Hello, GM Brave back.

Hello, GM Brave back.

First of all, thank you to all of you guys who commented your thoughts and opinions, but I realized that I made a HUGE mistake with my last few posts. This was all on me and I apologize for the lack of communication, but rereading what I posted, it sounded as though this “campaign” that I have is something that I came up with all on my own and something where I didn’t have a conversation with the players.

That’s not true. The majority of what I built was in response to the party. I’m always constantly asking them questions about their characters, asking them where in Galestine they can be seen (we drew a map and together we are plotting important spots on that map based on their characters), and they’ve even been put in hypothetical situations and events that are completely improvised through group chats.

We’ve been planning this TOGETHER for practically a whole month now. And we all kinda pre-planned things together, but it’s because we love character development and storytelling so much. At times you can find us spending hours of our days simply talking about hypothetical scenes and so on. We call these scenes “goofs” where it’s just making jokes and having fun, but some of these goofs ended up becoming more than just a joke. Thus why I spent a lot of time talking about NPC’s that the Lobos will encounter. Those were goofs that are now a big deal.

All of what I mentioned previously was all thanks to the group. Quite frankly, I didn’t even come up with the demons being the main antagonist. That wasn’t until one player provided backstory of her character who is a demon hunter. And from there, looking at all the other characters and their backstories, I made these connections to provide them a main “villain”. But it wasn’t me who thought of this originally. It was because of them that this story grew.

This was my fault for not mentioning any of this, but last night I felt as though my posts were getting too long, and I didn’t want to bring discouragement to anyone who didn’t want to read such a long post. I should have mentioned these facts long ago…

And all these events and main forces that I mentioned would be in each ark isn’t exactly pre-planned either. Well it sorta is but I have a main goal for them to hopefully accomplish by the end of each said ark, but the rest is up to them. There are no limits as to what the party can do, there’s just that one thing that’s driving some sort of reason for them to stick together during this entire gameplay. They have the demons and other evil forces they will face to worry about, but other than that, everything is up to them. And session wise, I have no idea how long each ark will be (How many sessions each ark will be). It’s all dependent on the party. And the reason why I separated Recognition into arks is because I like to keep things organized. With all the ideas that were being thrown around, had I not separated these ideas into groups, then everything would become really messy, and then the game wouldn’t be fun for anyone. The point of the arks was to keep things under control and to avoid things getting chaotic.

I have that tendency to want to get things perfect and that’s why I decided to post my concerns last night. I started to feel like I needed other people to tell me what I was missing, and I am taking in consideration what you guys said about switching systems, but I honestly fell in love with Urban Shadows and I wanna try and see if I can stick with this system, but still get what me and the party wanted from this gameplay that we’re gonna have. I am NOT disregarding what you guys all recommended, please that’s not what I’m saying.

I don’t mind switching, but I have to ask the party how they feel because they already spent so much time developing their characters.

-We have a tainted college student who became a tainted in her moments close to death. After making that deal, she’s slowly become less emotional and more numb. Empty. So she’s trying her best to find a reason as to why life is so important.

-We have a wolf who has lived in his family’s territory all his life, and now thanks to a demon hunter, he’s made it out into the real world. (No, the hunter didn’t attack his family. He just accompanies her now on her adventures). He’s experiencing new things that otherwise he would have never seen on his home terf.

-That human demon hunter that is accompanied by the wolf is actually lost. She has no idea how she arrived in Galestine, but that’s because she lost her memories. What actually happened was that her father became a tainted and in order to get his soul back, she became a hunter, but word got around and she was eventually attacked, but she escaped. In the process of that, she lost her eye and she didn’t remember what had happened. All she knew was that demons had something to do with what happened to her. So now her goal is to find out what happened.

-We also have a fae who betrayed the fae court and was banned from it. She had stolen a precious item and thus because of that, her banishment resulted. This fae now lives in Galestine doing favors for other people in order to survive the streets.

-And our newest member of the lobos is a ghost who for years has been looking for who took away her life in a car accident, but after so long, she has grown tired of searching and just came to terms with what has happened. Now all she wants is a friend and interaction with anyone… ANYONE.

I’m honest to god really excited with this crew and I really want this story to be told. Thanks for all your help! I will take it all into consideration and hopefully this clears some of the miscommunications up!

Thanks again.

-Brave