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=How to run a Game= | |||
Explain the core mechanics: | |||
- The Roll | |||
- Spending Fortune | |||
- Making Saves | |||
- Magic | |||
Have everyone make characters | |||
Have everyone make the Party | |||
Have everyone make the Map | |||
Generate three quests randomly from the Forces, Places, and Party generated from above. | |||
If it’s meant to be a ‘one shot’, have all the Quests just be three or less encounters. | |||
Players pick one quest. | |||
Generate or pick the encounters as they go. | |||
Somewhere along the Quest give an opportunity for Rest, so the Players can tell stories to recover Fortune and do Rest Actions. Usually this is after an Encounter has ended, but if you’d like to make things harder then give less chances to Rest. | |||
Once the Quest is completed, ask the experience questions and distribute experience. Players can then Level Up their Characters. | |||
Then narrate and/or ask the Players what has changed in the world while they were busy with their Qu | |||
Revision as of 13:47, 24 June 2023
Rule Zero
Whenever you don't know what to do, just think: "What is the most entertaining thing that could happen right now?" and do that (as long as it doesn't really hurt a Player).
What to Do
Whenever the action has stopped, and the Players turn to you to find out what happens next, choose or randomly roll for one of the following:
- Ask someone to make a Roll
- Introduce a Complication / Reveal an Unwelcome Truth
- Offer an Opportunity with a Cost
- Put Someone on the Spot
- Have a Power or Place Do Something Important
- Move a Clock forward (or back!)
- Introduce a new Threat
- Cause Harm
How to run a Game
Explain the core mechanics: - The Roll - Spending Fortune - Making Saves - Magic
Have everyone make characters Have everyone make the Party Have everyone make the Map
Generate three quests randomly from the Forces, Places, and Party generated from above.
If it’s meant to be a ‘one shot’, have all the Quests just be three or less encounters.
Players pick one quest.
Generate or pick the encounters as they go.
Somewhere along the Quest give an opportunity for Rest, so the Players can tell stories to recover Fortune and do Rest Actions. Usually this is after an Encounter has ended, but if you’d like to make things harder then give less chances to Rest.
Once the Quest is completed, ask the experience questions and distribute experience. Players can then Level Up their Characters.
Then narrate and/or ask the Players what has changed in the world while they were busy with their Qu