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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9177899" data-attributes="member: 29398">Problem is - and I here speak from experience - sometimes the only way to get adjacent to the game you want to play in is to a) design it and then b) run it.At least that way you get to watch other people play it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Gotta say, if you can design a fully-fleshed-out system from the ground up in only six months, that's pretty good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Instead of playing Eowyn* right out the gate (which sure seems like what some here want), I want to play Rohan Citizen #37 through the journey that ultimately leads to her becoming Eowyn.  Further, I know full well the odds of her surviving that journey aren't great; and that I might have to restart the journey several (or even a lot of) times before getting to finish it.Once she gets to the point of being Eowyn, the journey's pretty much done; and while I could keep playing her as Eoywn for a while, it's probably time to start over with Shire Hobbit #23 and play through his journey to becoming Bilbo*.* - or equivalent, as obviously there's only one Eowyn and one Bilbo.And sometimes all that extra background drama and extra-ordinariness just gets tiresome.Truth be told, I've never played Planescape nor looked very much into it.</blockquote>

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