Posts Tagged by literary settings
| February 15, 2010 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
Reading fellow Gnome Scott Martin’s article on “Setting vs. Cast” made me realize that I generally don’t enjoy RPG settings borrowed from books, movies, or television. (For the sake of this article, let’s call them literary settings.) Asking “Why not?” led to this article, which includes advice for using literary settings. I recognize the popularity of literary settings; entire systems are written for them. But they also have some shortcomings, at least in my experience. Removing the cast changes the dynamic of the setting. In…
