Mandolyn
Hey guys, just joined Obsidian a few months ago at Zathael's suggestion when he created a game, and I've been addicted since.
Been gaming for nearly six years now, and my biggest fondness is for White Wolf d10 games. Right now I'm in a Scion game on OP, as well as running my very first game ever, an OldWoD Werewolf Savage West setting. I really (ridiculously) enjoy seeing all the well thought out games I've been finding, and might eventually break and do the Ascendant stuff. :P
Seeing how helpful this site was helped me buck up the confidence to run my first game, since bookkeeping is a horror sometimes, especially with the millions of little story seeds that can just pop into your head and be gone the next day.
Ready to stop lurking and actually get into the muck of things here!
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Cheers,
-Arsheesh
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/werewolf-for-the-love-of-life
I'd recommend more White Wolf d10s. It was the first system I was ever exposed to, and was a simpler rolling and character gen than jumping straight into D&D (which I did next, a good old fashioned Forgotten Realms setting).
Might be a bit biased, however, since oldWoD was my first system, heh.
As for for "WANTED" poster character templates, I think that's a marvelous idea! Creating a custom dynamic character sheet template is a _ton_ of work and requires a bit of knowledge about HTML and/or CSS, but it is doable. My players and I adapted one of "chainsaw's HTML Templates":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/sanction/wikis/templates-and-tools to do just that, however it was allot of work. If you are ambitious enough though I say go for it. There are tons of free wanted poster templates available on the web (here's what a Google search for "Wanted Poster Templates":http://www.google.com/images?q=wanted+poster+template&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=3kvXTK7KG5O6sAOSqpSNCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CC4QsAQwAA&biw=1366&bih=575 brought up). You could always start with one of those templates, or create your own from scratch using a graphics program such as Photoshop or "GIMP":http://www.gimp.org/ (a free program which you can download online).
Course if creating dynamic HTML character sheets seems a bit too complicated, another idea is to simply create a wanted poster banner for each character.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
An alternative idea may be to mock up a character sheet image, and to have specially located text boxes where items can be entered in. Although the wanted poster banner would probably be much easier :)
I DID have one sort of bookkeeping question. Adventure logs seem to have the strange capacity to get ponderous. Are there any tips to keep an information and action heavy session down to a bearable length once logged? My main concern is that I'll either miss something or accidentally highlight something I wanted the players to figure out more on their own by bulletpointing things.
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