For welcome but unknown reasons, the ideas part of my brain continues to work. Case in point yesterday afternoon, the title DEADWOOD AND DRAGONS popped into my head.

Now, before you start, i don’t know what the context is yet. Whether it’s the Deadwood universe with dragons (I’d love to see Al Swearengen facing down a dragon myself), or D&D on the frontier but with guns, I don’t know. I’m all but certain the idea was inspired by a Pathfinder game I’m in where I’m playing a Dwarven gunslinger. I’d initially planned to go twin-flintlock pistol, but the DM was kind/foolish enough to let me take a revolver and the concept of Dwarven Doc Holliday came to mind and so far has refused to leave. (Irritatingly, my copies of both Tombstone and Maverick seem to have vanished at the time of writing.)

So yeah. Another terrible idea. The brain was also toying with a pitch video using clips from Lord of the Rings set to Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills, which was more than enough to amuse me and what else should matter?

I’ve already had one person recommend the RPG Spellslingers to run it in and while it’s not bad, it’s not what I’m thinking. I mean, ‘Deadlands but with Orcs’ isn’t a bad way to explain things, but that’s not quite where I’m at either. At this stage, it’s an amusing title and that’s probably be where it should stay.

I mean, there’s the idea of local miners digging too deep and falling into the Underdark, or porting over the D&D races to a western-esque setting, with magic and firearms. As much as the idea amuses me, I’m wary of being racist without intending to (Having Elves as quasi native Americans seems a terrible idea) and that’s likely why this won’t process any further. As previously stated, the older I get the less I’m OK with the whole ‘Orcs as barbarians’ cliche and I’d hate to make that mistake here.

Anyhow, the terrible idea part of my brain seems to be working again, which is A GOOD THING. It was always my favorite part of the convention after party and frequently the only thing I can remember from a lot of conventions unless I’ve made notes. I have a vague idea of once suggesting mashing Delta Green and Get Smart together,

It also means you can expect more bonkers ideas of this nature. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.