[K5pbem] K5PBEM Future Direction

[Logan Darklighter]

Mike Surbrook wrote:

> **sudden brainstorm  2 -- electric boogaloo**
>
> How about using vaarious NPCs to dispense info? For example, if I 
> start various section of with a first-person overview of the history 
> of that section, then I could have...
>
> Sarah J Ferrari -- history of the world
> Shion Nys -- history of espers
> Matthew Shirow -- history of replicated humans
> Marta Nys -- cyber
> Kitten or Lora or Jagger -- cyborgs
> Sandra -- the Zone
>
> (and so on)
>
> Some of these histories will be only a page or so, although the inital 
> history will be far longer. Of course, most of the text will be in 
> standard format, as doing the whole book in 1st person would get old 
> quick.
>
I can SO get behind this! That's inspired! The Hero System products did 
just a little hint of this in that they would have various characters 
giving their opinion on something in the world in a 1-2 sentence blurb. 
The longest I ever tink I saw was a couple of paragraphs.

Sure - use the textbook style for relating the actual game mechanics, 
but use characters to get into what it's really _like_ to be in their 
shoes. I'd try to not go overboard with this, half page at most usually. 
If you go over a full page on any of these, you're probably wasting 
space. Feng Shui would sometimes place a one page story segment 
in-between chapters. I think what you're suggesting would work really well.

-Logan
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