Re: where's the Scenario?

From: Bryan <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:18:43 -0000

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> Indeed, I'd say this approach is likely to work
> better in a relatively constrained background, such as a clan, small
> city, or the like. Large cities, and world-hopping campaigns (such as
> a sailor campaign, for example) might make it less viable. In both
> cases, most of the people you come across are likely to be ones you
> don't know, so having the same faces turn up again and again would
> seem a bit odd - barring, of course, obvious associates, recurring
> nemeses or the like.
>
I don't know--I live in a city of about a million people, yet there are many people that I see on a regular basis, of course. For heroes in a fantasy setting there can be a bar they frequent, where staff and regulars can be counted on. The person they go to for getting people stitched up. Local beggars. Guards they see regularly. Servants of their patron. Children of their retainers. And of course besides seeing those people in the normal places, it is not that odd to find your patron's footman at a gambling den, your bartender at the market, a guard you deal with often in a bar you don't normally frequent, and so on.

--Bryan