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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 3784903" data-attributes="member: 1165">Make sure they know each other!Spirit of the Century is a setting for FATE and does a really good job of making sure of this. Each player writes a really short background (a &quot;blurb&quot;) for their character. Then each player randomly selects another player and attaches themself to the others' blurb as a &quot;guest character&quot;. This is done twice. Each character automatically knows two other PCs, then, and unless the dice-rolling has been really odd (or the group is really large) all the PCs will be connected to each other in some way.For instance:Duncan Dirk in the Forbidden City**Actually the Walled City; it's just more exotic to call it Forbidden instead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There's trouble in Kowloon, and once again Dirk is in the middle of it! Can he stay ahead of the secret societies, or will he be doused in their plot for world domination? When captured by Triad toughs, Duncan Dirk must turn to his old chum Derek Dynamo for an expedient rescue and escape from the Orient. Along the way out they meet John Howard on a drinking tour of the east, who provides drunken cover for the daring duo. Needing a place to hide, Duncan turns to his onetime adversary Jack Hustler to hide him, while he plans his next move...As you can see, Dirk met three other PCs on this journey. (The relationship with Hustler was hysterical; Dirk had arrested Hustler at least once before.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 3784903, member: 1165"] Make sure they know each other! Spirit of the Century is a setting for FATE and does a really good job of making sure of this. Each player writes a really short background (a "blurb") for their character. Then each player randomly selects another player and attaches themself to the others' blurb as a "guest character". This is done twice. Each character automatically knows two other PCs, then, and unless the dice-rolling has been really odd (or the group is really large) all the PCs will be connected to each other in some way. For instance: Duncan Dirk in the Forbidden City* *Actually the Walled City; it's just more exotic to call it Forbidden instead. :) There's trouble in Kowloon, and once again Dirk is in the middle of it! Can he stay ahead of the secret societies, or will he be doused in their plot for world domination? When captured by Triad toughs, Duncan Dirk must turn to his old chum Derek Dynamo for an expedient rescue and escape from the Orient. Along the way out they meet John Howard on a drinking tour of the east, who provides drunken cover for the daring duo. Needing a place to hide, Duncan turns to his onetime adversary Jack Hustler to hide him, while he plans his next move... As you can see, Dirk met three other PCs on this journey. (The relationship with Hustler was hysterical; Dirk had arrested Hustler at least once before.) [/QUOTE]

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