tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post617961281889457693..comments2024-03-01T11:52:44.729-05:00Comments on Bat in the Attic: A 911 call from the AtticRobert Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863009007381185340noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-490846756921076842020-08-14T21:45:23.505-04:002020-08-14T21:45:23.505-04:00Appreciate the compliment, it was a lot of fun alt...Appreciate the compliment, it was a lot of fun although the player with gimp fighter still grumbles a bit about what he rolled all these years later.Robert Conleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03863009007381185340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-85138879175352377432020-08-14T09:16:15.886-04:002020-08-14T09:16:15.886-04:00Hi -- enjoyed reading this. Sounds like you did an...Hi -- enjoyed reading this. Sounds like you did an outstanding job in GMing this adventure. Mad props!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18269913375393024863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-32095885796739380342008-11-28T13:24:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:24:00.000-05:00I completely agree with njharman. I have a consta...I completely agree with njharman. I have a constant battle going with Harn, absolutely love the suppliments, but dislike playing the game. I disagree with Rob as it being a perfect blend. For me Harn severely lacks playabiliy. As Scott mentioned it is difficult to have a continuing campaign. I want it to work. I want to be in a campaign. But have yet to enjoy being in a Harn adventure. On free RPG day they released Field of Daisies and damn it Harn started pulling me back in *place Al Pancino imitation here*. And I've discussed with Rob of possibly giving Harn a try again. He nearly fainted and had three Harn source books in his hands before I finished the next sentence. He is evil. Anyway, we hope to get together soon and generate a character and go adventuring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-78136747348165447452008-11-27T09:48:00.000-05:002008-11-27T09:48:00.000-05:00I'm a big Harn fan, but like njharman, I've never ...I'm a big Harn fan, but like njharman, I've never actually been able to get a campaign going for very long, nor have any of the other folks in our group who've tried. In fact, the excellent adventure "100 Bushels of Rye" has been used as a starting point for aborted campaigns so often that it's a running joke.<BR/><BR/>After reading the Harnforum for a while, along with the recommendations of the hardcore fans there, I believe I could run a successful Harn game for n00bs.<BR/><BR/>There's an awful lot of gonzo stuff on Harn -- visitors from 20th century Earth, interdimensional gates, lake dragons, terrestrial demi-gods, insectile rape-orcs, freaky artifacts, psionics, realm-spanning magical conspiracies, etc.<BR/><BR/>If I were to run a Harn game now, for players who'd never played in the setting, I probably wouldn't start off with deep-immersion manorial wranglings and dirt farm simulation. I'd put them in as the retinue of a disguised Shek-Pvar, so that they're operating outside the constraints of the Harnic feudal system to some extent. That frees them up to "adventure" in the classic sense of an armed band of semi-independent freebooters, something that normal folk on Harn can't really do.<BR/><BR/>Harn has plenty of really weird high-magic adventurer-type stuff going on, it's just going on outside of the view of mainstream society. Many players used to other settings might find it less jarring to ease into the medievalism bit by bit, and then if they liked it, I could kick off my intrigue-heavy Kaldoric Succession Crisis or Jarin Rebellion campaign.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155926145150934199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-36750240133482470122008-11-22T04:10:00.000-05:002008-11-22T04:10:00.000-05:00Neat!I have a like/dislike relationship with Harn ...Neat!<BR/><BR/>I have a like/dislike relationship with Harn (the setting never actually owned/used rules).<BR/><BR/>On the one hand the detail gives me OCD orgasms of joy. But it's the "fantasy" equivalent of Hard Sci-Fi. And I hate Hard Sci-Fi. I want fantasy adventure! Not a simulation of European Medieval society.Norman J. Harman Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.com