Edgewise
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My long campaign of gently urging my wife to try role-playing has finally borne fruit! Last night, I was reading to her select location descriptions of my own DCC adventure, The Magician's House. It's come a loooong way after many edits, to the point where I may put it out soon on DriveThru as a PWYW. Anyway, my wife has zero previous role-playing experience and was only recently experienced much in the way of sci-fi/fantasy/supers, but I've had a lot of success introducing her to new media and she she was surprised how interesting she found the descriptions.
So she spontaneously offered to grab a bunch of her co-workers for me to run through my adventure. They are all cool open-minded people and I don't think a single one of them has played a tabletop RPG before. Which I absolutely relish, but it leaves me with a small dilemma.
My adventure was written for DCC. I've run DCC plenty of times for people who have never played it before (almost everyone I ran it for, actually), but I don't think there were any who never tried D&D. So I think DCC may be a bit much to introduce to a bunch of absolute RPG newbies. I could do it if everyone was willing to play non-magical classes, but my wife has already announced her intention to run a wizard. In my mind's eye, I can see her eyes glazing over as I explain spellburn and corruption.
The solution is obvious: convert the adventure to a much simpler OSR system. The question is: which? I have three possibilities in mind, but I'm open to other suggestions. Currently under consideration are:
So what OSR system should I run for a group of total RPG newbies?
EDIT: My original list included White Box, but I just realized that I meant Swords and Wizardry.
So she spontaneously offered to grab a bunch of her co-workers for me to run through my adventure. They are all cool open-minded people and I don't think a single one of them has played a tabletop RPG before. Which I absolutely relish, but it leaves me with a small dilemma.
My adventure was written for DCC. I've run DCC plenty of times for people who have never played it before (almost everyone I ran it for, actually), but I don't think there were any who never tried D&D. So I think DCC may be a bit much to introduce to a bunch of absolute RPG newbies. I could do it if everyone was willing to play non-magical classes, but my wife has already announced her intention to run a wizard. In my mind's eye, I can see her eyes glazing over as I explain spellburn and corruption.
The solution is obvious: convert the adventure to a much simpler OSR system. The question is: which? I have three possibilities in mind, but I'm open to other suggestions. Currently under consideration are:
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- B/X Essentials
- Swords and Wizardry
So what OSR system should I run for a group of total RPG newbies?
EDIT: My original list included White Box, but I just realized that I meant Swords and Wizardry.
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