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And A Gnother Groleplaying Game...
Feb. 28th, 2006 12:39 pm...taking up more of my week - it's refreshing to spend my monday nights with people who don't disgust me.
Jon genned and started myself, Emma, Elizabeth, Caroline and Tim on his WFRP game last night, and I once again demonstrated to myself how unashamedly crap I am if I don't have lots of character detail to work with.
Pieter Karlssohn is a twenty-four stone, six-foot-four, blond-haired, blue-eyed brick shithouse (his looks and intelligence based on Kalten from David Eddings' Sparhawk trilogies). That is, however, all I had to go on for the session. While that meant that I got the same level of depth into my character as Eddings tends to manage, it was rather bland and unsatisfying to play.
The party as a whole is quite good, and (as Jon intended) not exactly a combat-oriented group. As such, while basing themselves off Pieter and Felix (Tim) at first, they will need to develop ways in which they can be effective together - probably with Pieter tanking, Felix shooting the bad guys up and serious backstabbage going on from all other sides. The female characters did, however, show themselves en masse to be excellent softcore whores - make of that what you will.
It was certainly obvious that my guy is combat hardy - he had a fist fight with a beast man and won (shades of a troll getting beaten to death by Mad Jim come to mind...strange how we always become what we hate), so if I can make him a strong silent type of leader who takes decisive action and stays as inherently nice as he is now, I think he'll be quite good. Once I've him and the setting sorted in my head, he'll be a lot less reactive and vague and more what I was hoping for - Eddings would complain, but having never added a third dimension to his characters, Pieter will be inherently turning ninety degrees to the template.
In other news, the piece of music that GASP are signing for the fundraising gala is absolutely fantastic - we're in four parts for the first time in a while, and are singing an African piece called Wayoyo. It has elements of both African harmony and call-and-response singing, and has lots of my preferred types of prgressions all the way through it. Jo wants us all to dress up as builders to sing it - signifying that we are setting out on a journey to get something done, as in the song - but I just hope that it fits in with the overall state of the show, or we're going to look bloody stupid.
Oh well, at least it will have a hint of organisational structure.
Jon genned and started myself, Emma, Elizabeth, Caroline and Tim on his WFRP game last night, and I once again demonstrated to myself how unashamedly crap I am if I don't have lots of character detail to work with.
Pieter Karlssohn is a twenty-four stone, six-foot-four, blond-haired, blue-eyed brick shithouse (his looks and intelligence based on Kalten from David Eddings' Sparhawk trilogies). That is, however, all I had to go on for the session. While that meant that I got the same level of depth into my character as Eddings tends to manage, it was rather bland and unsatisfying to play.
The party as a whole is quite good, and (as Jon intended) not exactly a combat-oriented group. As such, while basing themselves off Pieter and Felix (Tim) at first, they will need to develop ways in which they can be effective together - probably with Pieter tanking, Felix shooting the bad guys up and serious backstabbage going on from all other sides. The female characters did, however, show themselves en masse to be excellent softcore whores - make of that what you will.
It was certainly obvious that my guy is combat hardy - he had a fist fight with a beast man and won (shades of a troll getting beaten to death by Mad Jim come to mind...strange how we always become what we hate), so if I can make him a strong silent type of leader who takes decisive action and stays as inherently nice as he is now, I think he'll be quite good. Once I've him and the setting sorted in my head, he'll be a lot less reactive and vague and more what I was hoping for - Eddings would complain, but having never added a third dimension to his characters, Pieter will be inherently turning ninety degrees to the template.
In other news, the piece of music that GASP are signing for the fundraising gala is absolutely fantastic - we're in four parts for the first time in a while, and are singing an African piece called Wayoyo. It has elements of both African harmony and call-and-response singing, and has lots of my preferred types of prgressions all the way through it. Jo wants us all to dress up as builders to sing it - signifying that we are setting out on a journey to get something done, as in the song - but I just hope that it fits in with the overall state of the show, or we're going to look bloody stupid.
Oh well, at least it will have a hint of organisational structure.
