Rediscovering a love for “vanilla.”

I, like many others, have a chronic worldbuilding problem.

While super fun, and one of the things I enjoy most - a nice tea brew, a pipe, and some notebooks and pens are pretty much my comfort definition these days for my spare time - it also makes things challenging sometimes.

My constant need to have things feel “unique” or “different” can lead to more building than playing sometimes, or getting stuck in endless loops of notes I’ll never use!

To combat this, and just to have some fun on my own, I decided to take another run at a few classic modules solo between my usual game sessions using B/X and keeping things largely vanilla.

Not worrying about what’s over that ridge or developing the religion beyond “new gods feel like church, old gods feel like Celtic deities” and somehow not concerning myself with the primordial origins of how dwarves came to be nor the specific hierarchical split of all goblinkind…has been freeing.

Sometimes it feels good to just huck the dice and have a party with a dwarf a wizard a fighter and a cleric in it with good ol basic fantasy names.

Just wanted to drop this in here and wish everyone a good week with whatever game they’re playing. Cheers!