[Misspent Youth] Power 19

[Robert Bohl]

[Emily Care]

The game rewards cooperation, taking narrative control, the introduction of science-fiction color, letting your flaws cause trouble for you, making other characters besides yours look great, sharing attention and focus from session to session among all players, and playing and introducing elements that other players will find entertaining.

The relationships between the characters accomplish this so well.  It's really the heart of the game to me. When we played at JiffyCon, from the moment when we each established how we knew about eachother or what kinds of conflicts/entanglements we'd had with eachother in the past, the game really lit up for me.    I chose to play a male character, with fashion know how and an adept of the teen counter-culture body mod underground. Jon picked a female character who saw me as her rival and yet somehow her role model too--and we were off and running.

[Robert Bohl]

The relationships between the characters accomplish this so well.  It's really the heart of the game to me. When we played at JiffyCon, from the moment when we each established how we knew about eachother or what kinds of conflicts/entanglements we'd had with eachother in the past, the game really lit up for me.    I chose to play a male character, with fashion know how and an adept of the teen counter-culture body mod underground. Jon picked a female character who saw me as her rival and yet somehow her role model too--and we were off and running.

Yeah I've just made a change where I've taken out the Relationship Traits and in its place, I'm going to ask the Friendship Question at the start of every session as an aid to Situation-creation for the session.