Fully Emersive Game Experience

[Scribble]

I've been thinking alot about the role of technology in a game session. Specificly in making adventures and worlds come to life. Mostly it would probably work for "modern" campaigns... but still...

For instance, what about creating say a fake website for a company that maybe players can interact with for clues?

Or email addresses for NPCs they encounter where the DM can respond with clues, or just have autoresponses set up?

Maybe even set up your answering machine or voice mail for the night to have a fake message on it that after entering in a code the players can listen to? (Like maybe incriminating evidence player can use?)

NPCs with business cards, and such...

Actual computer texts on CD or floppie...

I don't know... Just a thought. Anyone ever do things like that?

I guess it's just a variation on the props in the game idea.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I think I remember reading about people doing such stuff. I remember a Delta Green site that had a bunch of info and was set up as if DG was a real organization, and players could contribute to it. I know there are computer games that make use of such things, also, which lends a lot of verisimilitude to the game.

 

[IronWolf]

I think for a modern game that could be a lot of fun. Several of your examples seem interesting. Not sure if I was GM'ing such a game though that I would have the time to go into such detail, but certainly an interesting idea I think.

 

[Scribble]

I wonder if something along the lines (not to that scale, but similar) of the publicity thing that they did for AI would work.

 

[DM_Jeff]

>>For instance, what about creating say a fake website for a company that maybe players can interact with for clues?

Wizared of the Coast actually did this, for their Alternity Dark*Matter game, and one module in particular, The Killing Jar. It even had an email address set up where the players could send an email to and it had an automatic response showing up with clues. It was a great detail that had my players reeling. This was back in 1999, IIRC.

-DM Jeff