Um, OK, the literary allusion in the title is misleading. Because it seems there are posts about Oriental Adventures related stuff all over the place lately.
Not only am I knee deep in Flying Swordsmen RPG (wuxia kung fu fantasy), but Fabian at Blade Sharp is working on a conversion of the original OA to Labyrinth Lord.
In addition, Dangerous Brian is converting horror modules to OA.
BrunoMac has some OA musings and inspiration, and a recommended movie I need to watch.
Even James of the Underdark Gazette is working on a monk!
Seems like there were a few other OA related posts over the weekend, but I'm having trouble tracking them down now. Anyway, looks like more people than me have OA on the mind.
I'm thinking a lot of folk who have done OA are like me, and wish they had run/played it more in the past. It's like some kind of rare treat.
ReplyDeleteYeah, a lot of gamers I know enjoy OA. They just don't want it as their default setting. Both times I've run OA games they've been a blast, but both were also short-lived campaigns.
ReplyDeleteThe best OA style ruleset I've seen in years is the Ruins and Ronin (Whitebox) rules - all it needs is the Ninja supplement and an honour point system and it's as good and complete as OA (my reference being 1st ed) - very compatible with most of the clones.
ReplyDeleteI am running a straight AD&D OA game right now, although I am using the experience as a test to see what I want to cut out or fix for future OA campaigns. Other than that I agree that Ruins & Ronin is great, I just can't get my players interested in an edition of D&D that early, they want AD&D 1st edition.
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