Hey everybody!
So I’m prepping for a convention near the end of the July. And while I think I will do fine, I’ve started gathering some resources to help ease the process.
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions, tips, or links they have found useful or think might be. 🙂
Good gaming!
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For your NPCs, you might want to try the Motivation index : http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MotivationIndex
Which game are you prepping for? AW? Or another PbtA game? That might help get more useful feedback.
Two bits of advice:
1. have a numbered list of GM moves as written for your game. When the rules call for a GM move and you don’t have an immediate inspiration, randomly pick from that list (roll a die if needed!) and challenge yourself to improvise THAT GM move in a reasonable way.
This has really helped my ability to include a variety of GM moves and to improvise in-game.
2. bring 4-5 pictures of different settings appropriate to the system. For AW, for instance, the settings are likely barren; but some can be frozen tundra, or desert wasteland, or abandoned, collapsing city, or deep forest, etc….
Show these pictures, and ask the players to vote on a picture that shows the kind of setting we want to play in.
Once you know the picture, ask each player to give a word or phrase that described the setting, or the kinds of things you find in the setting.
Now the players, having had a very quick discussion of the nature of the setting, should have a shared understanding upon which to choose playbooks and create their specific characters. This can save time, and inspire the quick choices made during creation.
If you’re using pre-generated characters, bring a picture or two showing settings/setting options anyway, to help describe quickly what might otherwise take valuable time to convey with words.
Thanks for the quick feedback Andrew Fish and Philip Espi !
That’s exactly why I post in the PbtA forums because you all are usually really helpful.
Andrew Fish I’ll be running a few different *World games over the convention weekend. But I give the group 2 options each session. I did it last year as well and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
Primarily though, I think I’ll be running more AW. So I’ve gathered some resources (About 42 pages worth, didn’t realize it was that much lol)
I also already have NPC, Trap, Location, and Monster cards created for Dungeon World.
So I was just looking for a bit More. Like the kind I may not have thought of. The ideas for the GM Move list and location pictures is great and just what I was hoping for.
Philip Espi Thanks for the link! The pictures look good =D