However this requires work for the person providing the information and for the new players to actually process them and in general continuity seems to be less of a concern on the Gauntlet.
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Lowell made this adorable session summary in-character for his World Wide Wrestling series and Puckett wrote a slightly exaggerated account of events for our campaign of Ultraviolet Grasslands. The GM or facilitator can, however, reserve a spot for a regular player, or-if it is a continuing series-limit signing up for returning players at least for a certain amount of time, usually 24h.Īnother less intrusive way to provide a more cohesive experience is to use information on the character keeper (NPCs, places etc) and write session reports or in-fiction documents. by requiring that players sign up for all sessions of a series) so as not to undercut the open table policy. The Gauntlet GMing best practices document advises GMs to be cautious about going beyond encouraging this (e.g. Almost every event on the Gauntlet Calendar will mention this.
When the players don't take part in the campaign, Strings, relationships, and NPCs cease to be important or disappear completely.Īn obvious way to enforce coherence and continuity is to encourage signing up for all sessions. Others have NPCs tied to a certain player, for example in Urban Shadows or Apocalypse World. Strings in Monsterhearts-or prompt players to answer relationship questions. Many games track the relationship status-e.g. Another challenge is to manage relationships between PCs or PCs and NPCs. On the other hand, the series of events that are supposed to form a campaign might feel disjointed if the cast of players constantly changes. While it is possible to play a satisfying single session of Night Witches it can be much more fulfilling to play a literal campaign from Engels Airdrome to the final duty station Buchholz-or to travel on the Orient Express from London all the way to Constantinople.Īpart from being difficult to plan and organize, longer campaigns also exist in tension with the open table policy of the Gauntlet: As a player you have to sign up for sessions individually and GMs can’t be sure to have the same players over the course of a campaign, a feature that prevents the balkanization of the community when countless in-groups only ever play with the same few players. Some games, on the other hand, demand more commitment: While Apocalypse World is designed with a definite end of the story in mind it will most likely take more than four sessions to finish the story arc. However it is short enough to be manageable for grown-ups trying to juggle jobs, family, and hobbies. Most events on the Gauntlet Calendar are part of a four or five session campaign, long enough to explore setting and characters, to allow for character growth and to emulate the typical story structure of introduction, complication, climax, and resolution. This great analysis is cross-posted from Horst's excellent blog Towards the Black City
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