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STEP STEP TWO:
TWO:
Start or Join a Party
When role-playing games were young, there was an idea that you could
define a character using a system that came to be called Alignment.
Originally, we think it was supposed to be a guide for how to play your
character, and an easy way to separate the Good Guys from the Bad Guys.
While it started simply, it quickly became bloated, pointless and ridiculous to
the point where characters were able to speak to each other in secret
alignment languages. Somewhere along the way Order and Chaos got all
mixed up in this too. We blame Michael Moorcock.
Game groups were perpetually mired in arguments over whether or not a
Chaotic Neutral character was a psychopath, and fist fights over if it was
possible to play a True Neutral character where semi-regular convention
experiences. Worse yet, everyone always picked alignments that put them
at odds with the other players (and worse yet, at odds with whatever
adventure the Game Master was planning on running). How many times
have you rolled up an ass-kicking Assassin only to find out that the
adventure is about saving the world from Demons, or made an awesome
Paladin that is trying to save the poor in a game where everyone is just
trying to get rich.
Now, what role-playing games have always needed were “in game” goals*.
Not just adventure objectives, but honest to goodness lofty ideals (or at least
nefarious plots) that characters can work towards - together. So, we’re
going to assume that you are playing this game with a few people and that
together, you form a PARTY. If you need some help putting together a
back-story, you could use this handy little “fill in form” to get things started.
Once you have formed or joined an Adventuring Party, you should use your
back-story to guide your group decision in WHAT YOU WANT. Complete
rules for PARTY GOALS are listed in the next section.
*Not that amassing hordes of money and trollhides isn’t a noble pursuit. But
you know where that leads.
Party Planning – Setting Goals, Reaping Rewards
In traditional pen-and-paper role-playing games, game masters pour their
heart and souls into forging campaigns from raw imagination. In the end, all
game masters have their hearts ripped out, and their souls shredded,
because players are always going to ruin your painstakingly thought out
campaigns – usually on a whim, ohh look at the shiny pebbles!
The Magic of Party Alignment will help this problem in Warhamster. At the
start of a new campaign, you can offer your new party a menu of goals.
Each of these goals comes with a cost in McGuffins. (WHAT”S A
McGuffin..wouldn’t you like to know!) If the players have a goal, and it’s not
listed here, use these goals as a guide to set the cost in McGuffins.
During any TOWN Phase, a player can spend a STORY to “ACHIEVE THEIR
GOAL” and collect the reward.
Quick Party Back-story Generator
You and your (synonym for brave) companions have
gathered at the (a color) (chess piece)‘s (body part) (a place
to buy beer). At a table in the shadows of the (place to buy
beer), your party gathers to discuss your next quest.
Motivated by (virtue or sin), you have formed a(n)
(synonym for awesome) (another word for group or association)
in hopes of amassing (the direct object of sin/virtue), glory
and power!