Putting the "TFT" into Quack Keep 'Your Glorantha May Vary'.

(The following is an edited & somewhat effusively expanded RePost
of an eMail I early Today sent to Darcy,
in Celebration of the long anticipated Arrival of 'Quack Keep'
here in the Swamplandings of Greater Houstopolis, in th'USofA* 

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    I have a  Plan (subject to, or possibly Caused by... a Failed Sanity Roll) IS:  " To run Quack Keep as my intro to a new " Chibi Glorantha " ongoing campaign.
This cheeky and somewhat Kawai endeavor (though never "twee"!!  is a loving Homage to our Jennell Jaquays' 'Duck Tower' (but of course! and what isn't?)
DT was my very first Judges Guild purchase, which I ran using none other than 1st edition TFT, oh those so-so many years ago.
This bold cheekiness is thankfully covered philosophically (and legally) under the Official Greg Stafford-ian 'Your Glorantha May Vary' principle)

Somewhere between
~ Carl Barks Turgid Tenacity,
~ John Stanley's Wholesome Whimsy,
~ Steve Gerber's Sardonic Satiricism, and
~ Greg Stafford's Carrol-lingerin' Night Terrors and Nightmares:

Therein is My Own Personal Glorantha !

For the "Crunchy Bits" (mechanics) I shall use Steve Jackson(I)'s** recently (and gloriously!!)
republished 40th anniversary The Fantasy Trip (TFT***) rules. and populated locally by Quack Keep & DuckQuest Duck minis
vs Chibi Aldyami, Uz, Mostali... ....the occasional Human (packed along for a snack!),
and other Kawai Kreatures from the (now defunct) Super-Dungeon Explore line. (Great Minis! BAD Game!! Bankrupt Company!!!)



{ I should probably mention at this point, and no other,  that I have recently been playing
quite a bit of Greg Petersen's 'Glorantha: the God's War',
and re-reading my much tattered, torn dog eared (but Beloved!) copy of  James Wallis' ftranscendant RPG
'The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen' RPG...

Thus it may be that You, Dear Reader, might have some idea as to:
"Just What is this Fool Running On & On, pounding the Keyboard About...?!?

But i Digress...."


Ahem-ahem..
As I was Saying:
"Therein is My Personal Gloranth !"

But, Alas!
The Wyld places between the Grazelands and Pavis are now well-worn roads, no longer uncharted Paths,
and the hidden arenas of Beast Valley are as well explored as the Griffin's Montain and the Plains of Prax...
What is an Aetheric Explorer to do..?
Well, let me Regale you, fellow RPG-Playah--->

The Current Outline of "Chibi Glorantha: (onward referred to as 'The Not-So-Great Compromise' {and abbreviated as TNSGC"****
is ... "To surgically insert Quack Keep into the Isle of Nowhere Land" (Jeremy....? Hillary...?? Boob...?)
located at the centre of the Homeward Ocean, at the tidal pull of Magasta's Pool
(exactly on the border of Life and Death so that all those shipwrecked there can never die...)

{... Unless they are killed by Ducks. }

"But I shall never be tricked into telling a tale of for which the world is not yet prepared "

~ the great defective Hemlock Stones*****

TL/DR->

Quack Keep is Brilliant !
Very Inspiring ~
("...and here's the Last Inspiration from this Can"
~ Hemlock Stones

Footnotes from the BrainDrainage
*(pronounced 'The Sofa')..
** (I) the USofA Steve Jackson ie 'Evil Unca Steve', not the United Kingdom Steve Jackson (II) 'He of the Worksop of Games'
*** "TFT: is an onomatopoeia, pronounced "Thh-FT" like a cat spitting or an arrow released from a bow
**** TNSGC is not an onomatopoeia, but if T'Were, it might be pronounced 'Tens-Geek'
***** quotes from 'The Giant Rat of Sumatra' {Firesign Theater} +++
www.angelfire.com/planet/firesign/giantrat.html

+++Footnote to the Footnote:
My Island is pestered by a particularly nasty breed of miniature mutant Broo,
resembling nothing more than knee-high Mice...( "Giant Rats Mr. Rico...Millions of them...!!!" )
This allows me to use the Reaper brand 'Bones  line of "Mouslings" (but are they chibi..? Close Enough!)
to represent the nasty vermin that they are.  These  swarm from a Dark Keep referred to as "The House of Mouse"