Dragon Blooded preparation
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chrisvenusWell, I realised that with 3 days until my dragon blooded game I should try to do some prep work.
The main thing being to copy up my notes from last session into neater form. I think I can remember everything pretty much but a) this might change further down the line and b) I know the players were writing lots down so "pretty much" might not cut the mustard. I am semi-expecting the players to be correcting me on things as I go along and I welcome them to do so if they think I have made a mistake. If so it was probably due to misremembering or thinking that I hadn't defined something when I had in fact.
Anyway, the prep work has got to the stage where I have neatly written down the various peoples and things that were relevant in the last session (not all met, some just mentioned and to be met soon). I even have name of boat they were on which actually came as a minor surprise to me. :)
I think however that I will leave the players to attempt to summarise what happened in the last session before we start. I have a very bad habit of not knowing what I merely thought and what I actually said to them. Thus when giving recaps I don't want to run the risk of saying "blah told you this" when he did no such thing and had just in fact been thinking about it and decided they didn't need to know.
Anyway, I am sitting here half way through writing what I think was said to them by the big plot handout guy. Hopefully I'll be fairly accurate. Then I need to start writing my Dramatis Personae for the next session. About half a dozen people will probably do the main cast with another half dozen or so for supporting characters. However, that is before I actually think too hard about what will be happening. The worst thing is I have to come up with names for all of them. :)
My players will be pleased to knwo also that I have now read a lot of my Abyssals book so I now know lots about the undead and have decided that they are great. Are you afraid yet?
Although I have spent ages doing not a lot so far I have done more than I think. My writing down is woefully slim but another major plot arc has entered my head and pretty much fleshed out on the inside of my eyelids. The silly thing is it isn't anything likely to impact on my game for some time. Just one of those things that is going on elsewhere in the world and that the players might see some peripheral effects of and are unlikely to even notice. :) Having said that though I am sure that by next session I will find them missing the plot I had intended for them and embroiled in the middle of this other one. But that's the way it goes. :)
I am actually vaguely tempted to set up another livejournal as an experiment in keeping all my thoughts about running the game. I would leave it public but it would have to be "not for players eyes". And considering that I might end up running more games in the same world and thus have problems with information clash with people who might become players I am not sure how wise it is. I just quite like the idea of getting feedback from some people on it. Oh well, I might just keep it for my own personal enjoyment and those who I am never going to run games for (mainly people I talk to over exalted mailing lists I guess).
On another point I *really* like the ghosts stuff from Abyssals. Its so much cooler then the ayssals themselves and I really think that currently if i were to run an undead game it would not be abyssals but ghosts. They're great. :)
Probably I will run a solars game at some point. Maybe try to make it a weekday evening thing over the summer. Alternatively maybe some epic games where I try to arrange a weekend of RP. I dare say TFM and AG will be away on summer hols at some point over the summer leaving me the house to do with as I will so a weekend of RP wouldn't be a problem.
I think before I did that I would probably want to write another epic handout of doom! Before running dragon blooded I wrote a 20 page handout for the players with details of the setting and so on without the bias pro-anathema propogandad that litters many of the books. It was great fun and it (I hope) gave the players that were fresh to exalted the right character set. Krys and Steve already knew a reasonable amount about it due to me bouncing and having played some before. Writing handouts tends to focus your knowledge very well though.
Anyway, I should stop thinking about running future games and think about sunday's again. Back to the word doc. :)
The main thing being to copy up my notes from last session into neater form. I think I can remember everything pretty much but a) this might change further down the line and b) I know the players were writing lots down so "pretty much" might not cut the mustard. I am semi-expecting the players to be correcting me on things as I go along and I welcome them to do so if they think I have made a mistake. If so it was probably due to misremembering or thinking that I hadn't defined something when I had in fact.
Anyway, the prep work has got to the stage where I have neatly written down the various peoples and things that were relevant in the last session (not all met, some just mentioned and to be met soon). I even have name of boat they were on which actually came as a minor surprise to me. :)
I think however that I will leave the players to attempt to summarise what happened in the last session before we start. I have a very bad habit of not knowing what I merely thought and what I actually said to them. Thus when giving recaps I don't want to run the risk of saying "blah told you this" when he did no such thing and had just in fact been thinking about it and decided they didn't need to know.
Anyway, I am sitting here half way through writing what I think was said to them by the big plot handout guy. Hopefully I'll be fairly accurate. Then I need to start writing my Dramatis Personae for the next session. About half a dozen people will probably do the main cast with another half dozen or so for supporting characters. However, that is before I actually think too hard about what will be happening. The worst thing is I have to come up with names for all of them. :)
My players will be pleased to knwo also that I have now read a lot of my Abyssals book so I now know lots about the undead and have decided that they are great. Are you afraid yet?
Although I have spent ages doing not a lot so far I have done more than I think. My writing down is woefully slim but another major plot arc has entered my head and pretty much fleshed out on the inside of my eyelids. The silly thing is it isn't anything likely to impact on my game for some time. Just one of those things that is going on elsewhere in the world and that the players might see some peripheral effects of and are unlikely to even notice. :) Having said that though I am sure that by next session I will find them missing the plot I had intended for them and embroiled in the middle of this other one. But that's the way it goes. :)
I am actually vaguely tempted to set up another livejournal as an experiment in keeping all my thoughts about running the game. I would leave it public but it would have to be "not for players eyes". And considering that I might end up running more games in the same world and thus have problems with information clash with people who might become players I am not sure how wise it is. I just quite like the idea of getting feedback from some people on it. Oh well, I might just keep it for my own personal enjoyment and those who I am never going to run games for (mainly people I talk to over exalted mailing lists I guess).
On another point I *really* like the ghosts stuff from Abyssals. Its so much cooler then the ayssals themselves and I really think that currently if i were to run an undead game it would not be abyssals but ghosts. They're great. :)
Probably I will run a solars game at some point. Maybe try to make it a weekday evening thing over the summer. Alternatively maybe some epic games where I try to arrange a weekend of RP. I dare say TFM and AG will be away on summer hols at some point over the summer leaving me the house to do with as I will so a weekend of RP wouldn't be a problem.
I think before I did that I would probably want to write another epic handout of doom! Before running dragon blooded I wrote a 20 page handout for the players with details of the setting and so on without the bias pro-anathema propogandad that litters many of the books. It was great fun and it (I hope) gave the players that were fresh to exalted the right character set. Krys and Steve already knew a reasonable amount about it due to me bouncing and having played some before. Writing handouts tends to focus your knowledge very well though.
Anyway, I should stop thinking about running future games and think about sunday's again. Back to the word doc. :)
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Date: 2003-05-08 11:18 pm (UTC)Afraid ? The Dragon Blooded know no fear !
(That's a "yes", then.)