Yes, Yes he can!

Message:

I find myself stunned.

I am a Warlord of the Moldvay's Redbox (cr 1981). Raised in the bosom of that holy tome since the ripe old age of 13. I spent my Saturdays playing in temples and fighting off beasts in corridors. Yes, it was Axes & Accountants (D&D). I played hard, through high school, through college and it all ended when I was accepted to Grad School in New Orleans.

When Better Games punched out Barony I was in the throws of moving to New Orleans. I pretty much left my tabletop experience back in New Jersey (was RPG made for the cold Wisconsin winters?). Coming here to the Crescent City I found a place that doesn't role-play around a table but in the streets. So my RPGing pretty much went dry.

I tried doing the play by post. I really did, but somehow, somewhere every single game just ran out of my hands. Someone either didn't post, or I couldn't or someone was too fast too eager, or people dropped like flies. PbP has a lot of 'ors' and 'ifs'.

So a while now I have looked for a set of rules (or tools) that runs the blade edge between RPG and actual writing. I have played Risus, Bivius, Miso (perhaps the best for solo play), Passages, FUDGE solo, Four Against Darkness, and Dungeon Words (definitions by request) and nothing really did that aha. Though Miso and Passages come damn close.

So here I see one person playing four characters off the rulebook cuff- you in the Outlands. I am stunned by how easy and effortless gaming is. Not to mention, wow, a new dimension for Tarot cards. I am a man who once read tarot cards on donations in Uptown New Orleans for drinking money- let's just say I was drunk a lot.

This I can do solo, I can do group. Dang I am stunned.

One burning question for me is how was the tarot card explanations of actions conceived? It is most most fascinating.

By the way, what cleared it all up was the Thesis 95 Dungeon Delve on the fly video. It was an absolute click. It is the first gaming video I have watched from beginning to end!




Yours,