Dream Journal, continued

Last night me and a group of other people (some I knew, some I didn't) were in ahouse I didn't recognize waiting for the recently deceased Forry Ackerman to show up. Forry was running a home brew D&D variant. It's rules were very strange, as at one point Forry told me I'd get a bonus equal to the cube rute of 7d9. After a few minutes of figuring out how to use a d12 as a d9 I started trying to work out the cube root of each d9 roll, only to begin to suspect that it wouild have been faster to rol the 7d9, sum them and then produce the cube root.

Then I woke up. Very strange....

Girl Genius RPG

I just reread all 7 volumes of GG over the last week and something occurred to me: with the overlapping schemes and ever-changing loyalties, a Spark's natural toughness and presence and the overall uber-competence of the characters, there isn't a reason to invent a new GG RPG. Just run it in Amber.

I feel like a dolt for not thinking of this sooner.

Lucrezia, Klaus, Bill, Barry and others are all members of the previous generation, while the PCs are Agatha, Gilgamesh and their peers - active, changing the existing dynamic but not as powerful as their parents, and constantly trying to naviagate between the previous generation's plans and learn their secret history. The existing stat mechanics work fine, as long as you replace Pattern with Spark, perhaps charging it at various levels (15 pts = weak Spark; 30 pts = Spark; 50 pts = Strong Spark) so we can see the differentiation between the pie throwing spark in the circus, Slepneir O'Hara and Gilgamesh Wolfenbach. I'd probably add in the process I had in the primus game for bidding on positions of power to determine the strength of one's starting house, etc.

Hell, it would be easy.