After Action Report: the Eggshell Campaign

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Owen Smith

It seems to be taking forever to discuss how the PCs are even going to approach the first scenario. I'd have been bored long before this point if I were playing.

Wasn't half of Europe On Mars about diplomatic bureaucracy?

[Clancy]

This thing is played mostly by players and their ideas. But, you're right, after that long and boring contract discussion I had asked Vicky to contain his juristic mania, what surely had been done.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Clancy

This thing is played mostly by players and their ideas. But, you're right, after that long and boring contract discussion I had asked Vicky to contain his juristic mania, what surely had been done.

*Shrug*.
I've seen GMs screw players over loopholes in contracts or Great Wish wordings fair and square. Too bad the perk for always having bulletproof wording is considered cinematic. (And yes, we actually have those 11 paragraphs written down, as well as liability and reward percentages.)

And now that I think of it, the amount of happenings in the recent sessions sure is higher than in the early ones.

[Genesis]

Frankly, I find the negotiations fascinating. In particular, I am curious about the assumed value of offset risk, especially for contracts of unknown character. Then again, this might be why I continually play face characters... I tried to set up an LLC in a high fantasy game once. I think I was the only one excited about the prospect.

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Wasn't half of Europe On Mars about diplomatic bureaucracy?

It was about diplomacy, but at the sharp end. The sort of diplomacy that involved people getting shot at remarkably often.

I don't recall any contract negotiations, but I suspect that a scene like that would have consisted of something like "Roll against Law (International Contract) ... Made it? Okay, there's some dodgy conditional stuff in there ... Right, roll against Merchant... Sorry, they won the quick contest; you're stuck with a penalty clause."