We’ll shift to a new game this Friday. Kev has important stuff to worry about that will prevent him from prepping the Shadowrun game. Rather than cancel the session, we’ll shift to our backup game.
Our backup game is D&D. Fortunately, we decided on our backup quite a while ago, so I’m ready to roll. Here’s all the detail you need to know…
**Note: There are already some changes. Tomorrow night’s session will probably be more character research & design, while the following session will be the world building. Jennifer has to leave relatively early in the session– she’s attending a party and providing the video game system– so we’ll save the collaborative world building til next time. **
Tomorrow night we’ll build the game world together, using Dawn of Worlds. I have several copies of the rules printed out, and a quick reference for each person. If you ever played Populous, or a building/empire game on the computer [like Sim City, Age of Empires, etc.], you have an idea of the viewpoint we’ll play with tomorrow: very top down. If there is something cool that you’ve always wanted in a roleplaying world, add it tomorrow night. If there’s a class you want to play, work it into the world’s history. If you think gnomes are awesome, include a mighty gnome empire. The world is ours to make together.
When we’re through, we’ll all know the world’s history and situation. Then we’ll chat for a while about your ideas for the group and gradually transition over to character generation. We’ll make characters per these game setup notes, which I’ll have available tomorrow night in paper form.
There are several variations that we will be using, among them Skill Packages. I am allowing almost all of the variations and options that have accumulated over the course of D&D 3.5. I prepared a handout, Class Resources, that helps you find the location of options for the various character classes. You can use all of them or none– whatever you like. If there’s an option from some other source that interests you, please bring it along so I can look it over.
See you all tomorrow night!