Comments on: Cooperative World Building http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/ Like Hanging at the Cash Register of your Favorite Game Store Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ChattyDM http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/comment-page-1/#comment-63 ChattyDM Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:23:00 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=44#comment-63 Har Har Har!<br/><br/>Uber powerful NPCs (Called Marty Stu on TV Tropes) are fodder for a thousand posts and RPG webcomics by themselves.<br/><br/>In our last session I had my new pet NPC Half-Genius Troll (well quarter genius) sit on the side during the battle to let the players have and keep the spotlight. Har Har Har!

Uber powerful NPCs (Called Marty Stu on TV Tropes) are fodder for a thousand posts and RPG webcomics by themselves.

In our last session I had my new pet NPC Half-Genius Troll (well quarter genius) sit on the side during the battle to let the players have and keep the spotlight.

]]> By: Vanir http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Vanir Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:18:00 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=44#comment-62 Also, I may just be on a Star Wars kick this week, but I swear I could just hear Luke yelling "SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE COMPACTORS ON THE FLAVOUR LEVEL!!!!"<br/><br/>I think I need sleep..... Also, I may just be on a Star Wars kick this week, but I swear I could just hear Luke yelling “SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE COMPACTORS ON THE FLAVOUR LEVEL!!!!”

I think I need sleep…..

]]> By: Vanir http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Vanir Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:14:00 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=44#comment-61 The <a HREF="http://www.stupidranger.com/comics/evensbrook" REL="nofollow">Evensbrook</a> comic at Stupid Ranger is based on a good example of this. Dante and Stupid Ranger both played in a long-running campaign in college under a different DM, and once they got out and started playing with me Dante decided to keep running with that gameworld.<br/><br/>So right out of the box he had well-developed characters for us to interact with and a setting he knew like the back of his hand. It's always kinda cool every time we talk about the campaign after the fact and he tells me three things I didn't know about a situation we were in that make even more sense once I hear the backstory.<br/><br/>One caveat, though, is I've seen several DM's take their old characters and turn them into super-powerful pet NPC's that overshadow this campaign's characters and pepper the whole thing with weird in-jokes that nobody gets.<br/><br/>But done right, it's amazing! The Evensbrook comic at Stupid Ranger is based on a good example of this. Dante and Stupid Ranger both played in a long-running campaign in college under a different DM, and once they got out and started playing with me Dante decided to keep running with that gameworld.

So right out of the box he had well-developed characters for us to interact with and a setting he knew like the back of his hand. It’s always kinda cool every time we talk about the campaign after the fact and he tells me three things I didn’t know about a situation we were in that make even more sense once I hear the backstory.

One caveat, though, is I’ve seen several DM’s take their old characters and turn them into super-powerful pet NPC’s that overshadow this campaign’s characters and pepper the whole thing with weird in-jokes that nobody gets.

But done right, it’s amazing!

]]> By: The Evil DM http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/comment-page-1/#comment-60 The Evil DM Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:21:00 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=44#comment-60 when the player become invested in the history and mythology of the world, both the player and DM care more about what takes place there. when someone your character has a history with in the game, calls for help it's so much cooler than having a treasure map fall in to the hands of the PC's. when the player become invested in the history and mythology of the world, both the player and DM care more about what takes place there. when someone your character has a history with in the game, calls for help it’s so much cooler than having a treasure map fall in to the hands of the PC’s.

]]> By: ChattyDM http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/comment-page-1/#comment-57 ChattyDM Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:36:00 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=44#comment-57 And managed to create a mess on the flavour level but with a lot of good cards to enhance our older decks.<br/><br/>Hey! How did Crack the Gathering end up here? And managed to create a mess on the flavour level but with a lot of good cards to enhance our older decks.

Hey! How did Crack the Gathering end up here?

]]> By: Yan http://chattydm.net/2007/09/11/cooperative-world-building/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Yan Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:28:00 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=44#comment-56 The continuity gives you a nostalgia enhanced campaign... ;-) <br/><br/>It's a power that even the mighty wizard of the coast tried to harnessed in their last Magic the Gathering bloc... The continuity gives you a nostalgia enhanced campaign… ;-)

It’s a power that even the mighty wizard of the coast tried to harnessed in their last Magic the Gathering bloc…

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