{"id":115,"date":"2007-10-08T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-10-08T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:59:47","slug":"gaming-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/gaming-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mix of gaming this weekend.
\n((Blogging bitching: it really should be possible to just hit Ctrl-B in Moveabletype to Boldface something. It worked in 2.0 for pete’s sake — you mean to tell me you can’t do it NOW?))
\nTabletop<\/strong>
\nPlayed Spirit of the Century on Friday night. I pretty much went in with a scenario ‘aimed’ at two player characters who bailed out at the last moment, so I had to wing it.
\nLuckly, SotC is good at winging it. I had:
\n– The Daring Magpie – burglar and dilettante faceman, who has done a couple sessions already.
\n– Rami Samiti – East Indian psychic: ditto.
\n– Trent McCoy – new character for a player who’s been at all the games — a driver and ‘gun man’.
\n– Beau Brass – a musician and smooth talker.
\nMy basic method with these games is to ‘focus’ on one or two characters in each session — specifically, I’ll pick someone who’s already been at the game a couple times, and make this ‘their’ session. I was going to game at the retired character for Trent’s player, but he was, as I said, retired, so that indicated The Daring Magpie and\/or Rami as the focal point.
\nThose two characters are different enough, and I’m lazy enough, that I didn’t want to screw around with working out a story that featured both of them equally. Rami had a lot of stuff going on in “The Ape Soldier of Teyawasu”, so that mean The Daring Magpie.
\nTherefore: social situations, schmoozing, and possibly some sneaking about and stealing stuff. Main focus: something both urban and urbane (based on player comment).
\nThen, if we have new players, I try to throw something in for them. Trents a drive and shooter. Beau is also new.
\nSo… I opened with a car chase, moved to New York City for the main action (since we’d already ‘done’ L.A.), and set the whole thing around a music festival at the Woolworth Building, to give Beau some musical spotlight.
\nThe heroes started out in mid-chase, trying to stop the bad guys from delivering something to NYC for Doctor Methuselah. They stop them, open the crate with the MacGuffin inside, and find a note from Doctor M himself that reads:<\/p>\n

\nHello Century Club,
\nIf you’re reading this, you’ve stopped my witless minions from delivering a key piece of equipment I require for my current project.
\nHowever, this puts you in a dilemma.
\nWhile the project in question would be a brilliant step forward for mankind, it also requires certain sacrifices you would likely find objectionable. You have, probably unknowingly, stopped that plan by acquiring the object in this box. Bravo.
\nHowever, the device that requires this object is already in place and will<\/em> be activated on [date two days hence], regardless. Without this object in place, as a focus for the devices power, well over ninety percent of the population of Manhattan will perish.
\nSo:<\/strong><\/em> Do you keep the object, foil my plans, but doom a city, or deliver the object and complete the device (and with it, my original plan)?
\nEither way, it is now your problem. Good luck, god speed, etc.
\nM<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then I just sat back and watched the fireworks.
\nWe had a lot of digressions and such, simply because we hadn’t played or seen each other in a month, but all in all it was a good session and lots of fun.<\/p>\n

\n

WoW<\/strong>
\nGrezzk joined the Scholomance Debate Team on the Farstriders server a few weeks back. Since then, I haven’t done a LOT with the guild members, but the stuff I have done has been both fun and a good learning experience. I’ve also got a lot of good loot recently, but frankly that’s been mostly all my own doing.<\/p>\n