City of the Chosen: Discussion

TheMeanestGuest · April 03, 2013, 11:24:17 PM

I will just confirm that yes, Juliet was born in 2067 and died in 2094.

Nomadic · April 04, 2013, 01:34:36 AM

To fill in some information Jens is 27. His family is German by descent (hence the last name of Faber) but he's solidly Scandinavian by culture due to his place of birth (at least as Scandinavian as you can be in an age when the nation states don't exist as they used to and cultural identity is somewhat loosely tied to the area you're from). He has no recollection of the moments leading up to being chosen though. In his mind one day he was just minding his own business, hunting, building, surviving... the next he wakes up to this weird place.

Raelifin · April 05, 2013, 10:30:38 AM

Just to be clear, the initial 15 Chosen are locked in. Light Dragon, and any other latecomers will have to wait until the second batch, which I estimate will be in about a month.

Also, don't forget that you can communicate with other players (both publicly and privately) in the roleplaying thread and that you can modify your assignments after communicating. One major reason to do so is to coordinate over which NPCs to initially influence. If, for example, two players both improve an unaligned NPC's loyalty score to +2, the NPC will end up undecided and will ally with neither player (until something changes).

(And of course, there's nothing to stop people from bluffing by publicly making it seem like they're chatting up NPC A while actually working on NPC B, because, say, they have the Attractive trait and they expect they can steal the NPC out from under another player's nose.)

LD · April 05, 2013, 11:22:48 AM

Ah, I saw the "still time to join" message in the initial post; no worries though. :)

BasnetI · April 05, 2013, 10:43:46 PM

I was thinking about how to roleplay the events 2 and 3 without knowing the outcome and ended up totally clueless :S

Raelifin · April 05, 2013, 11:10:52 PM

Ah, sorry. I can understand how that'd be confusing. In general, roleplaying for events will be done on the turn after the event takes place. I'll try and make it clear what happened without putting in too much detail so that anyone who wishes can fill in bits that involve their characters.

Thanks for the question.

Xathan · April 06, 2013, 01:54:38 PM

I'll have my event selection up before I go to bed tonight. :P

I admit I'm a bit uncertain what to do in the RP. Hopefully inspiration strikes while I work on UD messages, but I will get SOMETHING up in that department before the turn ends.

Raelifin · April 06, 2013, 02:13:21 PM

If nothing else comes to mind, try striking up a conversation with a fellow player. Things are a little slow because there aren't any relationships yet, but there's no reason you can't fix that.

Raelifin · April 06, 2013, 09:08:32 PM

Out of impatience and because the first turn is abnormally short/simple I'm going to bump the deadline/next turn up to the 9th unless there are any objections.

Raelifin · April 08, 2013, 02:47:42 PM

Small amendment to the rules starting on turn 2:
In a competition the "winners" of an event are the groups that scored highest in the selected outcome, and the "losers" are the groups that did not.
In a cooperative event, the winners are all characters that contributed at least one element to the dominant outcome (losers are those that did not).

This means that if you put in a character that only contributes Dust to an event where the dominant outcome is Blood and Iron, that character is not treated as a winner.

Again, this takes effect next turn, so there's no need to amend orders.

Xathan · April 10, 2013, 04:10:10 AM

John's post seems to cut off suddenly, btw. :P

Raelifin · April 10, 2013, 03:41:25 PM

Oh man! So ridiculous that I didn't catch that. You can see how tired I was.

By the way, for future turns I think I'll stick to the update schedule of ~2-4 days after the last person posts their orders. City involves more tailoring/writing per turn than Underdeep, I suspect, even if the mechanics are significantly simpler.

Speaking of which, I always encourage feedback about the game. Be honest! I'm most concerned about the possibility that the mechanics are too simple and that the events are too difficult to predict to be strategically interesting. My hope is that as time goes on it'll evolve from closely resembling a traditional party-based adventure game to a more high-level strategy game, and as the chosen get a better handle on the city that long-term strategies will become more viable.

Raelifin · April 10, 2013, 03:47:07 PM

I'd also like to start encouraging more posting of internal plans, desires, and motivations in the roleplaying thread. Even if you have to put them in a "GM only" spoiler block, it helps me figure out what events to provide.

Xathan · April 10, 2013, 03:55:05 PM

Heh, I can imagine how tired you were, no worries! And Probably a good idea to have a couple days between updates - I have no idea how much you're copy/pasting or what, but dang that's a lot of text either way. :P

I will freely admit I have almost no understanding of how the game mechanics work, I keep getting confused - I'm just assigning Dante and Friends based on what sounds most interesting in terms of events. I figure either I'll figure it out, or given that the mechanic seems to be pretty heavily character driven, keep stumbling into ones that work out for me. :P

Raelifin · April 10, 2013, 07:07:21 PM

Quote from: Xathan
I will freely admit I have almost no understanding of how the game mechanics work, I keep getting confused - I'm just assigning Dante and Friends based on what sounds most interesting in terms of events. I figure either I'll figure it out, or given that the mechanic seems to be pretty heavily character driven, keep stumbling into ones that work out for me. :P

Your confusion is good feedback in itself. Do you think I need more examples? Clean up some of the rules thread?

The game is designed so that it can be played intuitively, just by throwing characters at events that seem to fit. The question is mostly whether it's fun. :)

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