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Episode 2612: Live Those Dreams, Scheme Those Schemes

It's really nice when your players are enthusiastic about your games.

It can also generate a lot of extra work if you're not careful. But embrace it. They're much better than players who don't care.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Huh, and here I'd thought we'd get a little off-to-the-side planning thing before the session jump. Maybe that's only for actual scenes like Finn and Phasma? Anyway, I hope the GM's been included in whatever devious plan they've come up with. There's planning around needing to improv and then there's improv-ing a whole session a second time while having expected to try and hit a few plot points that day.

Plus, having to improv the session means that it's even odds that there's no useful hints to solve the current mysteries! I've never been excited or crazy enough to draw up competing conspiracies or rewatch/reread old sessions more than five times in a row, but I get it. When some people get really excited about something, it can be hard not to be sucked in and focus a huge amount of attention on that something.

And it's time for the new mid-Episode campaign! .... Maybe! For all the detail we've got so far, it could be a separate game that ran at the same time. Heck, it could even be running at the same time as this one! (Probably not though.) I'm going to ignore the part about Pete's character having a main character dad and guess that it was [redacted].

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Episode 2611: One Cannot Have Too Large a Party

There's a lot to be said for anticipation. End sessions with some sort of hint as to what is to come the next you get together. Don't just end with everyone happy and rested at an inn and wondering what adventure might befall them next. Have some sort of setup ready that leads into the next adventure and drop the hook at the end of the session.

You're resting and celebrating in the tavern after successfully clearing out the Caves of Corruption. Towards the end of the evening, as the townsfolk have all disappeared to turn in for the night, a furtive figure in a grey cloak approaches you. "It seems you are worthy swords for hire. I have a job for you. It involves sneaking into the Royal Palace to deliver a message to one of the Queen's handmaidens. Are you up for it?"

This keeps players excited to show up next time!

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Huh, for some reason I'd thought Rose would be sticking around with Finn. I wonder why the split up. Did something happen so the writers don't want them in the same group any more? The lack of party splitting is an interesting change though. That means we'll only have three perspectives we can bounce between; Tatooine, Jungle Planet, and wherever Kylo/First Order happens to be.

Pete wants to chat with Sally as an aside after everyone else has moved one? That's not suspicious at all. I think that'll be a thing between Rey and Kylo. I can't see Pete wanting to have Artoo plan anything out with Kanata, and there's that vision thing that happened with Rey and Kylo earlier. Kanata and Rey could be a thing, but that feels unlikely. And comedy between Artoo and Threepio is just too awkward to plan.

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