Update...

[seawasp]

Yes, the power did come back on and we were able to go about our business. Going to be interesting running my Harry Potter game on less than 5 hours of sleep, though.

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

Time for a quidditch match?

[seawasp]

No Squidditch right now; the recent match was between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff and, alas, was something of a foregone conclusion.

They're having a lot of fun with the Duelling Club, and the deeper plot is slowly expanding.

[blackwingbear.livejournal.com]

I still have to laugh about a HARRY POTTER game...

[seawasp]

Why is it any funnier than (say) a Lord of the Rings game, or a Buffy game...?

[blackwingbear.livejournal.com]

None of the above sounds appealing....

[blackwingbear.livejournal.com]

They all make me laugh in a cynical way..

[seawasp]

Cynical about what? That they could exist, could be run, or could be enjoyed?

[seawasp]

I'm not sure I'd want to play in a pure Buffy-based game because if you go by canon, you tend to constrain the play possibilities to Slayer or chewtoy (or Supernatural Creature Which May Turn On You). We've USED Buffy-verse stuff in other games (Torchwood comes to mind, plus one AH-based game with magic added).

Lord of the Rings is a great background and one from which I got one of my most enjoyable and memorable campaigns (part of which was written up in the gamefic series "An American Gamer in Gondor").

[blackwingbear.livejournal.com]

Enjoyed.... They seem kind of silly to me.

[seawasp]

Some are quite silly, but is it not possible to enjoy silly things? In the Harry Potter campaign, for instance, just contemplating the fact that one of the students being played by a player is Wednesday Addams brings a grin to my face. Wednesday Addams at Hogwarts. Ahhh, the possibilities.

LotR, on the other hand, is rarely silly. Harry Potter and Buffy and some other media-based concepts have some kind of silliness inherent in them from what they are, but LotR tends to take itself more seriously.

Of course, it's also a matter of the players. Some players take different aspects of a game seriously. I knew at least two players who wouldn't play in anything that was based on books, movies, etc., they were familiar with because they simply couldn't detach their knowledge of the setting and events of the original and set it aside during the game -- especially if the game was changing anything, as I've had to do when running a Star Wars campaign, or in the past with an Amber campaign or Star Trek (Trek is an especial offender, since it has TERRIBLE continuity and forces you to make a lot of draconian decisions on how things work if you're going to run it as a game).