{"id":10917,"date":"2007-05-20T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/20\/the-games-a-foot.html"},"modified":"2007-05-20T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T04:56:16","slug":"the_games_a_foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/the_games_a_foot.html","title":{"rendered":"The game’s a-foot!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ran my first game in quite some time this afternoon\/evening, a Prime Time Adventures<\/a> game set in Victorian England — but one where the Fae have openly returned to the world.  Our heroes play a mysterious organization seeking to solve crimes that may involve the Fae, and to bring the guilty to justice, no matter whose feathers that might ruffle …<\/p>\n

Had Margie, Doyce, and Kate along for the ride.  Even though we’d thrashed out the setting and all via e-mail for a few weeks, we still ended up spending a couple of hours, easily, up front on working out the details and characters, and more time struggling through some of the rule structures (it’s not that the rules are complex, but that they require rethinking of what conflicts are about before you resolve them). <\/p>\n

Good stuff, all told, and I was pleased by how things turned out (and by everyone else wanting to carry on with it).  We had to break for Kate to go pack and head for the airport, so the pilot episode’s turned into a two-parter.  Ironic, because I had a nascent plot in mind that got delayed far too long to run through, so I did a sudden shift to something else that required me a while to actually figure out.  If I’d known we were going to a two-parter, I could have kept the original plot — except that the new one actually works better (and I still have the original in my back pocket for the post-pilot series).<\/p>\n

Doyce was taking notes, so I’m dependent on him to wait for the game logs — I’ll post a reminder when we get it.  Biggest problem at the moment is that we have no series title<\/strong>.  Various suggested ideas (of which there’ve only been a few — “Department M,” “Fae Britannia”) have fallen flat.  We’re looking for something catchy, something that captures the era and subject matter.  Anyone out there have any ideas?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If nothing else, I’ve learned a lot more about the Victorian era, esp. around the year 1890, than I thought I ever would need to.  A fun time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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