{"id":4229,"date":"2012-08-06T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:31:09","slug":"a-few-more-thoughts-on-the-blanket-of-ashes-game-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/a-few-more-thoughts-on-the-blanket-of-ashes-game-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A few more thoughts on the &#8220;Blanket of Ashes&#8221; game idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not set on running this. Playing a &#8216;song of ice an fire&#8217; style &#8216;throne war&#8217; game also appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Just off the top of my head, and aimed at gathering up people&#8217;s thoughts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I (probably) don&#8217;t want to play &#8220;Middle-earth, with all the serial numbers left on, except Sauron won&#8221;. Inspirations for the setting include Tolkien, but also:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>A New Hope, for reasons already mentioned<\/li>\n<li>The Black Company (especially the first three books)<\/li>\n<li>The Midnight rpg setting, though to be honest it&#8217;s too d20 tinted for my taste<\/li>\n<li>The Mistborn series&#8230; except not the magic, in any way shape or form. Eh. Basically I like the idea of the volcanic ash falls. That&#8217;s about it.<\/li>\n<li>In my little notebook, I have written: &#8220;Big Bad &#8211; The Chosen&#8221; and, underneath that, &#8220;the Five.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>I like the idea of magic being unstable\/on the wan as a result of the Big Bad winning. Burning Wheel Gold&#8217;s changes to\u00a0sorcery reflect this really well.<\/li>\n<li>Magical items &#8216;tainted&#8217; every so slightly due to most of the big bad&#8217;s \u00a0power being in an artifact. The constant balancing act of &#8216;this makes me more of a badass, but also makes me more susceptible to the wiles of the Enemy&#8217; seems fun.\u00a0Most precious of all would be those items that escaped that taint.<\/li>\n<li>I also like the idea that a change to the status quo (magic coming back) likely makes some of the enemy more powerful as well.<\/li>\n<li>I like the idea the not everyone (PCs included) think revolution is a good idea, or even necessary.<\/li>\n<li>I like Burning Wheel for this especially since they cleaned up a lot of the &#8216;rim&#8217; systems like Fight and Range and Cover.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s important, I think, for the events that led to the current state of the world to have happened far enough in the past that the true facts are muddied, if not outright forgotten\/supressed. Anyone who was actually around at the time (undead, elf, orc, whatever) is in hiding, stopped caring, doesn&#8217;t benefit from the truth being known, or all three.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Would it be worth it\/fun to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/WikiWorld\/AbbreviatedLexiconRules\" target=\"_blank\">Lexicon world-building<\/a> kind of thing to flesh things out&#8230; it amuses me that any entry that says &#8220;this is what happened&#8221; might\/could\/would be incorrect to a greater or lesser degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not set on running this. Playing a &#8216;song of ice an fire&#8217; style &#8216;throne war&#8217; game also appeals. Just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}