The Doloraid - Question 7 - Gaming
Are there any potential gaming uses for this story or book? The world, the characters, or the plot.
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The set-up of the family and the characters like the Schoolmaster are things I could use for NPCs in a post apocalyptic game. I'd probably try to be less bleak, but maybe not. I do think that the headmaster alone would make for an interesting encounter in a PA game, where the PCs catch a glimpse of him first from a distance dragging himself, larva-like, through the streets. But like me, the first thing they might wonder is why he didn't have a wagon and staves to move himself about. Then they might bargain with him by building one for him and trading that for intel on the local area.
I deifnitely couldn't go down the rabbit hole as deep as this book did, but a situation with a small group living on the margins is a decent plot hook.
That was in the Ancient Days before my time... but you could probably make a case for Shardik also being post apocalyptic?