Comments on: Wild Blue Playtest http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/240 Advice on making your game great. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/240/comment-page-1#comment-11923 Brian Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:00:18 +0000 http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/240#comment-11923 To be fair, crumpets never actually exchanged hands (though everything else certainly did). As to your comment about drives and their relationship to experience, I have to admit that I had the same concern for a while. But then I thought: "So?" This game system is really supposed to be able to become what you want it to be; I want it to meet the needs of the gaming group as best as it possibly can. In a gaming group like you, me, and Mike, extra rules regulating how much experience you get from drives aren't really necessary, because you guys were more concerned with having fun, doing good role-playing, and finding out what would happen next than with leveling up and grabbing phat lewt. And what if a gaming group goes the other way? Is there really a problem with that? If the GM wants to allow every tiny use of a drive for getting and spending drive tokens for quick experience, and the players are down with that too, then what's the problem? I say, let people play that way if they want to. Truthfully, I fell like I should have been handing out more drive tokens and you guys should have been spending them more often; I mean, you guys each wound up with about 4 or 5 experience at the end, and that didn't seem like enough to me. That's just a gut feeling, though; I don't know if there's anything to it. Also, bear in mind that you can't actually gain a drive token from a roll that you spend one on, so it's not <i>exactly</i> wagering. To be fair, crumpets never actually exchanged hands (though everything else certainly did).

As to your comment about drives and their relationship to experience, I have to admit that I had the same concern for a while. But then I thought: “So?” This game system is really supposed to be able to become what you want it to be; I want it to meet the needs of the gaming group as best as it possibly can. In a gaming group like you, me, and Mike, extra rules regulating how much experience you get from drives aren’t really necessary, because you guys were more concerned with having fun, doing good role-playing, and finding out what would happen next than with leveling up and grabbing phat lewt. And what if a gaming group goes the other way? Is there really a problem with that? If the GM wants to allow every tiny use of a drive for getting and spending drive tokens for quick experience, and the players are down with that too, then what’s the problem? I say, let people play that way if they want to.

Truthfully, I fell like I should have been handing out more drive tokens and you guys should have been spending them more often; I mean, you guys each wound up with about 4 or 5 experience at the end, and that didn’t seem like enough to me. That’s just a gut feeling, though; I don’t know if there’s anything to it. Also, bear in mind that you can’t actually gain a drive token from a roll that you spend one on, so it’s not exactly wagering.

]]> By: Rich http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/240/comment-page-1#comment-11897 Rich Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:39:07 +0000 http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/240#comment-11897 I think I liked my summary from the gameplay itself "Mike had tea and Crumpets while I got beer and strumpets." Great session, game mechanics worked pretty well, just wish we could have gotten to more of the "meat" or the scenario. I'm still trying to decide on whether I like the Motivation usage for XP thing - it is good for ecouraging the accomplishment of character driven goals/motivations, but I can see it getting abused pretty easily. I know, I know, good GMs and social contracts can mitigate it, but if I had thought of it more often, I could wager a token on easy rolls that forward my motivations - especially since I can make motivations at any time. However, I don't have any good alternatives at the moment. I'll back burner it and see if anything boils over from an unattended pot. I think I liked my summary from the gameplay itself “Mike had tea and Crumpets while I got beer and strumpets.” Great session, game mechanics worked pretty well, just wish we could have gotten to more of the “meat” or the scenario. I’m still trying to decide on whether I like the Motivation usage for XP thing – it is good for ecouraging the accomplishment of character driven goals/motivations, but I can see it getting abused pretty easily. I know, I know, good GMs and social contracts can mitigate it, but if I had thought of it more often, I could wager a token on easy rolls that forward my motivations – especially since I can make motivations at any time. However, I don’t have any good alternatives at the moment. I’ll back burner it and see if anything boils over from an unattended pot.

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