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Favorite Character Goal So Far ...
I have been reading through draft character goals for the new campaign and nearly snort-laughted at this one ... "He intends to complete his mission in spite of his assigned party's incompetence, and will succeed in not only identifying sources of arcane power, but in securing them for responsible exploitation." Not quite the format I asked for, but I can completely picture this character now. I am curious what you would pick as a favorite character goal...
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Ok, so hear me out. We start with a character like Marvel's Domino who has a psionic aura that creates situations of unlikely incredible good luck to happen to (or around) her. Here comes a fleet of baddies oh there just happens to be some old abandoned mines that trigger the stockpiles of gunpower in the ship causing a chain reaction destroying all of the, oh what luck but in this case the character is completelly unaware that they are generating this ability. Now flip that and make it the power of incredible Un-luck. Character goal: dont die.
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Hiya Danielle, Nice to (digitally) meet you.
Wanna be part of a TTRPG Podcast?
Hi all. Was wondering if there are any creators out there that would be at all interested in helping to contribute to/participate in/or be a guest on (particularly if you have. project coming out etc) a podcast project I (and several others) have been working on over the past year. We interview guests and generally just talk about TTRPG related content in a silly and open ended way though not without getting into the proverbial weeds as it were. Anywho, anyone who might have a project coming up or has any interested said me DM or reply here.
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@Alex Newman Brilliant Ill send you a DM
Writing Music?
Just curious -- I generally have instrumental music on in the background when I write (I find stuff with lyrics distracts me). I tend to listen to Danny Elfman on shuffle when I'm writing. I know a lot of people like Spotify stations but I don't use them because they're evil (you gotta pick your battles). Does anyone else listen to music and -- if so -- do you have a go to artist or album?
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@Alex Newman I write music for my games when I can find the time and have posted some of it on youtube. Here is a link if you are curious. Are you are interested in making music for your game yourself? Have you done so already? Would be wonderful to hear some of what you have written yourself. As for music that I play in game from already established artists...well that is a very wide net indeed. These days I have been trying out using music as part of the RP but perhaps that is another thread as well. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpQ6aVTEoACApPCgLlCg3_19G-innxGAD
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@Alex Newman I see. Yeah, I was slightly confused by your premise. Sorry If I answered outside of your intended query. To course correct here Ill say the following: naturally what I listen to will be genre specific so the list is endless but two things that I do that might be unique are 1) using lots of the diegetic music (folk songs, choral works, solo period instruments etc) which adds a nice meta-layer to the RP. This is particularly easy if the setting is modern (60s, Vietnam era particularly good). 2) I will use music to begin/end scenes and sessions ala a TV show. So having a 'main theme' to start of the session and get people 'in the mood'. Or to play the CSI: sting or some audio clue to nudge the players in such a way as to say "you have found all the important clues here". Hope this better answers your question. Best, Jay
How do you run interrogations?
Does anyone have a favorite approach to running interrogations? I don't think I have ever run one or played in one that felt like it went well. The players ask a bunch of vague questions expecting lore dumps from a minion. I need something less detailed than a long uncomfortable RP back and forth and more than "you interrogate him for 20 minutes and discover that he really dosn't know much."
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@Alex Newman Second to this. Interrogations can be played as charisma 'battles' and you could even use a collective value of players charismas scores vs. their opponents to serve as a spontaneous and creative HP. (adjusted for any distractions (from other non-charisma based character) or NPC reputation etc etc.
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Jay Underwood
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Music composer, game designer, and university teacher who loves story focused games as much as hex and counter tactical stuff.

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