Author Topic: A Tilean Campaign (Read 114161 times)

WuZhuiQiu · « **Reply #255 on:** April 23, 2020, 01:27:16 AM »

It looks as though a serious confab. is in progress...

Padrissimus · « **Reply #256 on:** May 01, 2020, 01:03:02 AM »

Oh yes, WuZhuiQiu. Here's a link to the just today completed story which uses these pics - http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=101717#p101717

WuZhuiQiu · « **Reply #257 on:** May 01, 2020, 02:28:16 PM »

Interesting, as always!

Padrissimus · « **Reply #258 on:** May 17, 2020, 10:42:27 PM »

The very latest pictures from my campaign, the story around which had been written but is yet to be posted anywhere! (I usually leave a day, then proof read.)

Here Clan Skryre attendants escort a novel, new engine (to us, a self propelled mortar) through a mountain pass. This thing, however, lobs an incredibly powerful grenado!

Grumpy Gnome · « **Reply #259 on:** May 18, 2020, 02:23:32 AM »

Great stuff!

WuZhuiQiu · « **Reply #260 on:** May 18, 2020, 02:25:03 AM »

I'm looking forward to the story!

Padrissimus · « **Reply #261 on:** May 18, 2020, 03:38:58 PM »

Quote from: WuZhuiQiu on May 18, 2020, 02:25:03 AM

I'm looking forward to the story!

Then here you go ... http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=102007#p102007

I have to say I am proud of this one. I think it is possibly one of the more unique stories!

scatterbrains · « **Reply #262 on:** May 18, 2020, 04:03:43 PM »

Ah Skaven stories are always fun!

They speak talk like absolute lunatics!

Tauntaun Scout · « **Reply #263 on:** May 18, 2020, 04:14:16 PM »

Amazing pics!

Padrissimus · « **Reply #264 on:** May 18, 2020, 04:45:35 PM »

Thanks ScatterBrains and Tauntaun Scout.

BTW: Tauntaun, are you the same Tauntaun Scout who is also on the Rancor Pit forum?

Neunfinger · « **Reply #265 on:** May 18, 2020, 05:21:39 PM »

Cool as always

WuZhuiQiu · « **Reply #266 on:** May 18, 2020, 09:01:35 PM »

Quote from: Padrissimus on May 18, 2020, 03:38:58 PM

Then here you go ... http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=102007#p102007

I have to say I am proud of this one. I think it is possibly one of the more unique stories!

Great stuff! And his shovel was useful, after all!

Would that I could participate from across the Pond,

!

Ockius · « **Reply #267 on:** May 18, 2020, 10:58:03 PM »

I must say, I find this quite fascinating on various levels.

Do the players in the campaign pay you to organise it? It seems the time you invest is colossal, and tehy are very lucky!

Padrissimus · « **Reply #268 on:** May 18, 2020, 11:24:56 PM »

No payment, no. That had never occurred to me! Besides my players would have to be very rich and a bit mad!

I have been a GM for nearly 40 years (!!!) always running games (RP and WG), mainly in the form of campaigns. This Tilean thing is the second longest, involving and detailed campaign I have ever done. (The first was a life consuming project which had to end when family and work came into my life).

I have always aimed to move forward in new directions, and this campaign took my experience as a GM, a hyper-active participant in several internet campaigns, a modeler, kitbasher, painter, author and photographer to new levels. It is (as you have worked out) a very time consuming process, but it moves at whatever pace real life allows, so as not to consume my life as the first project did, and so has been going on for many, many years.

I am both amazed and grateful that my players are happy to continue, considering there can be months of inactivity at their end, then many months more, with perhaps only 3 to 6 battles a year! This lock down has meant there has been only one battle this year so far!

Putting the campaign story up on a few forums, like the Oldhammer one, and on my own website - https://bigsmallworlds.com/ - means I get to add another aspect, which is the newest and most exciting one: an audience. This had meant that I really get to explore all sorts of new things - in terms of all the writing I do, trying new styles and angles, with the huge challenge of making it work as a detailed story without also ruining the players' strategies and secrets and thus damaging the gaming component of the experience.

I do understand that it takes a lot of commitment to really read and follow this campaign, as it is now several novels in length, but as it has thousands of pictures along the way it is I hope a lively ride. It has a certain 'verity' to it too, because ultimately, as they are the most powerful characters on the world, the players drive events, working with and against each other as well as NPCs. Even the NPCs are not really under my control, as I make all their big decisions using quickly drawn up options charts and die rolls, sometimes several in succession as one result requires a new, more detailed decision. That way, even I get to watch the story unfold with almost as much surprise as a reader!

With all that in mind, did you read the latest story? Did you read any of the rest of the campaign? Because the idea that people are enjoying it, and I do know at least a few really are, is my payment.

NB: I am currently toying with idea of putting the record of my first, very different, campaign, up on my website, in installments. But that could be the obscurest project ever, I think, despite being the one I am most proud of.

Padrissimus · « **Reply #269 on:** May 18, 2020, 11:37:36 PM »

An example of the hard work this campaign takes is the project I am working on right now as I write: a Carroccio (war altar) turned into a corpse cart!

When the undead army of the Vampire Duchess defeated the Holy Army led by the Arch-Lector of Morr, they captured the Morrite church's war altar. Now I jhave to convert it from it's original kitbashed and scratch-built form into something pulled by skeletal horses and piled with corpses!

My table right now ...

8 horses should do, don't you reckon? I mean, if I'm gonna do it I might as well do it right!

This will be surrounded in battle by quite literally hordes of now-zombified cultists!

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