[s7s] Updates!
A couple of S7S-related updates today, so let's go to the vidjo-tape!
An interview with Yours Truly here, touching on PDQ, ZoZ, T&J, and S7S:
HeroPress: Six Of The Best With CHAD UNDERKOFFLER
http://her0press.blogspot.com/2007/04/six-of-best-with-chad-underkoffler.html
This past weekend, I ran initial sessions for both of my primary playtest groups (Musketeers on Friday night, and Pirates on Saturday afternoon). In my next formal game design-oriented post, I'll talk more about some of the nuts and bolts of issues that tend to pop up in playtesting, but for now, I just want to point you at a post one of my Musketeer players, the one and only Rob Donoghue / rob_donoghue (who plays Corbeau in the anecdote below; Shen is played by nixieq) made about the session in his LJ:
Corbeau and Shen launch out of an alley, coming upon half a dozen ruffians and their victim. Corbeau is both drunk and hung over, and may also be the deadliest man in the world.
Corbeau: Wait, which ones are we fighting again?
Shen: Those. The six over there.
Corbeau peers.
Corbeau: But there are only six of them.
Shen: What, you don't think you can deal with six?
Corbeau gives Shen a flat look.
Corbeau: All right. I have two bottle here. I'm going to throw this one and hit that guy on the forehead. The bottle will break and the glass will take that one in the neck and that one just below the ear. This other bottle will catch that one in the throat, which will knock him back into that one. The last one will look at all this and run off like a girl.
*Dice are rolled. It happens exactly as described.*
Corbeau: I regret that none of you are ever willing to gamble on these things.
And, yes, it was as cool as all that. Indeed, "teh awezum" abounded in both sessions (though because of what we thought was a more constrained Pirates group schedule and some rules cock-ups, there was slightly less awezum in the Pirate session [1], but I take full responsibility for that minor deficit. This will be dealt with, with extreme prejudice, for the next session.)
[1] Still, any session where a half-naked duelist played by fenriss leaps out of a rent-boy's bed, scoops up her clothes with one hand and her sword in the other -- she was already wearing her boots, mind you -- and leaps out of a second-story window to tackle a gliding Kroyu Wingman (who was chasing her captain down the street) must certainly have a decent level of awezum, no?
This bodes well for S7S.
An interview with Yours Truly here, touching on PDQ, ZoZ, T&J, and S7S:
HeroPress: Six Of The Best With CHAD UNDERKOFFLER
http://her0press.blogspot.com/2007/04/six-of-best-with-chad-underkoffler.html
This past weekend, I ran initial sessions for both of my primary playtest groups (Musketeers on Friday night, and Pirates on Saturday afternoon). In my next formal game design-oriented post, I'll talk more about some of the nuts and bolts of issues that tend to pop up in playtesting, but for now, I just want to point you at a post one of my Musketeer players, the one and only Rob Donoghue / rob_donoghue (who plays Corbeau in the anecdote below; Shen is played by nixieq) made about the session in his LJ:
Corbeau and Shen launch out of an alley, coming upon half a dozen ruffians and their victim. Corbeau is both drunk and hung over, and may also be the deadliest man in the world.
Corbeau: Wait, which ones are we fighting again?
Shen: Those. The six over there.
Corbeau peers.
Corbeau: But there are only six of them.
Shen: What, you don't think you can deal with six?
Corbeau gives Shen a flat look.
Corbeau: All right. I have two bottle here. I'm going to throw this one and hit that guy on the forehead. The bottle will break and the glass will take that one in the neck and that one just below the ear. This other bottle will catch that one in the throat, which will knock him back into that one. The last one will look at all this and run off like a girl.
*Dice are rolled. It happens exactly as described.*
Corbeau: I regret that none of you are ever willing to gamble on these things.
And, yes, it was as cool as all that. Indeed, "teh awezum" abounded in both sessions (though because of what we thought was a more constrained Pirates group schedule and some rules cock-ups, there was slightly less awezum in the Pirate session [1], but I take full responsibility for that minor deficit. This will be dealt with, with extreme prejudice, for the next session.)
[1] Still, any session where a half-naked duelist played by fenriss leaps out of a rent-boy's bed, scoops up her clothes with one hand and her sword in the other -- she was already wearing her boots, mind you -- and leaps out of a second-story window to tackle a gliding Kroyu Wingman (who was chasing her captain down the street) must certainly have a decent level of awezum, no?
This bodes well for S7S.