Project NEMESIS

Leo's player was back (and, consulting my notes, the guy who was graffito tagging stuff was Alexander Sobieski), so we started by catching him up. His agent (Devon) got him a spot on the Hairy Gary Abnerthery Show -- a talk show with a guy who's kind of Oprah for mutants. 

Let me begin by saying: STILL NO FRANKLIN'S GHOST! Good grief! This is a resource! A fair smattering of points went into it! It could help their asses OUT. But nothin'. Not an ectoplasmic sausage. Sheesh. This session, we were missing Leo's player and I hadn't prepared as much as previously, but it went okay. Not great, but a decent building session. I'm probably going to go through character-by-character until they're together -- there was a lot of individual action this session. 

It didn't quite have the same delirious energy of the first couple sessions, but we hit a lot of plot points like they owed us money, and we got some good characterization in. Still no Ben Franklin though. I mean, what the hell? If I could summon up a lecherous, intangible, undead founding father I'd be on that like a teenager's cell phone!

I didn't have a plan for this session other than, "Do the stuff I had planned for session one and didn't get time to do." That worked just fine. "Plan" is a pretty vague term anyhow. It's more like "list of stuff to throw at the PCs when nothing more presentable is happening." I expect that as the game grows, it'll develop its own momentum and I won't have to prime the pump quite so much. 

Here's how we did character generation. WT has a typical point-buy, fiddly-stacky grainy system. The kind that lounges there purring, "Minmax me, big boy, or lose me forever!" REIGN is also, at bottom, a point buy, so for this we used a character generation system that got elided from REIGN due to space reasons. 

Here's a writeup of the WT game I'm doing, grafting REIGN companies on as the PCs start to challenge and interact with the various factions.