[K5pbem] K5PBEM Future Direction

[Mike Surbrook]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Logan Darklighter wrote:

> 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.

Well... Sarah giving the back history of the world is going to be more 
than 2-3 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.

I'm liking this.

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