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Gooooooooooooals!

posted by Ginger at 09:51 AM, February 10, 2005 | Filed under : GM Notes | Comments and Followups

All the players should have gotten emails about their goals by now. There are several different things going on in the emails.

First, we’re looking to find ways to hook the PCs into some things that are upcoming this year. We’re interested in hearing about goals we don’t know about to use new ones to get people into the new parts of the plot. We’re also interested in hearing who is open to having new plot threads thrown at them to catch.

Second, we know some people have goals that will take time for them to accomplish (learn Trump, advance Sorcery, etc.) and we’d like to have some time pass later this year. To do that, we need to figure out which short-term plots need to be tied off, and which, if any, long-term plots should be deferred or put on simmer.

Third, we’re trying to see whether we’re putting the right kinds of things out there for people who have goals. That’s both tools/knowledge to accomplish the goals and obstacles to make the winning of the goals hard enough to be worthwhile.

Some players have sent in character goals; others are sending in player goals (like “spend more time with other PCs”). Some of the goals are mutually contradictory, and we’re trying to sort out which of them we think are doable.

I’m rephrasing a lot of the goals as things the PCs can accomplish rather than as plot points. We’re taking note of the plot points (in some cases, rubbing our hands together gleefully), but we’re particularly looking at things the PCs want to accomplish. There’s no onus on the PCs to complete the goals—it’s not a performance evaluation. The idea is for the GMs to know what the PCs are trying to do and to throw things in their way that will advance the PCs’ plots and tie them together with other things that are going on in the campaign.

Feel free to send in questions and comments about the goals emails. We want feedback.

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