Comments on: High Quality Characters

By: McNutcase

McNutcase — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:43:50 +0000

Because it doesn’t need to survive. It’s just a one-shot, designed to get people to be loud and silly (for instance, some of the extras will obey commands given by the PCs – but only if shouted in the right accent…)

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:42:10 +0000

…why would you do that to the world?

By: McNutcase

McNutcase — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:59:57 +0000

I’m shamelessly stealing this idea and taking it a little bit further for the Savage Worlds one-shot I’m dorking around on at the moment. Since it’s a one-shot, I’m pre-making the characters… so they’re getting gimmicks that fit in with their concepts.

One of the characters is based heavily on Phil. Yes, that Phil…

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:49:37 +0000

Yeah, Virtues and Vices already does this…kind of. It’s be a bit tougher to kludge into nWoD.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:46:02 +0000

I’m thinking of adapting this to nWoD. Not sure how it would work on top of Virtues, Vices, Merits and Specialties though.

By: Rob Donoghue

Rob Donoghue — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:55:20 +0000

This is pretty sweet! It feels like you’ve hit just about the right mechanical balance to Savage Worlds, which is really the tricky part. So, kudos!

-Rob D.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:16:07 +0000

I’m a big fan of mixing & matching to achieve a better system for a game, and this is one I hadn’t come across before. I’ll definitely give this a go in campaign.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:15:14 +0000

Seriously, though, follow the links in the article to Spirit of the Century and check out the source. This is nothing more than adapting a fantastic mechanic from there to Savage Worlds.

By: Rob Justice

Rob Justice — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:12:37 +0000

I’ve actually been toying around with this idea for World of Darkness… of course my inspiration came more from Dogs in the Vineyard and my desire to integrate their “betting” mechanic into every freaking game I play. Hahaha

By: Seraph

Seraph — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:09:30 +0000

I started reading out of boredom, but finished due to interest.

This is an inspiring idea, and I’m really digging the props you guys have been giving to game designs and concepts that work to integrate storytelling and system structure. Keep it up.