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<blockquote data-quote="Hekate" data-source="post: 4523855" data-attributes="member: 79147">The Oz purist in me is raising her eyebrows and going &quot;Excuse ME!?!?&quot; at some of your interpretations; the gamer is saying &quot;good show!&quot;&nbsp;I have run an Oz scenario in a dimension-hopping scavenger hunt game I ran years back; the players were absolutely boggled at finding roast beefs growing on bushes and the like.&nbsp; I also wrote an article suggesting conversions of Oz for roleplaying games well over 25 years ago for a gaming APA.&nbsp; If the GM is familiar with all of the Oz books (not just Baum's, but Thompson's, Neill's, and subsequent authors), there are many encounters that would be quite challenging (and even horrifying in some cases).&nbsp; As a PC, I'd be more than a little disturbed to encounter an undead skeletal Allosaurus, for example, though Terrybubble was always one of my favorite characters.&nbsp;It would be interesting trying to come up with an overall narrative for such a setting.&nbsp; Each book usually features some sort of travelogue with a number of encounters and a plot line to bind them together, and I can see each such adventure covering about one level of player advancement - but the books didn't have a storyline connecting them all - they were episodic, not narrative, and there wasn't much, if any, character growth over the course of the series. There would be the question of the player's ultimate goals - what's the point of an Epic Destiny in a place where there are already Epic level rulers?&nbsp; (That said, I have just come up with a possible campaign idea, and am considering working it up ... and wondering how long I can keep my players from realizing where they really are.)&nbsp;One tiny little note:&nbsp; The ruler of the Quadling (&quot;Quadleen&quot;) country is Glinda the Good (aka Glinda the Best), not Gayelette - Gayelette was the queen mentioned in the Flying Monkey's Tale, but there is no indication that she was the queen of the southlands; she may have been either a past queen, or queen of a small local kingdom (of which there were lots in Oz).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hekate, post: 4523855, member: 79147"] The Oz purist in me is raising her eyebrows and going "Excuse ME!?!?" at some of your interpretations; the gamer is saying "good show!" I have run an Oz scenario in a dimension-hopping scavenger hunt game I ran years back; the players were absolutely boggled at finding roast beefs growing on bushes and the like. I also wrote an article suggesting conversions of Oz for roleplaying games well over 25 years ago for a gaming APA. If the GM is familiar with all of the Oz books (not just Baum's, but Thompson's, Neill's, and subsequent authors), there are many encounters that would be quite challenging (and even horrifying in some cases). As a PC, I'd be more than a little disturbed to encounter an undead skeletal Allosaurus, for example, though Terrybubble was always one of my favorite characters. It would be interesting trying to come up with an overall narrative for such a setting. Each book usually features some sort of travelogue with a number of encounters and a plot line to bind them together, and I can see each such adventure covering about one level of player advancement - but the books didn't have a storyline connecting them all - they were episodic, not narrative, and there wasn't much, if any, character growth over the course of the series. There would be the question of the player's ultimate goals - what's the point of an Epic Destiny in a place where there are already Epic level rulers? (That said, I have just come up with a possible campaign idea, and am considering working it up ... and wondering how long I can keep my players from realizing where they really are.) One tiny little note: The ruler of the Quadling ("Quadleen") country is Glinda the Good (aka Glinda the Best), not Gayelette - Gayelette was the queen mentioned in the Flying Monkey's Tale, but there is no indication that she was the queen of the southlands; she may have been either a past queen, or queen of a small local kingdom (of which there were lots in Oz). [/QUOTE]

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