AmberCon Report

[cyrano]

You know that awful crushing feeling when, in an intimate moment, you call a woman by another woman's name? It is not reduced when you do it in a pool with an audience of your peers.

In other news, now that the convention is wrapping up, it's time to turn my energy to more important matters. Matters like Do I go to ACUS with Doctor Pooh, or Hundred Aker Torchwood? And Do I continue the Weird West games with Grateful Dead references in the titles?

Comments

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

I deleted the episodes. But the concept is just silly enough to intrigue me. If you don't run it.... I might. Someone tell me what sort of things need to go into a Throne War game.

[hope-early.livejournal.com]

Normally? You pit people against each other in a classic. X holds the thrown but he is big and bad and Y and Z want it badly enough to bribe PC characters to help...or you go for an all out no one holds the throne and by the end of the game someone is going to have to get it. The last makes for people striving to be powerful but at the same time popular since if you kill everyone getting the throne that makes for a very bloody game--it's better to kill one or two in the way and convince the others you're the best for the job (and that they don't want it because if they do they too are on the hit list).

The crazy of a dancing with the stars throne war is you could run it as an all out contest via 'dancing with the stars' and either have the PCs play an elder or play the 'contestant' and they win if their Elder wins the throne. Or something. There is probably a lot of crazy ways to do it. Of course, someone should break out the 'forbidden dance!'.

[hope-early.livejournal.com]

What could be fun here though is giving each 'team' so many points for placement and making it so that the 2nd place onwards could change the results--the new king of Amber is by the public's choice:...

The first place team could try to get votes to, keeps everyone in the game and active.