Well we did it.

Well we did it.

Well we did it. Wednesday we sat down for four hours and created characters and put together the skeleton for the world.

Now I have about 8 weeks to dress that Skeleton in some meat and put some clothes on it. Here’s the PowerPoint I put together and projected onto my friends television as we worked through everything. Everyone seemed to like it as they had a reference going through everything. Here’s a link to the PDF with notes on what happened.

(I exported it to PDF since that’s viewable by most anyone, but I will happily share the PPT if anyone wants a copy).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/js3sxfqg6hd752h/The%20Watch%20First%20Session%20-%20NOTES.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/js3sxfqg6hd752h/The%20Watch%20First%20Session%20-%20NOTES.pdf?dl=0

11 thoughts on “Well we did it.”

  1. Oh, and there are some slides in there on some pretty basic concepts like staying “In Character” and Agency. We have a newer player in our group and it never hurts to have a refresher discussion. 🙂

  2. I have a question. If you looked at this PDF, what did you think about the parameters my group put around the characters changing playbooks (PDF Page 36)? My players wanted a change like that to be really meaningful and not just a free pass to continue acting badly and then change playbooks once the heat is on.

  3. Free pass was bad wording on my part. My players felt like changing playbooks was not serious enough as written. They preferred the idea of it being a one time thing, a second chance for a character. I was a little hesitant because In usually try to avoid changing the rules of a game until we’ve played it, however I also like listening to my players.

    Why I wanted to hear what people think. 🙂

    They did want the option to either take over an NPC or create an entirely new character if their original character is removed from play.

  4. I mean, if you and your players want to restrict playbook change to once per campaign, feel free. I can tell you in all my years of playing PBTA games, I’ve never ever seen someone switch playbooks more than once; so this is probably just an academic discussion.

  5. I should mention, my group is new to PBTA games and I have not run them a lot. That’s probably why this might be an unusual thing to more veteran PBTA people.

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