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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:07 am
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So something I learned over the years of managing this guild, is that bigger games are more prone to stalling than smaller ones. "I'm going to be in the middle of this super important scene! And then disappear for several weeks!"
I know you prefer 'heroic' D&D. However, D&D is a trickier game to run with very small groups. Have you ever played and/or heard of In Nomine? In case you haven't, it's a game where the PCs are angels, doing Heaven's work on Earth while trying do everything they can to prevent Lucifer's minions from gaining footholds. The war between Heaven and Hell is ever present, except it is done covertly, on Earth itself, in the style of a cold war (you have expendable mortal vessels which make you fit in with all the other humans!).
I can run this for you as a solo game, if you wish. If this is a game that sounds interesting to you and you might want to play, let me know. Also, if you wish to include and/or invite others (say, just you and the missus), I can work around this too.
Also, worst case scenario, if you do try to be super inclusive about this game, and a player that joins stop posting, it's very easy to write them off, temporarily or permanently. All angels work for their Superiors (Archangels) and they could very easily be recalled to Heaven to be reassigned like the pawns you are!
Thoughts?
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:02 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:04 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:10 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 1:51 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:33 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 3:25 am
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Rain Yupa So something I learned over the years of managing this guild, is that bigger games are more prone to stalling than smaller ones. "I'm going to be in the middle of this super important scene! And then disappear for several weeks!" I know you prefer 'heroic' D&D. However, D&D is a trickier game to run with very small groups. Have you ever played and/or heard of In Nomine? In case you haven't, it's a game where the PCs are angels, doing Heaven's work on Earth while trying do everything they can to prevent Lucifer's minions from gaining footholds. The war between Heaven and Hell is ever present, except it is done covertly, on Earth itself, in the style of a cold war (you have expendable mortal vessels which make you fit in with all the other humans!). I can run this for you as a solo game, if you wish. If this is a game that sounds interesting to you and you might want to play, let me know. Also, if you wish to include and/or invite others (say, just you and the missus), I can work around this too. Also, worst case scenario, if you do try to be super inclusive about this game, and a player that joins stop posting, it's very easy to write them off, temporarily or permanently. All angels work for their Superiors (Archangels) and they could very easily be recalled to Heaven to be reassigned like the pawns you are! Thoughts?
I think the latter point is just DM's being a bit rigid. I've played with a DM where they had a player turn up just to sit around having his character catch up to the party.
I personally never gave two geoff's for continuity over player agency. Plan around players disappearing and have them appear and disappear where necessary. It may be different on the forum but RL the player usually has reasons for not turning up and I don't think it's fair to punish both the attending players and the absent players with arbitrary details.
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 12:40 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:43 pm
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Ravanan Big Snek. And the idea of the game is interesting.
It's kind of like a superhero themed game, except that everything is angelic (and diabolic) powers, rather than super powers. You have songs which can do things like restore wounds, teleport, burn the wicked in righteous holy fire, speak any language, etc.
In place of a race/class combo, you are part of an angelic choir (seraphim, cherabum, elohim, etc... 7 in total) and serve a Superior archangel (Michael, Gabriel, Yves, etc... 13 in total in the core rulebook). You have 6 stats in pairs (Corporeal = Strength, Agility; Ethereal = Intelligence, Precision; Celestial = Will, Perception).
Each archangel has a list of powers (attunements) and roles they grant their angels, based on their choir. A fellow player in my first game played Jael, a Seraphim of Gabriel (Archangel of Fire). A Seraphim of Gabriel have a duty to stalk those who profit knowingly from the suffering of others, or who lie to themselves about what monsters they really are.
You have an expendable resource that powers your supernatural stuff called Essence. Each superior have their own rites that if you perform, will help you regain Essence. A servitor of Gabriel regains essence when they spend 3+ hours near a heat source, spent an hour in intense conflict (mental or physical), and when they kill a demon with fire!
So you can go through sessions without any angel/demon conflict, and just focusing on the human side. Trying to save souls and protect people worth protecting, and just trying to make the world a better place. But, for all you know, the agents of Lucifer might be working towards just the opposite of that behind the scenes. They are numerous and varied, with 7 bands (demonic choirs) and 13 Demon Princes to serve, with their own rites and powers. And be warned - some demons might be familiar faces, since angels can fall from grace!
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 3:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:39 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:31 pm
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