Idea: Regional Storytellers

[Commissar]

i like this idea. thats one of the things that attracts me to tabletop games.

you have a basic, vagueish outline and everything that happens is up to the players who take part (with GM moves where appropriate)

am i close in my own words description?

That's pretty much it.

As to the storyteller being cloaked or controlling ships, I imagine that would depend on what the scenario called for. Where there were human (or alien, for that matter) antagonists, I imagine the storyteller would appear as one of them, as required. If it were an environmental hazard, like a misaligned jumphole, there wouldn't really be much call for the storyteller to be visible.

It would be cool if he could switch his chat to be from different "characters"-- like change the name that comes before the line of chat. I think such a thing could be coded much more easily than the npcs.

OR-- by spawning the NPCs, which the storyteller then controls, he would be able to switch from ship to ship and speak as that character. If Kazinsal coded that, then it could be an excellent storytelling tool.

I love this idea. It'd reduce the 'Oh, it's a guy in an invisible ship talking to me' factor, and if the storyteller played his/her cards right, the people involved might not even know that they were part of a scenario until after the event. I don't have even the faintest understanding of code though, so I'm not going to pretend to know what'd be involved.

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