Did a lot of work on the rules for the new campaign over the last week. Things are starting to come together and we even rolled up characters Sunday. We'll likely be able to start play this weekend, although the work on the rules will continue in order to make the materials at least approaching complete.
While doing this, and the research that goes into it, I encountered some old friends. The advantages and disadvantages of using settings created by other people.
One big advantage is that it's easier to hook people by showing them the source material. With that comes understanding of what the feel of the campaign is going to be.
The big disadvantage is that you don't own that material, and the people who do will without exception screw it up badly.
Using the Claymore anime as the background for this campaign has proved that disadvantage once more. I was able to bypass some rather uncomfortable things in the anime and ignored some stupid things (the sidekick) easily enough. Keep all the really good stuff and was ready to go.
Then in my research I came across the Manga. Not nearly as easy to ignore some of the stuff in that. Oh it has good parts too. But I can see why plans to do a second anime season based on it were dropped.
That brings be back to another advantage of basing campaigns on published material. You can change things and do them better.
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