Rialacha Teach Mhorgunna

Or maybe it's the other way around.

I have been busy doing the leg work for putting into Fantasy Grounds the Black Sword Hack rule system. I wish someone who knew what they were doing had this task. I think mine will be functional ...
but it sure isn't going to be pretty.

But I'm kind of glad to be stepping away from D&D after what they have been putting in of late. And this system, well ... I really like the character creation process and the customization it allows.

I am at that stage in campaign design where you start putting parts together to form a gestault. Gives my brain a workout, which is much needed.

So my wife, Yoko and I are in the habit of winding down with a little TV before we eventually head off to Slumberland. Usually it's Murder Porn on the bill. But the last couple of nights we have gravitated towards an anthology series on Netflix by Guillermo Del Toro called Cabenet of Curiosites. It's a collection of stories and directors. Yoko desceibes it as a trio of 13 year olds trying to scare and gross outtheir compatriots. So yes it's a little gory ... but they, so far have been pretty solid stories.

The thing is one of the first episodes there was an sttack with giant rats following a giant monsterous rat. My opening concept for the opening campaign, I planned to have the Adventurers take shelter from the rain in a farm house along the road, only to find the family devoured by a swarm of rats lead by an intelligent rat, who is a cleric, in the employ of a loan sharkfrom the neighboring village. This would serve as an interduction to the Rat God and three villains.

There was another story about an autopsy that reviels people who have ben possesed by entities causing murders and mayheim as possible. But the way they acted was just as I pictured the way the incorprial demons in BSH would hack, charming ... ab possessing NPcs .

They say that good artists copy ... Great artists steal. Take inspiration where you find it ... even if it's in your pocket before you know you have it.