Re: Input/advice: Black Box games?
So the players get pre-gens? Or do they have some generic input for their characters? Do you use the dice roller or roll off-line?
It does seem you'd have to give people at least general descriptives for their various attributes and skills, like weak, average, above average, normal, professional, esceptional, excellent, etc. Or even just a 1-6, or 10, or 20 (depending how granular you want to get) ranking. Real people have a pretty good idea how they stack up even to strangers with just a little evidence.
I'd be good with this for short form games like a 4-8 hour tabletop (probably several weeks or months in PbP), which would mean not having to deal with character development at all. Of course, setting then becomes paramount.
And the story has to be really good.
This message was last edited by the user at 20:25, Tue 15 Sept 2020.