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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 8391164" data-attributes="member: 694">I know Oz as a setting very well—I had read 37 of the canonical 40 books by the time I was out of grade school—but I've never taken the plunge into running an RPG campaign set in Oz. The issues involved are numerous: there's no money in Oz and no death; tonally, very few problems are ever solved or solvable by violence anyhow; and since Oz is for the most part a peaceable kingdom, adventures set there tend to take one of a handful of formulaic shapes (&quot;villain does bad thing, heroes react to stop it&quot;; &quot;random protagonist from an obscure corner of Oz has a problem and sets out on a personal quest, usually to reach the Emerald City and solve their problem&quot;; or &quot;main character we know well gets bored and goes on an adventure just for funsies&quot;). Most difficult of all, any GM who sets out to do Oz justice must add to it, which means filling in the wild and unknown corners of Oz with isolated, weird, whimsical, punny places and peoples in the vein of Baum and Thompson — and even the later Oz authors had serious trouble living up to this standard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 8391164, member: 694"] I know Oz as a setting very well—I had read 37 of the canonical 40 books by the time I was out of grade school—but I've never taken the plunge into running an RPG campaign set in Oz. The issues involved are numerous: there's no money in Oz and no death; tonally, very few problems are ever solved or solvable by violence anyhow; and since Oz is for the most part a peaceable kingdom, adventures set there tend to take one of a handful of formulaic shapes ("villain does bad thing, heroes react to stop it"; "random protagonist from an obscure corner of Oz has a problem and sets out on a personal quest, usually to reach the Emerald City and solve their problem"; or "main character we know well gets bored and goes on an adventure just for funsies"). Most difficult of all, any GM who sets out to do Oz justice must [I]add to it[/I], which means filling in the wild and unknown corners of Oz with isolated, weird, whimsical, punny places and peoples in the vein of Baum and Thompson — and even the later Oz authors had serious trouble living up to this standard. [/QUOTE]

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