Dragaera

Witchcraft

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Sat Aug 24 16:47:40 PDT 2002

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Scott Raun wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:27:29PM -0700, Sean wrote:

>>> I have seen it written that Dragerea had it's start in a RP
>>>campaign. Has St. Brust ever confirmed or denied this? Or
>>>spilled what system they used if the rumor be true? 

[snip]

>> In the acknowledgments for "Jhereg" Steven writes:

>> "And special thanks to Adrienne Thornley, who set up the canvas and
>> lent me her brushes." 

Interestingly enough, in a later edition of "Jhereg" (I think it is
the 16th printing, or at least the numbers on the copyright page go
"20 19 18 17 16"), it says "Adrian Morgan". But SKZB confirmed that
Adrienne changed her name to Adrian Morgan, so that explains that.

Adrienne's original campaign was called "Piara" (or "Piarra" - he
couldn't quite remember the spelling at the time), and Dragaera was a
spinoff campaign. Or something like that.

>
>IIRC, Adrienne's Campaign set up Steven's.
>
>The system was home-brew.  And from what I can tell, very ... fluid?
>It was one of those 'I can do this' type systems, where the ground
>rules were few and far between, and worked because the GM and players
>cooperated to tell the story.
>

Yeah, that's about what Steve said when I asked him if there were any
campaign materials buried in boxes that could be scanned in for
historical interest.  Oh well.