Actual Play - The Putrescent Seven 12/10/2011

[seannittner]

GM: Duane “A Terrible Idea” “Not-Batman” O’Brien
Players: Shannon MacNamara, Tom Idleman, Filipe Morales, Patrick Idleman, Sean Nittner, Jill Stapleton and Luke Miller.
System: Shambles

I went into this game with a lot of varied expectations:

• Duane has run this game several times and I had heard good things about it. Magnificent Seven + Seven Samurai

Comments

[seannittner]

It was a really good game, glad you're going to run it again (and even more so that I left out plot details).

Regarding planning I highly recommend checking out Wilderness of Mirrors (http://johnwickpresents.com/market/products/wildernessofmirrors.html) for it's planning phase as well as Leverage (http://www.margaretweis.com/mwp-online-store/leverage) for it's Flashback mechanics. Both are very strong and keep the action moving forward.

John Wick gives an example of taking the planning mechanics from WoM and dropping it into a dungeon delve here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsnvANYBRWo I think his discussion of how to do it is actually a little less elegant (his reward mechanic being sloppy because frankly I don't think John knows how to play D&D) but the meat of it is there. Plus, he's fun to watch, and it's free.