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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7589666" data-attributes="member: 6919838">Hah... one thing I use in my gsmes is an improv variant that pays of great.Start of each session each playercdesls me a card from std ddck face down that I alone see. Of course, I pick them up and stare st thrm multiple times during session.Hearts means give aid or receive it.Diamond means loot or greed Spades means passive or environmental threat or hazard (weather, terrain, bridge compromises etc)Clubs means active threat or hazard (fights)Value gives severity.I then use those cards thru the session for the flavors of &quot;what happens&quot; , general outlooks, etc.When the druid just got his Pass without Trace and they used it to ascend a peak to get st a necromancer unnoticed, I described two different times a group of menacing undead came close and passed them by, each time showing them a clubs card that I was discarding - one was a fade card. Added a bit of umphhh to those &quot;hey, it worked&quot;.One time the hit a raging semi-flooded river on their trek... medium spades. They chose to wait it out. They say loot flowing down river - started trying to get to it - diamonds. Then heard cries from up-river and headed there to find other travellers in dire straights hsvingvtriedvto cross snd got swamped- hearts. Showed them each card in turn after the fsct.There are still big plots and stories and of course I work to make these more than &quot;just cards stuff&quot; - often these are cases where it pays off more later or gets call backs.But, so, for last night, when they met the plague menace snd decided to zig instead of zag, they found their &quot;send word to everyone looking for help&quot; queen of friggin' hearts paid off bigly... and a lot of their prior contacts etc paid off and helped...And they are gonna keep hearing about it as the help keeps coming, spawning new fertile ground events for the future. Or put in Star Trek terms - &quot;You mean, for once, we aren't the only starship in the sector?&quot; Queen of friggin' hearts man!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7589666, member: 6919838"] Hah... one thing I use in my gsmes is an improv variant that pays of great. Start of each session each playercdesls me a card from std ddck face down that I alone see. Of course, I pick them up and stare st thrm multiple times during session. Hearts means give aid or receive it. Diamond means loot or greed Spades means passive or environmental threat or hazard (weather, terrain, bridge compromises etc) Clubs means active threat or hazard (fights) Value gives severity. I then use those cards thru the session for the flavors of "what happens" , general outlooks, etc. When the druid just got his Pass without Trace and they used it to ascend a peak to get st a necromancer unnoticed, I described two different times a group of menacing undead came close and passed them by, each time showing them a clubs card that I was discarding - one was a fade card. Added a bit of umphhh to those "hey, it worked". One time the hit a raging semi-flooded river on their trek... medium spades. They chose to wait it out. They say loot flowing down river - started trying to get to it - diamonds. Then heard cries from up-river and headed there to find other travellers in dire straights hsvingvtriedvto cross snd got swamped- hearts. Showed them each card in turn after the fsct. There are still big plots and stories and of course I work to make these more than "just cards stuff" - often these are cases where it pays off more later or gets call backs. But, so, for last night, when they met the plague menace snd decided to zig instead of zag, they found their "send word to everyone looking for help" queen of friggin' hearts paid off bigly... and a lot of their prior contacts etc paid off and helped... And they are gonna keep hearing about it as the help keeps coming, spawning new fertile ground events for the future. Or put in Star Trek terms - "You mean, for once, we aren't the only starship in the sector?" Queen of friggin' hearts man! [/QUOTE]

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