New Game Musings

Raistlin

This isn’t really a discussion post. It’s more of a musing post for myself. I’m finally coming out of a pretty bad stretch involving health issues, losing my dog, and some other things, and I’m thinking I want to open a game again. I’m still on the fence, but there are two ideas calling to me that won’t stop.

Invincible MUSH. Comic games are my wheelhouse, but for various reasons, most of them don’t appeal to me anymore. I have nothing against them; I just no longer find appeal in the blended-universe-style games. And while I love comics, I haven’t really read them in the last 20 or so years, save for a few storylines here and there. So a canon game wouldn’t work for me, unless I set the cutoff in, say, the 1990s, which I’d been tempted to do for an X-Men game. I’m a big fan of Invincible, though. If I set it right after the fight with Omni-Man, there wouldn’t be a ton of continuity to contend with, and I think it’s much more open to original characters than a Marvel or DC game. I’ve also been playing the crap out of the new RPG since it came out. I love it.
Game of Thrones. I’m really shocked there aren’t more of these games out there. A lore-rich, low-fantasy, lords-and-ladies world with giant heaps of sex and violence. I’d probably set it just after the Blackfyre Rebellion, so a bit before the time of Dunk and Egg. I’ve become a big fan of the Year Zero Engine, so I’d likely take the SRD and hack it for the game.

Invincible would be the easiest. I actually already have it running privately for a few friends. Game of Thrones wouldn’t be much more work, since I could use the YZE base from Invincible as the core for that system, code-wise anyway. There’d still be building out the theme, the world, and whatnot.

Anyway, I don’t have any other real outlet for these kinds of musings, so I threw it on here. LOL

InkGolem

*Linda has entered the chat *

Raistlin

@InkGolem ???

Nynrose

@Raistlin Linda and Elio - who worked with GRR Martin on his world compilation book and the TV Show, have the only author approved MUSH for the Game of Thrones world.

Raistlin

@Nynrose Ohhhh. I’ve heard of the game and the people behind it, I just didn’t know their names. Thanks.

InkGolem

@Nynrose Not actually “approved”. From what I understand, the conversation went more, “Uh, sure, if you want?”

Prototart

@Nynrose said:

@Raistlin Linda and Elio - who worked with GRR Martin on his world compilation book and the TV Show, have the only author approved MUSH for the Game of Thrones world.

Nymeria

Gashlycrumb

Lindaaaa is styled Lindaaaa even outside of MUdom in the GoT fandom.

“Blood of Dragons”, Lindaaaa and Elio’s MUSH, is specifically approved by GRR Martin. He even linked it.

George R. R. Martin began to write this epic series and did not make a concordance, bless him. There are interviews of him kinda bragging on this, tapping the side of his head and saying “It’s all in here.”

Westeros.org was originally the BoD’s game page and wiki. It expanded into a general fan-site with news and forums and a wiki that’s a really fantastic concordance. By 2000 it had gotten pretty good and L & E shared it with GRRM, who uses it. Or, if you take him literally in an interview, just telephones Elio about any continuity thing an author or writing team usually looks up in a concordance.

Linda and Elio didn’t work on the show, except for the Swedish subtitles. For five seasons of it they did do commentaries for every episode. As far as I know, they consisted mostly of casting complaints that came across as racist and complaints where the show deviated from the novels. It didn’t seem to go over well.

They did spend a lot of time trying to say that BoD being approved by GRRM means any other MU is disapproved. I doubt that GRRM, a TTRPG player, could fail to understand that some people might prefer another set of GMs and another in-world scenario and setting.

I had a lot of fun running Game of Bones MUSH and miss it, though it wouldn’t do now since inconsistencies with House of the Dragon would make a mess.