Comments on: Metaplot 2.0 (Part Two) http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2010/01/14/metaplot-2-0-part-two/ Killing Someone Else's Darlings Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:06:55 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: JDCorley http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2010/01/14/metaplot-2-0-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-644 JDCorley Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:15:27 +0000 http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/?p=545#comment-644 I couldn't ever figure out a way to make them plug into the social systems, so I started from scratch. I couldn’t ever figure out a way to make them plug into the social systems, so I started from scratch.

]]> By: admin http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2010/01/14/metaplot-2-0-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-640 admin Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:23:10 +0000 http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/?p=545#comment-640 I think they've always plugged into social systems, though the game wasn't great at offering procedural advice. The plotgen thing is pretty cool. I do like random options for when you need inspiration or something isn't defined. I like to use Toon's 50% rule heavily! Also, reading that thread I LOL at the complaint that Vampire doesn't give you any "positive options." For God's sakes, are people really that spoonfed with wish fulfillment as the default play mode? Yikes. I think they’ve always plugged into social systems, though the game wasn’t great at offering procedural advice. The plotgen thing is pretty cool. I do like random options for when you need inspiration or something isn’t defined. I like to use Toon’s 50% rule heavily!

Also, reading that thread I LOL at the complaint that Vampire doesn’t give you any “positive options.” For God’s sakes, are people really that spoonfed with wish fulfillment as the default play mode? Yikes.

]]> By: JDCorley http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2010/01/14/metaplot-2-0-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-635 JDCorley Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:26:54 +0000 http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/?p=545#comment-635 In a story-games thread filled with more brain damage jokes than is really decorous, I listed how I used the relationship maps in WW stuff (including the original Chicago by Night), because it wasn't exactly clear to me if they were meant to be used for more than reference. In the end I ended up making up my own system for using the relationship map as an "intrigue simulator". You can check it out <a href="http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=6444" rel="nofollow">here</a>, it's at item 113. In a story-games thread filled with more brain damage jokes than is really decorous, I listed how I used the relationship maps in WW stuff (including the original Chicago by Night), because it wasn’t exactly clear to me if they were meant to be used for more than reference. In the end I ended up making up my own system for using the relationship map as an “intrigue simulator”. You can check it out here, it’s at item 113.

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