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Comment on More playtesting! by Mountzionryan

Mountzionryan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:38:14 +0000

I am really psyched to run Beast for my group. It very much reminds me of what I like about Lady Blackbird (rules on the character sheet, self-contained game in small page-count, mechanics for player narration/director stance) but in a setting that is much more appealing to me.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Comment on More playtesting! by Fabrice

Fabrice — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:14:05 +0000

I found the Beast very well put together. It has everything that you need.

I liked the stacking of the attribute, the edge and the legend. I loved the effect of Drive as it locked players unfamiliar with the character into the game immediately.

I have experimented with something similar using Motivations and Goal – Motivations are long term, give a bonus when followed and can be bought off. Goal is short term, gives a payoff in terms of experience if you do things to further it. Goal changes mission/session to mission/session. This really drives the players to play ‘on target’. However, ‘on target’ is often not what the other team members think it is.

Spirit works really well as does the fate system. However, I found the threats a little light.

Thank you for sharing this excellent work.

Comment on Wallpaper by Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:08:30 +0000

Not a problem! I really enjoyed making these.

Comment on Wallpaper by Tina DC Hayes

Tina DC Hayes — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:19:39 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this! The one on top is exactly what I was lookin’ for.

Comment on NaNoWriMo by Wicked

Wicked — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:41:54 +0000

Love your video and the story idea. Good luck on it and thanks for the awesome calendar’s you offer us Nanoers.

Wicked

Comment on Playtesting by John Reid

John Reid — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:47:54 +0000

Repeats warning: The Host = Flawed but interesting

Super cool monster + set in Seoul
vs.
way too much Korean farce + way too long …

But, super cool monster …

Comment on Playtesting by Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:47:31 +0000

Thanks for the feedback John. The more I think about it, the less I think the fate points are an issue – it was more a matter of me not pressing that angle. What I intend to do is make a list of “common” twists and the loss of fate will be one of them.

I haven’t seen “The Host”, but may go in search of it!

Comment on Playtesting by John Reid

John Reid — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:19:13 +0000

Sounds really fun Nathan.

Have you seen the Korean film “The Host” (it’s interesting but flawed)? There’s a scene in that where the monster vomits up a about 50 victims worth of skeletons – very creepy and cool.

Those character sheets look really cool!

Let me see if I’m right here: the idea of the Beast is to create a Lady Blackbird starting point module with pre-generated characters, right? Then I’m glad you’ve set the game up so it’ll work with less than the five characters – I think that was a bit of a barrier to getting Lady Blackbird played at Gen Con. Actually, you might want to make ten characters, so there’s room for many more combinations and permutations. When I played 8th Sea at Gen Con, Michael had maybe fifteen different characters ready to go and we all had a blast picking one that sounded fun. A side-effect of that was that the different characters set the genre tone for the players from the start (i.e. with 8th Sea it is a gonzo-anything-goes-and-probably-will genre)

I think you might be on the right track with giving out fate damage for fails + twists. It is so important for a system to help a GM fill the players with worry. Even D&D has the hit points to create tension as PCs start to run low.

As is, it seems you made a session that was evocative and immersive but not dangerous. It doesn’t sound like it would take much to overcome this.

Nice one.

Comment on Oro: Tales from the New World by John Reid

John Reid — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:19:57 +0000

Have you ever checked out Fantasy Flight’s Dragonborn? That had a pretty cool martial arts / gun fu system which was crunchy but logical. Essentially two opponents lay out a number of action cards and both roll. The person with the most successes activates x cards in their stack where x = your success – opponent’s success. Therefore, to do the really cool stuff you had to get complete success but there are lots of partial successes along the way e.g. parry a blow, ready a sword, make a return strike with the sword.

My group found it crunchy but logical.

Comment on Oro: Tales from the New World by Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:24:04 +0000

Thanks! Highlander was something in the back of my mind when I started thinking about these groups fighting for the coins. I also think coins should be a part of the game and even have a few different sources to get funky gold coins. Sweet.