Then I got this fancy schmancy Numenera corebook in the mail. This system is what I wanted: simple, flexible, and with a heck of a lot of leeway for a GM who wasn't sure how well his players would get things. But the Ninth World can be kinda . . . creepy, at least for 6- and 7-year-olds. I wanted something they could be excited about.
"Why don't you just make something up?" said my wife, ever supportive of even my geekliest dilemmas.
"Are you kidding?" I said. "Do you know how much work that would take? Even if I adapted what I have, I'd still have to make up a bunch of equipment and powers. Though the types would be pretty easy to adapt, I guess. Most of the esoteries are basically Force powers anyway. And the descriptors work okay. . ."
And then I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I MAY have accidentally spent yesterday adapting @MonteJCook's Numenera to the Star Wars universe...
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 21, 2013
The next couple of days looked like this:
Sam, Nathan, and Isaac are busy drawing and writing stories for their Star Wars characters. I'm so proud.
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 21, 2013
Nathan's Numenera/Star Wars character is a Clever Ewok Hot Shot who Controls Gravity.
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 21, 2013
This campaign I started with my boys is not going to be Star Wars canon. Just throwing that out there right now.
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 21, 2013
When asked, all five boys independently said they wanted a lightsaber as their weapon. #shouldhaveseenthatcoming #StarWarsRPG
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 21, 2013
"Master Luke says you need to take a 2-day journey to a sacred pool. What do you do?" Nathan: "I fight all the Jedi." #SWRPGfirstday
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 22, 2013
Isaac: "I want to jump up a tree and throw my knife at the Drakken." "You can try. Roll to see--" *Isaac rolls two 20's* #SWRPGfirstday
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 22, 2013
"No, you already recovered. You can't recover more points until after the fight is over." Sam: "Oh. Can I be done now?" #SWRPGfirstday
— Adam Heine (@adamheine) October 22, 2013
Now all I have to do is figure out the rules for lightsabers before they earn theirs. . .
The internet surrenders. Time to move on to the next thing.
ReplyDeleteThere are no bounds to the love of a gaming parent. And maybe nothing cooler. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou really should have seen the lightsaber thing coming. What other weapon would they have chosen?
ReplyDeleteIs Nathan a Sith? Why did he want to fight all the Jedi?
Nope, not a Sith. He just wanted a fight. Master Luke had a talk with him about using the Force for defense.
ReplyDeletefumbling a lightsaber can be dangerous, luckily the Star Wars universe has robot hands.
ReplyDeleteChina exports a significant amount of wooden swords and Japanese steel katana, to Western markets.
ReplyDeleteThe two I used for training, came from a Chinese manufacturer, Musashi named to Western audiences.
Ironically, training light sabers would have been even more necessary in the day, given how blades that burn, not just cut, must be handled with more care.