{"id":5250,"date":"2004-04-19T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/19\/spy-games.html"},"modified":"2004-04-19T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T13:43:10","slug":"spy_games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/19\/spy_games.html","title":{"rendered":"Spy games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next episode of my <i>Spycraft <\/i>campaign went off pretty well.  The group, having been briefed on the mission at the end of the previous meeting, had devised a Cunning Plan to bypass the bother of the first Scene.  Which, actually, was (a) encompassed by the module&#8217;s writers (huzzah) and (b) quite reasonable.  So it worked, and the first scene only ran about an hour.  Would have been less, but, y&#8217;know, <i>role-playing <\/i>and all that, not to mention rampant paranoia.  Had it actually been a Living Spycraft table it would have been two rolls and ten minutes and on to the next scene.<\/p>\n<p>Scene 2 went pretty well.  The party took an approach that was tentative but reasonable (the module text implied it shouldn&#8217;t have worked, but that didn&#8217;t make any sense at the time), ending in some very dramatic, cinematic, and enjoyable bits, courtesy of the players.  And since it let the main action progress as &#8220;planned,&#8221; it was all good.<\/p>\n<p>My sole regret about Scene 2 was that I neglected to drop in a little &#8220;business&#8221; that would have had at least one player &#8230; worried.  Ah, well, it can be dropped in some other time.  Soon.<\/p>\n<p>Scene 3 remains, and since it&#8217;s unlikely to take up an entire session, I&#8217;ll need to have the following module prepped for it.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change for me, GMing, was my use of a personal Wiki (using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyted.net\/eddie\/wiki\/\">WikiServer<\/a>) to organize and run the module.  This didn&#8217;t go quite as smoothly as I would have liked, though I&#8217;m not sure why.  I may not have the organizational stuff down yet (do you break the character sheet onto a different page from the character description?  I can argue it both ways), and that was a bit hampered by a relatively crude Wiki implementation.  Part of it may just be that I&#8217;m still looking for the &#8220;right&#8221; combination between fast and easy cross-links (as in a Wiki) and a cardfile metaphor (as in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azzcardfile.com\/\">previous tools <\/a>I&#8217;ve used).<\/p>\n<p>I changed the way I was handling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/idc\/006352.html\">Action Dice awards <\/a>a bit, going more toward providing cinematic experience points rather than table entertainment.  I think that worked okay, though I&#8217;m still concerned I&#8217;m not being consistent (esp. with characters who are inherently cinematic &#8212; though, really, what character can&#8217;t be?).  Practice, practice, practice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next episode of my Spycraft campaign went off pretty well. 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