Dragon Blooded *bounce*

[chrisvenus]

Spent half an hour over lunch sketching up the plot for my dragon blooded game. I am bouncing lots at the thought of running this (though slightly worried because I have never run anything as politically as this might be). I do also have one other concern with my plot. There might be too much of it. :)

I started off with a simple premise (which I won't name because players are reading this). I then built up a few of the key players in this plot (I have rough idea of what the PCs are whcih is socialisers so I need lots of NPCs probbaly). I then came up with a bit more of the setting. This then gave rise to some other interesting plots. And now I am worried it might explode out of control. :) It is only meant to be a one off test run... :)

My main concern really now is fleshing out all the NPCs. I am planning to start it at a party which will probably have at least 50 or so people at it, possibly more. I'm thinking that they will talk to a fair few of these so I need some idea of who is there. I don't need to stat them but I probably need at least Name, House, One sentence description (or more). And I hate names. :)

Oh well, it should be glorious at least. :)

Anyway, back to work now. Troubleshooting to do which is more interesting than documentation. :)

Comments

Cool !

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Y'know - maybe instead of taking an unpaid job with Cam you should run a big Dragon Blooded game ?

It's the same thing which I regret about the RPGSoc society game - we created something good, but in the process lost much more. Why ? Because people focussed on the soc-game instead of doing their own radical creative thang.

Re: Cool !

[chrisvenus]

Its a reasonable point so definitely deserves an answer. There are a couple of reasons I suppose. Firstly the cam job I was talking about earlier will be in some ways easier. If running a regular game I would have worries about getting things ready and flapping too much but flapping inside my own head which tends to get me down. I don't mind running games, I jsut need to make sure I won't stress about them. :) With the cam job I don't hve to run anything. All I have to do is come up with neat plot ideas and links for other people.

Secondly there is the confidence factor whcih is the bane of my existance. I've run a few little RPGs and played in many. The stuff i have run has always been for close friends who I trust enough that I'm not embarrassed or worried about being crap with them. If I were to run a game I don't want to run it with a small group of people but I worry and hide from running stuff for people I don't know as well etc. With the cam job I wouldn't be running anything so no worries there. the plots I came up with would be run by other STs if they liked them which means a) no crap plots I wrote would see the light of day b) the plots would be run by other people and it is their responsibility to make sure it works. :)

I have a few tabletops I'd like to run. For a start I want to run a solar exalted game as well as a dragon blooded one. I also want to run a Stargate game (with Steve probably/possibly) at some point. It seems that I am just a whole lot happier coming up with ideas than I am running stuff.

I know it is a silly worry since the games I have run have been well received. I've run some Star Wars which the players seem to thoroughly enjoy (so they tell me though their failure to answer the questions I have asked them means I'm not running anythign for them at the moment *hint*). I ran a one off solar exalted game which althoguh completely off track and derailed from the original intent seemed popular enough (thoguh i ascribe that to the players having fun with each other ratehr than anything i did). I dunno. Maybe I should just jump in at the deep end and run some more stuff and get confidence that way. Bit of a vicious circle really cos that is scary... :)

Anyway, more of a wibbling answer than you expected I'm sure. :)

Re: Cool !

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It's a good answer, though.

Even if there's some irony involved that when there's people who I think shouldn't be attempting big games they always seem to, somehow.

[onyxtears.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the game will be great.
Plus I think you will find that it will depend on how we react, working out name and descriptions for 50 guys is a tall order, what if we only speak to 3?

It's your call, your game, everyone has different styles.

M

[chrisvenus]

I agree and am unlikely to do more than work out 50 names that are increasingly crap. I have a worrying feeling though that at least ten people will be solidly defined as they are plot relevant, maybe more the way my mind is going at the moment. Then I hate the thought of pushing you towards those ten purely because they have descriptions and others don't.

Also given your characters' set-ups (non-fighty, not that thinky and *highly* social) I would expect the game to be a lot more about talking to people than about looking for clues or fighting people. I may be wrong of course and will be happy for it to go other ways but it is much easier to ad-lib a fight scene or two than to make up a single character name. :)

I almsot certainly won't name all of them unless I can find a system of doing so to make my life easier and almost certianly there will just be crap names towards the end.

I might even ask for people to start giving me names on here... :) If five people come up with 3 names that is fifteen character names already. :) Another fifteen myself and half the party is sorted. :)

I'll sort it out though, don't worry. :)

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

look back through my LJ and you'll find i had a similar problem - some nice chaps gave me links to sites with names of all types...

[chrisvenus]

Oh, and i forgot to say, my style of game tends to try to be a "real" world. Just because you only speak to three people doesn't mean that there are only three people doing things. There will still be 47 other people plotting and scheming and possibly going to intrude upon what you are doing if you like it or not... :) To be fair most of them probably won't but *everybody* who is dragon blooded should be real. Servants can be extras but I don't like the idea of dynasts without even a one sentence description... :)

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

Dragon Blooded... *drools*

Mmmmm.


As for names, try this:

1) pick a nice flowery name for a colour
2) pick an interesting animal's name
3) pick a precious stone of your choice
4) choose a feature of physical or political geography
5) choose a number between 1-10 or factors of 10
6) choose the name of an interesting and appropriate-sounding plant

Pick and mix any 2/3/3 of the above. For example, Thousand Orchid Storm would work nicely for a Wind aspected combat munchie and Onyx Tiger for an Earth aspected social prowler...

[chrisvenus]

I don't know if I've said it before but you are a godess Isi. :)

Now to go write a list of plants and stones and stuff and see if I can make an automatic character name generator. :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

OK... <sound of scribbling>

I get Pink Wombat Daffodil. Hmm... sounds like a hideously powerful combat machine to me.

<grin>

[chrisvenus]

And having poked this idea a bit more it occured to me that http://labs.google.com/sets will probably be quite helpful. You have a few ideas for one of the parts, storm and wind, for example, you type them in and it returns you lots of other stuff. Not all of them are good of course but some of them are. Lightning, rain clouds, hurricanes, smoke... Google sets is great. :)