The Long Form of Gaming with Rolemaster's Campaign Law
I am almost through my rereading of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land , the first of the primary texts upon which I intend to build my campaign for Gygax '75. To remind any readers, I am building a campaign using Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox that very much is not traditional fantasy. And I will do this by building out of or up from texts that are not cited in Appendix N and have not been influenced by Tolkien. And yet I have found myself diverted and consumed by fantasy that is even more traditional than D&D, because I currently am leading two Against the Darkmaster (VsD) campaigns. Consequently, my work on Gygax '75 has been interrupted; my reading of The Night Land has slowed down, as I immerse myself in post-Tolkienian works such as Ian Esslemont's The Forge of the High Mage , or Margaret Weiss's Amber & Ashes , or C.J. Cherryh's The Dreaming Tree . And I have found myself struggling in my role as GM of these VsD campaigns. One campaign has be...