About this episode
- - Description - -
As promised, Stephen Smith of Purple Druid fame cordially joins me to talk shop and to tell us about the World of Weirth - his project based off of the Low Fantasy Gaming engine but adapted with AD&D and OD&D influences - and some of the mechanics and themes (like its changes to the magic system) that set it apart and lend it its intrigue.
Interested in the World of Weirth, in Low Fantasy Gaming, or in AD&D or OD&D as inspiring therein? Or do you have a setting, supplement, or zine that you'd like to tell me about on the air? Tell me on Anchor! https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail
Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).
- - Show Notes - -
00:00:00 - Theme
00:00:30 - Introduction: World of Weirth!
00:06:20 - AD&D Resurgence?
00:11:37 - On Vancian Magic
00:13:31 - Magic in Weirth
00:15:28 - Post-Post-Apocalypse and the Appendix N of Weirth
00:19:17 - Magical Paucity versus Abundance
00:21:37 - Low Fantasy Gaming - Mostly
00:23:06 - Creating a Magic User in Weirth
00:26:27 - Dark & Deviant Magic
00:34:24 - No Clerics in Weirth (Strict Alignment Records must be kept!)
00:39:04 - Camp Anderson or Camp Moorcock?
00:43:55 - Mechanizing Alignment
00:48:13 - Classes in Weirth
00:53:23 - Itch.io: Current and Future Projects
00:57:06 - The Undereground Architect's Dungeon Ecology
00:59:41 - Recap & Final Words
01:02:44 - Promises for Chainmail!
01:05:22 - Outro
01:05:35 - Theme & Legal
- - Links - -
World of Weirth Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldofWeirth
World of Weirth Blog: http://journal.stephenpsmith.com/world-of-weirth/
World of Weirth Itch.IO: https://world-of-weirth.itch.io/
Wargame Culture: https://www.youtube.com/user/atStephen
Low Fantasy Gaming: https://lowfantasygaming.com/
Jason Hobbs' The Lost Lake: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJihWQoKqzZCK6h6LbGkaoGSdpj8Zype
The Free, Brian Ruckley: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23204200-the-free
Moo-Hoo!: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2372/62984/
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