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Ideas for Future Games.

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Discussion Host
NPC, 3 posts
Sat 13 May 2017
at 19:14
  • msg #1

Ideas for Future Games

Discuss ideas for future games here. What do you enjoy? What tribunals? What aspects of gameplay? Are there any published adventures you've been wanting to try?
callen
player, 2 posts
Sun 14 May 2017
at 14:19
  • msg #2

Ideas for Future Games

So, this forum started with a few of us bouncing around some ideas. Shadowsmith and I had both suggested smaller covenants could be better, with players controlling relatively few characters and not requiring the SG(s) to control lots of covenfolk. Here are some other things I've seen as killers:
  • Having the group as a whole write out a charter.
  • Too much time between starting and playing (character generation, the above point, etc.)
  • The standard disappearance in RPoL and other online games.
I think ArM can handle some of this particularly well. Specifically, with troupe-style play some of the disappearance can be mitigated. A player disappears, and their magus works in the lab while others control the grogs they used to until they return or just fade away. ArM is worse for the prior two points, but they can be mitigated. That was part of the reason for the suggestion of small numbers.



Along these lines, I'm running a game that seems to be collapsing. It started with a core of Tremere and Mercurians (some overlap). A lot was planned based on this. All three have disappeared, thankfully with notice, but still. So now lots of integral plot points have become derailed just as we start to move along better. I think I have a pretty dedicated few with me, and I don't think competing for players with another game is necessarily in our interests. I've started to wonder if porting over characters (with changes if players desire) and merging them into a new game with multiple SGs and very few non-magi to cut down on busy-work would be a good thing. At the same time, I don't want to cut into that other player's (who suggested running something) ideas. Just looking to bounce some ideas around and see if maybe there is a win-win here somewhere.
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