Pre-Game

Hey guys! Here's our pre-game thread. Post here with any questions about character creation, the world, or anything else. Thanks!

Where does the game take place in the chronology? I'm considering playing a Pure Mortal and I'm trying to figure out good hooks for why he's clued in.

The game takes place in the aftermath of Changes, but before Ghost Story. The Red Court hasn't had a major presence in DC, so the impact is felt less here than it is in other places -- but there are certainly reprecussions.

Sounds good, I'll put up a High Concept/Trouble soon.

Thanks!

Hey there!

I've had the DFRPG books for years, but this is the first time I've built a character for it. I'm thinking of going with some kind of were-form, as the "feet in the water" says you can be a weak were-form, but does "weak" imply the type of creature (a, I dunno, were-beagle vs a werewolf) or is that imposed by the amount of points we're allowed to use?

It's really a reflection of the options available to you. Being super strong, super tough, and super fast cost more than the points available, so playing a were form that incorporated those would not work.

So I'm thinking something along the lines of a contractor for the local mob scene, if such a thing works. Someone whose High Concept is something like "Cape Killer" someone who's a total normal but who's done his research on the weird side and handles those kinds of issues for either a bunch of mob bosses, renting his services out, or an individual mob boss who's on top of the current hierarchy.

Would something like that fit? His trouble would probably then be his Mob Ties, since that sort of thing would definitely make a life complicated.

Deus is totally right - you'll still be a were-wolf, but one just coming into your own. It's my hope we see growth in power as the game goes on.

And Deus, that sounds solid -- there isn't much of an organized crime scene in DC, but I'd imagine there are plenty of ex-CIA hitmen and things like that in Dresden-DC. What do you think?

Sure, maybe there's a similarly underfunded and underutilized CIA that deals with weird stuff? The kind of group that finds out about (previous to Changes) Red Court activity undermining their interests in South America, and sends these guys in to shoot a bunch of blood bags and drag the Reds out into the Sun.

I'll start putting together a first 3 aspects to go along with that, and then I assume we're doing aspects 4 and 5 as a group?

I'm trying to think of an accompanying Trouble for that now.

Bingo - just hoping the other players jump in soon!

So I've got a character sheet in, with the first three aspects. I've got a trouble listed but it's tentative. Given he's got a background working as a spook, I figure the heavily redacted and hidden nature of most of his adult life is a potential source of regular conflict, even while living in ostensible retirement.

Looks great, Deus! Looking forward to starting as soon as we get another player or two

Hello everyone. I'm looking forward to this game, but just trying to get my head around how everything works here on Gamers Plane.

I suppose my next step is to create a character using the site tools?

Apart from reading what people have posted here, is there any way I can see other players' character sheets. I want to avoid unnecessary duplication.

Does dfrpg have the thing in Fate Core of tying the PCs' backstories to each other, or is the idea that we are a bunch of misfits who only know each other through the shop?

I've got mine in an editable pdf as well as here on the site, so I'll just go ahead and post the dropbox link so we're all on the same page.

There's no direct way to view other players' sheets, at least not that I'm aware of.

As to the last part, yeah, we come up with 3 aspects ourselves and then the last 2 (4 and 5) are part of a shared backstory.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yu1ej1cfa8mbjvn/Jimmy%20Winehouse%20-%20Dresden.pdf?dl=0

That's great, thanks Deus Malum! I need to get to work on reading Your Story, at least the chargen stuff. As I said to Manitou_Raven in a PM, I know Fate Core and am playing FAE, but I need to get up to speed on Dresden Files. I'm not at work this week, so shouldn't be a problem :-)

So I'm now zooming through Your Story and wondering about the "City Creation" chapter. Are we going to go through this together, or are we going to put our characters into a GM-created DC?

So having skimmed the character creation chapter I've got two separate character concepts, both answers to the question "Who would frequent a curio shop?"

1) A yoga practitioner true believer (maybe a recent immigrant, which might lead to his trouble)
2) A petulant teenage girl (who happens to be a White Court Virgin)

Any thoughts? Preferences? Clarifications?

Running with 1)

Template: True Believer
High Concept: Maverick yoga teacher
Trouble: Sorry, what was that?

[name tbc] is an yoga teacher from India in his late 50s. He teaches some unorthodox mashup of different yoga styles which more purist practitioners look down on.

Sorry, what was that?: Because of his strong Indian accent and the fact he has not been in the US very long, he sometimes finds himself not understanding or being misunderstood, usually at the least convenient moments...

I think one sounds really interesting -- let's run with it. And on Friday, let's try and set some time out for city creation!

Great stuff. I've been reading the City Creation chapter in more detail, and digging around a bit into DC's occult past and present, so looking forward to it! By the way, I'm thinking more along the lines of "Kickass Yoga Teacher" now - still a maverick, but more exactly because he has honed his yoga into something of a martial art. Or does that go too far for everyone?

I don't think that goes far - Dresden gets into that slightly zany zone every now and then :)

What would you guys think about playing over email? I don't know about you, but I'm actually finding it a little hard to track this site

To be honest I'm finding the site pretty good as a player, don't know what it looks like from a GM's perspective. In fact, so good that I've managed to get myself playing two other games in the time I haven't heard anything from this one.

Personally, I'd rather not play by email, and I've probably got myself too busy to play another game anyway. So I'm afraid I'm going to have to withdraw from the game.

Thanks for getting me on to DFRPG though - it's a great setting, and I've learned more about Fate by reading some of the book. Good luck with running your game, however you end up doing it! :-)

Do you get email notifications to post replies?

I do for the DFRPG game that I'm running, though for the games I'm playing in I just check manually.

I'm sorry I totally forgot about this game and haven't done squat for it. I will crack open my DF books tonight and come up with a character concept.

Have we done city creation yet?

If here doesn't work, we could try MythWeavers or Roll20.

In other games I've been party to, we communicated through Skype chat as well.


EDIT: Just noticed the last post was in May, is this still happening?