What's Interesting?

[qos]

This - like many other good things - lifted from mommybird

Pick an interest from my interests page that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and demand an explanation. Verily, I will provide.

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[qos.livejournal.com]

Castle Falkenstein is a role-playing game system that uses playing cards instead of dice for determining outcomes. The rule book is written as if it is the journal of a person from our world who has been brought over by magic into an alternate "steampunk" world. It's a Victorian-type world with steam-powered machines and magic.

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

Gee, I'm not into gaming, but that sounds really cool.

[qos.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of fun -- and the use of the playing cards allows a degree of strategy into what is often simply a random test when dice are used in other systems.

Of course, in any game system it's as much what the GM and players bring to it as the system itself. But some game worlds (like some fandoms) provide a richer starting point and more fascinating and compelling elements from which to create.