Cooperative Gaming

Describe a Genre

In one line, describe a genre/setting/situation you'd like to play, narrate or both.

Here are some examples:

  • Agents of a galaxy-wide teleporting civilization convinced their superiors have become controlled by other-dimensional horrors.
  • Psychic researchers extending their perceptions beyond the borders of known reality, using alien minds as their exploration tools.
  • Victorian absinthe producers intent on triggering worldwide anti-royalist revolutions.
  • Quantum physics grad students whose research reveals the nature and necessity of repairing the Universal Overmind, just before masters' theses outlines are due.
  • Mook-mok want take cave from bear. Where find good spear stone?
  • A national champion girl's high school rugby team discovers the president is a robot during an awards ceremony at the Western White House.
  • Aethernauts on the HMAS Planetary Conquerer, a phlogiston-powered dreadnought crashed in the endless methane swamps of Venus.
  • Faux-satanists and fellow poser death metal band mates accidentally summon Satan during an orgy/practice, and must serve him eternally or suffer in hell immediately.

Playing Around at Stellarcon

Stellarcon seemed small to me, but maybe that was just the overtaxed elevators.

Downtown High Point is not a great place for a con. No good dinner restaurants in walking distance and Elm Street Café, the only good lunch place, closed on Sunday. I completely failed to find a place to buy wine, which meant at one point Saturday night I actually drank a Miller lite. I had forgotten how it doesn't taste even a little like beer.

Food at the Raddison restaurant was just OK, and as is typical for a hotel restaurant, was overpriced for what you got. Joys of a captive market.

Player Input

The "Life in Dorkath is for Adults" entry by Kirk, below, is the first example of a little experiment for the Dorkath game.

I want each of the players to contribute at least one fact about the game that their Heroes could not in any way determine. Something that could not normally be defined by your individual character creation.

So you could write anything like the following:

    The Satrap's wife has a weakness for men who look like Vilavandesh.
    A population explosion among the Great Swamp's giant lamprey population is decimating the fish stocks most people rely on for food.
    Recent increases in papyrus prices have led to student riots at Irripi Ontor's College of Scribal Arts.
    That "unnamed forbidden lover" mentioned at this link is my Hero's sister/niece/daughter/mother/slave/paid informant.

Now, while you can define these things, if they don't appear on someone's character sheet, then the characters don't know about them.

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