Have you ever tried to select a restaurant with a large group of people, at least one of which hates any suggested cuisine? You can experience all the joy of that real-life experience in your fantasy worlds! Only there it might be fun....
Peter Larsen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:37 PM, <hcarteau_at_...> wrote:
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> We recently talked to a shaman who was a Contrary (see the Little Big Man
> movie) : everything he said, meant the reverse. It made for a fine
> discussion, the GM fumbling with his words, and we players fumbling to
> reverse-understand what he meant. It's easy to overlook something !
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> De: Chris Lemens chrislemens_at_...>
> À: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
> Envoyé: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:08:12 +0100 (CET)
> Objet: Re: What's it like talking to a spirit?
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> Peter Larsen wrote:
> A bunch of stuff I agree with and
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> > Requiring ritual behavior is also a good trick -- I had a game where a
> > character became very agitated if asked questions. The players were first
> > annoyed, then they really got into how to quiz a witness about an event
> > without asking any direct questions.
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> I think this is one of the keys to playing out spirits. There are some
> things that will offend them. For characters in a long term relationship,
> this will become a matter of taboo. Then there are some ting that will
> induce a positive response. These will become a matter of ritual. Then
> there are some things that confuse the spirit or make it unresponsive or
> whatever. These thing are neutral but useless.
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> If I were narrating a game with lots of spirits, I would put each on on
> 3x5 cards or the equivalent. I would write down its name, a short history,
> powers it can grant, information it might know, things that offend it,
> things that please it, and the ways that it prefers to interact with
> people. And I would add to it as I go (especially history, powers and
> knowledge).
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> Chris
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