tsadkiel
Legend
I've mentioned the fact that I run an off-and-on homebrew campaign based on the Oz books from time to time, and a few people have expressed interest in it, so I've started a thread in order to explain how and why I put the campaign world together. It'll probably be a while before I get the whole thing up, but here's a start.
Why Oz? I like weird stuff in my games, and the Oz books start mildly strange and get weirder and weirder from there. I was also interested in getting away from strict medieval stuff, and indulging my own tastes for clockwork robots, flying monkeys, occasional satire, and terrible puns.
I use the 14 books actually written by Baum as "canon" for my game. My conceit is that Baum was, as he claimed, the Royal Historian of Oz, and was in fact in communication with Dorothy Gale. Baum's writings are based on actual Ozzy events, but became progressively more "child-friendly" as the years passed. For example, Baum claimed in later books that no one ever dies in Oz, and that's not the case in my game; similarly, while in Baum's books all animals are intelligent and capable of speech, in my game there's a minority of Awakened Anmimals, but most animals are simply animals.
I treid to avoid being too dark, though. "Like Oz, only eeeevil" seems a bit too cheesy.
More later!
Why Oz? I like weird stuff in my games, and the Oz books start mildly strange and get weirder and weirder from there. I was also interested in getting away from strict medieval stuff, and indulging my own tastes for clockwork robots, flying monkeys, occasional satire, and terrible puns.
I use the 14 books actually written by Baum as "canon" for my game. My conceit is that Baum was, as he claimed, the Royal Historian of Oz, and was in fact in communication with Dorothy Gale. Baum's writings are based on actual Ozzy events, but became progressively more "child-friendly" as the years passed. For example, Baum claimed in later books that no one ever dies in Oz, and that's not the case in my game; similarly, while in Baum's books all animals are intelligent and capable of speech, in my game there's a minority of Awakened Anmimals, but most animals are simply animals.
I treid to avoid being too dark, though. "Like Oz, only eeeevil" seems a bit too cheesy.
More later!