Jun 19, 2015, 6:00 PM

@tragedyjones My basic tips to everybody who wants to create Something Interesting?

  1. Make it mundane. Nobody staffwise really cares if it's a normal mortal that does a thing with normal tools and for normal motives we all see on the news every day.

  2. Never forget how stupid people are. Your NPCs can be jackhole morons. Sometimes the stupider the better. It is very hard to make an NPC TOO stupid. Trust me, someone out there in RL-land is that bad or worse.

  3. Failure is beautiful. When your players fail, it can be hilarious. When your NPCs fail, make it comedy gold. They don't just trip and fall. They trip and fall and knock over a table with six drinks on it, dumping them all over the girls having their night out, two of whom get so angry they start trying to stomp their high heels into your NPC's face.

  4. Aquaman's powers suck. Not the modern day, pumped up Aquaman. I mean the pathetic Aquaman on Superfriends from the Filmation cartoons in the early 80's. All he could do was talk to fish. You know what fish say? "Glub." If you have players who think their awesome power is the PERFECT thing in this situation and it genuinely will not work or even help the situation? Don't be afraid to just make it worse. Like if someone wants to do psychometry on a dirty diaper or something. I've seen these things attempted.

There's probably more, but those four about cover it for me.