A couple days off for Thanksgiving and a week till finals. Time for blogging is sure getting short around here. Anyway, I'm thinking of ways to pulpify AD&D. More Howard, Vance, Borrows, Lovecraft and less Tolkien.
Here's what I'm have in mind so far:
- Roll 3d6 in order for abilities.
- No demihumans.
- Choose between Lawful, Neutral, or Chaotic alignments
- Ranger can be of any alignment. No order of rangers shit; they're profession giant hunters.
- Use more slimes, insects, mummies, & FF monsters and fewer orcs, goblins, werewolves.
- Gods are creepy lovecraftian blobs (chaotic) or robotic AIs (lawful).
"A doomed man needs no such elegant footwear." - Jack Vance, Eyes of the Overworld
Good luck with those finals Ian.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brian
ReplyDeleteGood Choice! :)
ReplyDeleteCouple ideas:
ReplyDelete- replace typical north american forests with jungle/desert/wasteland.
- replace horse as common mount with giant ants, thoats or whatever craziness you dream up.
I'd drop rangers altogether; they're more or less specifically there to emulate Tolkien.
3d6 in order and no demihumans = awesome.
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