This blog may yet be reborn

For the most part, my blogging activities will be limited to my wordpress blog, and then what? However, I am going to be making an effort to be somewhat more serious about writing on that blog, my new fever dreams will appear here, even though I've already exported most of the older one's over there.

For example, do I really want to put my odd meditations on Traveller vs. D and D. After all, I'd like to keep what readers I have.

During hs, at least, I thought that Traveller was the clearly superior game. I've already blogged about this somewhat, an experience point system and levels forces a story arc onto a campaign and though it allows for some tragedy, its mostly a series of triumphs. Traveller, which had more static characters, allowed for more loss, tragedy and redemption.

The other day, it occurred to me that the experience point system encourages a sort of seriousness of roleplaying and so does the fantasy setting. One of the best moments of my hs campaign was when the party signed on as roadies, body guards and members of a rock band. This lead to a high energy sort of anarchic role play. Staying in character was pretty easy, when necessary, and there could be a nice combination of humor and dramatic tension. One of the more interesting characters was bronzed after death and mounted on the front of the band's space ship. That particular episode, I think, sums of the sort of fun we had and I can't really imagine getting involved in anything quite so wild while questing for the lost huzzamawhatsit of where ever.