Purple Index Cards: On-the-Fly Setting and Plot Collaboration

[P1NBACK]

I love, love this idea.

I really like how you can reward players for adding complications to their character's actions/lives. This is the way to go in RPGs imo.

Good stuff. Keep it up.

 

[SabreCat]

Thanks P1NBACK! Along those very lines, I recently introduced a number of new cards into the deck, based on the suggestions from this thread--notably, Eric Finley's. The following cards all have basically this text:

Play this card when called upon to make a _____ skill check. You fail the check without rolling, but get to narrate the consequences of your failure.

Gain Monster XP, + Minion XP for entertaining description or landing yourself/the party in deeper trouble.​

The titles I came up with:

Like a Cat, I Always Land on My--Face (Acrobatics)
Clatto Verata Necktie (Arcana)
I Think I Sprained Something (Athletics)
We're All Fine Here Now, Thank You (Bluff)
Ich Bin Ein Berliner (Diplomacy)
Was It Two Lefts and a Right, or Two Rights and a Left? (Dungeoneering)
Cough, Hack, Wheeze (Endurance)
Is That a Spleen? (Heal)
His Face is on the Electrum Piece, I Think (History)
Aww, He's All Right, We Can Trust Him (Insight)
rawr (Intimidate)
Only Made Tenderfoot, Sorry (Nature)... I totally had a better name for this, but didn't write it down, and forgot
Eyes Shut, In Case of Medusae! (Perception)
Don't Mind Me, Just Killing This Cow (Religion)
WHAT? Did You Say BE QUIET? (Stealth)
Whazzup, Home Fries? (Streetwise)
Butter Fingers (Thievery)

One of my players also supplied this idea:

Once More, With Feeling

Play this card when hit by an attack. Narrate a cunning evasion and turn that hit into a miss.

Gain Minion XP, or Monster XP if you grant the attacker another standard action to try again "with feeling this time!"​

 

[surfarcher]

Sorry about falling off the planet again... This time it was work, oh unimaginative work.

Could you upload the word doc to google doc? I'd like to use this, but I would look at switching it to an action point econony instead of XP.

You can get it at Google Docs. I think I've got it set up so you can edit it if you are logged in. If you have any problems just let me know and I'll try to fix it.

If you do an action point version could you please share it back?

Ideally I'd love to have a library of similar docs under group work. That would be cool

 

[surfarcher]

Hope you don't mind if I steal your ideas and incorporate them

 

[surfarcher]

Gonna look at including these too

 

[Garthanos]

I think action points might be an in keeping reward... 1 for a minion and two for a standard (this makes the reward short term rather like the issues).

 

[the-golem]

Ich Bin Ein Berliner (Diplomacy)

I guffawed. Who you callin' a donut, Herr Kartoffelsalat?

 

[dvvega]

There used to be an old system called Whimsy cards that pretty much did this. I believe their publisher was Lion Rampant.

It was for Ars Magica IIRC. Perhaps that system has some possible ideas.

D

 

[the-golem]

I gotcher Whimsy Cards right here: Whimsy Cards

And, yes you nailed it on the head.

 

[surfarcher]

Interesting!