Comments on: Friday Five… No Ten! http://www.ravenousrpg.com/2009/09/18/friday-five-no-ten/ RPG consumption is a way of life Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:06:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Friday Links for October 2, 2009 | Moebius Adventures http://www.ravenousrpg.com/2009/09/18/friday-five-no-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Friday Links for October 2, 2009 | Moebius Adventures Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:08:08 +0000 http://www.ravenousrpg.com/?p=214#comment-76 [...] Friday Five… No Ten! from Ravenous Role Playing (ravenousrpg.com) [...] [...] Friday Five… No Ten! from Ravenous Role Playing (ravenousrpg.com) [...]

]]> By: Hungry http://www.ravenousrpg.com/2009/09/18/friday-five-no-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Hungry Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:29:25 +0000 http://www.ravenousrpg.com/?p=214#comment-57 You've got a great point, Mike. It's hard to tell the PCs where the world differs from what they walk in the door expecting. I guess, like most things in life, a balance is needed. Also, another suggestion is to work with handouts of bulletins they may find on posting boards around town, or feed them details in rumors overheard, or even go for the town crier announcement method. They're all a far cry better than simply reciting facts from a list or reading paragraphs of prepared statements. Of course, those have their place too when the information just needs to be gotten into the players' ears. You’ve got a great point, Mike. It’s hard to tell the PCs where the world differs from what they walk in the door expecting. I guess, like most things in life, a balance is needed.

Also, another suggestion is to work with handouts of bulletins they may find on posting boards around town, or feed them details in rumors overheard, or even go for the town crier announcement method. They’re all a far cry better than simply reciting facts from a list or reading paragraphs of prepared statements. Of course, those have their place too when the information just needs to be gotten into the players’ ears.

]]> By: Mike Bourke http://www.ravenousrpg.com/2009/09/18/friday-five-no-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Mike Bourke Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:45:38 +0000 http://www.ravenousrpg.com/?p=214#comment-56 I appreciate the empathy, Hungry, and the approach you recommend is certainly valid much of the time. But things aren't that simple in a big-picture campaign when the PCs are supposed to have access to whole encyclopedias on the game environment, and where even telling them how things are different to what they are used to (things they need to know) takes pages (to write) and hours (to read aloud)... I appreciate the empathy, Hungry, and the approach you recommend is certainly valid much of the time. But things aren’t that simple in a big-picture campaign when the PCs are supposed to have access to whole encyclopedias on the game environment, and where even telling them how things are different to what they are used to (things they need to know) takes pages (to write) and hours (to read aloud)…

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