It’s my turn to GM a one-shot (I haven’t GM’d/DM’d in 20 years …) and I’m obviously going with UW. While I’ve played a couple of amazing games run by Chalice In Chains I have no idea what they heck I’m going to do … Gee, thanks Sean Gomes … You had to go and make an amazing game 🙂
It’s my turn to GM a one-shot (I haven’t GM’d/DM’d in 20 years …) and I’m obviously going with UW.
It’s my turn to GM a one-shot (I haven’t GM’d/DM’d in 20 years …) and I’m obviously going with UW.
Use the one shot in the book! It’s funsies!
Or maybe we can brainstorm other terrible situations!
My campaign started with a “ship went dark off the normal shipping lanes – go make sure the cargo is safe”. Cargo was actually diplomatic delegates for some backroom shenanigans, which put the players nationalities against each other.
Alfred Rudzki Do you mean the planet-bound salvage? Is it suitable for a one-shot?
Aaron Griffin Your players must be fantastic to develop characters with RPG hooks that strong so quickly. My guys? Notsomuch. 🙂
Don’t short change your players. They might surprise you!
Oh, that they do. Rarely in a good way grin What I think I might do is come up with a series of questions and have each player answer one, taking the results and build the scenario from that.
Oh sure, the salvage works fine for a one shot if you manage your time wisely.
Yes! Jesse R you got this man. My tip is come up with a hook, some NPCs and then ask questions to fill in the rest. That’s it. If your players are the “uh, I don’t know, it’s your world man” kinda players then maybe prep a few encounters but don’t prep the ending.
Alfred Rudzki Thanks! I’ll read through it carefully and it figure out.
Chalice In Chains I figure so long as Yodel doesn’t leave the ship things might go ok 🙂 I like the idea of preparing some NPCs ahead of time. TBH my concern is making sure I figure out specific moves, or confusion over a rule, etc. and balance that against, “Screw it. Just keep it moving and fun.”
Jesse R I’m all about “screw it just keep moving.” I had no idea what I was doing in the two games I ran but it worked out
Chalice In Chains Yup, that’s true. They were fun as heck