was writing in Hollywood. I think the series is more a mash up of various times of English history, specifically the War of the Roses and the Anarchy. You can see Martin's miniature collection on his <a href="http://georgerrmartin.com/knights/index.html" rel="nofollow"><b>blog.</b></a><br /><br />I think his Wild Cards (never read them) was more directly emergent from his gaming, and that they played GURPS if I recall correctly.redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600098550347299095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-38832720712237491342012-04-21T10:32:04.873-07:002012-04-21T10:32:04.873-07:00weird - when i read the books i told my gaming gro...weird - when i read the books i told my gaming group that the story was everything we thought D&D should have been growing up. they read (at least to me) as a very realistic, humancentric low-level/low magic D&D campaign. i've never heard that GRRM played D&D back in the day, but i'd be shocked if he didn't. who knows...maybe westeros was his old campaign setting?<br /><br />the faceless men seem to cleave very close to the 1E assassin (the fact that they magically disguise themselves is very similar to how we did/still play assassins in our campaigns). most of the characters would simply be 0 level humans (sansa, cersei, littlefinger, etc)and low level thieves and fighters (ned, robert, jon, arya, the hound, etc) while the cleric, druid and MU classes would seem to be rare and heavily regulated. there is a smattering of magical items and weapons - valyrian swords, the horn of winter, dragonbinder, melisandre's jewels, etc.<br /><br />i guess what i'm saying is that it wouldn't be hard to use LL/AEC or BX/1E and a few house rules to recreate westeros. there's no need for setting specific classes or any of that crap. MAYBE one or two of the nonhuman races would have to be made from scratch - but that's it.<br /><br />as a side note, i seem to recall reading somewhere that GRRM coined the name "githyanki" in one of his old sci-fi books. interesting.xwardukexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018316067699487098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-83161325921633075262012-04-21T09:28:40.487-07:002012-04-21T09:28:40.487-07:00never heard Martin was a gamer, and no, the books ...never heard Martin was a gamer, and no, the books don't read that way. Unless the game system was all about low-fantasy political intrigue. <br /><br />The series I've always read about as being derived from an RPG campaign is Steven Erikson's "Malazan" series. And that DOES read like it...or rather, a really overpowered give-away campaign where everyone is on the brink of godhood. One of the characters is a shameless mash-up of Elric and a Drow. Oh, he's also a were-dragon demigod. No, really.The Iron Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15839364742884404019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-58873176110725116392012-04-21T02:58:54.871-07:002012-04-21T02:58:54.871-07:00Do yourself a big favour and sit down and get watc...Do yourself a big favour and sit down and get watching. Most TV and film fantasy makes me wince but this is the best depiction of fantasy I've seen on TV ever. A fair bit of gratuitous boobage but really good dialogue and rounded characters. Love it!Woomungushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17770589912354962662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-19795541509248088842012-04-21T02:43:05.587-07:002012-04-21T02:43:05.587-07:00I recently watched it, and both me and my fiancé e...I recently watched it, and both me and my fiancé enjoyed it. It is more of a political story, but I like that, and there are other elements to it. Plenty of sex and blood too, if you like that sort of thing. There are fantastical elements, but they're low-key. Well worth watching, and although I'm not sure if actual game-play translates well to books, the world that's been created is excellent and I can see how a gaming experience would help with that.Simon Forsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01243845335993440168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-90548521301954816652012-04-21T01:29:26.228-07:002012-04-21T01:29:26.228-07:00try to watch it a little earlier! you won't be...try to watch it a little earlier! you won't be disappointed.<br /><br />also, in my group one of our future campaigns will try to capture that style of play. it's going to be a wfrp-campaign set in the border princes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com