Our newest Savage Worlds campaign (in our Known World homebrew) began in a somewhat bizarre fashion a couple of weeks ago. RJ and Bridgett couldn’t make the game the week prior so Todd took a turn in the big chair and ran the Skyrim intro game that he had been wanting to do. Rachel and I made characters (a Nord fighter type and a Breton who specialized in spellcasting and lots of it, respectively). I don’t really know much of anything about Skyrim but my understanding is that we went through the intro scene of the computer game. We didn’t, gasp, get as far as Todd thought that we would. We planned on continuing it the next week.
Todd was sick the following week and RJ had forgotten to charge his phone so when I tried to get in touch with him about whether or not he and Bridgett still wanted to come over, I didn’t get an answer until an hour or so before game time. So I decided on a one-shot and happened upon the Soloman Kane one-sheet, Blood Feast. I took inspiration from it and winged it.
The plan for the following week was to pick up Todd’s game again but we hit some snags. Todd wasn’t sure when he was going to be able to make it and, as GM for the night, that kind of made things difficult. One of our friends, Dave, was planning on visiting and wanted to play. He used to play D&D with us but he’s never really played Savage Worlds. Given these uncertainties, I ended up offering to run the game with the idea of doing a one-shot. Then Dave decided that he couldn’t make it to town after all and Todd was now available to start at our normal time but was more interested in getting his character going than running the game. So I decided to continue with the game we had started the week before and it is now a full-blown mini-campaign with the following characters.
- Erika: A Sclavenic priestess of the Temple of the Twelve from Hevelland who, for whatever reason, ended up in the city of Ptolus…something of an innocent country girl in the big city. Played by RJ.
- Mick: An Oscan rogue (thief?) from Kemorr, greedy and vengeful. Played by Rachel.
- Moe: An Oscan fighter/duelist from Kemorr or Ptolus (I don’t remember which off the top of my head), loyal and heroic. Played by Bridgett.
- Niccolo: An Oscan wizard and member of the Arcane Guild from, I believe, Kemorr. Played by Todd.
When this was going to be a one-shot, I had decreed the stipulation that the players had to play characters different than they usually play…some of them have some rather strong tendencies to play certain types of characters in terms of abilities and personalities. Something a bit different would be good for them. That’s also why Bridgett and Rachel are playing male characters…they always play female characters. Todd was told that he just couldn’t be a mischievous trouble-maker or drama queen as those are his tendencies. 😉
So things went from running a fill-in one-shot at the last minute to a mini-campaign that will last I have no idea how long. Ah, the joys of gaming with 40-somethings. 😀
