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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6125810" data-attributes="member: 42582">In my session on Sunday I used a slightly different technique - namely, a dream sequence to sublimate the metagame into the game itself!The details are on <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335974-I-ran-my-first-Epic-session-last-Sunday/page2&p=6125246&viewfull=1#post6125246" target="_blank">this thread</a>, but the summary version is that each PC - having  the first sleep since reaching Epic tier - had a dream that reinforced certain established facts about that character's goals and "location" within the established fiction (mostly the cosmology and mythic history), and then indicated some possible future goal or conflict. And these were linked in various ways, either directly (eg two PCs dreamed about the same event/conflict, though from different sides) or thematically (one PC dreamed about chaos and dissolution, one about death, one about stasis - there are points of connection there even though the dreams don't have literally shared content). I narrated each dream to the whole table, and of course this got that players talking (an ambiguous mix of in-character and out-of-character), and some subsequent events in the session allowed a lot of points to be further developed or reinforced.Part of my reason for doing this was because I am worried that the tensions between PCs, which Epic will undoubtedly exacerbate, are going to split the party before the campaign reaches 30th level, and so I wanted to get some things a bit more out in the open at the table, so the players can acknowledge the various commitments of the PCs, and what each feels is at stake, and take that into account in a more deliberate way in their play.So this was not a group template in   [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION]'s style, but helped do a similar sort of job.GMing "blind", and just hoping the game will muddle through, is in my own experience not very reliable. Hussar, I hope your game turns around!</blockquote>

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