I took a page from the Juvenis post to write this, as the Senex campaign rewrite has fallen behind as I get used to a few life changes.
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
August MC Post, #2
With the new job, time has been at a premium of late. I intend to continue with the RPG 201 classes I have started (it hurt to put them aside for a bit), but I did need to write a MasterClass post for those who are supporting me on Patreon. Math discusses the difficulties of presenting a realistic world where players can simply express actions, such as walking 20 miles, with no negative reprecussions on the player's feet. As a DM, we need the players to feel something in connection with those statements ... something that acts as a confrontation against the party's will, something that has to be overcome for the party to succeed. Something that makes the whole an adventure of willfulness as much as an adventure of accomplishment.
I took a page from the Juvenis post to write this, as the Senex campaign rewrite has fallen behind as I get used to a few life changes.
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I took a page from the Juvenis post to write this, as the Senex campaign rewrite has fallen behind as I get used to a few life changes.
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Brilliant ! It occured to me, in the past, that there should be ways to make the players feel more of the burdens of their decisions, but as you put it, most of the ideas felt like pulling things out of my ass (I got the repetition part right, though).
ReplyDeleteBut math ... Oh my, that's just great. I've been shouldering some parts of the math for my current groups for some time now (among some other part of the game), and I will promptly give it back to them. Resource management has to be felt, and mistakes made must count.
May I inquire : if a player doesn't take notes (because he has a good memory, or remember things in a general sense but doesn't are for names), and thus can't use names or remember details, do you help, or are notes a burden that should be on the players (for things that happened to them, people met, etc.) ?
Anyway, that was a great and inspiring read, helpful and habit-refreshing !
I reason that the character WOULD remember the name, so I make that concession. Sometimes it happens that no one remembers the name of an NPC; in which case we just retcon a new name and try to remember it the second time. The online blog at least keeps notes on everything (though sometimes it is hard to find a detail amidst the content).
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