Wilderlands
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Attronarch
A FreshHell to Contend With
Love the setting. Just enough to improvise with.
TerribleSorcery
Should be playing D&D instead
I love the Wilderlands, it's all I run my games in for the last 10 years. I run one game in the City-state of the World Emperor, and another in Altanis. Tons of fun, it is the best ever!!
robertsconley
Should be playing D&D instead
I may know and have done a few things with the Wilderlands 
For those who are interested here is my original web page from back when I ran my campaigns using GURPS.
For those who are interested here is my original web page from back when I ran my campaigns using GURPS.
DangerousPuhson
So ... slow work day? Every day?
I used to play around a bit with CS of the IO when I was a yungun', though I never quite grasped how to effectively deploy it beyond being more than a (admittedly large) random encounter/rumor simulator. Feels like there's too much there, if that makes any sense - always worried about doing something in game that would contradict the "cannon" of the game world as written in the guide.
If I recall (and I'll have to dig out my OG hardcopy to check for sure), the guidelines were pretty sparse with regards to how you should run the City, so I would invariably just flip through and pick out interesting individual hooks to use, and little else beyond that (even then, if memory serves I remember that the the hooks weren't stellar; they were more along the lines of single-sentence summaries like "an elephant is charging down main street!", "they say a genie hides in the graveyard", "the high priest of St. Fucko is abducting people from the park to sacrifice to his dark god!" etc. with literally zero supporting follow-up materials provided).
Mind you, all this was happening when I was about 10-years-old, so probably not the universal experience. All I know is that I have faint memories of it leaving me supremely confused and frustrated at how cumbersome it all was, and thinking "I should just invent my own city with my own applicable shit, and be done with it".
As people familiar with City-State who are no longer fifth-graders, would you guys say it's worth revisiting as an adult?
If I recall (and I'll have to dig out my OG hardcopy to check for sure), the guidelines were pretty sparse with regards to how you should run the City, so I would invariably just flip through and pick out interesting individual hooks to use, and little else beyond that (even then, if memory serves I remember that the the hooks weren't stellar; they were more along the lines of single-sentence summaries like "an elephant is charging down main street!", "they say a genie hides in the graveyard", "the high priest of St. Fucko is abducting people from the park to sacrifice to his dark god!" etc. with literally zero supporting follow-up materials provided).
Mind you, all this was happening when I was about 10-years-old, so probably not the universal experience. All I know is that I have faint memories of it leaving me supremely confused and frustrated at how cumbersome it all was, and thinking "I should just invent my own city with my own applicable shit, and be done with it".
As people familiar with City-State who are no longer fifth-graders, would you guys say it's worth revisiting as an adult?
Two orcs
Officially better than you, according to PoN
Easy, just base him on this guy:
Drukpa Kunley - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukpa_Kunley#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPommaret2003192-7
DangerousPuhson
So ... slow work day? Every day?
DangerousPuhson
So ... slow work day? Every day?
St. Fucko is a fictional god/patron I invented for the purposes of this post. Though nothing specific to the lore of St. Fucko currently exists in any published capacity, the closest thing I'd wager are the rules for FATAL, which talk a walk down the alleys of depravity befitting a man of the name "Fucko".