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« on: July 20, 2010, 07:57:01 AM »
Two important facts before I start:
1) I've just started running AW.
2) I'm quite lazy.
To expand, there are 4 players, a Driver, a Chopper, a Savvyhead and a Gunlugger. Since 2 of the 4 character types are innately very mobile, (and the Savvyhead has a van as her workshop) the game is based over a reasonably large area of dusty, scrubby desert rather than being based around a single Hardhold. I keep thinking of maybe Dukes of Hazard, only in a desert and with more murder.
Thing is, most of the players seem to be having their characters reacting to what's going on, rather then striking out and trying to get their characters to achieve something off their own back. Which is OK, but it's down to running that balance between nudging the players into action and leading them around by the nose. Plus, as I said, I'm lazy and I want the player pulling me in their directions and I can nudge them towards conflicts rather than having to put them in motion.
After a very, very short first session, we seem to have created just a very small bubble around the PCs. Partly this is due to time, we just didn't have time to create that much world. Partly, it's the setup, the player characters are spread out physically(which is fine), but also clumping together whenever action happens (which is also basically fine). Thing is that the NPC population is also spread out, and there are fewer chances to bump into people. Finally, there's the fact that the players aren't driving their characters as much as I'd like. Not a massive problem, but I think they need a bit more input from me than I was originally expecting.
My plan, I guess, it to treat the second session as a kind of "1.5 session" that's not really quite a first session, and not really quite a full-on session with the requisite fronts and all. Basically, I'm not sure I have enough from that first session to build enough Fronts to make things interesting, so this next session is going to be digging a bit more and working with what I have already.
I'm not sure if this is typical, anyone else have a similar experience?