Daniele Di Rubbo@paulczege, I have the “usual” questions about #TheClaythatWoke. Can I go on asking here? #claytalk
All the others: you can find the “first round” on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanieleDiRubbo/status/1082778358952402944
Paul Czege@paulczege, thanks! Let’s follow the previous enumeration:
8. Can a minotaur NPC be an intrinsic?
9. Can I insert in the story and show a named minotaur as an NPC, or do you think he could deprotagonistize the players’ minotaurs?
10. If a minotaur NPC goes frantic near my minotaur, do I still have to test my silence? And can the game master simply declare that a minotaur NPC goes frantic?
11. The externals are always intrinsics. However, I guess they never count towards the three intrinsics the game master has to keep active in each moment. Am I right?
12. I did some preparation, just in case I have to run a demo.
I have this intrinsic with quid quo pro thinking: he is an ass who is dismissing his former employees to recruit cheaper manpower, uniquely for his own gain.
He’s definitely making “self-justified decisions with effects that others have to deal with”. Is this enough to mark him as an intrinsic with quid pro quo thinking or am I missing the “rationalize […] that you don’t deserve consequences for your actions” part?
13. In our last session, we played a situation in the jungle with both the Still Voice and the Red Voice in it. The Still Voice was acting as a host of ghosts of deserters of the Everwar, while the Red Voice was possessing their former comrades who wanted to execute them for their treason.
It really was a charged and cool situation to play!
Have you ever had inflections with more than one Voice involved at the same time?
14. During our last session, a herd of NPC minotaurs went frantic near Luca’s nameless minotaur and we asked ourselves: can a player decide their minotaur voluntarily loses control and goes frantic?
Simone, the game master, thinks one can, but maybe they must renounce every Silence token they have, in analogy with the situation in which a player’s minotaur renounces higher employment and better life circumstances, and forfeits all their the Name tokens (page 94).
15. Normally you choose the Foremost following the procedure described on page 93.
However, during our last session, Luca’s nameless minotaur followed the herd of frantic NPC minotaurs on his free will (he previously resisted to the frenzy test). We considered Luca’s minotaur as part of the group of NPCs (we just followed what seemed to make sense with the fiction to us) and determined the Foremost as usual.
How do you determine the Foremost in these cases?
16. In the campaign I’m playing with my friends Antonio and Alberto, during my preparation, I wrote a jungle encounter with the Red Voice in which the Voice possesses an intrinsic NPC. Since an encounter with a Voice is always an unnatural encounter, surely it will result in an inflection. Therefore, I wonder: in this case, shall I put in the Krater both the Courage token (for the intrinsic) and the Red Voice token (for the Red Voice)? Or shall I put in only the Red Voice token?
Also, this is the second campaign for you? You played with Simone and now you're running it for Antonio and Alberto?
@paulczege Yeah! I’m still playing my first campaign with Simone (GM), Luca, and Saverio, on Giù lo Schermo (YouTube); then, I also started a second biweekly campaign with Alberto and Antonio. I was talking to them all the time about how the game was cool and they asked me to make them try it. I played the game a third time at the first “GDR al Buio” in Piacenza, which basically is gathering a certain number of players in a single place and making them play random games the organisers prepared.