A created this adventure following my guidelines in Fast Adventure Writing Structure. Actually if you read the document, you will see it is the example there.
Just to remember here are the steps again:
1. Have a one line idea or title
2. Create 6 to 8 mini locations with hooks
3. Decide if the single locations are about ACTION or INTERACTION, or something else
4. Adding a TWIST or three
5. A villain
6. The McGuffin
7. Spaces for wandering off
Don't forget that the notes are only for yourself. So no need to be self explaining!
Mini locations:
1. Only village of human settlers: INTERACTION: The PCs land here. They meet a drunk mechanics woman who wants to start a fight and talks something about her lover killing himself in the icy fjord. She has it on video. 300 inhabitants
2. The administrators house: INTERACTION: The administrator personally introduces them to job. Tells them how boring it is here and plays the decadent, incompetent guy.
3. The bar: ACTION: Central hang out place for all the dirty miners. PCs meet some people with symbiont/ alien here. Idiots want to bully the PCs.
4. Cliff in icy fjord: ACTION: After some wandering, willpower tests near cliff. Weak ones jump off.
5. Underwater village of "aliens": INTERACTION: Symbiontes all on their own. Look like bat like coats. Give psionic powers. The suicidal player character hang themselves up as well. Different layers of cocoons.
6. The cold oceans: ACTION: storm, tentacle whale monsters (WANDERING OFF AREA)
7. The "oil" plattform: ACTION: a crazy scientist, tells the PCs that the oil won here is not worth anything, that he lost all his money in speculation here. Then they are attacked by "malfunctioning" mining robots. (WANDERING OFF AREAD)
TWIST 1: The aliens are actually the suicidal humans.
TWIST 2: The administrator knows about Twist 1, but does not tell anyone.
TWIST 3: Actually the aliens are the resource the administration is really interested in. The mining is only an excuse to attract people and turn them into aliens.
VILLAIN: The administrator. He wants cover up any evidence and uses miners and robots to get the PCs out of the way.
McGuffin: Superpaid job and psionic symbiontes.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Fast Adventure Writing Structure
I came up with a new simple way of writing adventures in a few minutes. I have to admit, I did not test it yet, but it seems that this way has a lot of potential. I am only GMing sporadically, but one of my biggest problems is to guess how much or how little the players will have time to explore in a session.
This blogpost is not about writing campaigns, but preferably adventures that can be run in one session.
I have to admit I never run an too short adventure. Normally I am so euphoric that I don't stop in time. Anyways: this is the concept I came up with:
1. Have a one line idea or title
Obviously you need to have something to start with. If you don't now anything, a random article from Wikipedia can be really inspiring.
Example: For a scifi game I need a new adventure. I pick a random wikipedia article and get the county of Norrland, some 17th century Swedish place.
2. Create 6 to 8 mini locations with hooks
The next step is to imagine a handfull sceneries that could be cool for the player characters to have something happen at. Obviously there will be happen more, if certain people or creature are there as well. Don't worry about what the characters will do and the consequences, just imagine what cool things anyone could do there.
Example: Somehow the county lets me think of meadows, seas and - sorry for the cliché - Vikings. But this is a Science Fiction game, so I have to twist things a little bit. I come up with the following:
Icy fjord on frozen planet. It's the ultra short summer. Atmosphere of loneliness. I ask myself: what can characters interact here with? Interact with loneliness? How about a some whispering that turns people suicidal?
Village near the seaside with human settlers. Ok, humans alone are a little bit cliché as well. So how about them having a symbiotic relationship to some strange aliens? So they coexist in the city.
This makes me think of trolls and vulcanos. Maybe I will boost the Icelandic vibe, because it seems mysterious. If the aliens play a role, they should also have a location: I give them their own pack village near a geysir.
But why did the humans land here and live by the water? Probably there is something like an oil platform to access some superspecial underwater resource.
(I make the example a little bit shorter, because this blogpost should be mainly about the structure.)
3. Decide if the single locations are about ACTION or INTERACTION, or something else
Sure, you don't want to force your players to deal with any situation in a certain way, but you can think beforehand what outcome is most likely. For a normal party you want a good mix of action scenes and "roleplaying" opportunities.
You also want to think about a potential way the characters could solve the problem. Obviously if the come up with another solution, that is even better. Remember to never say "No!", but "Yes, but..." later on in the game. I mark probable follow up scenes with "=>".
And it is great if what happens connects one location to another.
Example: I go through the locations sketched out before and think what will be going on.
The whispering of suicide is a life threatening situation. So it will probably be an ACTION scene. But how to deal with such an abstract problem? I guess it takes willpower to resist and because I don't want a total party wipe out, if probably is about making some skill checks until only 1 or 2 characters are up. At that moment something you can touch should appear. Probably the local aliens. They take the characters to their village. I think about it again and realize that it makes sense to make the suicides "go somewhere", because we want the impact of the situation without killing the characters. How about a cliff near the sea, where they jump down?
How about making the village of the aliens exactly there? It could be that jumping down there does not kill, but instead takes you to the aliens place. Maybe you are transformed in the process? What if the aliens are not real aliens, but transformed humans? Sounds pretty cool. I will adjust the other locations to follow up this idea?
The human village is about INTERACTION. That seems pretty clear. Sure, you could make it action, just to be unconventional, but this time, we decide against it. Still: we don't know whom to interact with exactly. Who is the person the players will meet? It should carry the atmosphere of the location. So how about a pretty ordinary fishergirl? We want to connect that to the suicide cliff location. So maybe she is drunk on the street, because she just lost a loved one?
Obviously the village has more to offer, so we split off another location: the house of the local administration. Also about INTERACTION and the player characters will encounter the local administrator, a guy who does not want to stay too long on this backwood planet. He is not too important so we are happy with a cliché bureaucrat. What does he want? He wants the player characters to leave.
The pack village near the geysir has changed already to an underwater place under the cliff. For whatever reason, I imagine them in there like bats hanging from a cave - just upside down and under water. ACTION or INTERACTION? That should be pretty flexible. Still: if the players get that the aliens are actually the suicide humans, they maybe won't kill them right away. ;) So a hint would be good. And why aren't they transformed themselves? Probably it takes some time.
4. Adding a TWIST or three
Everyone likes surprises, so things should always turn out different than they look in the beginning. Probably you already got a few just by thinking about locations and interactions. It is good to have a second or even third twist, just in case the player characters see through it very fast and the game turns out too short. Most of the time you won't need the third twist. Just remember that we plan one session adventure here.
Example: That is so obivious here.
TWIST 1: The aliens are actually suicidal humans.
TWIST 2: (We also want to base it on something we established already. So we look trough our notes.) The administrator knows about Twist 1, but does not tell anyone.
TWIST 3: (We go even further with the idea from Twist 2.) Actually the aliens are the resource the government/corporation is really interested in. The mining is only an excuse to attract people and turn them into aliens.
5. A villain
By this time it will often be clear, who is the opponent of the player characters. You don't need to twist it even further. But maybe you make someone not too important yet, the real villain, by giving him the agenda.
Example: The administrator would be a great villain here. Makes sense. He is some evil mastermind after all. But because we have seen this so often already, we decide that actually the nature of the planet is much bigger and more dangerous than his cookie cutter plan. But how to make a cool showdown with a planet? We want to blow things up in the end! After all the we want a great final. A Cthulhu like entity would be boring as well. An earthquake would be a fun end, we remember that, but the administrator is still the best villain. After all we want to INTERACT with him - or at least kill him.
6. The McGuffin
We still need a reason why the player characters go through all of this. There has to be a reason for them - something to win. This is especially important in a location based adventure, because you can't just push them along the plot. Often it makes sense to use the motivations of specific charcters as reason, but never underestimate the motivational power of filthy lucre or powerful items. Working since 1974. :)
Example: The administration looks for workforce, so it seems pretty simple to get them here. No reason not to offer the player characters a huge ammount of money and point to the cool stuff they will be able to afford with it. The administration is pretty sure, it does not need to pay anyways in the end. And because PCs are rarely miners, it would make sense to offer them a contractor's job in security. A good reason to send them to the suicide plains. Maybe hook them up with a NPC they like from earlier adventures: the NPC gets a job there and because of a favor he is owing them, he gets them this excuse of a well paid job. It's only 1 week anyways...
7. Space for wandering off
It is good to give the players some freedom. A place, that is not directly connected to the bigger scheme. If any locations are left over, just use those. And if you have the feeling that you could improve the atmosphere of the whole adventures by adding a place or two, add them now. Remember: something should happen everywhere! But whatever is going on here should be simple and work on itself.
Example: The ocean and the "oil" platform are not really important to the plot, but they are great to add to the feeling of solitude. Still we want something to happen there. So how about an attack of sea monsters and a rowdy bar with suicidal sailor man on the plattform?
You see: just by going through a few basic ideas in a structured manner a couple of times, I have a lot of stuff to run with. Just look at same ideas over and over and connect them. Because you think the scenes in locations and not in plot, the players have a lot of freedom. And best: you only need the write down a few lines and everything should work from there.
The have a look at the whole write up, read this post: The Wails of Planet Norr
And to keep it extrasimple, just copy and paste the 7 steps in your document:
1. Have a one line idea or title
2. Create 6 to 8 mini locations with hooks
3. Decide if the single locations are about ACTION or INTERACTION, or something else
4. Adding a TWIST or three
5. A villain
6. The McGuffin
7. Spaces for wandering off
This blogpost is not about writing campaigns, but preferably adventures that can be run in one session.
I have to admit I never run an too short adventure. Normally I am so euphoric that I don't stop in time. Anyways: this is the concept I came up with:
1. Have a one line idea or title
Obviously you need to have something to start with. If you don't now anything, a random article from Wikipedia can be really inspiring.
Example: For a scifi game I need a new adventure. I pick a random wikipedia article and get the county of Norrland, some 17th century Swedish place.
2. Create 6 to 8 mini locations with hooks
The next step is to imagine a handfull sceneries that could be cool for the player characters to have something happen at. Obviously there will be happen more, if certain people or creature are there as well. Don't worry about what the characters will do and the consequences, just imagine what cool things anyone could do there.
Example: Somehow the county lets me think of meadows, seas and - sorry for the cliché - Vikings. But this is a Science Fiction game, so I have to twist things a little bit. I come up with the following:
Icy fjord on frozen planet. It's the ultra short summer. Atmosphere of loneliness. I ask myself: what can characters interact here with? Interact with loneliness? How about a some whispering that turns people suicidal?
Village near the seaside with human settlers. Ok, humans alone are a little bit cliché as well. So how about them having a symbiotic relationship to some strange aliens? So they coexist in the city.
This makes me think of trolls and vulcanos. Maybe I will boost the Icelandic vibe, because it seems mysterious. If the aliens play a role, they should also have a location: I give them their own pack village near a geysir.
But why did the humans land here and live by the water? Probably there is something like an oil platform to access some superspecial underwater resource.
(I make the example a little bit shorter, because this blogpost should be mainly about the structure.)
3. Decide if the single locations are about ACTION or INTERACTION, or something else
Sure, you don't want to force your players to deal with any situation in a certain way, but you can think beforehand what outcome is most likely. For a normal party you want a good mix of action scenes and "roleplaying" opportunities.
You also want to think about a potential way the characters could solve the problem. Obviously if the come up with another solution, that is even better. Remember to never say "No!", but "Yes, but..." later on in the game. I mark probable follow up scenes with "=>".
And it is great if what happens connects one location to another.
Example: I go through the locations sketched out before and think what will be going on.
The whispering of suicide is a life threatening situation. So it will probably be an ACTION scene. But how to deal with such an abstract problem? I guess it takes willpower to resist and because I don't want a total party wipe out, if probably is about making some skill checks until only 1 or 2 characters are up. At that moment something you can touch should appear. Probably the local aliens. They take the characters to their village. I think about it again and realize that it makes sense to make the suicides "go somewhere", because we want the impact of the situation without killing the characters. How about a cliff near the sea, where they jump down?
How about making the village of the aliens exactly there? It could be that jumping down there does not kill, but instead takes you to the aliens place. Maybe you are transformed in the process? What if the aliens are not real aliens, but transformed humans? Sounds pretty cool. I will adjust the other locations to follow up this idea?
The human village is about INTERACTION. That seems pretty clear. Sure, you could make it action, just to be unconventional, but this time, we decide against it. Still: we don't know whom to interact with exactly. Who is the person the players will meet? It should carry the atmosphere of the location. So how about a pretty ordinary fishergirl? We want to connect that to the suicide cliff location. So maybe she is drunk on the street, because she just lost a loved one?
Obviously the village has more to offer, so we split off another location: the house of the local administration. Also about INTERACTION and the player characters will encounter the local administrator, a guy who does not want to stay too long on this backwood planet. He is not too important so we are happy with a cliché bureaucrat. What does he want? He wants the player characters to leave.
The pack village near the geysir has changed already to an underwater place under the cliff. For whatever reason, I imagine them in there like bats hanging from a cave - just upside down and under water. ACTION or INTERACTION? That should be pretty flexible. Still: if the players get that the aliens are actually the suicide humans, they maybe won't kill them right away. ;) So a hint would be good. And why aren't they transformed themselves? Probably it takes some time.
4. Adding a TWIST or three
Everyone likes surprises, so things should always turn out different than they look in the beginning. Probably you already got a few just by thinking about locations and interactions. It is good to have a second or even third twist, just in case the player characters see through it very fast and the game turns out too short. Most of the time you won't need the third twist. Just remember that we plan one session adventure here.
Example: That is so obivious here.
TWIST 1: The aliens are actually suicidal humans.
TWIST 2: (We also want to base it on something we established already. So we look trough our notes.) The administrator knows about Twist 1, but does not tell anyone.
TWIST 3: (We go even further with the idea from Twist 2.) Actually the aliens are the resource the government/corporation is really interested in. The mining is only an excuse to attract people and turn them into aliens.
5. A villain
By this time it will often be clear, who is the opponent of the player characters. You don't need to twist it even further. But maybe you make someone not too important yet, the real villain, by giving him the agenda.
Example: The administrator would be a great villain here. Makes sense. He is some evil mastermind after all. But because we have seen this so often already, we decide that actually the nature of the planet is much bigger and more dangerous than his cookie cutter plan. But how to make a cool showdown with a planet? We want to blow things up in the end! After all the we want a great final. A Cthulhu like entity would be boring as well. An earthquake would be a fun end, we remember that, but the administrator is still the best villain. After all we want to INTERACT with him - or at least kill him.
6. The McGuffin
We still need a reason why the player characters go through all of this. There has to be a reason for them - something to win. This is especially important in a location based adventure, because you can't just push them along the plot. Often it makes sense to use the motivations of specific charcters as reason, but never underestimate the motivational power of filthy lucre or powerful items. Working since 1974. :)
Example: The administration looks for workforce, so it seems pretty simple to get them here. No reason not to offer the player characters a huge ammount of money and point to the cool stuff they will be able to afford with it. The administration is pretty sure, it does not need to pay anyways in the end. And because PCs are rarely miners, it would make sense to offer them a contractor's job in security. A good reason to send them to the suicide plains. Maybe hook them up with a NPC they like from earlier adventures: the NPC gets a job there and because of a favor he is owing them, he gets them this excuse of a well paid job. It's only 1 week anyways...
7. Space for wandering off
It is good to give the players some freedom. A place, that is not directly connected to the bigger scheme. If any locations are left over, just use those. And if you have the feeling that you could improve the atmosphere of the whole adventures by adding a place or two, add them now. Remember: something should happen everywhere! But whatever is going on here should be simple and work on itself.
Example: The ocean and the "oil" platform are not really important to the plot, but they are great to add to the feeling of solitude. Still we want something to happen there. So how about an attack of sea monsters and a rowdy bar with suicidal sailor man on the plattform?
You see: just by going through a few basic ideas in a structured manner a couple of times, I have a lot of stuff to run with. Just look at same ideas over and over and connect them. Because you think the scenes in locations and not in plot, the players have a lot of freedom. And best: you only need the write down a few lines and everything should work from there.
The have a look at the whole write up, read this post: The Wails of Planet Norr
And to keep it extrasimple, just copy and paste the 7 steps in your document:
1. Have a one line idea or title
2. Create 6 to 8 mini locations with hooks
3. Decide if the single locations are about ACTION or INTERACTION, or something else
4. Adding a TWIST or three
5. A villain
6. The McGuffin
7. Spaces for wandering off
Savage Worlds RPG Dice Roller Software
You want to use all the funky dice in Savage Worlds like d4, d6, d8, d10 and d12? And obviously the Wild Die should be included?
My Viennese GM Flanf has an amazing program on his homepage. He did it himself.
All your stated characters from Savage Worlds can finally be played much faster. But obviously the program also rolls d20 and d100. And there is even card support. So the program can simulate a Poker Deck.
Here you find Flanf's Dice Roller!
You will find a more detailed description on his page.
My Viennese GM Flanf has an amazing program on his homepage. He did it himself.
All your stated characters from Savage Worlds can finally be played much faster. But obviously the program also rolls d20 and d100. And there is even card support. So the program can simulate a Poker Deck.
Here you find Flanf's Dice Roller!
You will find a more detailed description on his page.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Autumn Silence
November and December I did not post a lot. This had mainly to do with the fact, that I got involved in 2 Google Wave RPGs:
an English language D&D4 Ebberon adventure where I participate as a player
and a
German language Primetime Adventures pilot called "Spacemarines!". I am directing the latter.
Both games are still running at the moment at a comfortable pace, although they slowed down a little bit.
So I have more time for the blog again. :)
In case you want to participate or just want a Wave invitation, just leave a comment here.
an English language D&D4 Ebberon adventure where I participate as a player
and a
German language Primetime Adventures pilot called "Spacemarines!". I am directing the latter.
Both games are still running at the moment at a comfortable pace, although they slowed down a little bit.
So I have more time for the blog again. :)
In case you want to participate or just want a Wave invitation, just leave a comment here.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Doctor Who RPG: Adventures in Time and Space - Campaign Planning
Actually I spent the last month collecting ideas for a Doctor Who campaign for Cubicle 7's new game. For whatever reason I mad notes mostly in my iPod touch or on Evernote on my Android phone.
I guess this has to do with the fact that I think about it before going to bed or when waking up. Maybe it is also about the fact that I have much better portable devices for notes nowadays.
Anyways: my notes are pretty incoherent at the moment and in a mix of German and English.
Still I created a new way of sketching adventures and I hope that it works out fine.
I will soon post a first sample adventure.
The basic idea for the campaign is the following:
The player characters are from all over time and space (there has been no character creation yet). The find their way into a broken TARDIS. Inside the dark time capsule they meet the other PCs and a seemingly dead old woman in a techno coffin. The old woman sometimes talks a little bit and explains that the TARDIS was nearly destroyed and its pilot, the Doctor Who, has been thrown out in the Vortex by an unknown opponent and is lost in time and space.
The only way to repair the TARDIS and make her route controllable again is by letting her drift along the Doctor's fall and collect the parts he has lost. This cosmic hint hunt can only be done by free moving people and as soon as the TARDIS has landed somewhere, the PCs have to leave the time capsule with a provided cronon measuring device, and get 3 readings from different points at least 400 meters apart from each other and with 15 minutes between them. With this readings it is possible to measure the source of the cronons - most probably one of the items the Doctor lost - and retrieve them. The item will allow the TARDIS to travel to the next spacetime location, until the Doctor has been found.
Obviously each of the places is "interesting" and there will be an adventure before the item is returned to the TARDIS.
I have a millions of ideas for adventures. Basically you can go through your whole RPG collection and turn every scenario you ever wanted to play in an episode, but it will also depend on what characters the players choose.
The 1 items are:
1. Psychic Paper
2. Coat
3. Sonic Screwdriver
4. Converse Shoes
(As you can see it is about the 10th Doctor.)
I guess this has to do with the fact that I think about it before going to bed or when waking up. Maybe it is also about the fact that I have much better portable devices for notes nowadays.
Anyways: my notes are pretty incoherent at the moment and in a mix of German and English.
Still I created a new way of sketching adventures and I hope that it works out fine.
I will soon post a first sample adventure.
The basic idea for the campaign is the following:
The player characters are from all over time and space (there has been no character creation yet). The find their way into a broken TARDIS. Inside the dark time capsule they meet the other PCs and a seemingly dead old woman in a techno coffin. The old woman sometimes talks a little bit and explains that the TARDIS was nearly destroyed and its pilot, the Doctor Who, has been thrown out in the Vortex by an unknown opponent and is lost in time and space.
The only way to repair the TARDIS and make her route controllable again is by letting her drift along the Doctor's fall and collect the parts he has lost. This cosmic hint hunt can only be done by free moving people and as soon as the TARDIS has landed somewhere, the PCs have to leave the time capsule with a provided cronon measuring device, and get 3 readings from different points at least 400 meters apart from each other and with 15 minutes between them. With this readings it is possible to measure the source of the cronons - most probably one of the items the Doctor lost - and retrieve them. The item will allow the TARDIS to travel to the next spacetime location, until the Doctor has been found.
Obviously each of the places is "interesting" and there will be an adventure before the item is returned to the TARDIS.
I have a millions of ideas for adventures. Basically you can go through your whole RPG collection and turn every scenario you ever wanted to play in an episode, but it will also depend on what characters the players choose.
The 1 items are:
1. Psychic Paper
2. Coat
3. Sonic Screwdriver
4. Converse Shoes
(As you can see it is about the 10th Doctor.)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Free dungeon map
Here you can find a free dungeon map.
It is a pity that the description is in German.
Thanks to the LARP dungeon masters Nik and Claudia!
It is a pity that the description is in German.
Thanks to the LARP dungeon masters Nik and Claudia!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
My RPG Calendar 2010
January
21st Luftenwelter 34: Valandir the Great (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
26th Nyrondria 24: Ethic wants the Stone! (Tom;Dan,Jor,Man,Ser)
February
7th Luftenwelter 35: Hertie's Awakening and Mutter's Demise (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
16th Luftenwelter 36: Return of the Aegis at the jelly lake (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
March
-
April
15th Luftenwelter 37: Cave of the Gem / Vankaut Falling? (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
May
-
June
16th Nyrondria 25: The Final Battle against Sophilis (Tom;Dan,Jor,Man,Ser)
21st Luftenwelter 38: Memories of Destiny in the Gem Sanctum (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
28th Luftenwelter 39: Out of the box: Versus Croc and Beligor (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
July
-
August
10th Luftenwelter 40: The Final Battle against Theladios and Baal (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
24th Doctor Who 1: Starlight Casino (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
30th Doctor Who 2: In the Realm of the Gardener (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
September
7th Doctor Who 3: The Experiments of the Gardener (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
14th Doctor Who 4: The Time Flower (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
21st Doctor Who 5: Maggots without Master (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
27th Doctor Who 6: Oblivion Station (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
October
19th Doctor Who 7: The captive lizard (Jor;Dan,Hel)
28th Doctor Who 8: At the end of the Doctor (Jor;Dan,Hel)
November
26th Doctor Who 9: 10.000 Time Lord Souls (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
December
2nd Doctor Who 10: Facing the Looper (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
My RPG Calendar 2011
My RPG Calendar 2009
My RPG Calendar 2008
21st Luftenwelter 34: Valandir the Great (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
26th Nyrondria 24: Ethic wants the Stone! (Tom;Dan,Jor,Man,Ser)
February
7th Luftenwelter 35: Hertie's Awakening and Mutter's Demise (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
16th Luftenwelter 36: Return of the Aegis at the jelly lake (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
March
-
April
15th Luftenwelter 37: Cave of the Gem / Vankaut Falling? (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
May
-
June
16th Nyrondria 25: The Final Battle against Sophilis (Tom;Dan,Jor,Man,Ser)
21st Luftenwelter 38: Memories of Destiny in the Gem Sanctum (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
28th Luftenwelter 39: Out of the box: Versus Croc and Beligor (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
July
-
August
10th Luftenwelter 40: The Final Battle against Theladios and Baal (Ser;Dan,Jor,Jea)
24th Doctor Who 1: Starlight Casino (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
30th Doctor Who 2: In the Realm of the Gardener (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
September
7th Doctor Who 3: The Experiments of the Gardener (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
14th Doctor Who 4: The Time Flower (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
21st Doctor Who 5: Maggots without Master (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
27th Doctor Who 6: Oblivion Station (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
October
19th Doctor Who 7: The captive lizard (Jor;Dan,Hel)
28th Doctor Who 8: At the end of the Doctor (Jor;Dan,Hel)
November
26th Doctor Who 9: 10.000 Time Lord Souls (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
December
2nd Doctor Who 10: Facing the Looper (Jor;Dan,Hel,Jea)
My RPG Calendar 2011
My RPG Calendar 2009
My RPG Calendar 2008
Savage Worlds Plush Power & Plunder: Pregenerated Characters
In case that we finally play the Hospital adventure I posted in this blog, I wanted to create some pregens. The players want stuffed animals as characters, that's clear. What is not clear is what specializations or niches the characters are going to have. So I came up with the following ideas - and will stat them up here:
Big Teddy - Strongmen with little Dexterity. Defender.
Skillmonkey - Has lots of non combat ability. Kind of a nerd. Healer as well?
Faceman - specialized in Charisma and persuasion.
Flitzer - Not much of a fighter, but very mobile. Less combat focus.
Woom Uahrtist - A martial artist. Striker.
Superteddy - A charcter specialized in the skills that are unusal, like bouncing, detachable eye, bouncing etc.
Trenchcoat Teddy - A weapon specialist.
I think a wizard would be too much for a one shot. Spells in the original system are not very combat focused and so it would be a bad fit for Savage Worlds anyways.
A beastmaster character would be an option, but could short circuit the big challenge of the one shot: the cat, so I won't make one either.
Big Teddy - Strongmen with little Dexterity. Defender.
Skillmonkey - Has lots of non combat ability. Kind of a nerd. Healer as well?
Faceman - specialized in Charisma and persuasion.
Flitzer - Not much of a fighter, but very mobile. Less combat focus.
Woom Uahrtist - A martial artist. Striker.
Superteddy - A charcter specialized in the skills that are unusal, like bouncing, detachable eye, bouncing etc.
Trenchcoat Teddy - A weapon specialist.
I think a wizard would be too much for a one shot. Spells in the original system are not very combat focused and so it would be a bad fit for Savage Worlds anyways.
A beastmaster character would be an option, but could short circuit the big challenge of the one shot: the cat, so I won't make one either.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Savage Worlds Tricks Fast Fix
While I talked about fixing Savage Worlds Tricks a lot in this blog, I realized that maybe it is not even necessary, if the GM gives out a bennie for every well described trick. My problem with tricks: while they are a great first step to promote unusual combat actions by players - much better than in all older RPGs I know - they still have the problem, that I normal attack can explode ad infinitum and tricks can't.
If the GM gave out a bennie for every well described trick, maybe even if it failed, that would beat the exploding damage of normal attacks.
As a player that would be a great incentive for me. Most of my Savage Worlds GMs weren't that generous though.
If the GM gave out a bennie for every well described trick, maybe even if it failed, that would beat the exploding damage of normal attacks.
As a player that would be a great incentive for me. Most of my Savage Worlds GMs weren't that generous though.
Kill'em and take their theory!
Last week (Saturday, the 21st of November) I held a lecture on RPGs and RPG theory in Vienna in the MQ in the Quartier für digitale Kultur.
I chose the name Kill'em and take their theory! - RPG-Theorie zwischen Schwert und Method Acting
I had a lot of fun doing it, and in the end the 90 to 120 minutes seemed to be nearly too short.
I also showed some videos. Here are the links:
The Gamers - Clip I showed
D&D 80ies Commercial
Dark Dungeons
I chose the name Kill'em and take their theory! - RPG-Theorie zwischen Schwert und Method Acting
I had a lot of fun doing it, and in the end the 90 to 120 minutes seemed to be nearly too short.
I also showed some videos. Here are the links:
The Gamers - Clip I showed
D&D 80ies Commercial
Dark Dungeons
Friday, November 6, 2009
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) RPG & Other Strangeness! Do you remember?
I just stumbled upon the Terror Bears in the internet. If you ever player the old Palladium Books Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG you will be amazed to find the great old art by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird all up on the internet. This is an amazing place for TMNT art!
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