SirGuido
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Preferred Game Systems: L5R, Traveller, Fate Accelerated, Masks
Currently Playing: Nothing.
Currently Running: Nothing.
Favorite Species of Monkey: Anything in a Cage.
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Post by SirGuido on Mar 23, 2014 7:35:30 GMT -8
Ok, so I ran this yesterday at the local con. It was a HUGE success. I had a full table, and everyone kept talking about how awesome it was and what a great time they had. My tweaks from the playtest were exactly what it needed I think. So to back up what everyone says on the podcast, it pays to playtest fo' sho',
The only problems in the game were minor. The one character that at the last minute I wrote on his sheet "natural leader" as an aspect to solve the problem from the playtest that everyone sat around being indecisive... might have been a bad idea. At times I felt that player took over the game a bit. I talked to a few folks afterward and they didn't think it was that bad, but its something for me to think about for my next game.
The second is OMFG one of the guys at my table was racist. Not horribly so, but in a effort to promote diversity at my table I had a black wizard, an hispanic wizard, an asian wizard, and about half were female or gender non-specific. The player who got the hispanic wizard INSISTED on playing in a horribly racist accent the entire time. Which was uncomfortable. It was made doubly so by the fact that we had two hispanic PLAYERS at the table. Oh boy...
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Post by pigsinspaces on Apr 3, 2014 14:45:39 GMT -8
I was thinking about some further airport/Potter mash-ups...
GOODFAIRIES
Scene 1A shipment of Ollivander wands is hi-jacked from the TWA Terminal in New York (theoretically abandoned but it is actually a dedicated wizard airport). Pixie dust is found at the scene pointing to the involvement of fairies ... And any criminal activity connected to the fairies is connected to the Fairy Godfather.
Scene 2 the players must enter Little Fairytown to track down the Fairy Godfather... Actually a converted tenement building populated (borrower style) by a large community of fairies. The concierge/super of the building is It's human face. This is Mr Bottom, devoted servant of the queen of the fairies. The players will need to be shrunk in order to explore Little fairy town beyond the foyer (encounters with feral rats, cats and pigeons are anticipated). They must decide wether to announce themselves to Queen Titania (it is her domain after all) or go straight for the Fairy Godfather.
Scene 3 the Fairy Godfather... It turns out that the wands were stolen to order, by the deposed King Oberon, estranged husband to Titania. He is building an army to overthrow her rule and put himself back on the fairy throne.
ESCAPE FROM ORLANDO
Scene 1 the players are onboard a plane helping transport three prisoners from a magical prison in the Bermuda Triangle to the administrative capital of wizarding in the Americas ... The Magic Kingdom Park in Walt Disney World (hiding in plain sight so to speak). The prisoners are the headless horseman (actually heading out on parole, he is largely rehabilitated, but if his pumpkin head is destroyed he will seek to replace it as soon as possible), The Jersey Devil (kept in protective custody ... It's not very bright ... Being transported to the Magic Kingdom for specialist medical attention ... Will fight anything/anyone once it is freed ... But will flee once it is injured), Maleficent (ultimate Disney bad guy... Turns out Sleeping Beauty was not a work of fiction). Minions of Maleficent on broomsticks attack the plane once it exits the Bermuda triangle, the are aided in this by a Piasa bird (a dragon native to North America). Maleficent exits immediately with the plane in chaos and the pilots disabled. The players will need to battle the Piasa bird, pacify the other prisoners and land the plane.
Scene 2 investigation... There is an inside man in the magic kingdom who got the right transfer documents signed to get Maleficent onto the plane. The players must perform some investigation here to find the inside man and through them to find the missing prisoner.
Scene 3 confrontation and attempted recapturing of Maleficent and her minions deep in the Florida Keys.
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