Friday 25 August 2023

Necropolitans, episode 38: Well, that was unexpected

The job of the GM is to cunningly predict the players' every move, weaving a seamless web of continuity that will accommodate their whims. This is, of course, impossible, but sometimes more impossible than others. In Episode 038: Well, that was unexpected, Ollie managed to do something I absolutely had not even remotely anticipated.

Listeners will fairly soon be able to find out what happened to Makoa. For the other players, it was several months before they knew anything, since Ollie was keeping mum. Keeping secrets in games can work well or badly, but luckily this group handle it well.

I'm sure I did make up some of this in advance, but I feel like a lot of it was winged heavily on the fly - mostly because, again, players are always unexpected. Those poor GMs. Wait, that's me.

Direct Links

  1. RSS feed for all episodes
  2. Episode 001: Character Generation
  3. Episode 002: I'm going to keep saying yes until I don't fall in the big hole
  4. Episode 003: One does not simply walk through More Doors
  5. Episode 004: That one was completely harmless
  6. Episode 005: Are you sure you're a barbarian
  7. Episode 006: Maze of the Brian-otaur
  8. Episode 007: Screaming blue murder from his waist
  9. Episode 008: It’s a rare genetic condition
  10. Episode 009: Well, isn't that dandy
  11. Episode 010: The classic ‘Ta-da!’ position
  12. Episode 011: These crabs know advanced tactics
  13. Episode 012: Observe! I will be totally aaaagh
  14. Episode 013: We can take the boss, we're second level
  15. Episode 014: He's very badly burned
  16. Episode 015: Would you say that she's ghastly?
  17. Episode 016: Look at you, coming here with your good ideas
  1. Episode 016.5: The Seven Chants of Anubis
  1. Episode 017: Allow us to inspect that which is in your hole
  2. Episode 018: I'm unclean, so I'm gonna cook this octopus
  3. Episode 019: My bad, almost committed murder
  4. Episode 020: Do you have orphans right now?
  5. Episode 021: The crumpling noise you can hear was Book Two
  6. Episode 022: I am not putting my legs in your body, that’s weird
  7. Episode 023: Let’s not actually tell him his god’s dead
  8. Episode 024: Only I could have a sassy vulture
  9. Episode 025: Trust me, I'm a necromancer
  10. Episode 026: Venn Venn domeagram
  11. Episode 027: That's not how it works
  12. Episode 028: Two of you are stealthing, and one of you is hitting things with a stick
  13. Episode 029: You somehow make that sound offensive
  14. Episode 030: I look at her intently, staring without eyes
  15. Episode 031: Doing full frilled lizard
  16. Episode 032: Jaal's entrance test
  17. Episode 033: Ohhh yes, twice the purple flame!
  18. Episode 034: Did we spend all of last session literally trying to cross this room?
  19. Episode 035: My god, he has business cards!
  20. Episode 036: Planar Cup of Coffee and a Biscuit
  21. Episode 037: Pop that on a pedestal, socially
  22. Episode 038: Well, that was unexpected.

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