@eimyr what do you think it sounds better, to have them invited to report what they did on the enemy camp, or to have that exposure I want in a feast and they see the high ranks from afar?
hmmm yeah, but I mean, it could be a horribly bad idea
I honestly like the both equally... or maybe MASH them together
see, they are at the feast and see the high ranks, hear some comments by low ranks around them, and see the high ranks go into a room to discuss important matters
so the characters might try to sneak around or devise a plot to get their ears in
but if I see my players are not doing any of that, I could just have them called to report the camp thing to have them in
OK. they are brought in to report. They enter in medias res, while the higher ups are discussing important matters. Then they get to report and if they are sneaky they might linger on. They may interrupt to contribute if they have something of value to say.
OK, I have a tip. If you REALLY REALLY need the players to do X, don't try to goad them to do X or wait until they do X on their own. Just come out clean, say, "blah blah blah and then you did X, so now blah blah blah".
I'd say - you reached a fork and there was nothing to see, so you chose a random path, was it left or right? OK. Now there's a dragon.
Try this: they are asked to report at the meeting. they may go or not. if they do, they're in. if they don't the effect of this meeting they hear announced on the street
then, if they went, they may go around to snoop. if they do, they get extra info. if not, this info is used against them later
However, I have some funnel - like stuff too. I have a timeline of events that happen (unless prevented) which are also the points where I "update" the world
"People think they need to try to prepare themselves for every conceivable action the PCs might take. But, in point of fact, that’s not situation-based prep. That’s plot-based prep juiced up on Choose Your Own Adventure steroids."
@Golokopitenko What I prepare for using the Layer Cake of nodes is that I set up "event triggers". E.g. "the Huns attack when the players a) leave the city, b) it's past 24th April c) are provoked d) the players made Investigation plotline irrelevant
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@Golokopitenko mostly because for me prepping means producing LOTS of papers and in the heat of the game it's hard to keep track of my notes unless I give them a lot of structure
I've been looking for something like a book-writing software but I"m too miserly to shell out for Scrivener, so I'm going to try to use this instead.
@Sejanus A client once insisted I design and layout an anthology textbook in MS Word. [shudder] Word has a tendency to re-build its layout from the ground up every time you re-open the file, and if two commands interact with each other sequentially, it may randomly switch up the sequence.
@eimyr The first and last time I used Publisher was in high school when the main office had me help them with a layers problem.
... I just learned my morning commute pick-me-up sing-a-long song has an OR instead of AND in the most essential line of lyrics, which completely changes its message
@trogdor Yeah, no. It's mostly just that mission intel is often inaccurate, so don't sweat getting everything perfect or if the story veers away from the intel.
If I could find people, I'm sure we could make scheduling work, but I've not had much luck. Wonder if I could find people for some sort of online group.
Then each player rolls for resources (exactly what skill depends on the context). Successes stack fate points on the mission aspect; they can be used by the PCs during the mission to invoke any aspect, but only to improve or re-roll a mission-critical skill.
I really like this, and think it'll help a lot with some of the things our group's been struggling with.
There's also some Majestic 12 variants for invention that make it a bit simpler and faster.
I'm trying to figure whether or not I should use a mission briefing structure for our first session, despite the mission being rather nebulous. I think not.
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