I've been a bit slow in posting this month. I've been distracted by things. Work, vacation, the ShadowRun game that started on Saturday, a little bit of job hunting... The usual, I guess.Blitzkrieg 2 troubleshoot
Quite a few lunch breaks have gone into prepping for the Shadowrun game. I'm the GM, and I tend to take that pretty seriously. Sometimes I get damn near professional about it. I have high expectations of myself, partly because I've done it for so long. In the first session of the game I had to get five players and their characters to get along and get a job done together. It had to be challenging enough to be engaging, but still easy enough that it wouldn't require them to truly depend on each other for their lives.Blitzkrieg 2 troubleshoot
Often GMs will make the first mission something of a cake walk, a low-planning raid so that the characters can meet each other and see what each other can do. First-time players get to find out what their characters can do. That works, but the rest of the game depends on the players agreeing that they're going to become a team, whether there's a reason for the characters to group up or not.Blitzkrieg 2 troubleshoot
I'm hoping that there's stuff in this first plot to bring them together as a team. They (eventually) came up with a plan, and pulled it off flawlessly. Basically everyone had a part to play. Of course, they're not as done as they think they are, and hopefully at the end the characters will feel drawn together as a team, so the players don't have to do it artificially.Blitzkrieg 2 troubleshoot
But, it's time to go to work, so gotta end here...Blitzkrieg 2 troubleshoot
Posted by fictionman at May 24, 2005 06:52 AM
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