Did it ever happen to you to be drawn to roll dice when you do not have to, just in order to "use" the RPG you selected for your solo session?
I just understood that I did just that.
I am playing with 9Qs, quasi-Star Wars session. In Q1, my heroes landed on the just terraformed planet, just to discover that their old opponent is a planetary Governor there, which is part of his punishment for his failure that occurred during his last meeting with my PCs (all this decided by Mythic and Rory's Story Cubes). So, my heroes decided to test if they can disguise themselves and mingle unnoticed among planet population (a Sith lord and 3 stormtrupers to stay unnoticed among population of newly terraformed planet? Very unlikely). Of course, PCs failed miserably, but they will later discover that governor of the planet does not care that they have arrived, and that nobody is trying to kill them or something.
This left me wondering, why did I tested at all? I could first ask if someone is looking for PCs and then test if necessary. The only answer I could give to myself is that I did not want to finish Q1 without any PC tests, which I could do without a problem. I simply rushed myself. Do you have similar experiences? Any advices?
Thanks Jeff. I am aware that this can happen only in set-up.
ReplyDeleteAs you will see once I do a writeup, the Q3 was pure dice rolling action and no roleplay, finding my heroes within government building under the attack of the unknown Force user who is using his/hers powers to push giant statues of emperor Luis XIV at Darth Agnan, Athos, Portos and Aramis, so they were all the time dancing to evade them.
On the other hand, the fact that I rolled took the game in totally different direction than it would go if the stormtrupers didn't try to hide and acted officially on emperor's behalf as they should have.
I agree with John that we need to interact with the rules as often as possible. However there are times when we need to let the rules take a back seat. (In my latest solo game I decided upon a fact so that I did not short cut the adventure.)
ReplyDeleteThis I think is one of those choices that comes easier the more we play and the more we learn about ourselves and solo roleplaying.
Aleksandar Battreps In your situation, I guess it would have made sense to make a test if the logic of the fiction told you that there was a reason for the PCs to try to disguise themselves. If there was any justification from their point of view, then the test makes sense given their beliefs, even if it turns out later those beliefs were not justified-- which in itself can be a nice twist.
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