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Enjoying the ability to live-stream my regular game and I'm finding a replay of the session a boon to memory and campaign consistency. This is only the second session recorded, but I've already received fruits from our labors. Specifically in today's session the players found themselves at odds with each other and it was great to go back to the "tape" and figure out where the group cohesion fell apart and the PC's went at each other's throats. So that goes down two thirds in of this nigh on three hour session, about 1:50:00 mark. This is really interesting to me as a referee. For the players it all seemed the frustration with each other was mounting as no easy answer, no easy out, was forthcoming. When another player retorted they didn't trust the other player either I wanted to hold up a placard stating "Roleplaying gold being mined here!" This was awesome sauce.
Enjoying the ability to live-stream my regular game and I'm finding a replay of the session a boon to memory and campaign consistency. This is only the second session recorded, but I've already received fruits from our labors. Specifically in today's session the players found themselves at odds with each other and it was great to go back to the "tape" and figure out where the group cohesion fell apart and the PC's went at each other's throats. So that goes down two thirds in of this nigh on three hour session, about 1:50:00 mark. This is really interesting to me as a referee. For the players it all seemed the frustration with each other was mounting as no easy answer, no easy out, was forthcoming. When another player retorted they didn't trust the other player either I wanted to hold up a placard stating "Roleplaying gold being mined here!" This was awesome sauce.
Playing
the session back I got a chance to see the arguments, opinions and
stratagems used by the PC's to try and resolve the situation. One of
the PC's used influence on NPC's (rather successfully) to try and
prevent bloodshed. Another PC wanted to try influence on a fellow PC.
Here I said no, no. Between PC's you need to not really on rolls to
work things out you have to, you know, role play it. And by no means
has the issue been resolved. The repercussions and outcomes from
everyone's actions will linger until next game session! Aaand the
players didn't take any course of action I anticipated so I was
painfully scrambling to put together adventure material as they
zigged against my zag. Not to give any spoilers here for my players,
but I had an awesome referee moment when I said to myself, "Fuck
it, this is where the game is heading!" so I strapped in let the
trans-arcana clock tick ever closer to midnight, because this is the
OSR baby. We did it all wrong it was so right; split party,
threatening and violancing on each other's PC's, the pleading,
arguing and fuming. A great way to enjoy morning coffee and get more
mileage out of my game material. The game literally runs itself when
the PC's are all doing the talking.
