Comments on: Themes in the Savage Earth

By: Bozimus/faliol

Bozimus/faliol — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:02:24 +0000

I miss Savage Earth (online version). For me, no role-playing experience ever came close to generating the amount of fun that single game produced. I can understand why Keith wants a break from running…the demands on his time/creativity must have been enormous. Still, there is a selfish side of me that would love to see the Savage Earth online game start up again!

By: keithcurtis

keithcurtis — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:58:41 +0000

Thanks, Killer Shrike. That’s exactly what I am doing. I’m currently in one or two online games, mostly with people from my old game group. It’s helping.

By: Killer Shrike

Killer Shrike — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:59:33 +0000

Yeah, I hear you there, though for me it is reversed — I very badly WANT to run a game, but I just can’t justify the time due to kid and a very demanding job. The only thing left to me currently is to occasionally chip away at one of my various settings or general material.

If you have the freedom to do so, I would recommend playing in someone else’s campaign for a while; that always gets me charged up to GM again.

By: keithcurtis

keithcurtis — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:56:20 +0000

Thanks Wayne. Ironically, your comment about making you want to work on your own campaign has hit upon one of the main reasons I started this blog. Ever since my family moved last year, and we left our old familiar gaming group, I have slowly been losing the desire to GM. I still love the world creation aspect of gaming, but the embers are fading and I need some tinder to bank them back into flame. By expressing some of my ideas into this blog, I am hoping to recapture the magic I seem to have lost.
So if I am having that effect on you, perhaps there is good hope that it is working.

Interesting twist on the standard fantasy tropes, by the way.

By: Wayne THAG Walls

Wayne THAG Walls — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:34:14 +0000

As usual, a nice thought out post. Reading your savage world makes me want to work more on my New Cario game

IN my fantasy world, I changed from using orcs and bad guys to a few clans of dwarves. I reasoned the Orcs got tired of being everyone’s shock troops and went into construction instead. This of course muscled in on my worlds Dwarves main line of work.

Nice work as usual Kieth….