I once did a session 0 for a campaign at my favorite bar. Best campaign I ever ran.
I’ve run two campaigns. It was the second I ran. The first was in middle school. This one was in my 30s. I learned a titch in between. But still. It was a lot of fun.
I for one, would like to hear more.
The temptation to just post the address of a certain bar and a time is nearly overwhelming
Anyone looking for a down on his luck mercenary with a tragic past and an oddly suspicious aversion to the imperial family?
I suddenly hanker for a campaign with the most cliche and over the top backstory for every character.
I’ve got an Indiana Jones type who picked up an idol and whoopsie poopsie that elder god had things to do and tentacles for days.
Someone should design a TTRPG around the intricate social interactions at the tavern, and the dungeon delve is handled with a single die roll.
Maybe the first quest is to get to the tavern in the first place.
“… Go to Mum’s. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to The Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.”
So, there’s this hobby called LARP, which is pretty much this.
Been there, done that, slept on a tavern floor wearing my best attempt at period appropriate costume 😁
Magical adventures can be dangerous. Don’t worry, I’ve got your back.
How are you not on the list‽‽
The list of trustworthy bathroom buddies? I know. I should be. I’m a friendly jellybean.
Not that list, and I know just how “friendly” King Jellybean was.
I’ve seen enough Iseki to know that I need to die and be spotted by the right god/otherworldy-being.
Where is truck-kun these days anyways
If I got isekaid I’d go Connecticut Yankee on their ass. Yes, I am insufferable. No, I will not be changing. Your fantasy world will be industrialized. I am the evil wizard. I cast steam engine.
Honestly, we would pretty much end up like Natsuki Subaru, unless you are really strong and/or know how to wield a sword
Go to a bar/pub and talk to people, you’ll get into some thing
Comes with a high chance of death.
I played a one-shot where I was just a normal guy. No tragic backstory, good relationship with my parents, just an average townsperson. The only reason he went on the quest was to get a little combat experience so he could join the city guard.
Half the party died, he almost got killed by a horrible monster, and he noped right the fuck out back to town to be a florist.
Everybody wants to go on an adventure until they find out it means being cold and hungry, carrying everything you need on your back, and sleeping outside in the rain for days.
That’s why a lot of people heads to dungeons, no rain in dungeons.
Presumably you’d be sleeping in a tent, so the “sleeping outside in the rain for days” bit isn’t too bad. Carrying everything is a pain though, particularly if it’s a cold season and you’d have to carry a bunch of furs to help maintain body heat while sleeping. Only real way to do it in that case is to have an extra horse for cargo, which of course further complicates logistics
Presumably you’d be sleeping in a tent, so the “sleeping outside in the rain for days” bit isn’t too bad.
How many days have you spent living in a tent in the rain? because personally I think it’s kind of fun for one night, assuming it’s not a complete downpour, and then the novelty wears off and everything is damp and muddy. And that’s assuming you have a reasonably good tent that you’ve prepped for wet conditions, and you set it up in a spot with good drainage that hasn’t become a puddle. Campfires are a lot less fun in the rain too.
Carrying everything is a pain though, particularly if it’s a cold season and you’d have to carry a bunch of furs to help maintain body heat while sleeping.
Yeah, cold weather gear, or if you can’t rely on water availability and you have to carry it with you. Being able to keep yourself alive while not getting overburdened with gear is pretty difficult.
Only real way to do it in that case is to have an extra horse for cargo, which of course further complicates logistics
It really does. There was this excellent video that was shared on lemmy a few weeks ago:
What Medieval People Ate When Traveling
One of the things he covers (around 9 minutes) is the cost of keeping a horse while traveling (from historic records). Really great description of traveling considerations overall.
Slim chance of success?
“What are we waiting for?”
A million to one chance always succeeds
Then what are we waiting for?
Look, I was already interested, you don’t have to keep selling me on it.
I guess the modern variant is going to the pub and planning a trek. But that sounds terribly dull
How about meeting at a pub and planning to destroy some Flock cameras?
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Allegedly.
Who needs to allegedly plan that quest? You just need enough alleged liquor
ah, yes. In principle, absolutely. I would if there were any installed over here
Ah, too bad. But if you don’t have any pubs, you could meet somewhere else instead.
You mean some kind of a star trek?
Nah dude. We’re declaring a star war
