{"id":185,"date":"2007-05-28T22:03:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-05-28T22:03:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T22:03:31","slug":"i-have-played-spirit-of-the-century-and-i-am-exited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/i-have-played-spirit-of-the-century-and-i-am-exited\/","title":{"rendered":"I have played Spirit of the Century and I am exited."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a dozen reasons why, but the bottom line is that I think this is quite possibly *the* game to use for a regularly-scheduled, everyone-makes-up-a-character-and-whoever-shows-up-plays, campaign.<br \/>\nIn quick summation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Century Club is the easy background that ties everyone together and explains why [random list of this evening&#8217;s participants] were called in for [current problem].\n<li>The adventure setups can easily be resolved in one session.\n<li>The characters are very very competent (nigh on Amberite-level), so it&#8217;s really no problem if only a few people can play that week, or if a bunch can &#8212; the opposition can remain the same.\n<li>Character progression is comparatively slow and applied to everyone (not just the folks who show up a lot), so you don&#8217;t need to worry about falling behind if you&#8217;re busy for awhile.\n<li>The episodic nature of the villain-of-the-week, coupled with the fact that half of any GM&#8217;s prep will be making up a list of PC Aspects to compel in interesting ways, plus that fact that less-played PCs don&#8217;t fall behind means that (a) Anyone can GM if they want and (b) the various GMs can have their own characters to pull out and play when they&#8217;re not in the hot seat.  It is EASY to switch GMs around in the same setting with minimal fear of stepping on someone else&#8217;s uber storyline.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Picture everyone with a character.  A wiki full of the NPCs we&#8217;ve introduced&#8230; a list of all the pulp novels we&#8217;ve &#8220;written&#8221;&#8230; and the sure knowledge that, say, &#8220;Saturdays are a Game Day.&#8221;<br \/>\nI am excited. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a dozen reasons why, but the bottom line is that I think this is quite possibly *the* game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}