Some Oracle questions for the weekend:
1. How to make an Oracle character relevant?
My other players seems to be politely ignoring and not really engaging Oracle. Why? Hard to say, we are learning how to properly implement Foretellings to be interesting and add to the story or maybe they are afraid they will have to owe Oracle.
So what can I do to make Oracle relevant, if talk to my players then tell them what?
“You have this amazing friend of yours who can see future and might tell you who will try to kill/trick/betray you tomorrow, why don’t you take advantage of that?”
2. How to make and play with and use Foretellings visions so that they add an interesting twist to the game?
So far we had two uses of Foretellings. In one Oracle has seen where a Revenant is about to kill a friendly NPC so that players could have went there and take action however Oracle herself had to go to another place to resolve another situation.
Second use was more complicated, as players have used debts and collected a whole Hallowed gang to go wage war on a demon, Oracle predicted that the demon will explode and kill everyone, she went there and tried to defuse a situation but other players ware already ready to wage war so in some regards such vision was counter productive because they’ve already used resources and made moves to set the stage for war.
3. Why does Oracle have to engage in intimacy move to be able to have a vision about NPC or PC that is not bad?
Both Foretellings and All Seeing visions are kind of on the spot and about bad stuff happening.
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I find that the oracle is a good way to deploy “put some in danger” and “alert of some incoming danger” moves. You can make the oracle see no only de future but for example that some npc or pc is in danger in another place.
Also remember that the oracle can have vision when they unleash their power for example to impress someone they can try to see the past or the future of someone or something.
Regarding other players not engaging with the oracle is the same as any other playbook. Make the oracle the obvious solution to a problem of another character and viceversa. Have triangles with an Npc in the middle that tie them together, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad.
I find that the oracle is a good way to deploy “put some in danger” and “alert of some incoming danger” moves. You can make the oracle see no only de future but for example that some npc or pc is in danger in another place.
Also remember that the oracle can have vision when they unleash their power for example to impress someone they can try to see the past or the future of someone or something.
Regarding other players not engaging with the oracle is the same as any other playbook. Make the oracle the obvious solution to a problem of another character and viceversa. Have triangles with an Npc in the middle that tie them together, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad.