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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5621230" data-attributes="member: 63">I posted this on my blog, but I thought the folks here would be interested. Who here watched LOST? Who here gave up watching because it seemed like the writers had no idea what the answer to their mystery was, and they refused to have the characters investigate? Well, I stuck it out to the end, and despite my frustrations I still enjoyed the show. But I had an ulterior motive.About four years ago, my good friend R and I were complaining about . . . I dunno, probably about how even after getting clear proof that weird stuff was going on, the survivors of the crash never went to explore. Clearly they didn't have any gamers among them, who would see mystery and think, "Ah ha! A story hook! I should go investigate that."So we concocted a plan. Once the show was over and we knew the answers to all the mysteries, I'd run a role-playing game for four of my friends who had never watched the show. They'd play some of the characters from the show, and have the same backstories and hooks, but they'd decide what was an effective and reasonable way to get off the island. I got my friends interested, had them promise not to watch the show, made a map and timeline and detailed notes for myself and then finally, three weeks ago, I ran the first session.Since they politely declined to let me record the sessions and post them as videos, I'm just going to provide write-ups. Warning. I'm going to spoil stuff like crazy, because the huge appeal of this to me is to see stuff go wildly off the path that was set by the series. For instance, by the end of the second session (basically, their 'episode two'), they'd stumbled upon stuff that didn't come up in the series until Season Three.Oh, and Paulo is a bad-ass.If folks are interested, I'll post more details.</blockquote>

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