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I think relationships are a great piece to compelling storytelling but my number element for compelling storytelling is adversity. How the characters react to setbacks, failure, and fallout from their actions and how the characters overcome those adversity is what invests me the most in a game...

...oooooooooooo lazy.

But I'm soooooooooooo

My group is starting a campaign in the theme of the Rebels cartoon. Most of us are from the fringe and have Obligations but one or two have a relationship with the Rebel Alliance and have Duties. The GM envisions all of the characters gaining Duty throughout the campaign as our faction becomes...

Do your players know they can join them? Maybe they assume they're only for the GM. If you want them to join organizations it might help if the organizations have similar goals to the PCs.

One of my favorites was Asako Yeshyo, Phoenix henshin (monk) from Legend of the Five Rings. It was our first L5R campaign and prior to that we primarily played D&D or Star Wars, so there were lots of growing pains for both the players and GM regarding the culture of feudal Japan. My first two...

I would love if it was in podcast form. I have plenty of time spent on commutes and housework that's perfect for podcasts but I don't have time to sit and watch them on YouTube.

Well thanks a lot for spoiling it for me!

I just started the Lies of Locke Lamora due to praise by Ralif and Dioltach in another thread. Thanks for the recommendation--I'm enjoying it so far!

That's no excuse.

...who wields the System of Seven Parts!

Have you followed Rodney Thompson's Dusk City Outlaws Kickstarter project? For the latest cleared stretch goal they added Scott Lynch to contribute to the game and design a scenario for it.

I would like to watch the Empire Strikes Back fresh. Return of the Jedi was the first Star Wars movie I saw and it was always a fact for me that Vader was Luke's dad. Not only did I not experience the big reveal but I think a lot of the emotional weight of Empire was lost for me. I suspect...

My favorites are the Bard College of Whispers (The rules are a bit complex but they seem like they would make for some engaging social interactions.), the Cleric Forge Domain (I like the ability to create a mundane item.), and the Raven Queen warlock patron (for the cool raven familiar and being...

You said it pendejo! Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

Overall I dislike pun or jokey names when it's an ongoing "serious" campaign. (Serious in the way LotR, Star Wars, and Firefly are serious.) But I don't mind them for one-shots. At a convention there was a group running a Star Wars session that was part of a decade-long campaign that they ran...

Very cool! I like it.

Also check out your library. My library has a number of 3.x, 4E, and 5th Edition books, as well as FFG's big three Star Wars books.

That's awesome! I always wanted to play a fleshwarper PrC in 3.5. If you're willing to share it, I'd love to see what you came up with.

To add to this, make sure that everyone agrees to play non-antagonistic characters who work together as a team and as a group figure out why your characters are a team and what makes your characters stick together. Without really nailing that concept down I could see the problematic player...