Gaming: In Nomine begins
So... Last night, the gaming group tried out In Nomine for the first time. I know I made a character some years ago, but that game barely got started. I must've blacked out how bad the character generation experience was or the GM really did a home-brew.
Either way, over the last week, I had put in more than 20 hours writing up a 17 page Character Generation guide, which only helped a little. By the time I was done (and getting tired of working on the guide), I realized that the character sheets were really not going to help much. I had already handed out the "enhanced" ones from the Steve Jackson site... but ugh. Maybe some groups like the really free-form sheets where you write down anything in a blank space. I can't say that our group is one of those. We're far too geeky in our organizational layout skills. Over this week, I'm taking the L5R character sheets that zeroband did in Visio and tweaking them for In Nomine.
After the pain of character generation, where the group was allowed to pick between angels, soldiers of God, and mundanes as long as they were affiliated with S-Mart, we were able to begin. Yes, that's right. S-Mart. Shop smart, shop S-Mart. (I never said that I run a serious game.) It's S-Mart at the holidays and the pain of Christmas cheer is striking the stores early.
It's kinda weird to be GMing a game where the rules are still not completely familiar to me. The rules don't seem too bad...yet... but I haven't thrown combat in, yet. This first game was off-the-cuff because I had no idea what everyone was interested in. I knew I'd have at least 1 mundane and 1 angel... and then the angel went from the original ideas of a warrior angel to a hyper-peacenik. The group has a bunch of insane S-Mart workers -- this may as well be Evil Dead characters meet Clerks -- that are perhaps a little crazier than my NPCs. This says something.
This week, I'll actually work on my NPCs. At least I had planned the first few places to set the stage, but leave it confused as to who was doing what...if anyone was doing anything. Yay. Sub-tell-tee. At least, unknowingly, I have an uber GM-hook... as we have a Soldier of God with an undefined angel that she works for. Mwahaha.
Either way, over the last week, I had put in more than 20 hours writing up a 17 page Character Generation guide, which only helped a little. By the time I was done (and getting tired of working on the guide), I realized that the character sheets were really not going to help much. I had already handed out the "enhanced" ones from the Steve Jackson site... but ugh. Maybe some groups like the really free-form sheets where you write down anything in a blank space. I can't say that our group is one of those. We're far too geeky in our organizational layout skills. Over this week, I'm taking the L5R character sheets that zeroband did in Visio and tweaking them for In Nomine.
After the pain of character generation, where the group was allowed to pick between angels, soldiers of God, and mundanes as long as they were affiliated with S-Mart, we were able to begin. Yes, that's right. S-Mart. Shop smart, shop S-Mart. (I never said that I run a serious game.) It's S-Mart at the holidays and the pain of Christmas cheer is striking the stores early.
It's kinda weird to be GMing a game where the rules are still not completely familiar to me. The rules don't seem too bad...yet... but I haven't thrown combat in, yet. This first game was off-the-cuff because I had no idea what everyone was interested in. I knew I'd have at least 1 mundane and 1 angel... and then the angel went from the original ideas of a warrior angel to a hyper-peacenik. The group has a bunch of insane S-Mart workers -- this may as well be Evil Dead characters meet Clerks -- that are perhaps a little crazier than my NPCs. This says something.
This week, I'll actually work on my NPCs. At least I had planned the first few places to set the stage, but leave it confused as to who was doing what...if anyone was doing anything. Yay. Sub-tell-tee. At least, unknowingly, I have an uber GM-hook... as we have a Soldier of God with an undefined angel that she works for. Mwahaha.