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@pyrephox

@pyrephox said in Valorous Dominion:

I'm struggling a bit with the game's system as someone who ran a small plot, and how to build social challenges that allow me to work off of the characters' skills involved, rather than the players, who may still be trying to understand the theme and setting (as am I) well enough to develop effective reactions.

Anyone more familiar with the system have more insight on how to create social/intellectual challenges and opportunities that rely on characters' competencies rather than players' competencies (and my competence to accurately and usefully convey all the information in the scene that the players might need to make effective choices)?

I'm not sure what houserules have been bolted on for this game, but the stock answer within Pendragon is basically that... you don't. The system is laser focused on replicating Mallory-style Arthurian romances with the players as Arthurian knights, and anything that isn't to do with that is left out by design.

I definitely have a type, looking back at my longest running characters. They've all been terribly sad, wounded people who hid it with varying degrees of success behind a gruff or glib exterior, and they've mostly been better people than they'd like anybody to know. Basically if I can get people saying "Oh, poor <charactername>", I've done my job.

Yes, please!

Bummed as I am at how things turned out, you've got nothing to apologize for.

Darkwater came back during what is, for me, the darkest part of the year. It gave me something pleasant and creative and social to do when I would have just been stewing. It put me back in touch with some wonderful people (you're one of them, for the record) and introduced me to some new ones. I'll be grateful for that forever.

I'm sad to see it go, but I understand, and I'm sorry I poofed off the way I did tonight.

Updated.

The finale of our first big plot is scheduled for this upcoming Tuesday! If you've drifted off and would like come help put the kibosh on the Big Bad, we'd love to have you back. If you'd like to get in on the ground floor of the next one, it's a great time to do it.

do a kevin sorbo god is not dead mush

The log just went up of a really lovely scene that @EmmahSue ran a little while ago. It's a long'un, but it's a good'un!

http://darkwater.wikidot.com/log:2018-02-20-the-misty-mountains-cold

She's also just introduced a new stable of NPCs to bother, and she ran a killer scene just tonight. @Cobaltasaurus has also been on a roll of running top notch stuff, lately, with a bunch more scheduled for the upcoming week.

Throw away your bibles, people, this is the real Good News.

A cup of mayonnaise
a large bowl of butter
a lot of cheese
and a pinch of butter

just mix that all together and then rub it on both of these guys

It's fun playing the straight man when you've got quality lunatics like Horatio to react against. Especially when you get to no-sell tranq darts.

It's been a long time since I played one of these, but here are the ones I remember.

Currently:
Nowhere.

Formerly:

Eddie @ Darkwater, Winter Changeling
Jimmy @ Darkwater, Summer Changeling
Jonah @ Darkwater, Skin Thief
Theophile @ Penny Dreadful, Moon Court Changeling
Murphy @ The Reach, Cheiron Group Hunter

Thanks to the wonderful @EmmahSue, this past weekend we got to:

• Knock out a dog!
• Steal snowmobiles!
• Finally got to use a bunch of those Contracts you never get to use!
• Go up a mountain to die, maybe! We'll see!

She even managed to schedule it around some of our UK timezone players, which we have now. Good news for early birds and those trapped on some bleak island. It's good stuff, y'all, check it out.