I’ve just started watching Eric Vulgaris’s twitch stream of The Sprawl from last night and live tweeting.
I’ve just started watching Eric Vulgaris’s twitch stream of The Sprawl from last night and live tweeting.
I’ve just started watching Eric Vulgaris’s twitch stream of The Sprawl from last night and live tweeting.
Please tweet what they do well and what they struggle with. That will give us for four FAQs. 🙂
Their starting conversation is right on. Good questions by Eric Vulgaris. Good worldbuilding by everyone.
Great example of how a
badass Killer Mixes it Up by John Harper near the start. I’m
not sure if there’s a timer. I’m watching on the PS4 twitch app.
As Adam Koebel said, they went pretty high concept on the game, so they’re tweaking a few things as they go: “making a job out of metadata”.
That might be the longest I’ve seen a group take to get the job!
I love that he is asking way more world building questions than are referenced in the sprawl to build their group, and the city than are in the material. Its a really cool world building exercise.
Yeah, we definitely took longer than usual to get the job (a pet peeve of mine, usually) but it was a fun sequence, so I’m not complaining. 🙂
In ‘normal’ Sprawl play, I’d expect about 5 or 10 minutes for that bit.
Is character creation part of this stream too? How long did it actually take to go through the whole creation process?
They gloss over the nitty gritty of mechanical choices, but spend about an hour in the pre-game discussion of characters and setting.
Creating a character is really fast and easy in The Sprawl. We took extra time because our premise was a bit unusual and we wanted to get on the same page.
When I run The Sprawl in 4 hour con slot, we usually end up spending about an hour on characters, relationships and the world.
The way the character relationships evolved over the world-building section was interesting. I Loved xClash as the reporter and how Hollis filters her feeds like Colin Laney finding nodal points in Idoru. I had to leave after 2 hours into the stream and need to watch the rest, but was waiting for the big heist like action to start taking place. There was a definitive vibe established for their sprawl which I liked. I was not a huge fan of all the MMA Coke-Fashion stuff but it definitely felt corporate. It reminded me a lot of all the NBN stuff from Android: Netrunner. I need to Finnish watching before I pass too much judgement. I was just excited for the action a little too much I think. Which is my fault for having pre-established expectations. It definitely felt similar to my first session trying to figure out the flow of the game. It was a fun way to spend the afternoon. Also, John Harper My brother loves you and Adam!
I’ve definitely run sessions like this where a large amount of the players’ fun was riffing on the awesome setting and characters.
I’m guessing you had to stop watching just before the Legwork started, cortex jackal? The Action Phase is the last hour of the episode. It’s pretty badass
Hamish Cameron haha yeah that was definitely a crazy job getting! Especially since we didn’t even have a Mr. Johnson!
Just watched the first hour and a half, and it’s been a lot of fun so far. I love Eric’s excitement when someone else shares a really cool bit of worldbuilding. I also liked that they took the time to bring things alive before they got started, made sure they were all tied together and tied to the world.