tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post8137309162924294801..comments2024-03-29T06:16:21.012+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Given My Druthers...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-76902600373300833822015-03-22T23:36:28.511+08:002015-03-22T23:36:28.511+08:00Some friends of mine have done great for years tur...Some friends of mine have done great for years turning emotion focused games into ridiculous sandboxes, and for whatever reason changeling the lost seemed to be one of the more successful ones.<br /><br />You're powered off people, like the vampires, but you don't want people to just survive, you want them to have emotions and stuff you can harvest. That makes random cultural events something that you have a stake in, and so you can grab things from the news and let players muck about with their local cultural impact.<br /><br />The actual core of making this work isn't from the book, but it's about having players say what they will be up to for the next week or so via email about two days before the session, and having two or three GMs work through the different threads to mix them up with whatever supernatural stuff they have come across. Then players can help each other with the various complications, be put into conflict etc. As it's set in a hidden fantasy real world, there's a lot of "of course there would be one of those around, they can have that, but it also is linked to ....."Josh Wnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-6151207291141633192015-03-17T17:44:46.928+08:002015-03-17T17:44:46.928+08:00I'm talking about the actual games, which I pe...I'm talking about the actual games, which I perfectly well remember not knowing what to do with as a teenager because all the good ideas were buried beneath page after page of fluff, touchy-feely nonsense, and epic character generation sections.<br /><br />You make the point perfectly well yourself by admitting you missed what was gameable about Wraith: the Oblivion at the time. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-78149257924285378122015-03-17T09:54:50.501+08:002015-03-17T09:54:50.501+08:00>>beyond a group of people being sad they ar...>>beyond a group of people being sad they are vampires/angry they are werewolves/glum they are dead/ennuye they are fairies, etc<br /><br />What the fuck are you talking about? You're (and so does everybody else so don't feel too too bad) talking about this stuff like you're only familiar with the stereotypes not the actual material. <br /><br />Wraith, for example, and this is something everyone seems to have missed, and I did too back in the day, but mother fucking wraith as an honest to badness mega-dungeon written into the setting. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-19377382566682367642015-03-17T02:26:05.330+08:002015-03-17T02:26:05.330+08:00I've come to the conclusion that most White Wo...I've come to the conclusion that most White Wolf games (especially the latter versions like Changeling: The Lost) would make better movies (probably in the anime style) than games.JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.com