Comments on: Ketchup on sourcing the table -Cooperative Gaming https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/10/ketchup-sourcing-table-cooperative-gaming/ D&D / Role Playing Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Colin McLaughlin https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/10/ketchup-sourcing-table-cooperative-gaming/#comment-4131 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=21676#comment-4131 For my online game, I adapted the Smallville character creation system to build a relationship map driven by the players for the city serving as their home. (Those interested can read something of a companion piece – with the breakdown of how I changed the system for D&D 5e here: http://www.tribality.com/2016/03/23/broad-city-player-agency-and-storyline-direction/)

This is the resultant map. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1df9e62ac416696a0725c73adab565fdb8d59ad56b91d1d4b7d534d03f8f02fd.png

Some of my favorite moments in the creation process were:
A player turning a location into a boat.
A drinking buddy NPC turning into a plot point
One player creating a location and then another player deciding they accidentally burned down the first version of the location
Immediately hooking a villain into all the characters from moment one

When the players were to a second location, I used a modified version of the Technoir system (http://www.tribality.com/2016/05/25/adventure-creation-lessons-from-technoir/) to create an adventure map that unfolded based entirely on how players decided to explore and interact with the list of options. A different method, but one the players still really liked since it was entirely organic and undefined until they defined it.

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