How do people feel about sessions focusing on minor characters?

Thinking about the little war with the Judges, I think it might be interesting to ignore the actual war between the mages and the Judges (unkillable killers with no moral qualms to genocidal war and script immunity battling it out with a mix of common mortal fodder and unkillable rabble rousers with no moral qualms about leading the fodder into battle again and again doesn't seem that interesting to play more than one session of). Instead, I'd like to focus on some of the low power characters. I can see two ways to go with it: 1 would be to pick up some soldiers in the war and get them bloodied without script immunity, and perhaps with qualms about slaughter (unlike the Savacions, most of the soldiers have probably never killed a human being). The other possibility would be to focus on the home front in the village. The priests have a lot to deal with (particularly if the covenant takes in refugees, who I plan to dump on the covenant shortly), and the issues that the judges raise are probably more interesting to deal with from the vantage point of the locals than from the vantage point of the mages.

Plus, a low level locals game would give us a chance to play with the Finger's wife's plot.

Would people be interested in doing either of those? We have several sessions in a row coming up if all goes well.


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Kip Manley's picture

My only concern.

In discussing the uberplot, we'll find ourselves drawn in to the main characters. --I like the idea of seeing the magi from the outside, as it were, but I'm not sure we'll be able to pull it off in the heat of it all.

Speaking of other plots, I've also been meaning to post something about what people might want to do in Okla Lokchok with the Prince's court and Perdix and all. Did I say that already? Maybe I did. Not to jack the thread or anything.

jemale's picture

As for me...

I like the general idea of giving focus to other characters--really Giles won't be at the frontlines, I don't think.

Focusing on Woochi would be fun--I would want to discuss the politics of village priests in regards to the Moons and Judges.

Though I agree with Kip, I don't think we can kick the magi out entirely. Gi--and I imagine Nil-- will probably be involved in any refugee situation. But I like doing it from an adminstrative support stand-point where village vs. covenant politics rule.

And I am intersted in a session or two in the Prince's court--though not immediately. I'd like to focus on this current situation for a bit.

Dylan's picture

Yeah, it'd be nice to deal wi

Yeah, it'd be nice to deal with the village priests in a context other than bitching about the minutae of politics with the magi.

I'm not as interested in a "random soldiers we come up with" game, just because we already have a stable of underdeveloped local characters.

Dylan's picture

(also, I still think the Sava

(also, I still think the Savacion House Party would be gorgeous; but that wouldn't necessarily involve endless battle scenarios so much as some nice interludes of soap-opera between battle scenarios we only allude to.)

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