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Halloween 3 (part 2)
🕑 Added 2021-11-20 19:21:05 +0000 UTCIf there's any one "rule" of role playing that I enjoy thumbing my nose at it's "Don't spilt the party." It's actually not a bad rule for players, splitting the party weakens the group and needlessly complicates the process of playing together. But for me it's a relic of a more video-gamey approach to RPG's. In general I prefer stories where characters have complex and individual objectives, and who stay together only for as long as those objectives are served by collective action. Most of the movies we do, don't have a traditional "party" that can be expected to stay together. Now, it's a ton of fun when movies do, say like in Goonies, have a party that is a band of heroes united by friendship, but the fact is most movies don't work that way (and even in Goonies we managed to split the hell out of the party.)
But all this begs the question, how do you make it interesting when the party gets split and suddenly we're dealing with one person at a time. And in this campaign, you see the answer: tagalong characters. Sometimes I prep them intentionally, sometimes they just come out of the improv. In a semi-mundane campaign, one in which the population at large is at a somewhat similar power level to your PC's. There is an infinite pool of possible PC's everywhere you go. Not only does that make sure that every one of your players is always engaged, it helps flesh out the world and pull the story in unexpected directions. And unexpected directions is what I am always going for.
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Eve Kramer
I absolutely ADORE the NPCs y’all bring in as tagalongs and improv into more fully fleshed our characters. It’s so fun to watch someone start with a name and build it into Sasha “The Reorganizer”. An absolute delight every time! (Though i still think Andy AND Pitr’s two headed mortician will always be my fave seized NPC 😂)
Alexander Novokhodko
Andy: "I'm not part of the occult much like tornado victims aren't part of the wind" _________ Spoiler Twister according to Andy Hoover begs to differ _________
