Kellri’s 18 Module Challenge – Day 9: Pavis and Big Rubble
Day 9 - A Module That You've Never Played: _Pavis_ and _Big Rubble_ by Greg Stafford, Steve Perrin, Oliver Dickinson, & Diverse HandsBig Rubble box contents (Chaosium, 1983)Pavis: Threshold to Danger back of box (Chaosium, 1983)I never played RuneQuest back-in-the-day (despite my love for Call of Cthulhu, and frequent experimentation with new systems demo'd at local conventions), likely in part because my exposure to it was pretty limited (and primarily through the Oliver Dickinson short stories in White Dwarf). At the time, the setting didn't resonate with my more-AD&D-driven tastes, and Dickinson's stories didn't really click either. That changed in the early 2000s when I picked up a copy of the RQ2 hardcover rulebook at a gaming fleamarket at DunDraCon or KublaCon, and a few years later Jason Zavoda sent me some RQ materials he was getting rid of. After going through them I grew a bit more intrigued, then I remembered Dickinson's stories, and picked up a copy of The Complete Griselda. Dickinson's tales of Pavis and its adjoining ruin, The Big Rubble, came to life in ways I never appreciated as a teenager: it's adventuring companies and ruffians, scoundrels and monsters, cults and mythologies, resonated and clicked for me, finally. I have since played RQ2 with Jennel Jaquays at the North Texas RPG Con, and with Steve Perrin using his RQ-like SPRQ rules at one of the SoCalMiniCon events organized by Dragonnsfoot members during the later '00s, and would happily play again, if given the chance. Why I Love Pavis and Big RubbleOne of things that I like about Pavis and Big Rubble is their inter-twined proximity: the much-smaller, non-ruined city of Pavis is dwarfed ... read more!

