AsenRG
#FuckWotC #PlayNonDnDGames
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I actually ran that twice, for two groups. I'm still waiting on who would want to be mentioned as a playtester, though...so far, I only got 2 people, one of which is fine with it, and another doesn't want to be mentioned.Today, I'm running the the adventure me and Moracai sent to the Pub - using Mythras Classic Fantasy of course. I skipped on a couple hours of sleep to make pre-gens, but once you've joined a group dance, you dance or die...
However, I'm ALSO going to use this as a way for people that weren't in on the first adventure to join my Orb campaign-in-progress.
So it's all going to happen in the same reality and timeline as the original adventure. How, you might ask?
Their (various) gods are going to send them a dream. In it, they shall see themselves facing the same peril. And at the end, they'd get a warning: you didn't really [censored to avoid spoilers], those guys did, think about joining forces with them!
Hey, it serves my OOC goals: playtesting, getting new people exposed to the system painlessly, and possibly getting them interested to join. I find that to be a rather good idea, even if I say so myself!
You might almost say the times when I was running narrative games - hard to imagine for many of you, I know - haven't passed without a trace...
Either way, I think I'm done with the playtest, on my side. It did serve to kickstart my Orb campaign, but fitting more sessions of the same event in would be too hard.
Amusingly, even though it's a linear adventure, not a single one of those groups stuck to the expected turn of events.
Fun fact, 2 out of 3 groups appreciated the combat system of Mythras, and wanted more of it. They're all going to have their chance, of course...
OTOH, for one of the "pro" groups and for the one "contra", I suspect that this was simply what the most vocal members of those groups said, and that there was some silent opposition among the rest of them... probably about a 50:50 split, actually!
But in both cases, the silent ones didn't want to contradict the vocal ones - I happen to know know both groups were basically pre-existing, I know they're in other games together. So it only makes sense, if it's their usual dynamic.
No surprise. I don't like it, but it's a given that getting people to actually respond honestly is fucking hard unless you interview them separately!
Whatever the case, I'm going to play with those I can get, and wish the rest of them good luck trying to find other games.
Too bad that the most original character we ended up having* was one of those that we're not likely to see again!
Alas, she was played by a player who was part of one of the "contra" groups. Actually, I'm quite sure she was part of the "silent opposition" - she was visibly amused while removing heads and limbs and grasped the concept of Special Effects on the fly - but as stated above, she didn't want to rock the boat (and who could blame her?)...so we're unlikely to see her.
OTOH, I think I can salvage at least part of this. I'm not going to NPC the character, but I can have her popping up
*A renegade ninja who deserted the Evil Ninja Clan, and went to serve... Rosheval, the god of the Paladins. Now, keep in mind that ninja from the Way of the Scorpion are necessarily followers of Nemesis, the Supreme Principle of Evil. So she would have been in danger if she'd stayed in the same religion!
However, none of the above was part of my write-up. I only said "renegade ninja of the Evil Ninja Clan, you tell me whether she's left their faith in Nemesis and who's your new god or goddess".
"She's going to overcompensate after leaving the clan, I believe, tell me which gods are about acting good and proper?"
And that's how she was created at the table. BTW, Rosheval told her he's all for giving people a chance, even if she's his most unexpected follower, given her methods...and if she succeeds, she gets to be accepted as a follower of his!
Yes, he kept his word after they two-shotted the BBEG. So now there IS a ninja serving the god of Paladins, on my version of Orb. Oh, and Rosheval has gained an artefact from Nemesis: the whole adventure became, in this version, part of the gods betting on a kind of VR game, so he won his bet!