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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9193966" data-attributes="member: 7023840">The fun / crazy-making part of Iron DM is that I never end up writing what I thought I might be writing.I'll write a brief bit on the process for this latest entry, for those interested. I'll put it in spoiler tags for judges, competitors, and, um, for those not interested![SPOILER]Remember how I said that I was incredibly frustrated by the list of ingredients? Well, Iron Sky noticed (and said) the same thing that I was thinking- Owlbear is a D&Dism, and when Owlbear is in your list of ingredients, it's really really really hard to not think about D&D! Because there aren't Owlbears outside of D&D.Except that I didn't want to do a D&D adventure. Call me stubborn, but I like to play with the form when I'm doing this. And yet, owlbear was there, mocking me and my pretensions. C'mon, Snarf. You know you want to do a 5e adventure. Not one of your usual weird things. Do it. Do it now.So yesterday, in between working on other things, my mind kept coming back to this. And I was cycling through a number of ideas- one that I kept returning to was some kind of RPG centered around a creative battle between RPG designers, and the "goal" was creating a game (I had it kinda worked out). Then I started working out a way to do Being John Malkovich as an RPG, but with Gary Gygax instead. Then I was thinking about an RPG about the D&D movie ... yes, "Hit or Flop" was involved. But the other ingredients weren't speaking to me for any of those ideas. Maybe a horror game? I could totally do Silent Choir in a horror game. But I just did a horror game ... well, a tragic horror game, but close enough. I don't like to repeat myself. Anyway, as I was drifting off to sleep last night, for some reason I was thinking about Will Ferrell and his impression of a prior president, and the whole "Animal-Human Hybrid" thing. And then when I woke up this morning, I was like ... Gamma World?But wait ... BETTER THAN GAMMA WORLD! Because Rowdy Roddy Piper. And also because I can't resist messing with the mechanics and form of games. The rest just tumbled out. Not in a good way, mind you, but at least it was written.The lesson, as always, is that the mind is a terrible thing to <s>taste</s> waste. Or something. Honestly, there really isn't a lesson there. Other than eff owlbears. Ima put them on the Bard list.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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