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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7820780" data-attributes="member: 42582">Over the past couple of years I've been running some games where this is not the case.A couple have been Cthulhu Dark one-shots, where I've used various fictional elements to interweave the concerns of the PCs into a single Cthulu-esque episode, but the players have not been working as a team except, in one of those sessions, in the final scene.In a Dying Earth session I GMed the PCs found themselves stuck in the same town during the same food festival (I was using the starter adventure in the rulebook) but they were not companions and ended up being opponents in the competition.In our Cortx+ Heroic session the PCs have been together for much of the time, and two at least could be said to be a team, being a sword thane and a berserker from the same village. But one of the PCs is a skinchanger and drifts in and out of the party (mechanically, toggles between the Solo and the Team affiliation). It's not quite the same dynamic as the sessions mentioned above, but it is different from D&D-type party play.Our Prince Valiant game is party play, but in the fiction two of the PCs are father and son with the latter the Master (and founder) of a holy mililtary order while the former is the Marshall of that order. The third mainstay PC is also a knight who wanted to stay in Britain rather than join them on crusdae, but found himself persuaded by the son PC to come along with them (mechanically, he lost a contest based on Presence and Fellowship). Now that his wife has joined him to see his adventures close-up, it seems likely that he will continue on the crusade.Our Traveller game is the closest to D&D-style. One of the PCs is a noble who owns a starship; the others travel with him, some being on the payroll. But there's no tremendous in-fiction rationale for them to hang out together. In this game, on the few occasions the committee hasn't been able to come to a decision I've had the two sides dice off, getting appropriate bonuses for having nobles and/or Leadership expertise on their side.Perhaps I'm underestimating it, but I don't think Classic Traveller quite has the tools or resolution framework to faciltate breaking out of the party approach.</blockquote>

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