Campaign Guide

You know…here’s a thought.

Right now, True Faith is EXPENSIVE. You pretty much have to bank 10 HP before you can raise your TF one point.

What if, for replays, you don’t give Survival Points at all, or maybe just a pittance (like 1:5, so 5 SP max instead of 15). Instead, you offer HPs as a carrot. The only way a player is ever going to raise their True Faith at a decent rate is to replay. So let them. You’ll probably want to monkey with the ratio but I can see this being a pretty big incentive in the LC.

Tom

Some guidelines:

1) There should be good GM incentives for ‘eating’ modules if necessary. Basically rewarding a GM with full rewards for eating the module or for running it for a table of players who haven’t played is a good step.

2) Keep ‘restrictions’ to a minimum if possible (i.e. disallowed character mechanics)

3) I would mention in the campaign rules about the Kickstarter rewards so that GM’s are aware of who received the award and what it generally entails.

That’s it for now

I’m not that keen on replay but I can understand how it might be necessary. I’d suggest either limiting 2nd+ play to just SP and monies. No certed rewards. Alternatively, a separate cert could be provided that gives SP (but probably nothing else?) to another character from that same player. (Example, Jack plays his PC Frankel through all available mods, then he gets pulled into mod #2 again. At the end of the mod, Jack the player get a cert for SP for his new character Alexander.)

I tend to think that GM should receive the best treatment possible for eating mods, however ‘special’ rewards are difficult. Maybe increase SP gain by +50% or +25% to compensate?

It might be helpful to create a table sign in card that collect the following info for each character: name, ethnicity, religion, order, catalyst, true faith, damnation, vice & virtue.

I like the idea of PG-13 to R rating. Might be a good idea to put a disclaimer in from of mods to encourage GMs to tone-up or tone-down the story as best fits the table.

Heroic buy works, but to focus more on a survival game the lower level might be cool?

I think that some sort of mechanic for character death might be a good idea. Maybe kick forward 50% of earned SP to a new character?

Also Clint, I found a number of issue with the rules in the PDF, should I send them to you? Post them somewhere hear on the boards? They likely need ironed out before book printing.

-John

I know the campaign guide isn’t out, but I have people who would like to build characters. Is that not possible right now?

Lol. I have the PDF. Kicked it. I can’t build my character until my special character option shows up and Brandy can’t until hers and the additional Orders PDF shows up.

How do I build a person for the campaign? I have U-Con players who are ready to dive into the game and would like to build characters for the campaign.

Some guidelines:

1) There should be good GM incentives for ‘eating’ modules if necessary. Basically rewarding a GM with full rewards for eating the module or for running it for a table of players who haven’t played is a good step.

I understand the award when one eats a mod – but is there something gained for people who GM mods they have played? (or is that just another form of replay credit?)

TIA

Paul

As we approach GenCon I begin working on Version 2 of the campaign guide. Anything you think I should bring up?

I will be opening much of Cities of Mystery for play.