tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post678197864521580665..comments2024-03-28T21:13:53.845+00:00Comments on Fabled Lands: ScenariosDave Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-55596940789294369942019-06-04T18:10:34.321+01:002019-06-04T18:10:34.321+01:00(It was spam. I don't censor actual comments.)...(It was spam. I don't censor actual comments.)Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-14519586094277645722019-06-04T18:06:58.944+01:002019-06-04T18:06:58.944+01:00There was this one:
https://fabledlands.blogspot.c...There was this one:<br />https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-sky-with-diamonds.htmlDave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-2322884713483540492019-06-03T23:02:24.401+01:002019-06-03T23:02:24.401+01:00Have you written any scenarios set in the Fabled L...Have you written any scenarios set in the Fabled Lands?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05903993127360160864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-38728511887523339882017-07-30T02:32:43.306+01:002017-07-30T02:32:43.306+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-21614164144045732272017-07-06T15:24:13.076+01:002017-07-06T15:24:13.076+01:00I'm afraid that's the way publishing works...I'm afraid that's the way publishing works, along with all other creative industries. It's more about who you know and who you are than about what you can do.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-29895624257942592022017-07-04T15:06:35.099+01:002017-07-04T15:06:35.099+01:00When talented, productive people can't find an...When talented, productive people can't find an outlet for their work, we all lose, but not as much as the artist him/herself.<br /><br />This bit of news makes me sad, particularly when I consider how much bad, uncreative fantasy there is out there.<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for the update.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-92032072565053337612017-07-02T14:51:14.829+01:002017-07-02T14:51:14.829+01:00Sadly Oliver hasn't been able to find a publis...Sadly Oliver hasn't been able to find a publisher. They all seem obsessed by whether it fits the current fashion in fantasy or not. If it were me I'd just worry about whether a novel is good or not, but maybe I wouldn't last long in the job with that attitude!Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-46281622176416044642017-07-02T10:31:36.440+01:002017-07-02T10:31:36.440+01:00I can't find that Knight of the Fields novel. ...I can't find that Knight of the Fields novel. Is it even out?<br />- AlexAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-68275539643519773542017-04-15T08:39:53.380+01:002017-04-15T08:39:53.380+01:00Sounds like an archetypal DW adventure, that. I...Sounds like an archetypal DW adventure, that. I'd modify the adage further: no scenario should survive contact with the players. We have a bunch of scenarios lined up for the blog over the summer that are pretty much guaranteed to fly off at a tangent as soon as you start to run them.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-36720974847813628962017-04-15T00:47:45.214+01:002017-04-15T00:47:45.214+01:00I sympathise with a number of things here, my own ...I sympathise with a number of things here, my own Dragon Warriors one shot will hit its sixth session tomorrow. The bastardised adage being that no scenario survives contact with the players, is how a simple journey to raise funds to repair a church roof could result in a tale of bloody revenge and priest murder, and I would not have it any other way.Dominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292932049776630442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-32600210771224821432017-04-12T15:25:32.067+01:002017-04-12T15:25:32.067+01:00Thanks for inspiring the post! I enjoy one-offs bu...Thanks for inspiring the post! I enjoy one-offs but they are a lot harder to run and to really get into. You don't have the momentum you get with a long-running campaign, which helps to generate the story - not to mention that when you play a character regularly you can really get inside them. I guess campaigns are like a TV drama series and one-offs are more of a summer blockbuster, ie plenty of action and spectacle but nobody seems to be quite fully believing in it.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-65792953727677865742017-04-12T04:58:58.257+01:002017-04-12T04:58:58.257+01:00As the Erik referred to, it's nice to see this...As the Erik referred to, it's nice to see this list of scenarios!<br /><br />I don't get the chance to play much anymore - my old group is scattered to the winds, and I have a second career as an actor that eats up my evenings - but I still get a hankering to try and get enough together for a one off. I keep a small collection of ideas (and scenarios like these!) just in case...Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15262262198754010247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-25151405863514933662017-04-11T22:10:49.053+01:002017-04-11T22:10:49.053+01:00Intriguing ! And, well, I guess it is natural to s...Intriguing ! And, well, I guess it is natural to shrink when Cthulhu's around ; )John Haganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16249152658906641154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-9415117182077606552017-04-11T14:52:54.379+01:002017-04-11T14:52:54.379+01:00That sounds like Oliver's latest Cthulhu scena...That sounds like Oliver's latest Cthulhu scenario. I met Freud while wandering in the fog on Jura. He had an office in a hillside and was warning me about Nazis even though this was 1891. And that wasn't even the weirdest thing that happened in that session.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-43788813148879309402017-04-09T18:59:14.353+01:002017-04-09T18:59:14.353+01:00I like the idea of a 'dungeon bash' with a...I like the idea of a 'dungeon bash' with a random monster table wherein if you roll a '6' you encounter a Psychoanalyist (e.g 'a 10th level Freudian') and things really get interesting ! John Haganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16249152658906641154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-45006729999557179392017-04-09T12:48:04.975+01:002017-04-09T12:48:04.975+01:00This morning I've just been reading Alan Moore...This morning I've just been reading Alan Moore's comic Providence, and came across the following. (There's nothing new about this concept, but I thought Jung would appreciate the synchronicity.)<br /><br />Malone: "Professor Jung would have it that caves, cellars and such correspond to our subconscious mind. Is there much in that, would you say, or is it hokum?"<br /><br />Black: "Well, if dreams are parts of us that we've hidden away or buried, I guess it makes sense."Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-90784625236174256582017-04-08T18:19:07.278+01:002017-04-08T18:19:07.278+01:00Your mention of The Elven Crystals, JC, reminds me...Your mention of The Elven Crystals, JC, reminds me that Oliver's novels have featured some very memorable underworlds - not just in his Lightbringer books, but also his new novel The Knight of the Fields. We played it as an RPG campaign a few years back and those "dungeons" were truly terrifying.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-86211469522617121362017-04-08T18:16:10.960+01:002017-04-08T18:16:10.960+01:00Thank you, John. If somebody had told me 30 years ...Thank you, John. If somebody had told me 30 years ago that I'd succeed in giving young minds some pleasurable chills that would last them into adult life, that's everything I hoped for :-)Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-61495640702131613842017-04-08T11:46:06.412+01:002017-04-08T11:46:06.412+01:00Hi Dave I think I've said this before, but I&#...Hi Dave I think I've said this before, but I'll say again that I was one of your intended constituents in 1985/6 and your introductory scenarios definitely had the desired effect. So many evocative images leap easily to mind...I couldn't tell you off the top of my head how many zombies there were to fight in Hob's Dell, but I still remember the creek of that rusty gate opening into the enclosure and the story of who 'Gardener Jack' was in his life before death. Your 'dungeon crawls' were also full of folklore which really inspired my imagination; say that they were tunnels driven through earthy historical realities out of which spine- tingling superstitions grew. You didn't just fill a place with ghosts, you made it haunted too. And Merkyn's Castle... I can still feel the waves lapping at my hurrying feet as the causeway sinks beneath the tide, and I couldn't tell you what level of wizard Merkyn was, but I remember the sad story of how he came to be the Necromancer in despair and self- defence. Thank you very much for all those stories !John Haganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16249152658906641154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-11709347012036377822017-04-07T14:11:34.252+01:002017-04-07T14:11:34.252+01:00Oh, absolutely! And the Weirdstone's is by far...Oh, absolutely! And the Weirdstone's is by far the best of them, for my money: horribly claustrophobic. <br /><br />Another thought that occurs to me is that the classic dungeon/megadungeon complex is almost inevitably too big and unmanageable to make for good practical adventures. Yes, the idea of repeated visits to an evolving megadungeon with its own ecology is nice, but I suspect that the best adventure location is the house (or tower, or castle: the one in The Elven Crystals springs to mind): the lairs of the gnoles or the Gibbelins, perhaps, if Dunsany had afforded his protagonists more luck ...JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964744140140515737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-33872386246855523392017-04-06T23:08:51.419+01:002017-04-06T23:08:51.419+01:00An old kitchen with sinister stuff... I really lik...An old kitchen with sinister stuff... I really like that notion.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-26991661143940255502017-04-06T23:07:49.014+01:002017-04-06T23:07:49.014+01:00Quite a few fantasy classics have subterranean seq...Quite a few fantasy classics have subterranean sequences - The Tombs of Atuan, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, "Red Nails", The Buried Giant. But always, like the Moria sequence, more than just a dungeon bash.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-1538084175783548102017-04-06T17:26:23.371+01:002017-04-06T17:26:23.371+01:00King Under The Forest... lots of traditional dunge...King Under The Forest... lots of traditional dungeon elements, which is good to get things started, with some very nice twists and turns and themes. Shadow on the Mist and Hunter's Moon are dripping with theme... it's not just a room, it's an old kitchen. With sinister stuff in it.<br /><br />Then you get the dungeon crawl with ambushes in Out of the Shadows in the barrow. Twisty and turny! And who can forget the Sins of the Fathers... <br /><br />:)James O'Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06293956084685099045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-41421950164810378602017-04-06T14:24:23.771+01:002017-04-06T14:24:23.771+01:00Very interesting. I was one of those 10-13-year-ol...Very interesting. I was one of those 10-13-year-olds (so thanks!), and yes, those "dungeons" were well above the goblins-in-a-room level. I can be doubly sure of that, because I've been GMing some of them for my kids and their friends recently. A hobgoblin with a barrel beats a goblin in a room any time ...<br /><br />The archetypal fantasy "dungeon" is probably the Mines of Moria. But what's interesting about that is that it's not in the slightest a "goblins in a room" affair. Yes, there are goblins - lots of them, some of them "large and evil" - but they're not waiting around in chambers to be encountered. Instead, the scenario is about trying to sneak through the mines *without* encountering any goblins. And of course there are worse things than orcs in the deep places of the earth ...<br /><br /> JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964744140140515737noreply@blogger.com