Comments on: Character Development: Hot Potato

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:14:41 +0000

@Stargazer: Yes, it does take a certain level of trust to pull off. I’ve had good results with it so far, but I wouldn’t try it with a new group whose members don’t know each other very well yet. It works nicely for a group that’s been playing together for a while, though.

@Ishmayl: I like it. My group generally has a session devoted to character creation, although our process isn’t quite as structured as yours. I may borrow that next time we start a new game.

By: Ishmayl

Ishmayl — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:01 +0000

This is very similar to something I did recently (for the first time!) with a new group.

http://tatwd.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/all-the-way-down-part-1-building-a-campaign-that-begs-to-be-played-in/

Mine ended up working out extremely well, and we’ve had several very successful sessions so far, with some great plot points that were developed at our Round-Robin development. I’d love to hear some specifics about this being used in your campaign, and see how the differences in our two systems play out.

Great article!

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By: amatriain

amatriain — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:50:29 +0000

Very interesting idea. My players will probably will hate it at first, as it is against our usual customs, but after the bickering ends I think it may be very fun. Will try it soon.

By: Stargazer

Stargazer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:58:09 +0000

Interesting idea. But this will probably utterly fail with the wrong people. If some of the players don’t get along you’ll run into trouble.

@greywulf: hehe, I like that mind-swap technology idea! Can you tell us a bit more about this?

By: greywulf

greywulf — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:01:33 +0000

Love this idea. I can see how this could easily turn into a story-telling rpg series in it’s own right with the backstories evolving as play progresses – with the right kind of players, of course. Nice.

In the past I’ve had characters generate new characters for the start of a campaign, then taken their sheets of ‘em and handed them around to different players. The looks on their faces is priceless. In one session in particular a few of the players got to play completely different characters they’d normally run, and had a ball.

One superhero adventure I did it mid-session (thanks to the miracle of mind-swap technology ™). But that’s another story.

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