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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clueless" data-source="post: 2266964" data-attributes="member: 11802">Well - the Jester's True Palace was just generally popular for many reasons. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />There's a great deal of atmospheric elements from the day that are missing in the write up actually. Shemmie built the tension up a good deal more than he did in the story here and the pair came of as genuinely malevolent while at the table. He conveyed a feeling of being toyed with - slowly stalked and nipped at just to see which way we'd run. All of this before showing the actual Little One, or the Jester himself. That build up is honestly one of the only sections of the story hour that I'd say really needs a rewrite - just to make sure that the build up works for the reader as well. We've had a few years of dealing with the creepy - so for *us* the mention of Jman and the Little One is enough for a good response (as you'll see later in the game towards the very end when speculation about him ran wild) - but this is not so for most readers.An awareness that we are killable characters - why ask for trouble when you already have plenty on your plate. Also, these are vastly different playing styles, Shemmie doesn't bother telling anyone what their XP totals are. We tend to just get told at the end of a session: "Ok guys, level up." We level when it seems right, or when we need to to deal with what's next. Which works perfectly fine for us. It means we don't bother worrying about what we fight or trying to build up XP just because we want power - we worry about making it through the story, getting the goals laid out before us and playing the character personalities. I think if Shemmie had been the sort to tell us what XP we got for each encounter - then the game tone would be very different and this storyhour wouldn't exist, probably because the game wouldn't have lasted as long or been as well played.</blockquote>

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