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04
Jul/2008

All Thee Dysk's a Stage: Dress Rehearsal
Last night's playtest of the GURPS discworld adventure went well. We identified rough spots in the action, and I got some good feedback on how to refine the presentation and execution of the player characters. Now I know I need to give more time in the beginning to not just the city of Ankh-Morpork, as I did last night, but the set-up and the NPCs in that first scene. Also, it's perfectly okay not to have an ending in mind even for a pre-written scenario, as the players are going to come up with... Read More




05
May/2008

Citing Sources
Last night, I did some research for the GURPS Discworld scenario I want to run at OGC. I watched an Opera Australia production of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. It makes sense, honest.

This adventure's going to be about Ankh-Morpork's first amateur theatre group. The city already has a traditional theatre, the Dysk, and an opera house. Clearly, the next step is to mash the two together into proto-musical theatre. And this being the Discworld, it's all ha... Read More




13
Apr/2008

All thee Dysk's a stage
One of Steve Jackson Games' less expected products had to have been the discworld Roleplaying Game, based on Terry Pratchett's extremely well-known comedic fantasy novels. I've only read about half the book myself, being mostly disappointed by the fact it seemed focused on crowbarring your typical fantasy adventurers/barbarians and their favored pastimes into the discworld setting, rather than suggesting scenario suggestions based on what we've seen go on in the novels. Maybe all that's in the s... Read More










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