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Old 07-25-2017, 10:36 AM   #20
Piratecat
 
Join Date: Jul 2017
Default Re: Some help with Timewatch's Free RPG day Font of Knowledge

I keep wanting to click a Like button and I'm not on Facebook.

I couldn't easily tie in Microsoft Bob because of copyright issues in the published adventure*, but it's a glorious link that I am absolutely going to incorporate at Gen Con. Wow. Very nice.

I think that for a four-hour game, there's a risk of getting too deep in the weeds of Florentine politics. It sounds like your players tackled it really well; my playtests indicated that using too many local politics distracted some players from the big picture by giving conflicting levels of detail ("if all this is going on, we MUST need to find more clues here!") and thus caused the game to run long. When that's not a risk, using the Pazzi looks like a solid and fun plot hook.

And if I haven't said so, thank you for running this. I'm grateful.

* My very favorite TimeWatch adventure that's still unpublished involves infiltrating the coterie of a very famous celebrity. It's been nixed, at least in that form, for very good legal reasons. :)
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