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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
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 Posted - 01 Oct 2005 : 08:13:38
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Indeed I don't like great scale plots, they suppouse too much problem in trying to not affect important stuuf, as cities or special NPCs, that's why I prefer conspiracys, and dark plots, even sometimes I've played "dungeons" plots, a la Eye of the Beholder. But the problem of playing conspiracys plots is that is difficult to make them different, finally you end always playing the same "Someone wants to kill king Azoun" plot  . Oh we need an imagination referesh. |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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Fletcher
Learned Scribe
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2005 : 18:12:23
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I enjoy having an overall 'theme' to games, but not necessarily a single epic plot. It is often hard to get fractious players to go in one direction. The term herding cats comes to mind. 
So instead of having the goal of taking on the Zulkirs of Thay, or smashing the Power of the Cloaks and Blades of Mulmaster, I prefer to have games where there are recurring villains, and villainous groups.
The recurring villains usually are always after the same or similar goal each time the players run across them. The villainous groups tend to have a broader reach for their plans. Because, like any orginisation, they have the manpower that enables them to branch out into different fields of villainy.
The overall goal of games I run tend to be to grant the players the opportunity to flesh out their characters and meet many of the character's goals/ambitions. |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
730 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2005 : 20:43:43
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I remember a "surprise" game I played once. I was DMing and i allowed them to create the char till level 25. I still can remember their faces when the rivals were revealed... themselves, someone casted a "clone" spell against them while sleeping and they were always pursued by themselves, same spells, same levels, same weapons, it was incredibly funny. They still hate me for that one... |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 06 Oct 2005 : 22:51:46
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Originally posted by Thelonius
I remember a "surprise" game I played once. I was DMing and i allowed them to create the char till level 25. I still can remember their faces when the rivals were revealed... themselves, someone casted a "clone" spell against them while sleeping and they were always pursued by themselves, same spells, same levels, same weapons, it was incredibly funny. They still hate me for that one...
That's evil! I like it!  |
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Crennen FaerieBane
Master of Realmslore
USA
1378 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2005 : 23:14:21
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Series of Multiple "Un-related" Adventures tied into one Campaign Plot
Definitely for me... I have one of the best GMs in the world and she is really good at running this type of adventure, which is wonderful. I love that all the adventures, while unrelated at face value, tend to all come to a sum total in the end.
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
730 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2005 : 07:44:36
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Thelonius
I remember a "surprise" game I played once. I was DMing and i allowed them to create the char till level 25. I still can remember their faces when the rivals were revealed... themselves, someone casted a "clone" spell against them while sleeping and they were always pursued by themselves, same spells, same levels, same weapons, it was incredibly funny. They still hate me for that one...
That's evil! I like it!
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"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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Antareana
Seeker
Germany
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Posted - 10 Nov 2005 : 15:55:49
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I prefer either one really big epic Adventure without many sub-quests (which is what I am running with my group at the moment) or many adventures that belong mostly to the same plot. I like doing "big things" and that works only properly if you are either epic level or if you are following one big scheme over a long long time.
Many different adventures can be funny, too, but most DMs have problems with giving the PCs reputations then (which can be annoying and unsatisfying)
Thats what happened in our Planescape Campaign until we were 15th level or so until one of us suddenly became chosen of Mystra  |
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Vangelor
Learned Scribe
USA
183 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2005 : 01:39:48
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I went with "Single Plot, Multiple Adventure Campaign", because I like to have adventures lead to further adventures for the same troupe of characters. But I also run multiple campaigns.
My Waterdeep game is geared toward a half-orc Sun Soul Monk, A half-elven bard and a human rogue, who are hired to work for an investigation firm, which ends up involving them in numerous plots large and small as they look into strage events in and around Waterdeep. The private investigators angle is well suited to numerous self-contained stories, but there is an overall story of an unsolved mystery that they are gradually untangling as well.
My Cormanthor campaign wound up not really continuing, but might have gone anywhere. I still hope to revisit that setting, and perhaps someday we shall. |
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Talanfir Swiftfeet
Learned Scribe
Finland
143 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2005 : 14:36:36
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My DM once made a very good campaign, where the PCs started at different towns and didn't know eachother. Only after our third session of playing did the PCs meet eachother and became a group. And at some points the of the campaign the group separated to do different sub-plots, that all linked to the major plot.
This kind of plot maybe very hard for the DM to make, but we loved it. It made our group seem like it's not a ready made group that we just started playin,g but a group where every PC had their own history and their own interests. |
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Angron
Acolyte
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Posted - 26 Dec 2005 : 18:57:04
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| In my group the DM dosent have that much say in waht we do, we play more out the lifes of the pc's. We do what we feel like doing and the DM runs all of our different sane\insane ideas as the adventures instead of making them ahead of time. As an example: One of the pc wants to establish himself a small kingdom up in the north, we would travel from the place we were at up to the north and start working on that task, and the DM controls the world and does what he think is the most realistic response to taht action for the different things\persons that lurks in the north |
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Giilvas Vyshaan
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 15 Feb 2006 : 17:50:42
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| I have enjoyed so many adventuring & DM-ing campaigns of all types, however, the ones my gaming buddies and I always talk about seem to be 'remembering' the most are the ones with many unrelated but tied into a single campaign plot. We are currently in a major epic scope single adventure campaign that we all are having a great time with. That's the point, isn't it? |
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Tordis
Acolyte
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Apr 2006 : 08:36:58
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| My preference would be option 2, as it gives the possibility to develop your character to a certain level without the players getting bored. Even though there is a main plot and a final purpose to the PC's actions, you can still use some of your ideas that simply don't fit in and pack them in as side quests. |
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People's Adventuring Preferences
