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.
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.
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.
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.
But, it's time to go to work, so gotta end here...
Posted by fictionman at May 24, 2005 06:52 AM | TrackBack (1)