Game geekery

[morsla]

The Book of Bone and Ebony is almost here... it's crashing through the waiting queue of games, scattering them before it. The Underworld has always been my favourite part of the Exalted setting, and the spoilers for Bone & Ebony appear to continue the tone that I like about it. Virtually all the old Wraith line seems to have been rolled into the setting, in a system that's actually playable :)

I asked myself was I content
With the world that I once cherished
Did it bring me to this darkened place?
- VNV, Epicentre

 
I don't know when or where I'll run a game, or who I'll run it with... however, it's a background I've been fleshing out for a while now. I'd like to revisit the world of Footsteps on the Shrouded Path, though - this time, with a very different feel. The Deathlords will be distant figures; characters will be spirits, ghosts, and lone Abyssals. The feel of the game will be more like Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride than a wuxia epic - when it turns up, Weapons of the Gods will quickly absorb any remaining need for flying swordsmen :)

Cynicism, awareness interlaced into grace
A beauty from which my valedictory springs
Forgive what seems sinister and crude to face
Forgive my conviction to save these skies
- Covenant, Wind of the North

I'll be posting snippets of background over the next few weeks, as I add to the setting. I'm remixing a few locales from the Iron Kingdoms World Guide, as the book is full of well-developed kingdoms and counties. Tied to the locations are the people in them - the train trip this morning gave me time to create the Angel Who Weeps, the Field of Salt, the Dollmaker's village and the Watching Grove.

Also: I've posted things about The Grand Bazaar before, and the game seemed to stall. To keep in practice, I'm writing at least one con game a year, even if they don't appear at conventions. The arabian bazaar is still being written, and I'll unleash it as a one-shot in a few months.

Comments

[mousebane.livejournal.com]

Is the Grand Bazaar the arabian nights styled Exalted game you were emailing about some month/s ago?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Yep - I've been slowly writing up the characters that people suggested ideas for. If you feel like writing any more background for the merchant/alchemist you mentioned, please do :) The background plot is all written now, but most of the characters are pretty hazy as I haven't finished them yet.

I'd like to run it at least once, with the people who suggested characters - aeliel, bishi_wannabe, miss_rynn, harkon and yourself.

[mousebane.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do, my creative brain wants to wait until after Conquest, but I'm also good at distracting myself from current projects with any number of future projects.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling :) I use Competitive Procrastination to do things - I take two (or more) Interesting Tasks, and leet them fight it out. When I'm procrastinating one, I do the other...

No hurry on the Bazaar ideas - they can certainly wait 'til after Conquest. I'm mainly writing up bits of folklore for the Underworld, at the moment.

[bishi-wannabe.livejournal.com]

Took me ages, but I dug up the character concept I sent to you - it's all flooding back, now. It'd be a lot of fun :)