Gaming Plans

After a hiatus of the better part of a year, we had just begun to make plans to revive our role playing gaming, and had played a session or two to get things going again.

Then quarantine happened and everything stopped.

Zoom and Skype and the like have taken over work as well as leisure pastimes, so we are taking baby steps toward seeing what we can do use online technology to enable gaming of some sort. There are a bunch of virtual table top options out there, but I am thinking start very modest. Get a few people together on a Zoom call and play something simple, without the aid of a VTT. For now.

This may or may not end up happening, but in anticipation of it, I have scribbled some map drafts. A borderlands region "beyond the mountains" from a fading kingdom... Semi-wilderness. Rugged terrain. Frontier laws, etc...

Borderlands

And the town of Oren, center of the modest Duchy of the same name. The town is divided into Orenspire, or the more affluent section of town built atop a defensible rocky hill, and Orenlee, the lower (and poorer) section of the town built on the level ground in the lee of the hill.

Orenspire and Orenlee

I have no idea what any of this means at this point; it's just a few rough maps.

I'd like this to be the basis of trying out Index Card RPG from Runehammer Games. It's simple, and I think my players would like it. And it is straightforward enough that I think we could play over a Zoom call without any difficulty.

We shall see...