Thursday, May 24, 2018

I wrote some Quill stuff, and y'all should too. It's a fun game. It's neat to define a PC entirely by how they write letters. And creating scenarios for the game is easy. It's also interesting because the ink pot, a collection of inferior/superior words to use in a letter, lets you do some world building. 'Here is a more ignorant or simplistic word or phrase' vs 'here is the precise language for a thing' lets you create something new and define it or describe it. A gliding varmit is a saileater, a red ichor is a security ferrofluid, an Anti-Riot Invocation is a halt-in-place spell, that sort of thing. One version of the language can be obscure, or both can be used to describe something in different ways.

I wrote some Quill stuff, and y'all should too. It's a fun game. It's neat to define a PC entirely by how they write letters. And creating scenarios for the game is easy. It's also interesting because the ink pot, a collection of inferior/superior words to use in a letter, lets you do some world building. 'Here is a more ignorant or simplistic word or phrase' vs 'here is the precise language for a thing' lets you create something new and define it or describe it. A gliding varmit is a saileater, a red ichor is a security ferrofluid, an Anti-Riot Invocation is a halt-in-place spell, that sort of thing. One version of the language can be obscure, or both can be used to describe something in different ways.

The first post I made was a scenario and actual play:
https://imaginaryhallways.blogspot.com/2018/05/quill-white-box-sky-city-under-attack.html

AP: https://imaginaryhallways.blogspot.com/2018/05/quill-sky-jail-actual-play.html

Scenarios: https://imaginaryhallways.blogspot.com/2018/05/quill-white-box-prison-in-sky-clockwork.html
https://imaginaryhallways.blogspot.com/2018/05/quill-whitebox-scenario-aboard-sky.html

3 comments:

  1. This is great! Thanks for sharing these.

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  2. These are fantastic. I have all the Quills but have not tried them as yet. Obviously something I need to rectify. I ran a letter-based game using Callisto and set in a Barsoom-inspired world similar to the one you are sketching in about two years ago. Thanks for sharing. Great read.

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  3. Thanks y'all! I should have clarified that it was Quill White Box, but at least the main link makes that clear.

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