What would be your ideal campaign in the HPverse? Edition
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>A Veeky Forums made hp game. Rules light and build from the ground up to support the tropes and conventions of Harry Potter.
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>A rather complete GURPS pack for Harry Potter
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>Savage Worlds HP mod
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>Rowling is a hack
Agreed. I've actually read better HP fanfiction than the actual books.
Yet somehow I still find the books riveting, in spite of them having more plot holes than pages.
First time in these sorts of threads, but even if you don't plan on using the system, GURPS has a supplement called Back to School. It covers the mechanics for learning in the system, but it also includes a rather large system-agnostic section on simply running a campaign in the school, ranging from "school is the focus of the game" to "school is a minor annoyance in our adventuring." Probably worth a read for anyone that wants to run a game in Hogwarts proper.
She's a good world builder that can write relatable characters and keep the overall mood light and enjoyable even when things are pretty grim. She has her flaws but I think she's pretty good, that being said I think recently she's been trying to become more relevant again which is killing her reputation somewhat.
JK seems to have looked at George Lucas as her primary inspiration.
>She's a good world builder that can write relatable characters
But those are easily her worst flaws: the world is pure mcguffin, the baddies are saturday morning cartoon material, Harry Ron and Hermione are insufferable.
She's brilliant with her storytelling, prose and mood setting tho. Also while the world building is completely lacking in coherence, it's also spectacularly aesthetic.
They do seem to have the same strong and weak points, that's for sure.
Yeah the villains are dumb, but it started out as a children's book that became a YA book. Somethings carried over or couldn't be changed, like Voldy being full-on Cobra Commander evil.
She nailed popular elements of YA fiction. HP was particularly evocative because it really invites you to try to self insert into the world. Sure, logically the world building isn't very sound, but the elements are still there to be taken advantage of.
The house sorting bit, spirit animals (2 if you count a patronus and animagus separately), wand types, that's like 3 personality quizzes rolled up. Then you can further customize with pets, magic specialties, etc.
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more like poopyjuice potion LOL