https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/goodman-games/old-school-adventures-1
We are closing in on the final days of the Pinball Crawl Classics campaign for Backerkit, so now is the time to jump in and make a pledge. This is one of the more original projects in the old-school space, and it has me excited.
When we get something new and different, licensing IP outside of gaming to bring in those ideas into our world, and this is a perfect combination of arcade culture mixed with gaming.
We don't see much "new blood" in gaming, and we typically end up with self-insert vanity projects that are some "author statement" for the writer trying to bandwagon people onto, "I am right, my critics are wrong." Nobody wants to make players play through your self-insert NPC's "quest of personal fulfillment" with the players on the sidelines doing all the heavy lifting.
Nobody cares about your utopian setting, Tasha, or any of these other self-inserts or idealistic snowglobe societies.
Let the players be the heroes!
This is their story.
Not the DM's. Not the adventure writer's.
We are back in the 1990s with TSR's "bestselling novel adventures" that railroad you through a story, only this time, we are being railroaded through some writer's personal beliefs and the times they were wronged on Twitter. This is the difference between the Tomb of Horrors and the newer D&D adventures. One is a classic, and the others are soon-to-be-dated fan fiction.
But this project excites me, and is a shot in the arm for gaming.
We are getting new ideas and new inspirations. The writers create a fun little world or reality, and it is up to you to navigate through it, with your story being what drives you forward. The pinball machine, and the story behind it, is just the backdrop to your greatness.
This stuff is cool.
It kicks butt.
Worthy.
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