In today's blog post...

[seawasp]

... I talk about why even hard-SF authors lie about the future!

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[pedanther]

In my most recent blog post, I talk about a roleplaying campaign based on The Wizard of Oz which went so far off the rails that the GM was forced to invent a whole lot of socio-political and magic-system world-building as it developed into an epic quest against a background of clashing armies and etc.

I was thinking of you particularly when I picked it as a topic, because it combines two of your interests, but then I realized I'm on Dreamwidth now and you weren't going to see it unless I pointed it out to you specifically. So here it is if you're interested.

[seawasp]

There was a guy out there who had run, and then collected into an assemblage of material for others to run, OZ: A WORLD OF DARKNESS. It was... pretty awesome.

Yes, attempting to run a game based on a property will do one of two things: Boringly reproduce the original (if the GM believes in railroading as much as CSX) or go thundering off into unmarked territory if they let the players actually PLAY. Neither of my Harry Potter campaigns stuck to the books' events for, well, more than a session. (Not surprising when the PCs and significant new NPCs include Wednesday Addams, Hadji Quest, Jade Chan, and Edward and Alfonse Elric)

[claidheamhmor]

That sounds like quite a diversion, with all of those characters!