From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #15 Reply-To: the-edge@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Sender: owner-the-edge-digest@ Errors-To: owner-the-edge-digest@ Precedence: bulk The Edge Digested Wednesday, December 17 1997 Volume 01 : Number 015 Today's subjects from The Edge: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM [The Edge] The Ideas, a weird concept Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:52:22 -0500 From: Perry Subject: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Hello, Tommrow i'm going to be picking up OtE second edition and Wildest Dreams and Weather the Cuckoo likes. I was wondering about how good Weather and Dreams are, and how good some of the otehr supplements are ((Myth of Self and Unauthorized Broadcast especialy)) and also some genreal suggestions. My players are going to be World of Darkness veterans, and i was wondering on how to make Al-Amarja just seem diffrent than the world of slightly less bright ((though it probably won't be that difficult)) Thank you for your time. Perry Lyons 4/1/4/3 Idea, Control, Host If perry is popped , all players flip characters equal to their current influence total, and loose 1 influence per character under their current influence. [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 22:07:26 CST From: David Buckley Ebrey Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM I really, really loved Weather the Cuokoo Likes. It was incredible. Maybe it is just me, but it isn't. Wildest Dreams is quite good as well, but not at the same level as Weather. I think the the Players' Survival Guide is a great blessing as well, as it gives the characters a good amount of information but tells them nothing about Al Amarja. As for how to make them think it isn't beige bow wow, spending any amount of time in the Airport should do that. I just had my players spend a four hours session there, and I think they were completely mind fucked. I had my stereo on a preset list of songs that started with this archaic blues and ended with the symphonic cacophony _Revolution #9_. The songs got weirder and weirder as play went on, as did the scenery and the adventure. Also, I started it quite low, and by the time it got to number 9 my walls were shaking. Finally, one of my player half-screamed "could you please turn down that music, I can't understand wha..." at which point I hit stop and replyed, "What music?" She said, "the music it was too lou.." I cut her off and said, "you heard strange music, but now there is nothing. Of course, as soon as play resumed I slowly brought the music back, turning it off whenever the players seem to notice my turning it up... David, who bought OTE and within two months had every adventure and supplement available, including the old fanzine _Edgework_ vol 2,3,4 (you can order that directly from Atlas Games). Speaking of which, does anyone know where I can get vol. 1? [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 23:31:02 -0800 From: Chris Johnson Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM David Buckley Ebrey wrote: > David, who bought OTE and within two months had every adventure and > supplement available, including the old fanzine _Edgework_ vol 2,3,4 (you can > order that directly from Atlas Games). Speaking of which, does anyone know > where I can get vol. 1? Me too, although it was the card game that got me into it...clever ploy, that. Anyway, the real point of this is to mention that I believe my local hobby shop has a couple of copies of #1 and #4, that I could pick up, if anyone is interested in them. Let me know via email. Chris [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 04:55:39 -0800 (PST) From: snooze Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Perry wrote: > Hello, > Tommrow i'm going to be picking up OtE second edition and Wildest > Dreams and Weather the Cuckoo likes. I was wondering about how good > Weather and Dreams are, and how good some of the otehr supplements are > ((Myth of Self and Unauthorized Broadcast especialy)) and also some > genreal suggestions. My players are going to be World of Darkness > veterans, and i was wondering on how to make Al-Amarja just seem > diffrent than the world of slightly less bright ((though it probably > won't be that difficult)) Weather and Dreams are probably two of my favorite gaming supplements. Both have really interesting source material and got my mind really going as far as interesting things to do within a game. Hmm, suggestions. Back when I was first starting with OTE I got lots of good ones. Probably the best is Just Relax. The great thing about OTE is that even your slipups can easily be turned around into plot seeds. For instance. The game I was running. The players were staying on the fifth floor of a hotel. At one point I was reading through the rules and noticed the hotel actually only has two or three floors. So, one of the next times they went back to the hotel. The top two floors were missing. And if the game hadn't ended, it would have ended up being a very interesting introduction to the cut-ups. One of the things I like doing is to start stuff out seeming somewhat mundane and slowly but surely adding in weirder and weirder stuff. snooze P Gregory Blake (aka snooze@deepseas,The Pause,TooMUSH,etc) P L Peace * Love * Unity * Respect L U email: snooze@crl.com | url: http://www.crl.com/~snooze U R whodp://ding.activerse.com/snooze | ICQ# 1367921 R [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:38:31 -0500 (EST) From: David Freier Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Well if your local store has copies of Edgeworks #1 pick them up. They are out of print and generally unavailable. I am sure there are people out there who would be interested in them David Freier > Anyway, the real point of this is to mention that I believe my local > hobby shop has a couple of copies of #1 and #4, that I could pick up, if > anyone is interested in them. Let me know via email. > > Chris > > [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge > [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of > [O] (un)subscribe the-edge > [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 18:55:43 -0500 From: "Rich Collins" Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM I found Dreams to be the better/more usable in a game setting of the two "sourcebooks" (see my web page for a write up of the Doe adventure). Unauthorized Broadcast is also a mighty fine adventure. Lots of potential beyond the few pages of material provided. It Waits is a Doc classic. Lotsa humor and weirdness. With a Long Spoon might actually feel at home for WoD players. Personally, tho the Airport is an interesting idea, I find that making it the weirdest place on the island to be too overpowering for 1st exposures. It can get really tedious if you just throw weirdness after weirdness after weirdness at a group the very first night they encounter a game. I would say don't let the terminal take up more than 15% of the time you have budgeted for the first session. Let them get into the island slowly, think its kinda eccentric but not overly beyond reason, then have em get caught up in forces beyond one's control. In that way, OTE can be much like running CoC. If you throw the weirdest things at them right off the bat the rest will become mundane too quick. The rule book provides years and years worth of source material. Don't be in a rush to use it all at once. - -rich http://users.aol.com/rcoll19935/private/carney6.htm [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:58:18 -0500 From: Perry Subject: [The Edge] The Ideas, a weird concept Type:Conspiracy, fractured Rep:None Brief:psychotic thought remenants trying to enter the "real" world Allies:None, but some may show allegiance to certain groups while persuing the overall agenda of entering the phyisical world Enemies:All realworlders Thoughts.... we think them every day, some of them we hold on to , and some we discard, forget or ignore. But what happens to the Discarded thoughts, the ignored ideas? After a while, thoughts from a person tend to coagulate into a concrete SOMETHING, this....something has a personality based somewhat on it's creator, but it tends to be from the discarded elements ((Ie. a Cutup's Ideaself would be a control addict, where say Constance D'aubainne would be a dieheard cutup as an idea)) Ideas either continue to exist solely on an astral/psychic level most of the time, but some of them that had exceptional creators can either posess a human ((Glugs, Kergellians and Sandmen are for some reason , immune, as are animals and a completely changed LeThuy)) or form their own body. Those that posess a body ((host)) eject the origional personality, condmening it to exist on the same plane as the other ideas. Those that form their own bodies are extremely powerful, the only one so far being Jesus Christ, the "son of god". GMC's Perry Lyons Intelligent Idea Friendly, intelligent, and utterly corrupted Cacuasian male, appears to be 16 6'3"((no metric for me! i shall resist!)) 165 pounds((looks thinner)), straight brown hair at medium length, grey eyes. Languages:Russian, English, Spanish Traits: Friendly, 4 dice--perry can seem to be a person's best friend after only a few minutes of talking with them(gentle voice) Conceptual Absorbtion 3dice--after hearing a theory or a new concept or studying it, perry can understand it completely, and at times better than the person who thought it up (air of confidance in discussion) Distracted- perry is almost always absorbing soemthing from the idea pool, and hasn't quite been able to multitask that well (stares off into space or cuts conversations off if he notices something of interst) Well, i hope you all like the ideas, and yes, the GMC is the Al-Amarjan me, gotta allow the Gm a bit of an ego, but i'm a nice guy, really Perry Lyons [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 97 21:04:08 CST From: David Buckley Ebrey Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM Regarding not using the airport much the first adventure, I respectfully disagree. Monique created to break the will of burgers, and it _is_ one of the weirder places on the island. However weirdness isn't the only thing in an OTE game - -- far from it. In my first game all sorts of weird stuff happened; some of it was truly out of no where, but much of it wasdue to one conspiracy or another. The airport sets up an initial madness which the characters can figure out the method behind. In the beginning everything just seems alien - -- and part of that has been done on purpose. However, part of that is simply due to the ignorance of the PCs. In my first adventure in the airport tulpas, sandmen, the net, andthe cut-ps have all made an appearnce (not to mention the governmnet), yet the characters recognized none of these. As the campaign continues perhaps the opening scenes at the aiport will begin to make sense. Well, this is at least one way to use the airport. David [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #15 ******************************* [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge-digest [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge-digest To get off digest, subscribe the-edge [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org