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[Valenae]

Personaly, I want to learn more about the Rheizhite canvas.

Rheizhite party play very complex detective campaign based in Farl.
Each session represent some case about magientists or they experiments. Players chars are: occultist, sergeant of watch (now investigator), watchman (she is girl so wachwoman?) and member of textile crafter family. They know each other but they didn't sort of "adventurers party". All have they own life and they own motives.
For now we play six sessions and PC begins to suspense that all this events is not separate cases but part of one devious scheme. And in center of the web - friend of one of the PCs!

How spend your the parties? Is that players enjoy the world they discover? Do you feel comfortable with the rules now?

Sorry, I dont know what you mean "spend your the parties"
Most players enjoy the world and rules.
I didnt like rules of combat (attitudes). There should be more simple and straightforward rules for combat (without attitudes maybe?)

[iznurda]

Sorry for my english, I do my best :s

You can play without attitudes. I do not think it will be a problem in the case of yours adventures, more urban and based on investigation. Do you think we can have a resume of your adventures ?

iz

[Clovis]

Do you think we can have a resume of your adventures ?

What you mean is "report" rather than "resume", since the latter means "CV", and not "résumé", as it does in French!


That's funny Valenae, that's roughly what I intend to do with my own party of Players: a group where each member has their own agenda and their own problems to take care of, instead of just "adventure-adventure-adventure". Well, mine's taking place in Osta-Baille rather than Farl, so there are differences, but at any rate, I'd be interested in reading more about how your campaign is going and how you are dealing with issues such as keeping the party together.

[iznurda]

*tchac* you hit. I'll try to remember the term.

It's one idea I'm working on too : each character have their own motivation to begin the journey together. I love this type of situation in which each protagonist tries to carry out its own affairs. That create friction so events that can be exploited while giving relief to the characters.

iz

[Valenae]

My portrait. I was running Red Fall scenario there.


Yaldiane (Lena) makes important roll for her with my silver covered dice. You can notice her personal nebular near her.


Players. Yaldiane, Ean, Liam.

Here are short description of the game:
http://www.esteren.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 213#p18213

[Clovis]

Only one word: nice!

Yeah, that may not seem like much, but sometimes, it simply boils down to that: it looks like it has been a nice gaming session, so why add something else?

[tamsyn]

Yay more female gamers!

[Dragoslav]

Since my group just had its character creation session, I wanted to post our party composition.

# of players: 5
-A 25-year old female Tarish factory worker. She ran away from her old life in the clan to escape her violent, alcoholic father and is now a radically pro-Magience member of the industrial proletariat.
-A 35-year old male Tri-Kazelian priest of the Temple. The player rolled the "Enemy," "Poor," and "Wound" setbacks. Though he showed great promise in his early years, even performing a Miracle, his tendency to doubt and express skepticism put him on the bad side of his superiors. One of the Hierophants, seeing his skepticism, ordered him to be put on "sabbatical," kicking him out of his parish until he had completed a pilgrimage to restore his faith. However, while traveling, he was robbed by brigands and stabbed in the leg repeatedly with his own dagger, leaving him with a limp.
-A 20-something male Tri-Kazelian Occultist who had studied at a Magientist university until he was kicked out because his studies in "esoteric pseudoscience" were interfering with his academics. He was also beaten by a group of his classmates while at the university, leaving him with a "gimp arm." He is also delusionally paranoid (10 trauma points towards Paranoia).
-A 20-something male Tri-Kazelian rural locksmith. The player rolled the "rumor" setback. The locksmith was accused of breaking into the village ansalair's home, but this was never proven. In truth, he is a highly principled man, albeit very distant and generally indifferent.
-A 16-year old female Continental apprentice Magientist. She is the granddaughter of one of Reizh's most talented mechanical engineers, but she is more preoccupied with fiddling with gadgets than with anything related to social status or politics.

At the character creation session, I got some valuable input from my players, such as that they aren't really interested in adventures dealing in political intrigue or mystery, which was very good to learn considering much of my campaign idea is focused around those two things. However, from what else I learned, I think I can draw them into such things as long as their PCs have a personal stake in the events: For example, the priest character's enemy isn't going to be just any hierophant, but a hierophant who is involved in a plot to depose the king of Gwidre and replace the monarchy with a theocracy, thus involving the player not simply by making it personal, but also something that his PC very strongly opposes (people whose blind faith leads them to persecute others).

As mentioned above, my campaign is going to revolve around political intrigue and conspiracies. Each kingdom will have several factions conspiring for power, and the PCs will be able to help or hinder -- either intentionally or inadvertently -- their organization and success. Meanwhile, there is a secret society spread across all three kingdoms that is conspiring to gather together and harness the dark power of occult Objects of Power.

[Clovis]

Seems like a very interesting group! Considering its composition, I gather that the start of the campaign will take place in Reizh?

-A 25-year old female Tarish factory worker. She ran away from her old life in the clan to escape her violent, alcoholic father and is now a radically pro-Magience member of the industrial proletariat.

I remember this one! I wish her Player luck!

-A 35-year old male Tri-Kazelian priest of the Temple. The player rolled the "Enemy," "Poor," and "Wound" setbacks. Though he showed great promise in his early years, even performing a Miracle, his tendency to doubt and express skepticism put him on the bad side of his superiors. One of the Hierophants, seeing his skepticism, ordered him to be put on "sabbatical," kicking him out of his parish until he had completed a pilgrimage to restore his faith. However, while traveling, he was robbed by brigands and stabbed in the leg repeatedly with his own dagger, leaving him with a limp.

A good way to justify the Setbacks. However, regarding his background, do take note that there is actually only one Hierophant... basically, he's the Pope, so there aren't several Hierophants.

However, the PC's enemy can be the rector of a church or monastery, or an influential member of one of the six orders. At any rate, I think that choosing one of the leaders of the six orders as the Enemy might be a bit excessive, since they are very powerful.

-A 20-something male Tri-Kazelian Occultist who had studied at a Magientist university until he was kicked out because his studies in "esoteric pseudoscience" were interfering with his academics. He was also beaten by a group of his classmates while at the university, leaving him with a "gimp arm." He is also delusionally paranoid (10 trauma points towards Paranoia).

Golly! 10 Trauma points!? I sense a strong unbalance between Instinct and Conscience... in addition to the Trauma and Phobia Disadvantages!

As mentioned above, my campaign is going to revolve around political intrigue and conspiracies. Each kingdom will have several factions conspiring for power, and the PCs will be able to help or hinder -- either intentionally or inadvertently -- their organization and success. Meanwhile, there is a secret society spread across all three kingdoms that is conspiring to gather together and harness the dark power of occult Objects of Power

It's great to see that you're teeming with ideas for this campaign! Personally, I'm usually more for action, mystery, survival, etc. than political conspiracies, but at the same time, I agree that nothing beats a good ol' oh-my-goodness-I-can't-trust-anyone atmosphere!

Hope we'll hear more of these guys!

[Dragoslav]

A good way to justify the Setbacks. However, regarding his background, do take note that there is actually only one Hierophant... basically, he's the Pope, so there aren't several Hierophants.

However, the PC's enemy can be the rector of a church or monastery, or an influential member of one of the six orders. At any rate, I think that choosing one of the leaders of the six orders as the Enemy might be a bit excessive, since they are very powerful.

Ah, thanks for noting that -- I just reread the section on the Temple and saw where I made the mistake in thinking there were multiple hierophants. I'll take all of that information into account when coming up with plots involving this PC.

Golly! 10 Trauma points!? I sense a strong unbalance between Instinct and Conscience... in addition to the Trauma and Phobia Disadvantages!

Yeah, I was pretty surprised after he counted up his Trauma points, too. He was going to take another Trauma disadvantage to put his PC into a state of Syndrome, but chose not to so his character wouldn't be a complete detriment to the party right off the bat.

Seems like a very interesting group! Considering its composition, I gather that the start of the campaign will take place in Reizh?

Thanks! I'm starting them off with the three Omens adventures and keeping the location the same (Melwan's Vale), but various clues and character motivations are very likely to bring the characters back to Reizh right after that. It seems, based on the players' choice of characters, that the group is most interested in Reizh, but my goal is to sprinkle in enough hooks to give them a justification to go wherever interests them the most.