Sep 11, 2019 7:06 pm
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What to play?
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Sep 21, 2019 1:41 pm
We're nearing the end of character creation so we should start thinking about the actual game. Does anyone want to run the first adventure?
I could go first as GM but since I'm already doing SV at the moment, I'd welcome anyone else who has an idea and feels like going first
I could go first as GM but since I'm already doing SV at the moment, I'd welcome anyone else who has an idea and feels like going first
Sep 21, 2019 3:40 pm
Are we going to continue through the rest of the Pathways, after the event? I was kind of banking on that for my actual power, since I haven't taken it at all yet... lol
Sep 21, 2019 4:20 pm
I planned a stop at Life Changing Event since that is set up for Season I where going the full puts things at Season V and we haven't had any time to actually play these characters.
Sep 21, 2019 4:34 pm
Oh as far as being Watch Tower (GM) it is a bit more of a balancing act then in most games. It's not so much that your creating a bad guy and challenges but your creating characters set up to challenge the Player Characters Values and Relationships.
You usually pick two characters in a 4 player game in a six player game you usually pick 3 and see how you can create an episode that will challenge those players values and relationships. Old or New Flames showing up, a villain helping one PC while hurting another etc. Something that helps the players grow. Usually the players themselves will find ways and reasons to challenge their values and relationships too.
Another thing to balance is the Trouble pool sometimes it grow too huge for the PCs to handle so as Watch Tower you need to not buy all the 1s rolled. Also in a good episode the characters will spend and gain plot points. Towards the end of an episode they usually have enough to deal with whatever the major threat or problem is alone or as a group.
Since we have no single Clark there will probably be more group or small group endings then single character endings of episodes.
So keeping an eye on the trouble pool, making sure plot points flow (Players can challenge each other for plot points as well), and making sure people challenge those values and relationships. Bowl is really good at these things and getting better.
Tao on his own is masterful at making people challenge things and having his own characters challenge things.
You usually pick two characters in a 4 player game in a six player game you usually pick 3 and see how you can create an episode that will challenge those players values and relationships. Old or New Flames showing up, a villain helping one PC while hurting another etc. Something that helps the players grow. Usually the players themselves will find ways and reasons to challenge their values and relationships too.
Another thing to balance is the Trouble pool sometimes it grow too huge for the PCs to handle so as Watch Tower you need to not buy all the 1s rolled. Also in a good episode the characters will spend and gain plot points. Towards the end of an episode they usually have enough to deal with whatever the major threat or problem is alone or as a group.
Since we have no single Clark there will probably be more group or small group endings then single character endings of episodes.
So keeping an eye on the trouble pool, making sure plot points flow (Players can challenge each other for plot points as well), and making sure people challenge those values and relationships. Bowl is really good at these things and getting better.
Tao on his own is masterful at making people challenge things and having his own characters challenge things.
Sep 21, 2019 10:44 pm
If we're not going to move beyond the life changing event, we need to up 3 values, or any combination of values 3 levels.
The rulebook recommends continuing through the After the Event section (I put it in bold it below) - makes no difference to me, but we should all pick where we want to start. I'd prefer continuing, but we can stop after Life Changing Event if that's what everyone else wants.
Pathways gives you a choice of how far along your Lead is in his career, although it’s more appropriate to talk in terms of how much weight your Lead brings to the dramatic environment that is Smallville. The breakpoint is the Life-Changing Event, which is when your Lead is ready for play as a Rookie. If we were talking about a television show, this would be Season One—the point when we don’t really know much about the Leads and their potential hasn’t yet been tapped. If you continue on to the After The Event chart, you end up with Leads who represent the more experienced, developed, and settled cast, around Season Five. They’re Veterans of your own spinoff, with established identities and purpose. It’s the default for the game and what we recommend for first-time players.
Rookies have three fewer Value steps from the chart than Veterans do, because the After the Event chart adds steps to Values over three stages, and Rookies haven’t gone that route. If you start play immediately after the Life-Changing Event, each player adds three steps to his Values to bring them up to the right number of steps.
The whole table has to agree about when to stop. No fair having some Leads be Rookies and some be Veterans. Once you agree on the point where you’re going to stop, everyone stops; the next thing that happens is you throw on the finishing touches and get ready to play.
The rulebook recommends continuing through the After the Event section (I put it in bold it below) - makes no difference to me, but we should all pick where we want to start. I'd prefer continuing, but we can stop after Life Changing Event if that's what everyone else wants.
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ROOKIES AND VETERANSPathways gives you a choice of how far along your Lead is in his career, although it’s more appropriate to talk in terms of how much weight your Lead brings to the dramatic environment that is Smallville. The breakpoint is the Life-Changing Event, which is when your Lead is ready for play as a Rookie. If we were talking about a television show, this would be Season One—the point when we don’t really know much about the Leads and their potential hasn’t yet been tapped. If you continue on to the After The Event chart, you end up with Leads who represent the more experienced, developed, and settled cast, around Season Five. They’re Veterans of your own spinoff, with established identities and purpose. It’s the default for the game and what we recommend for first-time players.
Rookies have three fewer Value steps from the chart than Veterans do, because the After the Event chart adds steps to Values over three stages, and Rookies haven’t gone that route. If you start play immediately after the Life-Changing Event, each player adds three steps to his Values to bring them up to the right number of steps.
The whole table has to agree about when to stop. No fair having some Leads be Rookies and some be Veterans. Once you agree on the point where you’re going to stop, everyone stops; the next thing that happens is you throw on the finishing touches and get ready to play.
Sep 22, 2019 6:32 am
I don't really have a preference so if you prefer to continue after the LCE, I would say, let's just do it.
Unless anyone is against that
Unless anyone is against that
Sep 22, 2019 11:59 am
Basically it makes us more mechanically powerful and more tangled up with all the extras and locations? That map will be pretty confusing.
Sep 22, 2019 12:08 pm
I opened a poll about this in the other Thread. For some reaosn, GP won't let me delete or redo the one in this thread so go here to vote.
I think we can just go with the majority vote. Either option should be fine, I think. We can deal with extra tangles xD
I think we can just go with the majority vote. Either option should be fine, I think. We can deal with extra tangles xD
Sep 22, 2019 1:22 pm
Ah yes, you can’t change polls for some reason :(
I think it will depend more on how long we think the plague/ quarantine has been. If it happened recently, then rookie masked more sense, if we have been stuck for years, then we would be pretty veteran :)
I think it will depend more on how long we think the plague/ quarantine has been. If it happened recently, then rookie masked more sense, if we have been stuck for years, then we would be pretty veteran :)
Sep 23, 2019 2:20 am
Veteran sounds more fun to me. Maybe it's because I'm already playing rookie in our other Cortex game.
Sep 23, 2019 7:13 am
All votes are in and we ended up at 4/6 voted for Veteran so I say we go with that. I hope everyone is okay with that.
I'll set up the Life Changing Event in a bit. Squad can still finish Road but the rest can already start thinking about LCE
And getting back to the previous question, I'll run the intro adventure. I already have a basic idea and with us going through the rest of CC, I'll have some time to work something out.
I'll set up the Life Changing Event in a bit. Squad can still finish Road but the rest can already start thinking about LCE
And getting back to the previous question, I'll run the intro adventure. I already have a basic idea and with us going through the rest of CC, I'll have some time to work something out.
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